The main idea is that I have several worker instances of a Rails app, and then a main aggregate I want to do something like this with the following pseudo pseudo-code posts = Post.all.to_json( :include => { :comments => { :include => :blah } }) # send data to another, identical, exactly the same Rails app # ... # Fast forward to the s...
I have a rails app that uses freetds to establish an ODBC connection into a SQL Server Database. This app is on a server running under mongrel, in theory. If I start the app with: sudo mongrel_rails start -e development -p 9000 -d I get S1000 (0) [unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data source However, when run w...
Hi guy, I'm working to optimize my website in ror. The rails version is 2.3.5. So, I log mysql query. And I see what rails use transaction (begin commit) to create or update object in database. This method use my server resource and I would like to know how I can disable this commit ? I don't find a configuration for this thing. Thank...
I've got two models: class Solution < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user validates_attachment_presence :software validates_presence_of :price, :language, :title validates_uniqueness_of :software_file_name, :scope => :user_id has_attached_file :software end class User < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_authentic validates_pr...
On a rails project I am using the image_tag to generate my image html elements. <%= image_tag("test.jpg", :alt => "test image") %> is generating <img src="test.jpg" alt="test image"> This is happening throughout my entire rails project. Is there a setting somewhere that someone else set that is causing this? How can I get rails ...
When I added search functionality to my first Rails app, I used Sphinx, after reading that using MySQL's built-in fulltext search was a bad idea. While Sphinx works well, it's a bit complicated to set up, and I feel there's too much overload for the simple searching functionality I require in my app. Searches aren't performed very often...
I am dealing with a very simple RESTful Rails application. There is a User model and I need to update it. Rails coders like to do: if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) ... And from what I understand about REST, this URL request should work: curl -d "first_name=tony&last_name=something2&v=1.0&_method=put" http://localhost:3000/...
I went through the railscast for the auto_complete plugin (here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/102-auto-complete-association), and got it working, even though I have a slightly different setup. But here's the trouble: in the railscast, the example is a :belong_to association, and I have a has_many :through. I was using a collection_sel...
Where do I find documentation for what symbols are available (and what they do) for built-in Rails objects like ActionController? I'm on the ActionController::Base API page for rubyonrails.org, but don't see symbols information. I've tried querying Google, but I don't know what keywords to look for besides rails and symbols. Anyone? ...
A widget has_one type, and type has_many widgets. I'd like to count which types are the most commonly assigned to my widgets (top 3 used). What would be the best way to accomplish this? The way I have the database structured is the widgets table has a type_id, which is assigned by a select when creating the widget. I imagined that th...
For example, Test Table |id|name |item_id|num| |1 |apple |1 |1 | |2 |orenge |2 |1 | |3 |orenge |2 |1 | |4 |pear |3 |1 | |5 |apple |1 |1 | ..... In Controller, @items = Test.find(:all, :page=>{:size=>20, :current=>params[:page]}) I use paginating_find plugin. In view, <% @items.each do |item| %...
<%= f.label :name, 'Name' %> is causing the following error. undefined method `extract_label_options!' for # ...
Hello all, I'm playing with rails for the first time and running into errors with gems. If I enter the command, sudo ./gem install rmagick, I get the following: Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed rmagick-2.12.2 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rmagick-2.12.2... Installing RD...
I need some help with this, please ... If I save a transaction status as a code in the db, but I want to translate them to meaningful names how do I do that? Is that even recommended? If no, what would be an alternative to that? For example: in the db the statuses are "S", "P", "A" and in the actual application I'd like to display: "Su...
I am new to rails and using rails-2.3.5 and ruby-1.8.7. Here is my notifier.rb model: # app/models/notifier.rb class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default_url_options[:host] = "foo.com" #This method sends an email with token to users who request a new password def password_reset_instructions(user) subject "Password ...
Imagine I have wiki Articles, with many Revisions. I'd like to do a query with ActiveRecord through the database, which only returns those Articles which have Revisions which are updated in the past 24 hours. Is such a thing possible? I'd imagine it'd be something like: Articles.find_all(:include => :revisions, :co...
I’ve been trying to get the Nginx upload progress module running on WebFaction with Rails and Passenger (using Paperclip to upload to S3). The best result I have come up with so far are that it reports on start and on finish, but nothing in between. The Ajax request to the /progress path is working fine. This is the nginx.conf file I h...
Basically, I want to fetch facebook profile avatars onto my application since I am using their login to create a particular record. How do we display their profile pic without actually forcing the user to connect into facebook to retrieve these pictures? ...
i have a transaction to ensure two models get saved at the same time. begin Recipe.transaction do @recipe.save! if @dish @dish.save! end end rescue #save failed flash[:notice] = "recipe.saved = #{@recipe.new_record?}" render 'form' else #save worked flash[:notice] = 'Recipe added.' redirect_to(@recip...
I want to delete a gem I uploaded to GemCutter. I couldn't find any commands for this. Some time ago there was a blog post stating gem deletion as an upcoming feature. I haven't seen any further official announcements about this feature. Please let me know if there is a way to do this. ...