How to install latest official refinerycms-calendar 2.0.2 in RefineryCMS 2.1.1

Question

I have been eating my nails the whole weekend to figure out the right combination of modifications to the official refinerycms-calendar in order to make it work with RefineryCMS 2.1.1.

Here are my conclusions and efforts, hoping that someone will drive me to the right direction:

1. Adding just gem 'refinerycms-calendar', '~>2.0.0' as suggested in the github page is not working out of the box. You need to correct the dependencies on the .gemspec file. There are many forks out there created only for this correction.

2. So, I forked the refinery/refinerycms-calendar project, corrected the dependencies and used my fork in the Gemfile.

3. Backend (BE) works fine: Created an event, went back to FrontEnd (FE), got a "This page is NOT live for viewing"

4. This frontend (FE) inconcistency is corrected to the BE > Pages > Venues page: /calendar/venues is not an existing route and needs to be corrected to /calendar/events. The seeds.rb needs to be corrected for a permanent solution.

5. Go back to FE, now the /calendar/events is blank! I only get the title of the Page as defined on the relative Pages page.

6. A look on the rails server log reveals that there is a :find_page error resulting form the fact that the refinerycms-events.css under the engine's public/stylesheets folder is neither picked up nor referenced correctly inside show.hrml.erb and index.html.erb files. I copied the refinerycms-events.css under vendor/stylesheets and changed the reference to refinerycms-events.css accordingly.

7. Refreshed FE but still there is a blank page both when getting /calendar/events and /calendar/events/#{event}

NOTE: If I "rake routes" I can see that the routes for the FE portion are repeated 3 times. I am not quite sure for this behavior, but when I substituted "Refinery::Core::Engine.routes.append do".gsub("append","draw"), I could only see them once.

I have tried many forks around and all of those seem to demonstrate the same behavior.

Can anybody please let me know:

a. If you finally managed to have this (official refinery release) engine fully functional in your projects and if yes which branch was used and with which exact Refinerycms and refinerycms-calendar version combination.

b. If used used a fork rather than the official refinerycms-calendar release, then which fork/branch is that.

I hope someone to have that nailed down.

Best regards,

Petros

Answer 1

Well, seems that changing :body_content_left and :body_content_right with :body and :side_body respectively inside the Engine's show and index views, solves the issue of the /calendar/events and /calendar/events/:event FE pages being blank.

I am still unsure why this is causing such an issue and it is kind of weird nobody to have reported it until now.