I am creating an application to track football teams through out the season. but i am stuck on the design of the database. One fixture has a home team and an away team. I have created a fixture model which has two foreign keys- home_team and away_team but I cant get the association to work right. any ideas? Each fixture belongs to a leag...
I have a text file containing what I am told are unicode characters, for example: \320\222\320\21015-25'ish per main or \320\222\320\21020-40'ish per starter Which should read: £15-25'ish per main or £20-40'ish per main starter However, when viewing this text in Firefox, the output is mangled with various unwanted characters. So, ar...
I've got a Rails metal class that basically does a one time check to make sure there is an admin user in the system, if not, it redirects user to create one. Right now I'm using the rack session to prevent double checking but that seems to have the following problems: Still does one time check for each session Slows things down by che...
How can I omit Zeros in my data? For example using the MIN function? I would like the Minimum value except a 0... How can I get the next largest? MIN(availables.price) Also is there a generally way to skip over 0s in the same way if I'm using the AVG function? The problem is the table I've inherited doesn't use NULL values but has...
I have a number of models that load a collection of strings, based on the user's i18n locale. In order to simplify things, each model that does so includes the following module: module HasStrings def self.included(klass) klass.extend ClassMethods end module ClassMethods def strings @strings ||= reload_strings! e...
Hi, I am editing a .html.erb file with HTML(rails) selected at the bottom. When I type if I get: < ?php if (condition): ? > < ?php endif ? > Any ideas? Cheers ...
I have a rails application that takes a while to process certain requests (as it processes image uploads). I currently have three mongrel processes in a cluster, and I expect one of the other two to handle a second request if the first one is busy. However, this doesn't seem to be happening. If I watch the output from top on the ser...
I have a Property model with a has_many and accepts_nested_attributes_for on a Image model which uses attachment_fu. Updating a Property using the following code results in a database UPDATE for every single image (and each image thumbnail) no matter whether there were changes to it or not. properties_controller.rb def update @pr...
I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and now I'm having this weird issue. Has anybody seen this issue? Ruby comments in the html are causing weird issues. for exmaple: <!-- /app/views/convs/_conv_detail_wiki.rhtml --> <% # Prereq: conv, # seed %> <% # NOTE: you can implicit pass @keywords to this partial for highlighting purposes %...
kratos-iii:railsproj zachinglis$ rake db:create (in /Users/zachinglis/Sites/rails/railsproj) Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"mysql", "host"=>"localhost", "username"=>"root", "password"=>nil, "database"=>"railsproj_development"}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_general_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a mat...
I'm facing the following challenge for a Rails project: When a user receives mail, I want to invoke a method that writes the message out to a static file. The trick is, the mail needs to be embedded in a styled HTML page (i.e., we will surround the actual message with other page elements and style the whole page). Here's the current a...
Hay guys, I'm a novice to intermediate RoR programmer. However, I'm not too good on setting up relational database's so i need a hand. Basically my app is a book club. A user signs up, the user creates a book club based on a book. Other users joins this club and discusses it (like a forum). I have written a english description of the s...
Lets assume: Network has_many Channels Network has_many Nicknames Channel has_many Messages Channel belongs_to Network Nickname has_many Messages Nickname belongs_to Network Additionally: Channel has_many Nicknames, :through => :messages Nicknamehas_many Channel, :through => :messages I have this method here that logs messages. Ver...
In my main Sinatra controller, I want to debug the params hash after it is POSTed from a form. I have added: puts params.inspect and set :logging, :true The params.inspect works if everything goes well. But if an error happens before the controller is executed I'm not getting any information about the error like I would in Rails b...
My Rails 2.3 app generates a page in HTML/CSS or as a word doc. I'd like to save that html file to the filesystem as a static file (ie. filename.html or filename.doc). I plan to have a preview action w/ the fully rendered page and a 'save report' button. Our users will access those static files later. (I'll save the path to the db.) Any...
Suppose I have this HTML: html = <div>Four score and seven years ago</div> What's the best way to insert (say) an anchor tag after the word "score"? Note: I want to do this in terms of DOM manipulation (with Hpricot, e.g.) not in terms of text manipulation (e.g., no regexes) ...
Referencing this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272888/ruby-on-rails-average-per-day I'm getting the average per day, which works fine. Until now that the month switched over... I have this code score = (7.days.ago.to_date.to_s(:db)..Date.today.tomorrow.to_s(:db)).map{|dt| [dt, ave_score[dt] || 0]} Which works, but now t...
I've got a Rails app returning data via JSON and XML. In the controller, I've got something like this: respond_to do |format| format.xml { render :xml => @customers.to_xml(:include => [:invoices])) } end The Rails app returns the customers in a pretty XML doc but it always shows the 'invoices' array as empty (i.e. no data for the r...
Hi all, are there anyone hear about APE (Ajax Push Engine) before ? I'm building Rails application and trying to create group chat with this APE realtime engine, the problem is how to make Rails communicate with APE Server ? Are there any tutorial or reference on working APE with Rails ? ...
Working on my first Rails project, I used Ryan Bates' Nifty-Generators to create the initial application files. This gives me a LayoutHelper with a title method: def title(page_title, show_title = true) @content_for_title = page_title.to_s @show_title = show_title end In my homepage view, I have a simple title: <%= title "Welcome...