In my application i have a collection_select on my members table, the members table only contains id's. It has an user_id, project_id, role_id, and so on. I want show the members name in the collection_select. But i only have the user_id in the members table, how can i show the names from the user table as options? <%= collection_selec...
Hello, I need help with setting up nginx and passenger on two separate machines. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've already finished setting up my nginx and now that I need to install passenger, Ive reached this road block and I'm not sure how to proceed. Thanks! ...
I'm running into to a issue with a nested form which I'm sure should be easily solved, yet I can't find a way around it Basically I have the following relationship event has_many :contacts => through :event_contacts the nested form works perfectly as long as I'm creating new contacts each time. If I include a drop down to allow sel...
I am trying to test the html block method inside the rails helper: def dashboard_widget(header, &proc) concat('<div class="dashboard-widget">') etc end The code works perfectly in the development environment, but the following test is failed: it "should be created" do helper.dashboard_widget('My widget') do "hello world" ...
Hi, all. I have shared between 2 sites ActiveRecord Session Store. On the first i've created UserSession object. Is there any way to restore UserSession on the second if i know session_id? ...
I am attempting to send an email to the present borrower of a book. I've created an ActionMailer called ReturnRequestMailer which has a method called please_return. class ReturnRequestMailer < ActionMailer::Base def please_return(book_loan) subject 'Book Return Request' recipients book_loan.person.email from 'andr...
There is a list of products (html table). Each row has got product name and ends with 'add to cart' button. How to add 2 'coffee' and 3 'tea' in the cart from webrat? Corresponding html: <tr class="odd"> <td><img src="/images/menu_items_images/7/PICT0020_thumb.jpg" /></td> <td>cofee</td> <td>americano</td> <td>1...
Hi, I thought the following two were equivalent: named_scope :admin, lambda { |company_id| {:conditions => ['company_id = ?', company_id]} } named_scope :admin, lambda do |company_id| {:conditions => ['company_id = ?', company_id]} end but Ruby is complaining: ArgumentError: tried to create Proc object without a block Any idea...
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Does anyone know of any good free media sharing sites like twitpic.com, but not for just twitter? It needs to have a good RESTful API. Preferably hosts video and audio as well as images. Kinda like mobypicture.com, but with a RESTful API. ...
Hello, I'm wondering how to go about using Authlogic to auto register a user who chooses to use open id. Right now they have to register first before being able to login in, even if they choose open id, but I'd prefer if they could just login directly provided I get all the necessary details from the open id provider. But I'm not sure ...
I want to be able to have twitter like friendly urls like http://twitter.com/username. How to pull this off in rails? ...
I feel the need to apologize for asking such a simplistic question, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the Rails Guides. I'm sure they answer my question, but they don't provide enough context for me to really understand how to apply what they're giving me. Nor is Google much help, though I may just be searching the wrong terms...
In my view I specify a named route like this: show.html.erb -> seo_path(:id => "45") Now in my routes I define like so: routes.rb -> map.seo "/pages/:id/:permalink", :controller => "pages", :action => "show" Below is the error message I am getting. Apparently the diff is the id, although I don't know why. Update: I am getting t...
I was wondering whether there is any difference between a session and an encrypted cookie (configured to expire as the session cookie does). Aren't they the exact same thing? Or Rails provides extra security for sessions? ...
I want to have Greek support in my rails app for the messages/flashes etc. I took a quick look at the I18n framework but it seems like a lot of configuration for something so simple. I thing that there should be a very easy way to do something like this but ( apparently ) I don't know it. If anyone would be willing to help me I'll be gla...
Hi, Can one of the Amazon services (their S3 data service, or otherwise) be used to offload server of static files for a Ruby on Rails app, but still support the app's authentication & authorization? That is such that when the user browser downloaded the initial HTML for one page of the Ruby on Rails application, when it went back fo...
I would like to persist the user authentication between user sessions (basically a "remind me" by default). Sessions expire while cookies persist: why should I use a session for authentication and then another different cookie for the "remind me"? Can't I simply store a cookie whith a token and use it for both authentication and persis...
I am very new to Ruby on Rails so when I tried to follow the official "Getting Started" ruby on rails tutorial, I was a bit disappointed because it went wrong very quickly. Basically it said : …navigate to http://localhost:3000. You should see Rails’ default information page. But when I follow the instructions, I get => Rails 2.3...
I am trying to implement before_destroy on a model. While I am following this before_destroy example I either receive a NameError or end up with something which doesn't do the before_destroy. What's wrong with my syntax? class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :book_loans, :order => 'return_date desc' has_many :books, :through =...