Unable to set a path when generating admin

[Fiaxhs]

With padrino-admin-0.10.6
If I try to use the --root or -r option when generating admin, an error message appears

$ padrino g admin --root=plop
Please specify generator to use (project, app, mailer, controller, model, migration, plugin)
$ padrino g admin -r plop
Please specify generator to use (project, app, mailer, controller, model, migration, plugin)

if I try without this option, generation goes fine.

[DAddYE]

*nix or windows?

[Fiaxhs]

*nix, sorry I forgot to mention that.

[DAddYE]

pretty strange it works on my env very well. Can you try with --root=./plop ?

[Fiaxhs]

Same thing.

I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS on a VirtualBox machine.
Do you need more specifications ?

[dariocravero]

I think it has something to do with the -r/--root of the admin breaking something and self.destination_root on create_admin in padrino-admin/lib/padrino-admin/generators/admin_app.rb. I'm checking. The -r alias seems to be colliding with the same alias on the cli for some bizarre reason. Will look into it better tomorrow.

[Ortuna]

In cli.rb the --root option is being used to load the config/boot.rb file. If another --root is specified, the load_boot method will require 'padrino-core/support_lite'.

Trouble is that if support_lite is loaded then this line isn't executed which adds the padrino-admin generator into Padrino::Generators.load_paths.

So, adding the --root option changes load paths.

I could see how this was the desired behavior.

e.g:

sumeetsingh@pwr:~/Desktop/tmp/public()$ bundle exec padrino g
Please specify generator to use (project, app, mailer, controller, model, migration, plugin)

sumeetsingh@pwr:~/Desktop/tmp/public()$ bundle exec padrino g --root=..
Please specify generator to use (project, app, mailer, controller, model, migration, plugin, admin, admin_page)

Where '--root' points to the padrino project root, but the verbiage is confusing:

Options:
  -r, [--root=ROOT]  # The root destination

Since padrino loads 'light' version of padrino-core if it can't find the path to config/boot.rb

Don't know what the solution is but, this might get someone further in debugging. I'll also take another look when I have some time. but a few things should be cleared up:

what does the --root option point to? The root destination or the app it seems to be used in both ways and interchanged.

[nesquena]

OK, this is a valid issue and question. Moving to 0.11.1 since I want to release imminently.

[dariocravero]

A funny note on this issue is that tests didn't catch it because we don't go through the CLI but directly to the generator!

Would this option be there to change the place where the admin is created? I.e., if I'm setting --root another-admin should it create a folder called another-admin in my project's root? Is that the expected behaviour?

I'm in the middle of reviewing the admin's generators because I'm refactoring it to generate a namespaced admin and it wouldn't hurt me to correct this behaviour, I just need to know what's expected from it.

I also have some doubts with the usage of the -a option in the admin. See this. I'll be reusing it for another purpose now: set the app's location so that we know where to take the namespace from.

[dariocravero]

@padrino/core-members any thoughts on this?

[skade]

I think allowing the root to be changed makes sense. It should generate an admin with another folder name.

[dariocravero]

Great @skade, I think that too... I will implement it then. What about -a?

[j15e]

+1

I ran into this issue too (I modified the app name in the source of padrino to run the generator...)

You should implement the app + model options, there only a few line missing from what I can see, it's almost done!

[gbouthenot]

Padrino release 0.11.4 still has those problems:
padrino generate admin:
--root option does not work.
--app option is not implemented

Is there any other way to have the admin page elsewhere than /admin ? I would like to have it in /backoffice or /backoffice/admin (changed mount point is not sufficent, there are many path still refering to "/admin".

[ujifgc]

6d51246 improved relative awareness of admin

[ujifgc]

Please use bundle exec padrino g admin -a master to generate admin app named Master and mounted to /master.