Hi Brett,

only including a module doesn't make it available in the view. I hate
helpers and I'm gonna vent my anger in a blog post soon ;-)

Try that:

Class MenuCell < Cell::Rails

...

helper UrlHelper

and lemme know if that helps.

Nick

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:32 PM, brett-richardson <
[email protected]>wrote:

Hey, I've been trying to get Cells to render a menu that links to a list of
sub-domains.

I have gone through @wingrunr21's recent pull request for adding the UrlFor
module, but I'm unsure how one should go about getting this working.

My cell looks like this:

   class MenuCell < Cell::Rails

           include ActionController::UrlFor
           include UrlHelper


           def primary
                   render
           end
    end

But I have also tried this method too:

   module UrlHelper

           def with_subdomain( subdomain )
                   subdomain = ( subdomain || '' )
                   subdomain += '.' unless subdomain.empty?
                   [subdomain, request.domain,

request.port_string].join
end

           def url_for( options = nil )
                   if options.kind_of?( Hash ) && options.has_key?(

:subdomain )
options[:host] = with_subdomain(
options.delete( :subdomain ) )
end

                   super
           end

   end


   module Cell
           class Rails < AbstractController::Base
                   include ActionController::UrlFor
                   include UrlHelper
           end
   end

Ideally I think Cells should be able to handle a link_to call like this:

   %li= link_to mod.name, root_url { :subdomain => mod.subdomain }

Do you know what needs to be done here?

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#48

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brett, including the ApplicationController::UrlFor module in your Cell should be all that is necessary for those types of links to work. I'm using them right now in my site.

root_url(:subdomain => :foobar)

Cell:
class NavigationCell < Cell::Rails
include ActionController::UrlFor

  def nav_links
    ...
  end
end

View:
%li
= link_to(root_url(:subdomain => :courses)) do
%span.pictos W
Courses
%li
= link_to(root_url(:subdomain => :resources)) do
%span.pictos p
Resources
%li
= link_to(root_url(:subdomain => :projects)) do
%span.pictos e
Projects
%li
= link_to(root_url(:subdomain => :alumni)) do
%span.pictos g
Alumni

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Ah, that's great! Thanks. :)

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