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Django : Getting an instace of a model based on a static location

Lets say I have this model class Egg(models.Model): file = FileField(upload_to='media') img = ImageField(upload_to='media') How to get an Egg instance if I only have the file URL string like 'http://example.com/media/spam.tar.gz'? Can I query by this URL?? ...

Turn off "updated_at" column in Rails

Hi, I have a simple "Log" model, that records the fact of calling controller's action. Entries of this "log" record are supposed to be created once and never altered. Also, I will have many of these records in the database. So, there is no need for "updated_at" column (don't need to waste the memory on HDD). How can I tell to Rails t...

Manipulating Order of JOINS in CakePHP

I have the following problem with CakePHP: In my model, Deposit belongsTo Account, and Account belongsTo Customer. When querying Deposits, I get the Account information, but not the Customer's, by default. If I set Deposit->recursive to 2, I get the Customer information (and a whole lot more), but CakePHP esentially throws one SEL...

Pylons 1.0 and SQLAlchemy 0.6 - How do I Model?

I've been reading http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.1/starting-the-simplesite-tutorial.html and following along with their SimpleSite tutorial but am having some issues with creating the Model. The Model imports they use on the tutorial are: """The application's model objects""" import sqlalchemy as sa from sqlalchemy import orm from simples...

Magento models: how to get data from an array, rather than a database?

Typically, Magento's models are "backed" by a MySQL database--this is where the data comes from, and is persisted to. How can I get the data from a standard PHP array? Is there some sample code available anywhere? (I'm especially interested in the "reading" aspect at the moment, but it would be useful to know how to "write" too.) ...

How would I use ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE in my CodeIgniter model?

Hi folks! I have a CodeIgniter/PHP Model and I want to insert some data into the database. However, I have this set in my 'raw' SQL query: ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE duplicate=duplicate+1 I am using CodeIgniter and am converting all my previous in-controller SQL queries to ActiveRecord. Is there any way to do this from within the Activ...

Django: Store Hierarchical Data

Hi, I'm trying to store sections of a document in a Django app. The model looks like: class Section(models.Model): project = models.ForeignKey(Project) parent_section = models.ForeignKey('Section', blank=True, null=True, related_name='child_set') predecessor_section = models.ForeignKey('Section', blank=True, null=True, related_na...

How complicated can Rails models be? sample projects?

I'm trying to move past the beginner stage of Rails and into the intermediate but I'm finding it hard to find more advanced examples to learn from. For example, I've read that you need to be careful about "Nested Routes" and shouldn't go more than 2 deep. What happens in a situation like this? Customer can place many Orders Orders c...

How to assign the model to an partial view loaded via jQuery

Hi, normally i load a partial view by doing <% Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialView", Model); %> But how can i assign the Model to the corresponding action, when i instead use jQuery to load this partial view? $.ajax({ url: "/MyUrl/", data: 'html', success: function (data) { $('#MyPartialView').html(...

How helpful are videos to you when learning about new tools?

Clint Edmonson, Microsoft Architect Evangelist, posted a video series on Channel 9 about how to use the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate visualization and modeling tools in your software development process. How helpful do you find these kinds of videos in learning how to use these tools? Here are the video links: Part 1: Brainstorming a...

How to assign the contents of one model to another in Rails?

I have the following create action: def create @order = Order.new(params[:order]) if params[:same_as_above] == "1" @order.billing_address.name = @order.shipping_address.name @order.billing_address.number = @order.shipping_address.number @order.billing_address.street = @order.shipping_address.town end ...

Having some trouble creating my Model in Pylons

I've been reading the Pylons Book and, having got to the part about Models, realise it's out of date. So I then switched over to the official Pylons documentation for creating Models in Pylons 1.0 - http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/1.0/tutorials/quickwiki_tutorial/ I've followed what they've got and it's still failing. ./blog/model/init.py ...

understanding NSManagedObject

Hi all, in an existing project I have tried to introduce Core Data long after the project was created, so its model is already in place. I have created the xcdatamodel and added my only class to it. That class should act as a global storage for objects in my application. The class properly implement NSManagedObject and I have verified i...

xcodes automatic classmodel: how to fix a missing inheritance-link

i have in my project a mainpage interited from uiviewcontroller. and any subpage is inherited from a subviewcontroller, that is an inherited uiviewcontroller, just with some overwritten behaviours and some new functions. problem in that case is, that the class-model generated by xcode does not display that one inheritation between uivie...

How to handle database logic from model

Hi, I created a enterprise system model from a class diagram and converted it php object oriented code. What I have now is just an empty model, it's able to relate and the connections are handled. Now the next step is ahead. I have a database and have to put the object into the database. Now there is a lack of experience on my side. I...

Running scripts after object creation in Ruby on Rails

Hi all, I'd like to run a script that does some evaluation of user-entered data after it is successfully created. I have a model representing the data, but how do I specify that the model class should execute function X after an instance is successfully created? Part 2: would it be more appropriate to put the code I want to execute in ...

Many-to-Many Relationships in Rails

I have two models I want to connect with an m-to-m relationship, but I want the relationship to have some data of its own, such as a date due or a count or something like that... Suppose I have Users, Groups, and some UsersInGroups object, where users and groups both have a has_many X, :through Y relationship. UsersInGroups belongs_to a...

Model clause in Oracle

I am recently inclined towards in Oracle jargon and the more I am looking into the more is attracting me. I have recently come across the MODEL clause but to be honest I am not understanding the behaviour of this. Can any one with some examples please let me know about the same. Thanks in advance ...

How do I set a default sort order for a rails model?

I would like to specify a default sort order in my model. So that when I preform a find(:all, ...) without an :order parameter it defaults to the order specified in the model, but specifying an :order will override the default. ...

Qt Model View for a given populated ro QList

i got a godgiven list of xyz (the code says int, just an example) glued into a QList (to big to move anywhere). How can I create a Model View for that? I allready read the Qt doc which tells me, I have to reimplement data, index, parent, rowCount, columnCount functions. But the preprocessor/compiler cries for more reimplemented functions...