controller

conceptual help with sending data to global hud, Cocoa

Hello all! I have a multidocument application. I want to pull data from each of those documents and mirror a subset of the data into a global 'management' HUD window that can sit on another screen. Do I need a global object of my HudController in each document instance or is there a way I can delegate all the info from the various doc...

Redirecting to another controller in Rails

Hi, I'm trying to redirect from one controller to another in Rails and I am getting this error: undefined method `call' for nil:NilClass The code is pretty simple (in def create method): @blog_post_comment = BlogPostComment.new(params[:blog_post_comment]) respond_to do |format| if @blog_post_comment.save flash[:notice] = '...

in ruby on rails, how to call a action in ApplicationController?

I am new to Ruby and RoR. I am not really understand how the controllers work. I have an action in ApplicationController def some_checking ... end And I would like to call the action some_checking in another controller class OtherController < ApplicationController some_checking def xxx end end Is there anything wrong? H...

rails send parameters to a third party in a post request

I am using a payment gateway in my rails application, how can i redirect to gateway from my controller and pass all the parameters required by the gateway. basically its a post request. ...

Passing direct parameters to a Controller#method when testing via RSpec

Normally to pass parameters via in RSpec we do: params[:my_key] = my_value get :my_method Where my_method deals with what it received from params. But in my controller I have a method, which takes args directly i.e.: def my_method(*args) ... end How do I call the method with those args from within the test? I've tried get :my_met...

WEBrick::HTTPStatus::LengthRequired error when accessing create method in controller

I have a very simple controller set up: class LibrariesController < ApplicationController ... def create @user.libraries << Library.new(params) @user.save render :json => "success!" end ... end Basically, whenever I try to access the create method of LibrariesController using HTTParty.post I get a WEBrick::HTTPStat...

ASP.NET MVC 2 form submit route issue

Hi, i'm having this issue, in ASP.NET MVC 2 where I'm adding a drop down list on the master page and filling it with data from an abstract master controller. When an option is selected an submit button clicked, it reroutes you to a new page. so lets say the page lives on http://domain.com/landingPage i'm on: http://domain.com/landingP...

Asp.net mvc, view with multiple updatable parts - how?

I have started doing asp.net mvc programming and like it more everyday. Most of the examples I have seen use separate views for viewing and editing details of a specific entity. E.g. - table of music albums linking to separate 'detail' and 'update' views [Action] | Title | Artist detail, update ...

Why Can't I import a UITableViewCell subclass ? That's weird....

It's like this, I created a UITableViewCell subclass called NewsItemCell, then I wanna use it in my FirstViewController.m, then I tried to import it, but the compiler keeps telling me this Below is my code, it is driving me mad, thank you if you can help. #import "NewsItemCell.h" #import "FirstViewController.h" @implementation Firs...

In Kohana 3 Is it possible to use Controller_REST and Controller_Template together?

Right now I'm using Controller_Template would like to have RESTful URLs though, is it possible to use both the controllers together somehow? Thanks. ...

What's an easy way to set up object communication in Obj-C?

I am trying to send a slider value from a controller object to a method of a model object. The later is implemented in the separate file and I have appropriate headers. I think the problem is that I am not sure how to instantiate the receiver in order to produce a working method for the controller. Here is the controller's method. -(I...

Designing router & controllers in RESTful architecture

Simple examples of controllers in a RESTful architecture suggest four actions per controller -- index, create, update, delete -- corresponding with the GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. But beyond that I still find a dozen little decisions: Do you have a different controller for resource collections (example.com/things) than you do for an i...

Handling Exceptions that happen in a asp.net MVC Controller Constructor

What's the best way to handle exceptions that happen from within a controller's constructor? All I can think of to do is use Application_OnError() or put a try/catch in my ControllerFactory. Neither of these solutions seem ideal. Application_OnError is to broad - I have some non-mvc content in the site that has its own error handling. ...

Status messages on the Spring MVC-based site (annotation controller)

What is the best way to organize status messages ("Your data has been successfully saved/added/deleted") on the Spring MVC-based site using annotation controller? So, the issue is in the way of sending the message from POST-method in contoller. ...

how create a Controller partial class to override OnAuthorization?

I'm trying to change the method OnAuthorization, so that it is available for any application ... this way: public partial class Controller { protected override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext) { if ((string)(filterContext.RouteData.Values["action"]) == "test") { filterContext.R...

How do I create a controller and action without a model?

I have several models: Email Letter Call All three belong to a model Campaign. And a Campaign has_many Contacts I envision being able to see a schedule for Today by going to domain/schedule/today What I'd like it to do would be to show all the Events (Email, Letter, Call) that have to happen today for each campaign. I tried the f...

Why is the proper "respond_to" format not getting called?

Hi All, I'm having a bit of an odd issue. Really too odd to type out, but here goes. Basically I have a controller that refuses to "respond_to" using javascript unless I assign my "chart.generate_xml" to a variable before the "respond_to" block like so: @xml = @chart.generate_xml(@begin_date,@end_date,1.hour) respond_to do |forma...

Using Microsoft Chart Control in ASP.NET MVC Returns a Blank Image

Using the answer Generating the Image from a Controller from this post, I created a controller action to return a chart image as seen below (the X and Y values are just there as test data): public FileContentResult HistoryChart() { Chart chart = new Chart(); string[] currencies = { "ZAR", "USD", "GBP", "JPY" }; ...

Navigation Controller Views in Landscape

Hi, I have set up a navigation controller ( navController ) in Portrait mode to which I push all the viewcontrollers I have. Now when a user switches to Landscape mode, I need to display all the views as a coverflow. For this I use [navController viewControllers] to get all the view controllers in the stack. In the Landscape view contr...

Model Binding using ASP.NET MVC, getting datainput to the controller.

Pretty Basic one here guys. I have a View which holds 2 textfields for input and a submit button <%using (Html.BeginForm("DateRetrival", "Home", FormMethod.Post)){ %> <%=Html.TextBox("sday")%> <%=Html.TextBox("eday")%> <input type="submit" value="ok" id="run"/> <% }%> the following controller action which I want to bind the dat...