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Subject fixed. Anyway, I can't see why you need multiple layouts. Do you really need multiple layouts or just need to replace the default one without hecking base.rhtml ?

Eric is right. You can achieve this by overrinding base.rhtml in a plugin.

My Appologies for being thick, but I don't yet understand the directory structure I must follow.

Here are the directories I tried with no success:

redmine/vendor/plugins/myapp/app/layouts/base.rhtml

redmine/vendor/myapp/app/layouts/base.rhtml

redmine/vendor/plugins/engines/myapp/app/layouts/base.rhtml

Thanks muchly.

Patrick Naubert wrote:

My Appologies for being thick, but I don't yet understand the directory structure I must follow.

Here are the directories I tried with no success:

redmine/vendor/plugins/myapp/app/layouts/base.rhtml

Almost got it: redmine/vendor/plugins/myapp/ views /layouts/base.rhtml

I've attached a plugin (redmine_foo) that should this. Just extract it into vendor/plugins. You should see a directory called REDMINE_ROOT/vendor/plugins/redmine_foo that has the init.rb. Let me know if you need anything else.

That worked well. I am now at a later stage where I have to add 2 methods to the Redmine app/controllers/application.rb and I also have to change the set_localization method of that same file.

I tried to just create a myplugin/app/controllers/application.rb file with the following content, but it doesn't seem to use it:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  logger.info "In New application controller" 

  alias :old_set_localization :set_localization

  def french
    cookies[:language] =
        { :value => 'fr',
          :expires => Time.now + 1.year,
          :path => '/',
          :domain => 'testredmine.ircan.gc.ca' }
    redirect_to request.referer  end

  def english
    cookies[:language] =
        { :value => 'en',
          :expires => Time.now + 1.year,
          :path => '/',
          :domain => 'testredmine.ircan.gc.ca' }
    redirect_to request.referer
  end

  def set_localization
    logger.info "In new set_localization" 
    if url_for(params) =~ /\/french$/
       french()
    end
    if url_for(params) =~ /\/english$/
       english()
    end
    if cookies[:language]
       User.current.language = cookies[:language]
       current_language = cookies[:language]
    else
      User.current.language = nil unless User.current.logged?
    end
    lang = begin
      if !User.current.language.blank? && GLoc.valid_language?(User.current.language)
        User.current.language
      elsif request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']
        accept_lang = parse_qvalues(request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']).first.downcase
        if !accept_lang.blank? && (GLoc.valid_language?(accept_lang) || GLoc.valid_language?(accept_lang = a
ccept_lang.split('-').first))
          User.current.language = accept_lang
        end
      end
    rescue
      nil
    end || Setting.default_language
    set_language_if_valid(lang)
  end

I have a view defined in the myplugin/ plugin and that works well, so I know that my plugin hierarchy is correct, as you have given me.

You can't override controllers or models that way. The best way is to create a module and include it into the base class. Here's an example for a model and a helper. I haven't had to add anything to a controller yet but it's the same basic process.

If you need some more help, we should take the conversation to the forums so the issue tracker isn't cluttered.