Hi there, I have a local development machine which has started to give me the following error on starting up the Rails server: C:/Software/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/i nflector.rb:404: uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String (N ameError) from C:/Software/Ruby/lib/...
How to deploy rails 3 beta project on heroku? When I try to do it I get this error: -----> Heroku receiving push -----> Gemfile detected, running gem bundle ! Heroku push rejected, "gem bundle" failed, please check your Gemfile for errors. ...
I have: in config/routes.rb map.resources :projects do |project| project.resource :privacy end end in models/project.rb belongs_to :privacy in models/privacy.rb has_one :project in show.html.haml = change_privacy_button(@project) in an accessible helper def change_privacy_button(project) button_builder...
I've got my xmpp server with which I intend to publish messages to my subscribers on the gmail server. I am able to get those messages when the subscriber belongs to my jabber server but when I try to publish messages the google users are unable to get the message. However I am able to fetch the messages using the pubsub.get_items_from(...
Hello! I'm trying to pass a list of arguments to a backgroundrb in documentation it says: MiddleMan.worker(:billing_worker).async_charge_customer(:arg => current_customer.id) but it only works for just one argument, I tried these but none worked for me args => [1,2,3] args => {:t=>"t", :r=> "r"} any ideas how to solve this?? ...
I have developed a fully functional ruby-on-rails application which utilizes numerous mysql tables. I would like to turn this into a subscription based service but I have some general, probably basic, conceptual questions: In a setup such as Basecamp does each user have access to her/his own (as in unique) db tables or are the tables s...
A couple of years ago, I started using Globalize (Version 1) for my app (over 1500 translated strings and 3 locales). Since then a couple of other i18n frameworks for Rails appeared, i18n from Sven Fuchs and Globalize 2. Unfortunately, none of those are anywhere close (call) compatible with the syntax of the Globalize 1 framework. Is t...
I've recently started reading up on Rails and while getting my development environment ready on Windows, I kept running into problems. So I opted to just work on the server space I have with asmallorange.com. Everything went smoothly until I tried created my database. When running rake db:create I get a response saying that it coul...
I am running into deployment issues with Phusion Passenger on a fairly large app: stalled processes on high loads, idle processes, slow firing up of an instance, etc. So I was looking into Unicorn, which I like very much from an architecture/performance perspective. Are there any easy to follow migration guides to go from Nginx Phusion...
Hi there, Brain's a little fried....How do I get a hash of the :controller and :action from a relative_path? This is basically the opposite of url_for. in the example below, "some_function" is the mystery function name I'm looking for...I know it's easy, just can't remember or seem to be able to find it in the docs. Like so: some_fun...
I did rake test:prepare and clone the db. Then when I do spec spec/controllers/file, it migrates the db every single time. Is that supposed to do that? I thought it was only supposed to migrate the dbs once. Thanks ...
I'm new to rails and need some help with DB design. It is basically category, product, quantity, price...type of tables. I have 4 categories: CatA CatB CatC CatD Each category above will have multiple products in them: CatA - ProductA1, ProductA2, ProductA3 CatB - ProductB1, ProductB2, ProductB3 CatC - ProductC1, ProductC2, ProductC...
we have a lot of existing code in a web application that we want to use in a facebook application. Much of it on the client side depends on prototype.js. Can I incorporate prototype.js into my FB application without difficulty, and am I going to have to make a choice about iFrame vs FBML early on? ...
I have an application where when users sign up they get to choose the day of the week they would like to describe. Each User has a mondaysub, tuesdaysub, etc (all strings) to store whether or not they are to receive an email on those days. For some other reasons, I need to keep it so that f or t mark in each column to designate subscribe...
I put my batch file in lib folder and use rails db configuration, active-record like this. require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../config/environment.rb" class Batch def hello Message.new do |t| t.title = "hello" t.save end end end batch = Batch.new batch.hello when excute batch ruby lib/batch.rb in developm...
I have a very common situation and a solution, but I would like to ask the Rails experts out there if it can be improved. I have a very typical RESTful controller where the user supplies some of the object attributes upon creation. There is a thing model, a ThingsController and various views, including new, create, and a _form partial. ...
I have a Import function which takes a bunch of data in xml format and pastes it into my db. The problem is, that depending on the amount of data that process can take quite a long time. I see in the server log, that there are incredible lots of sql statements beeing executed do save back all the data. How can I improve performance for ...
I have a model with UUIDs stored in BINARY(16) field in a MySQL table. I would like to be able to transparently convert hexadecimal uuid into binary for the setter method and back when I use the getter method. what is the 'right' way to proceed? ...
How would you check if a file is an image? I'm thinking you could use an method like so: def image?(file) file.to_s.include?(".gif") or file.to_s.include?(".png") or file.to_s.include?(".jpg") end But that might be a little inefficient and not correct. Any ideas? (I'm using the paperclip plugin, btw, but I don't see any methods to ...
I have a client who needs the same custom CMS developed for about 5 apps. All apps will have a "similar" but different look and feel and I'd really like to have 1 rails application handle this and just modify the layout/views as needed. Is there a gem/plugin or a precedent for this? ...