Help building plugin that requires overriting ruby controller methods

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@Pabs

that surfaces a checkbox when creating a topic on the UI,

You’ll need to do that with a plugin outlet in the ember front end.

@Pabs

that basically saves a new attribute in the topics table

You want to use a TopicCustomField, not change any tables.

@Pabs

and then surface the new attrbute when visiting a Topics page.

You’ll want to add the custom field to the topic serializer.

You can look at other plugins that do those things for some examples.