Route to a cell? about cells HOT 15 CLOSED

Did you try it, looks good :-)

That's something we should get running soon. Anyway, if you need a quick workaround, just use the controller as cell server, like

class CellController < ...
  def serve
    render :text => render_cell(...)

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Recent entry in the blog mentions that in Rails3 cells are controllers?
so i'm think BasketCell.action(:index) should be possible.

Will test this out

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nope, can't do it.
"action" method doesn't exist.

It would be great if we could do this though, would be VERY handy.
Similar to how rack app can be mounted in a route for rails3

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I more and more love this idea! You could attach a cell to a route in order to provide RESTful HTML views of resources, for instance. Will check that out!

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Absolutely. It would be a very cool way to decouple the cells and routes.
You would have all the flexibility to create whatever routing you would want.

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Wait- wouldn't this strengthen the coupling between Cell and route? The cell being a complete Rack-compatible controller sitting directly on a route?

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I mean, it would decouple cells from controllers. At the moment you need require a controller to display the cell, so you can route to it.

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The emerging problem will be: Cells don't know about Rack so far, so we will need a module to make 'em speak HTTP.

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@apotonick did this go anywhere in the end? We too would like to explore caching cells with Varnish.

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Yeah, this is a great idea. +1

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+1

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The recent commits in master removed the controller dependency. You can now create standalone cells like

class StandaloneCell < Cell::Base
end

StandaloneCell.new.render_state(:drink)

The next step would be to make cells mountable on routes - could anyone provide a minimal example app to show me what's missing?

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Ok, guys, this WORKS now in 3.8.0!!! Just be sure to derive your cell from Cell::Base if you don't want the AC dependency.

To mount it:

match "/posts" => proc { |env|
  [ 200, {}, [ Cell::Base.render_cell_for(:post, :show) ]]
}

Lemme know how it works and what can be improved.

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http://nicksda.apotomo.de/2011/12/mounting-a-cell-to-a-route-with-cells-3-8/

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This is pretty cool, but it will almost certainly be several months before we're able to play with it. I'm not sure it's exactly what we're looking for, but I can't tell you what that is because I've been out of this area for too long.

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