I'm working on a Rails application where I have some a set of two radio buttons where users can click "yes" or "no". The MySQL DB column created by the ActiveRecord migration is a tinyint. If the user doesn't click either radio button I want MySQL to store NULL. (The column allows NULL.) And when they come back to edit the data, neither...
So I am beginning to work with Rails and I get some of the concepts but am stuck on an important one. Let's say I have customers which has many jobs and jobs which belongs to customers. How would I go about creating a new job for a customer? I can create a link that goes to customers/1/jobs/new and I can grab the customer ID but how d...
Hi, I have a RoR application and model SomeModel. I have views for this model and I want to know - is there any method to get the view's path? Of course I can use for this model instance m = SomeModel.new v = m.class.class_name.pluralize.downcase It's working, but maybe you know a better way? :) ...
I have an after_find callback in a model, but I need to disable it in a particular controller action e.g. def index @people = People.find(:all) # do something here to disable after_find()? end def show @people = People.find(:all) # after_find() should still be called here! end What is the best way to do it? Can I pass somethin...
I would like to create a set of remote specs "specs/remote" that run with the RAILS_ENV = 'remote'. These specs need to use a different database than the model specs. I would make them integration specs if that was easiest. Ultimately, what is the easiest way change the RAILS_ENV from test and run a group of specs? ...
Hello, I was wondering if somebody knows an elegant solution to the following: Suppose I have a table that holds orders, with a bunch of data. So I'm at 1M records, and searches begin to take time. So I want to speed it up by archiving some data that is more than 3 years old - saving it into a table called orders-archive, and then pu...
Ryan Bates' nifty_scaffolding, for example, does this edit.html.erb <%= render :partial => 'form' %> new.html.erb <%= render :partial => 'form' %> _form.html.erb <%= form_for @some_object_defined_in_action %> That hidden state makes me feel uncomfortable, so I usually like to do this edit.html.erb <%= render :partial => 'form...
I noticed the docs have: <%= item_counter %> But I have a partial which I want to add a class into on every 6th one, is there an easy way to do this? ...
Hello, I am trying to generate a controller with all the RESTful actions stubbed. I had read at link text that all I needed to do was to use call the generator with just a controller name I would get just that. So, I ran "script/generate rspec_controller Properties" and I got an empty controller. Any other suggestions would be great...
I need help, how can I learn this framework? Here's what I need to know. Routes, its expected outcome, the prefix/suffix methods associated with every changes made with it. ActiveRecord, the dynamic generation of methods, the behind the scenes with prefix_ and _suffix methods. The View, how do I know what prefix/suffix methods can be ...
i am developing a facebook application with rails and the facebooker plugin from my local machine and have problems to set it up. here is my facebooker.yml file development: api_key: myAPIKey secret_key: mySecretKey canvas_page_name: http://apps.facebook.com/rafikbennacer/ callback_url: http://207.172.82.237:3000 pretty_erro...
I did this: [User.first, User.last].to_xml and got this: <users type="array"> <user> <created-at type="datetime">2010-03-16T06:40:51Z</created-at> <id type="integer">3</id> <password-hash></password-hash> <salt></salt> <updated-at type="datetime">2010-03-16T06:40:51Z</updated-at> <username nil="true">...
Hi There. How can I make a sticky form in rails? Thanks ...
My original question and accepted solution was posted here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2483640/rails-association-question. Check that out first. My follow-up question is this: I want to return an object that has both the user attributes and the race attributes. That way I can access, for example, the user's name and the faste...
Let's say I have two objects: User and Race. class User attr_accessor :first_name attr_accessor :last_name end class Race attr_accessor :course attr_accessor :start_time attr_accessor :end_time end Now let's say I create an array of hashes like this: user_races = races.map{ |race| {:user => race.user, :race => race} } ...
I'm trying put an if statement directly into a select field in rails, with no success. Here is what I've tried: <%= f.select (:book_id,{ if @a!=1 "Harry Potter", 1, end if @b!=2 "Lord of the Rings", 2, end end %>` Any ideas? ...
I'm following the Getting Started with Rails guide but ran into an issue opening http://localhost:3000 Shell output: [2010-03-23 19:19:14] ERROR NameError: uninitialized constant ActiveResource::Base Error in the browser: Internal Server Error uninitialized constant ActiveResource::Base WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.8.7/2009-06-12) at local...
hi, guys, can the save method be used to update a record? person = Person.new person.save # rails will insert the new record into the database. however, if i find a record first, modify it and save it. is it the same as performing a update? person = Person.find(:first, :condition => "id = 1") person.name = "my_new_name" person.sa...
I include this simple Rack Middleware in a Rails application: class Hello def initialize(app) @app = app end def call(env) [200, {"Content-Type" => "text/html"}, "Hello"] end end Plug it in inside environment.rb: ... Dir.glob("#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/rack_middleware/*.rb").each do |file| require file end Rails::Initial...
I have seed-fu installed on my mac book, no problems. But I can install it fine on winxp but when I run it, I get: Don't know how to bulid task db:seed I checked my installed directory (c:\ruby\libs) and it appears to be there. Any ideas? ...