Initializer fails when used in global_bc_items.yml.erb

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we have OOD v4.2.3 and our my_accounts initializer works when put in form.yml.erb like the following

account:
  widget: 'select'
  options:
  <%  OodSupport::User.new.my_accounts.each do |line| %>
  - "<%= line %>"
  <%- end %>

but fails when we move this to our global_bc_items.yml.erb as global_account and use - global_account in form.yml.erb. The other global_ form items in global_bc_items.yml.erb that don’t use an initializer are working correctly

2

This has to do with the boot order. The configuration is loaded first, before rails or any other gem dependency, so ood_support isn’t available (or your extended class from an initializer) at this time.

You can extend a class still in pure Ruby, but I’d suggest sub classing as it’s a little more straight forward. So you’d have some file that’s the subclass (note you don’t want rails here):

# /some/file.rb

require 'ood_support'

class MyUser < OodSupport::User
  def my_accounts
    # your custom implementation here
  end
end

Then you can require /some/file.rb in your ERB config file directly and it should load.

3

thanks for the help. I’ve tried the following but it didn’t work, but worked after removing a different unrelated failing form item

#/etc/ood/config/init4globals.rb

require 'ood_support'

class MyUser < OodSupport::User
  def my_accounts
      @my_accounts ||= begin
        # myproject is a custom script returning a list of project numbers one per line
        cmd = "/sw/local/bin/myproject"
        o, e, s = Open3.capture3(cmd)
        o.chomp.split
      end
  end
end

# /etc/ood/config/ondemand.d/global_bc_items.yml.erb

<% require '/etc/ood/config/init4globals.rb' %>

  global_my_accounts:
    widget: 'select'
    options:
       <%  MyUser.new.my_accounts.each do |line| %>
       - "<%= line %>"
       <%- end %>

#form.yml.erb

 - global_my_accounts
4

There’s likely some error message in /var/log/ondemand-nginx/$USER/error.log. Can you share what it is?

5

the error.log shows that a different form item was causing a read/parse error for global_bc_items.yml.erb
I removed the other failing item without changing the above code and it works.
I added one comment to the code above describing our custom myproject script output
Thanks,