Change Topic List home router - from Latest to Following

[merefield (Robert)]

@feabila

In plugin.rb , as you said I was capable by putting “following” as the only option:

Haha, well that’s one way of doing it, but really you should append it as an option, and always give the user the option to change it … at least if you want this to be merged into the plugin

But yeah, good stuff, keep evolving it.

btw, also take a look at:

Tips for overriding existing Discourse methods in plugins

I’ve been running into a bunch of instances recently of needing to override existing ruby methods from plugins, and thought I’d share my best practices here. Overriding an instance method class ::TopicQuery module BabbleDefaultResults def default_results(options={}) super(options).where('archetype <> ?', Archetype.chat) end end prepend BabbleDefaultResults end Here I’m removing chat topics from an instance method which is returning a list of topics. The module name BabbleD…