ruby-on-rails-plugins

Ruby on Rails Foreigner plugin not working for SQL Server

Well, now that I've finally got my stupid ODBC stuff configured, I took a schema.rb file that I dumped from a Postgres database and did a db:schema:load on it in a Rails project configured for SQL Server. Well, it sets up all the schema in the SQL Server database except for a minor detail: No foreign keys are created. The rake command...

Rails - handling global site settings

I'm developing a new rails application which is supposed to be installed several times in order to implement several sites. There are some things, like the "Site Title" or the "Default Number of Items per Page" that clearly belong to a "global settings" table / config file. I've made a list of the things I think I'll need: ActiveReco...

paperclip private files

Is there a way to make paperclip attachments private? As in only where I explicitly want a user to be able to access a file, can the user access the file. Obviously the file can't be in a public directory, but how do I get paperclip to check the user's access rights when trying to access that file to begin with? ...

to_xml for fully-qualified trees using acts_as_tree

I have an ActiveRecord class that uses acts_as_tree. I'm trying to update the to_xml method so that if a child record's to_xml is called it will return it's xml nested in the parent/ancestor xml to give the fully-qualified path to that resource. As an example I have Compiler which is a parent of Compiler/Version. Compiler should be re...

Best way to implement Categories and Subcategories with flexible depth in Rails?

Hi. I have a Category and Subcategory models in my project. I would like to have many sub-levels in a flexible way. I thought making a self referential "parent" foreign key but I'm not quite sure how to do it. Any ideas? Thanks! Cat1 Sub1 SubSub1 SubSub2 Sub2 Cat2 Sub1 Cat3 Sub1 Sub2 SubSub1 ...

How to modify restful_authentication plugin setup in Rails ?

Hi. I installed restful_authentication a while ago in my project, everything works fine, except that now we requiere the users to activate their accounts via email. I forgot to include the option "--include-activation" when I ran the generate script, is there a clean way to add it now? Or should I re-install the plugin? If so, how can i...

Fleximage gem on Ruby 1.9

Running a Rails application with Fleximage in Ruby 1.8.7 works fine, but in Ruby 1.9 returned error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fleximage-1.0.4/lib/fleximage/model.rb:340: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.0.0] -- control frame ---------- c:0060 p:---- s:0295 b:0295 l:000294 d:0...

Getting Paperclip to work in Rails

Hi Everyone, I have installed the Paperclip plugin to attempt to upload an avatar for my kase model. For some reason, the select the file button shows, and I can choose a file - but then when I click update the kase - it takes me to the show page, but the missing.png rather than the selected image. kase.rb class Kase < ActiveRecord::...

Rail plugin acts_as_taggable_on :through

I have two models: class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :projects end class Project < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_taggable_on :skills, :roles end I would like to find Employees using the tags associated with their projects. The geokit-rails plugin supports a similar concept, using its ':through' relationship. Ideally, I ...

Filter chain halted as [:login_required] rendered_or_redirected

Hopefully I can explain this well enough, but please let me know if more information is needed! I'm building a form where a user can create an "incident". This incident has the following relationships: belongs_to: customer (customer has_many incidents) belongs_to: user (user has_many incidents) has_one: incident_status (incident_stat...

Problem running Thinking Sphinx with Rails 2.3.5

Hi, I just installed Sphinx (distro: archlinux) downloading the source. Then I installed "Thinking Sphinx" plugin for Rails. I followed the official page setup and this Screencast from Ryan Bates, but when I try to index the models it gives me this error: $ rake thinking_sphinx:index (in /home/benoror/Dropbox/Proyectos/cotizahoy) Sph...

bidirectional habtm linking

Hi, all. I have application with 2 groups of models - content based (news, questions) and "something" based (devices, applications etc). I need to link all models between groups - for example question may belongs to 3 different things - one application and 2 devices. The same - for news. From other side - i need to see all news articles ...

Jquery UI Accordion and JQuery Grid plugin not going well together

I have used Jquery -UI accordion plugin for menu (since it looks neat) and Jquery -grid rails plugin for my data. I have a vertical menu and data on the right side, however the style of the menu disappears and only grid is showing up properly. Anyone faced this issue before ? ...

HTTP Push on Heroku

What would be the best approach to creating an application on Heroku that has the capability to push data to the client? I have looked at Juggernaut; however, it requires Flash and I am not sure about it actually running on Heroku. Any help would be appreciated. ...

Rails Message This User Button

Hello, I am using this http://github.com/professionalnerd/simple-private-messages plugin in rails and I am on a user page show.html.erb - User and I want to put a button there that, when clicked, goes to the current user's inbox and populates the field call "send to" with the "user" name. How do I send that data along when the button i...

Installing and using acts-as-taggable-on

This is going to be a really dumb question, I just know it, but I'm going to ask anyways because it's driving me crazy. How do I get acts-as-taggable-on to work? I installed it as a gem with gem install acts-as-taggable-on because I can't ever seem to get installing plugins to work, but that's a whole other batch of questions that are ...

Ruby on Rails controller and architecture with cells

I decided to try to use the cells plugin from rails: http://cells.rubyforge.org/community.html given that I'm new to Ruby and very used to thinking in terms of components. Since I'm developing the app piecemeal and then putting it together piece by piece, it makes sense to think in terms of components. So, I've been able to get cells ...

acts-as-taggable-on: find tags with name LIKE, sort by tag_counts?

Hi I'm using the rails plugin acts-as-taggable-onand I'm trying to find the top 5 most used tags whose names match and partially match a given query. When I do User.skill_counts.order('count DESC').limit(5).where('name LIKE ?', params[:query]) This return the following error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: amb...

Polymorphic models hackery

Hello, Even though I know that, at least to my knowledge, this is not the default way of doing associations with ActiveRecord I'm looking for help in order to implement an "hibernatish" Polymorphic model. For instance, consider the following base model: # Content only has one property named path class Content < ActiveRecord::Base se...

How to customize flash message based on success or failure with Inherited Resources Rails plugin?

I'm using the inherited resources plugin in a 2.3.5 Rails application and was wondering how to change the flash[:notice] (or any other flash) based on the success OR failure in my create and update actions. So given the below, how do I add flash[:notice] = "All good" if success ... and flash[:notice] = "All bad" if failure? Thanks cla...