I have a Rails app with Users, and each user HABTM Roles. I want to select Users without a specific role. I have searchlogic at my disposal, and I'm lost. I've tried using a combination of conditions and joins and includes and what not, but I can't seem to nail it. This works: User.find(:all, :conditions => ['role_id != ?', Role[:admin...
Hello all, I am about to be writing a Ruby on Rails app which will use sub-domains to authenticate users. We will have two types of accounts: user accounts domain accounts Users will thus be able to belong to multiple domain accounts using the same credentials. I hope to have the ability for a domain account administrator to be able...
I've been pulling my hair out trying to work with Time in Rails. Basically I need to set all time output (core as well as ActiveSupport) to the server's local time -- no GMT, no UTC, etc. I've seen various posts relating to Time, but they usually involve someone's need to set it for each user. Mine isn't nearly as complex, I simply wa...
I am using Rails 2.3 and I decided to provide support for JSONP. Created a brand new application. Then ran script/generate scaffold User name:string This is my entire environment.rb RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.2' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot') require 'rack/contrib' Rails::Initializer.r...
EDIT: Figured it out so asking a related question. here's my Javascript jQuery.ajaxSetup({ 'beforeSend': function(xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "text/javascript") } }) jQuery.fn.submitWithAjax = function() { this.submit(function() { $.post(this.action, $(this).serialize(), null, "script"); r...
I am using solr with ruby on rails. It's all working well, I just need to know if there's any existing code to sanitize user input, like a query starting with ? or * ...
Hi, The following link <%= link_to "Login to comment", :url => new_session_url(:return_to => request.request_uri, :anchor => 'commentForm'), :method => :get, :html => { :id => 'login_to_comment'} %> generates the following url: http://localhost:3000/session/new?return_to=%2Fnature_photos%2Fsdfds#commentForm and the parameters are ...
I just upgraded to Rails 2.3.2.1 running Litespeed web server 4.0.5 and get the below error. I think it has something to do with setting up the Rack preference (server = Rack::Handler::LSWS) but not sure how to do it. Also, I'm running the lateast ruby-lsapi [root@idev logs]# gem list ruby-lsapi ruby-lsapi (3.5, 3.3, 3.2) 2009...
Anyone using JRUBY on Rails with FeedTools? I'm getting the following error when I try to run FeedTools: NameError (undefined local variable or method `parser' for YAML:Module):. I've tracked the code down to monkey_patch.rb. It is bombing on the parser line, but I'm new to Ruby and Rails and couldn't debug it on my own. What's weird ...
Hello everyone, I am to build a web application which will accept different events from external sources and present them quickly to the user for further actions. I want to use Ruby on Rails for the web application. This project is a internal development project. I would prefer simple and easy to use solutions for rapid development over...
I'm new to development, and I'm getting into it as a hobby. (currently a student). I'm wondering what you guys and girls advise. There's greater support for PHP, I realize. But Ruby looks like it offers a great deal more flexibility...and it's prettier. This is a question from a noob, so if this is a bad question, please excuse me! ...
Let's say I am using a STI pattern to persist several different subclasses of "Transaction," which subclasses "ActiveRecord" My subclasses might include "HighPriorityTransaction" and "LowPriorityTransaction" which rails will store in the table "transactions" with a "type" column. Each subclass has a different implementation of the befor...
I currently have a hideous delay based chat app in my learning management system (rails based) but want to explore other options. The jabber approach seems cool, and there is can_has_chat, but on their google code page there is a notice about the potential for trouble with many sleeping mongrel instances. Doesn't seem like a good way to ...
I have an action that searches records based on a url parameter. The url for the action looks something like this: http://domain.com/records/filter/<filtercode> If the user enters an incorrect filtercode, I would like to app to raise an error so that Hoptoad will report to error to me. render a 404 instead of a 500 in producti...
I'm trying to contact a REST API using ActiveResource on Rails 2.3.2. I'm attempting to use the timeout functionality so that if the resource I'm contacting is down I can fail quickly - I'm doing this with the following: class WorkspaceResource < ActiveResource::Base self.timeout = 5 self.site = "http://mysite.com/restAPI" end Ho...
Hello, I would like to validate my users, so they can only use a-z and - in their username. validates_format_of :username, :with => /[a-z]/ However this rule also allows spaces ._@ Username should use only letters, numbers, spaces, and .-_@ please. Any ideas? Best regards. Asbjørn Morell ...
Do you have a suggestion of a CMS writeten in Ruby on Rails. I need it for a corporate intranet. I am new to RoR, I am a PHP programmer, so it is better for me not to start from scratch. ...
I have 2 rails apps on the same domain. i want the single sign on feature to be added to them. i would prefer to maintain separate database for each app.. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance, Ak ...
I am using awesome_nested_set but I guess this applies to all the nested_set plugins equally. When I add a child I want that child to inherit some attributes from the parent. Sounds simple, it certainly is with acts_as_tree. The problem is you need to save the object before adding to the parent, so at least initially you end up with a r...
Hi, I had a previous question that touched this topic (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131694/rails-how-to-get-value-from-another-field-when-executing-an-onchange-remote-func), but then I dugg a little deeper and realized that my problem is the datetime_select method. I have a textfield with onchange. In the onchange I need to get ...