h1. Fluther Ruby/Rails Client
h2. Introduction
This gem provides an interface to the "Fluther discussion service":http://www.fluther.com/. It is intended to be included into your controller (i.e. FlutherController) and called as a @before_filter@. It handles proxying requests to Fluther and returning the response so that it can be included in your web application.
It's based on the original "Fluther gem":http://github.com/Conceivian/Fluther but modified to not require Warden or Rack-integration.
h2. Installation
class SimpleFluther::Config
# hostname of the Fluther server for this environment (provided by Fluther)
fluther_host 'fstage.fluther.com'
# the route for your app
prefix '/qna'
# federated API key (provided by Fluther)
app_key '2b6a0009c414c53e3d4fa8f8c3134d59'
# what method to call in the controller to get the current user model
method_to_get_current_user :current_user
# mapping of attributes in the User model to the Fluther user
user_fields :id => :id, :name => :name, :email => :email # (defaults)
end
h2. Rails Integration
In your controller, include the module @Fluther::ControllerMethods@ and add the @make_fluther_request@ @before_filter@ to your target action.
The proxy provides three Rack variables that include the Fluther response: @fluther.header@, @fluther.title@, and
@fluther.response@. The first two (may) contain HTML blocks which should be inserted into the page @@ and @@ blocks,
respectively, and the third is the HTML for the Fluther widget itself.
To integrate the response into your application, you should add an action which is routed from the same path as the Fluther proxy.
For this example, we assume the controller is @MainController@, the action is @fluther@, and as above, it is mounted at @/qna@.
Also, we assume that the application layout includes @yield(:head)@ in the @<head>@ block:
# config/routes.rb
map.fluther '/qna/*_', :controller => 'fluther', :action => 'index'
Your controller might look something like this:
# app/controllers/fluther_controller.rb
class FlutherController < ApplicationController
include SimpleFluther::ControllerMethods
before_filter :make_fluther_request, :only => :index
def index
end
end
# app/views/fluther/index.html.erb
<%
if (header = request.env['fluther.header']).present?
content_for :head, header
end
if (title = request.env['fluther.title']).present?
content_for :head, content_tag(:title, title)
end
%>
<%= request.env['fluther.response'] -%>
You should now be able to start your application, navigate to http://localhost:300/qna and see the Fluther page.
h2. Credits
Based on original "Fluther gem":http://github.com/Conceivian/Fluther by Steve Sloan.