Change default folder for certain items

[maddijoyce]

Hey,

I guess this is more a feature request than anything else, and I'm not sure if there's any way of doing it, but I'm looking to use a different folder location for certain items, e.g. models go in ../shared/models.

I've got 2 projects that use the same API and I'm basically having to copy and paste my model, serializer and adapter files between the 2 projects. I'd like to have a ../shared/ folder that contains these models, serializers and adapters that I can then point ember-cli to.

Currently, I've tried using symbolic links but it seems that broccoli struggles to deal with symbolic links. Is there a way to change the default name, or import extra models from a different folder.

[rwjblue]

Sounds like a great thing for an addon. The addon can be that shared code between your applications. This will work perfectly today, without any special modifications.

[rwjblue]

The addon would just have a app/ tree with the adapter/, serializer/, and models/ files/folders. Once included in the two projects, those pieces would all be "magically" merged into the running application just as if you had authored them there directly.

[maddijoyce]

Hmmm, I hadn't looked into ember addons before. Excellent! Thanks.

[maddijoyce]

Just finished creating the addon and it works perfectly. Have even been able to pull out the bower modules that both apps use. Thanks heaps.

[jakecraige]

💯

[maddijoyce]

If anyone comes here and is a little confused, I followed this process: http://maddijoyce.com/programming/ember/2014/09/05/an-exploration-in-ember/