Is there a Rails plugin or a rubygem that gives you a starting point for adding an api to your Rails app? We want to use the API Key/Secret Key model, the API should also be versionable. Is there something out there that will give us some, if not all of this? ...
I've been looking for profiling tools for Rails for a while. I'm currently playing and testing ruby-prof and railsbench, but I kinda frustrated with the amount of tweaking and mangling required to make then work. Althought I don't mind (much) the tweaking, I'd like to know if is there any other, more straight-forward and easy to use, to...
There are a lot of rails plugins out there that handle user permissions. I'm impressed with the implementation in the hobo gem, but I'm not sure if I can use just this feature and not the other parts. GateKeeper is a really clever implementation, but has some bugs, though it's small enough I could probably fix it myself. Restful_ACL g...
I'm building an iPhone application that talks to a Ruby on Rails backend. The Ruby on Rails application will also service web users. The restful_authentication plugin is an excellent way to provide quick and customizable user authentication. However, I would like users of the iPhone application to have an account created automatically by...
I'm trying to get Unicode working properly in rails using MySQL. Now, Rails displays the text correctly, but it shows up as ??? in MySQL. Additionally, I am not able to filter the text. My MySQL database has been configured with the utf8 character set. My client character is also UTF8. Likewise, rails is set to use UTF8. If I ent...
Hello :) I have a rake task (in lib/tasks directory) that I run with cron on my shared web hosting. The problem is that I want to compare a UTF-8 string using case statment but my source code is not UTF-8 encoded. If I save source code as UTF-8 there is error when I try to start it :( What I have to do? May be read this strings from ...
So like many people, I'm excited about Ruby on Rails. Being a Windows user, I downloaded InstantRails, got it going, and followed along with the screencast on how to make a blog with RoR 2.0 in fifteen minutes. I used Notepad++ as my text editor, because that's what I've traditionally used for writing the PHP-based websites I've done in ...
After upgrading a few gems via terminal on my mac, I have created a new rails project backed up by a mysql database. Upon starting the app, the regular welcome aboard page appears. Here's the problem - I tried clicking the link entitled "About your application's environment", I receive the following output in my browser: MissingSource...
In Rails Migrations, what does the number specified for the :limit parameter on an integer represent? Is it the number of bytes or the number of digits? i.e. If I were to specify the following: t.integer :coefficient, :limit => 2 Does that mean the SQL database will reserve two bytes for each integer, or that each integer can not ha...
I'm working on shifting our corporate technological paradigm to Agile Development. It's been a hard process but we're almost there! :) We have legacy systems for our database management (used to be Access, now ported to .NET and MS SQL) and we're developing a framework for our future vision. We want to migrate as much as possible to the...
Rails' ActiveSupport module extends the builtin ruby Time class with a number of methods. Notably, there is the to_formatted_s method, which lets you write Time.now.to_formatted_s(:db) to get a string in Database format, rather than having to write ugly strftime format-strings everywhere. My question is, is there a way to go backwards?...
So I'm teaching myself Ruby on Rails, with a PHP background. I've written a sloppy, proof-of-concept PHP application called "2NDP." I want to re-create this in Ruby on Rails (but more basic, more clean, and with a better interface), so I can learn some of the basics. 2NDP is a website where you can basically write your own "Choose-Your-...
The ActiveScaffold list view has a search form that is loaded via ajax when a user click the search link. I'd prefer to have the form show by default when a user opens a list page. I've figured out a way to trigger the ajax call when the page loads, but I'm wondering if there's a way to get ActiveScaffold to render the form automaticall...
After returning to an old Rails project I found none of the destroy/delete links worked and clicking cancel on the confirmation popup would still submit the link. Example of my code is: <%= link_to 'Delete', admin_user_path(@user), :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %> ...
Hi, I have a special url which I would want only few people to have access to. I have a list of super users stored as an array in the app.yml. How can I use this array in :requirements section of a specific route in the routes.rb file to allow only those super users access to this route? Thanks a lot. ...
I have Widget.title, Widget.publish_ at, and Widget.unpublish_ at. It's a rails app with thinking_sphinx running, indexing once a night. I want to find all Widgets that have 'foo' in the title, and are published (publish _at < Time.now, unpublish _at > Time.now). To get pagination to work properly, I really want to do this in a sphinx ...
I know this is odd. but I can't figure other ways to do what I need. I have a controller: report and a view: report. Also I have a view that acts as a dashboard where I can see several zones (partials). I need to add this report view to my dashboard but don't know how. This report view utilizes complex logic from controller and displays ...
I am working on a rails demo app, and I plan to use apache fop, a java library. In the long term, I will probably configure it as a service and call it using http to generate pdfs for me. However, in the meantime I was curious what the best practice is for where one might expect to find/locate a non-rails plugin that conforms to the ...
I've been reading some tutorials on how to get started using Rails 2.0. (Time out: genius website name idea conceived from a typo I just made: "tutoRAILS." Sorry, back to my question.) In most of the tutorials I've been reading, it seems to encourage using MySQL instead of sqlite3. Is there a reason for this, like, performance-wise or ...
What is the best and easiest way of taking HTML and converting it into a PDF, similar to use CFDOCUMENT on ColdFusion? UPDATE: I really appreciate all the comments and suggestions that people have given so far, however I feel that people leaving their answers are missing the point. 1) the solution has to be free or open sourced. one pe...