Categories: how do I do?

Posted by pat 536 days ago

MarsEdit retrieves categories that you can assign to your posts from the server. There are no way to create them on the client. But Typo does not have any category screation screen. Hey, this is a Rails app! Let’s see what rails can do for me


ruby script/generate controller Category
      exists  app/controllers/
      exists  app/helpers/
      create  app/views/category
      exists  test/functional/
      create  app/controllers/category_controller.rb
      create  test/functional/category_controller_test.rb
      create  app/helpers/category_helper.rb

Then vi app/controllers/category_controller.rb
add one line:
     scaffold :category
like this:
class CategoryController < ApplicationController
    scaffold :category
end

Now I have list and new autogenerated screens to manage categories: no security there yet though, will do that tomorrow.

I used the new screens to create 2 categories, refreshed categories in MarsEdit, and am now going to categorize this post in the new ruby and typo categories: neato!

Oh Oh, not so easy! trying to post I get an error, and looking at the XML-RPC console I get:


XML-RPC reply received: 2005-03-24 17:57:33 +0100
URL: http://blog.chanezon.com/backend/xmlrpc
Method name: metaWeblog.newPost
Status code: 500
Succeeded: NO
--Download Error--
Response text:
Application error (Apache)
Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action
 (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

Will look into that tomorrow. In the meantime, let’s post this without any category.