ruby on rails - Opening an existing class in Redmine Plugin file -

i'm writing plugin on redmine.

i want add new method inside existing controller of redmine. controller name repositories.

i wrote in repositories.rb following code:

class repositoriescontroller < applicationcontroller    def exec_client     ...   end  end 

in routes.rb put:

match '/projects/:id/repository', :controller => 'repositories', :action => 'exec_client', :via => :post 

in view navigation.html.erb wrote:

<%= button_to_function l(:gerar_build_project), remote_function(:action => 'exec_client', :controller => 'repositories')%> 

the code of class repositoriescontroller written on file repositories_controller.rb.

but, when click in button i've created in view, following message:

abstractcontroller::actionnotfound (the action 'exec_client' not found repositoriescontroller):

what's going wrong?

to extend class in redmine plugin , add new methods, need follow these steps:

in path plugin/lib/client created file client.rb

#encoding: utf-8 module repositoriespatch     require_dependency 'repositories_controller'     def self.included(base)       base.send(:include, instancemethods)     end end  module instancemethods   require_dependency 'repositories_controller'   def exec_client     [....]   end end  rails.configuration.to_prepare   repositoriescontroller.send(:include, repositoriespatch) end 

above created patch new function repositores_controller , have inserted using command .send

in init.rb put:

  rails.configuration.to_prepare     repositoriescontroller.send(:include, repositoriespatch)   end 

the rest stood same. hope can useful someone. thanks!