Comments on: Castle Monorail – NVelocity View Engine

By: Chris Ovenden

Chris Ovenden — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:52:21 +0000

Simpler:

$Flash.error

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:10:59 +0000

Controller:

Flash["error"] = “Oops an occurred!”;

NVelocity view:

$Flash.get_Item(”error”)

Hope that helps!

By: Robert Stackhouse

Robert Stackhouse — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:42:13 +0000

Another question for you. How does one access the Flash from the view using NVelocity?

By: robert

robert — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:09:40 +0000

An excellent suggestion. I have created a base controller class that has a view helper attribute that loads the imageRoot from the web.config file now. Thanks for your help.

By: justinram

justinram — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:52:52 +0000

Robert you can have a Application controller which you then inherit from you other controllers:

using System;
using Castle.MonoRail.Framework;
using Castle.MonoRail.ActiveRecordSupport;
using PS.Helpers;

namespace PS.Controllers
{
[Layout("application")]
[Helper(typeof(ViewHelper), "ViewHelper")]
public abstract class ApplicationController : ARSmartDispatcherController
{

}
}

namespace PS.Controllers
{
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

using Castle.ActiveRecord;
using Castle.ActiveRecord.Framework;
using Castle.MonoRail.Framework;
using Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers;

using Models;

[Rescue("Error")]
[DefaultAction("Index")]
public class PropertySearchController : ApplicationController
{
}
}

You may also want to look at helpers if you need access in your views:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers;
using Uon.Web.Util;

namespace PS.Helpers
{
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;

class ViewHelper : AbstractHelper
{
public string getHeader()
{
}
}

Hope that helps. Stick with Monorail it’s a cracking framework!

By: robert

robert — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:51:10 +0000

My question is where is $siteRoot created and stored. I would like to create a similar variable named $imageRoot that would be accessible to all controllers in an application just as $siteRoot is without having to use the ResourceAttribute. Forgive me if the answer is obvious, I am new to MonoRail.

By: justinram

justinram — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:33:43 +0000

That’s great thanks for that. It’s difficult to find the most up to date info on Monorail it seems as if the Wiki pages haven’t quite caught up to the source. If I remember correctly I actually got the $DictHelper.CreateDict from one of your posts on the mailing list.

Do you have any tips on where to look for the latest information?

By: hammett

hammett — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:48:27 +0000

As a matter of fact you can use the following to create dictionaries:

$HtmlHelper.SubmitButton(”Login”, “%{id=’btnLogin’}”)