Hi all I'm very new to Ruby on Rails so please go easy! I've uploaded the whole application to the server (Dreamhost) and gone through the steps. But when I try to run it I get the following error: failed to connect to any given host:port (Mongo::ConnectionFailure) I have installed the Mongo gem; but maybe I haven't got it configur...
Hello, I generally use will_paginate for the pagination in my app, but have hit a stumbler on my search feature. I'm using Thinking Sphinx for doing my full-text search, which returns results paginated. The problem I'm having is that after I've received the results from Thinking Sphinx, I need to merge them with some other results and r...
What is the common way of dealing with the development.sqlite3 files with VCS (in particular, git)? If I commit this file to the VCS, will it be merged with another developer's copy? Or should each developer run the db:migrate task each time a new migration file is created? ...
I've been searching around for ways to create a gem with RSpec, but haven't found descriptive tutorials. I started out with Ryan Bates' Making a gem, but I'm looking for a tutorial that discusses creating an acts_as style gem with RSpec. By acts_as, I mean to say that the gem adds certain methods to an existing class in Rails. Why is t...
Greetings. I am encountering an issue with attachment fu and s3. Details: Production server - Ubuntu - imagemagick, rmagick aws-s3 gems are installed . Error starting app: vendor/plugins/attachment_fu/lib/technoweenie/attachment_fu/backends/s3_backend.rb:173:in `included': undefined method `symbolize_keys' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodE...
I've run into a spot of bother with date formats in our Rails application. I have a date field in our view which I want to be formatted as dd/mm/yy. This is how the user will expect to enter their dates, and the datepicker control uses this format. However, Active Record seems to be expecting mm/dd/yy. If I enter 01/03/2010, this get...
Hi there, I'm trying to run cucumber features with factory girl factories on a fresh Rails 3 application. Here is my Gemfile: source "http://gemcutter.org" gem "rails", "3.0.0.beta" gem "pg" gem "factory_girl", :git => "git://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl.git", :branch => "rails3" gem "rspec-rails", ">= 2.0.0.beta.4" gem "capybar...
I'm following this rdoc: http://rdoc.info/projects/ncr/background-fu and can't run ./script/generate background after installing background-fu as a Rails plugin: ./script/plugin install git://github.com/ncr/background-fu.git I'm getting following error: Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no...
there is an example provided on how to add tags to a model with is_taggable, and it works very nice (working in 5 minutes) Now, I also need the opposite, show all records that are tagged with a certain word. Something like: ModelWithTag.find_by_tags "foo" or find_all_tagged_with "foo" Is this possible with is_taggable ? ...
I make the following call to the DB. @patientRegistration = PatientRegistration.find(:all, :conditions=>["name = '#{patientName}'"]) This searches for a patient registration based on a given name. I get a valid @patientRegistration object. When I invoke @patientRegistration.inspect it prints correctly all the...
Hey, i am currently writing a webapp in rails where users can mark items as favorites and also block them. I came up two ways and wondered which one is more common/better way. 1. Separate join tables Would it be wise to have 2 tables for this? Like: users_favorites - user_id - item_id users_blocked - user_id - item_id 2. s...
Im learning Rails and have built a'store' application from the 'Agile Development w/ Rails' book. Ive gone beyond the lesson in the book and Im trying to add 'tags' to each product in the the store. Id then like a user to be able to click on a tag (that will be in a list in the sidebar), and have the store repopulate with those tagged ...
I am using will_paginate to successfully page through records. I am also using AJAX live search via jQuery to update my results div. No problem so far. The issue I have is when trying to paginate through those live search results. I simply get "Page is loading..." with no div update. Am I missing something fundamental? I believe I may ne...
Hi, I just deployed my Rails app to Heroku, but the Javascripts that were using Sprockets plugin don't work. I understood that, because my Heroku app is read-only, Sprockets won't work. I've found this sprockets_on_heroku plugin that should do the work, but I don't really get how to use it : I added config.gem sprockets in config/env...
In linking a sports event to two teams, at first this seemed to make sense: events - id:integer - integer:home_team_id - integer:away_team_id teams - integer:id - string:name However I am troubled by how I would link that up in the active record model: class Event belongs_to :home_team, :class_name => 'Team', :foreign_ke...
I would like to make one of the div's hidden while rendring. After page is loaded I would like it to appear on the page using virtual_effect. I know how to do it in JS / jQuery. Is that possible with pure Ruby code using Prototype? update_page_tag doesn't really solves the problem It work ok with :highligth, but I can't get it to work...
I have the following model setup - a User is interested in projects in many project Categories. Each Project has many categories. Like so: class User has_many :projects has_and_belongs_to_many :project_categories class Project belongs_to :user has_and_belongs_to_many :project_categories class ProjectCategory has_and_belongs_...
I updated my rails gem to 2.3.5 but I keep getting this error when running db:seed: $ rake db:seed --trace (in c:/Documents and Settings/Owner/workspace/thepatstudio) rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'db:seed' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1728:in `[]' c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake....
This is a beginner's rails learning confusion. When I learn rails, from time to time, I feel frustrated on rails' principle "Convention over Configuration". Rails uses heavily on conventions. A lot of them are just naming conventions. If I forget a convention, I will either use the wrong naming and get unexpected result or get things mag...
Hi all, What is the current practice like to write user-specific configuration settings into a rails application? For example, privacy settings in a social networking application. I know application-wide settings can be stored in a .yml file in config/ but what about users? ...