Here's my question. I have a user model with one attached avatar. This model has many personal photos (with accepts_nested_attributes_for). I want to be able to initialize a personal photo automatically after saving a user object with whatever the user avatar turns out to be. So say Bob uploads his avatar, bob will automatically have on...
Hi, In a controller I have 2 actions def action1 session[:test]="test" render :text => session[:test] # output test end def action2 render :text => session[:test] # output nil end I perform first action1 so the session is set Then I perform action2 but session[:test] is nil So what am I doing wrong? ...
I'm transitioning to heroku, and need to have AWS-s3 connections to deal with a variety of graphics. I've installed the aws-s3 gem, but one of its dependencies is not being found: xml-simple. My belief is that this is a standard part of RoR, and it is in the gem list. When I deploy to heroku, all is fine, but on my development server, i...
I'm currently working on a project where users can upload datasets in CSV format. Is there a good way with Ruby other than checking file extension to determine if they're really uploading a CSV and not some executable or some other file type? ...
I was using some image cropping example that I found online and now I got confused. There is actually no "crop" method in my controller. Instead (following the guide) I put a render :action => 'cropping', :layout=> "admin" In my create method. That renders a page the view called cropping.html.erb . It works fine but I have no idea h...
Hi, I'm trying to do the following: Run a Worker and a method within it every 15 minutes Have a log of the job last runtime, in the database table bdrd_job_queue. What I've done: I have a schedule every 15 minutes in my backgroundRB.yml file The method call has a persistent_job.finish! call, but it's not working, because the persi...
I'm trying to create a ruby gem for rails out of a plugin I've created. The problem is that my plugin 'shortcuts' uses a few javascript files which need to be in the public/javascripts directory to work. What's the best way to make these javascript files which are in the gem I've created accessible by which ever project requires my gem...
I have a method song_link that calls link_to internally. I want the caller to be able to pass an options hash to song_link, which will then use the options relevant to it, and pass the rest to link_to. Here's my code: def song_link(song, separator = nil, options = {}) if separator.class == Hash options = separator sepa...
Hello, I have the following HTML doc : <ul> <li><span>Some text</span></li> <li><span>Some other text</span></li> <li><span>Some more text</span></li> </ul> How can I use Hpricot to loop on the list items and insert some new HTML at the beginning of each, so that I get the following : <ul> <li><span>1</span><span>Some text</...
I get this error when I try to use time_ago_in_words: Comparison of String with ActiveSupport::Duration failed I'm trying to check whether an object was created more than 8 minutes ago: <% if time_ago_in_words(obj.created_at) > 8.minutes %> <p>Yes</p> <% end %> Would appreciate it if anyone knows the correct way to perform...
When i use User.count(:all, :group => "name"), i got multi rows, but it's not i want, what i want is the count of the rows, how can I do it? ...
I have a Page model that goes 1 generation deep. How can I do my routes so that /about /about/leadership /about/vision-and-mission /contact /join /join/benefits work? The slugs come from the friendly_id plugin, and are all unique. ...
I have a controller which has a method called history class UsersController < ApplicationController def history User.return_history(params[:id]) end end I have the following in my routes.rb file map.resources :users, :shallow => true do |user| user.resources :friends, :shallow => false user.resources :posts, :colle...
I'm aware of dynamic routes but I'm a little stumped with this, with the search gem I'm using it performs a get and my route is thus myapp.local/recipes?search=chicken How can I make this a route? so that it would stay in the recipes controller but appear to the user like a nested route, like this myapp.local/search/chicken ...
I am trying to develop a forum with altered_beast for 2.3.3. I am presently working with Rails 2.3.4. I would like to know how altered beast works. It seems be an entire project on its own, so how should i go about setting it up. Another error that I encounter when i use it as an application (which seems wrong to me) is a mysql error wh...
this is the problem: inside a lib i need to print MONTHNAMES to string if i try Date::MONTHNAMES.inspect result is => "[nil, \"January\", \"February\", \"March\", \"April\", \"May\", \"June\", \"July\", \"August\", \"September\", \"October\", \"November\", \"December\"]" that's good but i don't need the first element, so month_n...
Given a model with *default_scope* to filter all outdated entries: # == Schema Information # # id :integer(4) not null, primary key # user_id :integer(4) not null, primary key # end_date :datetime class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user default_scope :conditions => "tickets.end_date >...
I just saw that whitehouse.gov is using drupal as a CMS and portal technology. One of the advantages of drupal seems that it is easy to add plugins and that programming is minimum, i.e. that re-inventing the wheel is at minimum. That is actually exactly the DRY philosophy of Ruby-on-Rails. So: What are the drawbacks of drupal? What wou...
Hello there. We have a rails app running on passenger and we background process some tasks using a combination of RabbitMQ and Workling. The workling's worker process is started using the script/workling_client command. There is always only one worker process started, and the script/workling_client has a :multiple => false options, thus ...
I have a Rails application which uses another Rails application's API trough a WSDL file. I'd like to somehow cache or define as a constant the "handle" to the API which I create like this: serv = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(APP_CONFIG['api_url']).create_rpc_driver Reloading this for all methods which use the API is both slow and not ...