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Seeking Ruby-on-Rails help to modify this Forum’s code

peter

3 Oct '16

The discuss.folio.org website uses a piece of software called Discourse. One of the features of Discourse is to be able to embed comments on a topic in another web page. We’re using this on Discuss to provide a comment section for pages on Wiki.folio.org.

The default implementation of this copies the main body of the target web page as the first post on a topic. We need an option added to the JavaScript fragment that is a toggle for including the main body. By way of example, the configuration portion of the JavaScript for embedding Discourse would look like this:

DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: 'http://discuss.folio.org/',
                     discourseEmbedUrl: 'http://wiki.folio.org/page/blah',
                     discourseEmbedBody: False };

Discourse is written as Ruby-on-Rails, and I think the code doing the embedding is located here:

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/b061ba5c522bb6fcbf625c8751426b44d499f775/spec/controllers/embed_controller_spec.rb

require 'rails_helper'

describe EmbedController do

  let(:host) { "eviltrout.com" }
  let(:embed_url) { "http://eviltrout.com/2013/02/10/why-discourse-uses-emberjs.html" }
  let(:discourse_username) { "eviltrout" }

  it "is 404 without an embed_url" do
    get :comments
    expect(response).not_to be_success
  end

  it "raises an error with a missing host" do
    get :comments, embed_url: embed_url
    expect(response).not_to be_success
  end

  context "by topic id" do

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Is there someone that knows Ruby-on-Rails that could modify Discourse (via plugin or contributing code to the mainstream project) that could address this?

peter

3 Oct '16

(Posted to issues.folio.org as FOLIO-344.)