I have my <%= will_paginate %> code block in the layout of my application. I'd like to pass this block different collections depending on what controller/action I'm in. How can I do this? ...
I'm using restful_authentication plugin for Ruby on Rails. All seems fine except that it seems the user session is not getting created at all. I have the create method below. It appears that the self.current_user is being set but that the actual session is never created. When and how is the current_user_session supposed to be defined...
Hi, I have been trying to create beta invites that each existing user can send out and was hoping to be able to use a plugin called acts_as_inviteable http://github.com/brianjlandau/acts_as_inviteable I was wondering if anyone had direct experience with it. When I checked the console, it appears to be creating the right queries, but n...
As a Rails developer I feel a bit stupid asking this question but hopefully I will learn something new and someone can put me out of my misery! In my rails applications I use (other peoples) gems all the time, I also use plugins from the community or my own. I understand the benefits of use gems over plugins as they are version-able, se...
I want to use Apache Mahout in my project on Ruby on Rails for implementing recommendations and collaborative filtering. In Particular my requirements are: suggesting related tags. suggesting related articles. based on user's preferences prompt him for review of articles. based on geographical location, and other meta information of a ...
I'm trying to look up a User by group_id. My method looks kinda like this: User.find(:all, :conditions => {:group_id => '90a39597a1aa3ec65fccf29ae05d9b6aefbfea6b', :id => !current_user.id}) The :id condition doesn't make sense because I don't know the syntax for this part. How would I find a user by group_id and :id which doesn't matc...
I am using the CanCan authorization plugin (http://github.com/ryanb/cancan) for my application and it has worked great so far. I had it set like the following: class Ability include CanCan::Ability def initialize(user) user ||= User.new # guest user if user.role == "admin" can :manage, :all else can :r...
I've got several models that I'd like to relate together hierarchically. For simplicity's sake, let's say I've got these three: class Group < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree has_many :users end class User < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree belongs_to :group has_many :posts end class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree ...
As title, warden is very pluggable, I wonder if there is anything works with warden/devise? ...
I'm writing my first Rails plugin, and I'm quite stuck testing it. In simplified form: module Flashbulb def flash_messages() return <<END <!-- some HTML --> <script type='text/javascript'> #{update_flash_messages()} </script> END end def update_flash_messages(args = { :page => nil }) update_flash = lambda { |...
in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- haml (MissingSourceFile) but this gem already istalled. I have also plugin for this path :-/home/techvant/rails_app/techease/vendor/plugins/haml/init.rb this init file having following code : - begin require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib', 'haml') # From here rescue ...
I am trying to use the Whenever plugin for rails to perform a model process at certain times. My schedule.rb is as follows: every 1.day, :at => '5:30 am' do runner "User.mail_out" end My model is as follows: class User < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_authentic def mail_out weekday = Date.today.strftime('%A').downcase ...
I am trying to use the Whenever plugin for rails to perform a model process at certain times. When I try to use the mail_out process in my User model, I get the following error. Can someone please point me in the right direction of what is going wrong? /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/runner.rb:48: /var/lib/gems/1.8/gem...
I'm running a rails app on http://www.naildrivin5.com/scalatour. It works fine. When I log in to the app using restful_authentication, I get taken to the http://www.naildrivin5.com instead of the app. Weird. This seems like I've misconfigured something. Further, there's a few places where I'm hand-creating some urls, and I need ac...
I am trying to use the Whenever plugin for rails to perform a model process at certain times. When I try to use the mail_out process in my User model, I get the following error. Can someone please point me in the right direction of what is going wrong? /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/runner.rb:48: /var/lib/gems/1.8/gem...
At the moment I store each option in its own class attribute but this leads to hard to read code when I need to access the passed options from instance methods. For example if I pass a column name as an option I have to use self.send(self.class.path_finder_column) to get the column value from an instance method. Notice I have prefixed ...
Hi all, I'm using the Authlogic Facebook Connect plugin on my site. After a bit of a struggle I can sign in with FBConnect, I can get stuff from the FBSession, like the users name, and I can logout. But, the README on the plugin site seems to suggest that following the five steps will result in the FB UID being saved in your local datab...
I have a rails application in which user provides his skype address.I want to able to determine the skype status of the user(online or offline) when some one sees his profile. How can i do that in my application? Does any know of a ready to use gem/plugin? ...
Hello, I want to import address book of users from their gmail/hotmail/yahoo and aol address books. I am looking for a gem/plugin in rails which can help me do this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. ...
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...