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How to display the contents of folder on index page when link is clicked in rails?
I have code in rails 4.2.3 where on the index page of the dropbox connect feature, it creates a list of the files in the user's root dropbox directory once logged in. This is the code:
def index ...
For anyone else that needs help, I did get this to work for my situation using rails.
First off, I followed this tutorial which he admitted wasn't tested so I did have to make changes to get it to work and this was one of them: http://blog.jobspire.net/dropbox-on-rails-4-0-ajax-using-dropbox-sdk/
To get the directory views to work, I created this bit of code in the controller:
def folder
@dropbox = current_user.dropbox_session if current_user.dropbox_session
if current_user.dropbox_session
dbsession = DropboxSession.deserialize(current_user.dropbox_session)
@client = DropboxClient.new(dbsession, DROPBOX_APP_MODE).metadata("#{params[:path]}/#{params[:file]}")
end
endThen I created a view called folder.html.erb. It's an exact copy of the main index.html.erb view.
Then I created a partial called dropbox_path_change where I did have to change the code I listed above to use folder_path instead of dropbox_path_change_path.
Then I added the folder_path route to my routes file and now users can navigate into the folders at any level.
For anyone else that needs help, I did get this to work for my situation using rails.
First off, I followed this tutorial which he admitted wasn't tested so I did have to make changes to get it to work and this was one of them: http://blog.jobspire.net/dropbox-on-rails-4-0-ajax-using-dropbox-sdk/
To get the directory views to work, I created this bit of code in the controller:
def folder
@dropbox = current_user.dropbox_session if current_user.dropbox_session
if current_user.dropbox_session
dbsession = DropboxSession.deserialize(current_user.dropbox_session)
@client = DropboxClient.new(dbsession, DROPBOX_APP_MODE).metadata("#{params[:path]}/#{params[:file]}")
end
end
Then I created a view called folder.html.erb. It's an exact copy of the main index.html.erb view.
Then I created a partial called dropbox_path_change where I did have to change the code I listed above to use folder_path instead of dropbox_path_change_path.
Then I added the folder_path route to my routes file and now users can navigate into the folders at any level.
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