Problems with paths

[precisionpete]

It's a great tool. But I'm struggling a bit...

rice embed-go does not seem to find code is subfolders. I'm building a small web app using templates and some static files.

Main.go is in the root and my handlers are all in a handlers folder. If I run rice embed-go, it finds any resources I reference in the main.go just fine. If I scan the rice-box.go, I have lots of stuff there. And it all works as expected.

But, I cannot get it to find files I reference from my handlers in the subfolder. i.e. if I call tBox, err := rice.FindBox("templates") in a handler, they do not show up in the rice-box.go file. No errors until I execute the binary on a separate system. Then it blows up on a nil pointer.

To get it to work, I have to construct the Box twice. Once in the handler so I can use it. And once in the main.go so the embedded can find it. And in the handler, I have to call it with a relative "../name" to find it from the handlers folder. Unless I have it swapped in a separate func when suddenly it doesn't need the relative path anymore. But the func is also defined in the handlers folder?.?

I can get it to work. But I really would like to understand why it's like this. It seems very strange.

[said-saifi]

@precisionpete
Does not the below fix your issue?

rice embed-go -i ./ -i ./handlers

Explanation:

-i, --import-path= Import path(s) to use. Using PWD when left empty. Specify multiple times for more import paths to append

./ is for your main.go and ./handlers from your handlers package.