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Client/JS Framework for "Unsaved Data" Protection?

Hey all- we have a typical web application that is essentially a data entry application with lots of screens some of which have some degree of complexity. We need to provide that standard capability on making sure if the user forgets to click the "Save" button before navigating away or closing their browser they get a warning and can ca...

Problem with setter override on ActiveRecord

This is not exactly a question, it's rather a report on how I solved an issue with write_attribute when the attribute is an object, on Rails' Active Record. I hope this can be useful to others facing the same problem. Let me explain with an example. Suppose you have two classes, Book and Author: class Book < ActiveRecord::Base belong...

What is meant by the term "dirty object"?

I see the term "dirty" or "dirty objects" a lot in programming. What does this mean? ...

"Was dirty" plugin for ActiveRecord?

I'm working on some code that uses a lot of after_save callbacks, and I remember seeing a plugin that allows the model.changes array to persist after a call to save. It would be a great help if I could just write if body_did_change? in my after_save calls, instead of having to hack together something with a before_save filter just to se...

JQuery dirtyForm not working on text boxes in ajaxToolkit:TabPanel

I'm a newb to jQ so please forgive my ignorance. I'm using Asa Wilson's plugin jquery.dirtyform.js to prompt a user of unsaved changes before they nav away from a page (ASP.Net C# 3.5). It basically loops through all controls and appends a class and handler to each input. Controls w/i an ajaxToolkit:TabPanel are ignored, unfortunately....

small code redundancy within while-loops (doesn't feel clean)

So, in Python (though I think it can be applied to many languages), I find myself with something like this quite often: the_input = raw_input("what to print?\n") while the_input != "quit": print the_input the_input = raw_input("what to print?\n") Maybe I'm being too picky, but I don't like how the line the_input = raw_input("w...

Tab control in Silverlight 3.0 and Dirty data

We are using tab control in our project. While using this control i came across a few issues like - When the tab control loads, it invokes constructor of all the xaml pages that form the individual tabs. Can this be avoided? Is there any event with tab control that we can use to identify dirty data on the previous tab that i may have...

Dirty Size, VM Tracker, iPhone

Hi All, My doubt is regarding iPhone "VM Tracker" memory management tool. I have been trying out this tool with my project and found that the "dirty size" column is showing 55 MB, which is quite huge. It would be great help if someone could answers the following How could I see which variables are the cause of "dirty" size? 32MB memor...

JPA/Hibernate with optimistic locking and EHCache. Dirty checking interceptor not working properly.

Hi, folks. I am working on a JPA setup with optimistic locking (@Version) and EHCache. The underlying provider is Hibernate. I hooked a HibernateDirtyCheckInterceptor (extends EmptyInterceptor) into the Spring config file. This part is working, as my log entries get posted. My entity class clearly defines itself as not dirty, and the fi...

An internal error occurred while processing dirty regions

I got this error message in Eclipse today. Any idea what went wrong? ...