Hi all I have the following model association: a student model and has_many scores. I need to make a list showing their names and average, min, max scores. So far I am using student.scores.average(:score) on each student, and I realise that it is doing one sql per student. How can I make the list with one joined sql? Also how would I...
Hi, I was trying to run an OpenSource project which requires ferret to be installed. While installing it using gem install ferret, it's giving this error -> Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ferret: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. C:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe ext...
Basically url escapes a string except uses '+' instead of '%20' for spaces. ...
Hi, I've a model which use paperclip, in dev env I want to store files on the file system. In production I want to store them on my s3 account. How to configure my model to reflet this difference? Here is my model class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base has_attached_file :photo, :styles => { :medium => "200x200>", :thumb => "100x100>" },...
In Rails 2.x you can use validations to make sure you have a unique combined value like this: validates_uniqueness_of :husband, :scope => :wife In the corresponding migration it could look like this: add_index :family, [:husband, :wife], :unique => true This would make sure the husband/wife combination is unique in the database. No...
So, I'm thinking about applying for Ruby Summer of Code. However, I'm not sure what I want to propose. I was wondering if any of you had any good ideas? I've been programming in Ruby for about 3 years. I am primarily a web developer, but I do things related to bit torrent, data mining, and databases as well. I have a bit torrent related...
Lets say we have some basic AR model. class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :firstname, :lastname, :email end ... some_helper_method(attrib) ... def Now I would like to pass someuser.firstname to helper and I would like to get both the value and the attribute name, for example: some_helper_method(someuser.firstname)...
If i enter a url directly into the address bar of the browser, i get the following results: logger.debug ENV['HTTP_REFERER'] // => logger.debug request.referrer // => / So the first one gives me a blank result which is what I expected but the second gives me the root? Is this correct? It seems from the docs (http://api.rubyonrai...
I am using jQuery to make an AJAX call to a ruby method in my controller. The javascript looks something like this: var latLongJSON = { "address": [ {"lat" : 50, "long" : 50} ] }; var returnedAddresses; $.ajax({ type: "GET", data: latLongJSON, url: "map/getaddresses",...
Is there any way to create a custom capistrano task for performing other actions on a scm repository? For instance, I would like to create a task that will checkout a particular folder from my repository and then symlink it into the shared/ directory of the main project on my server. I know this can be done by creating a task and expli...
I have two models: class Solution < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :owner, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => :user_id end class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :solutions end with the following routing: map.resources :users, :has_many => :solutions and here is the SolutionsController: class SolutionsC...
I have an application layout in my rails app to give a default header/footer for my entire website. I have 1 controller that I dont want this to apply to (a checkout page), and an entire namespace that needs to have a separate default template (the admin interface, which has 10-15 different controllers). What is the easiest way to do t...
Hi i have these classes: class Core < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :resource, :polymorphic => true belongs_to :image, :class_name => 'Multimedia', :foreign_key => 'image_id' end class Place < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :core, :as => :resource end If i try do launch this: a = Place.find(5) a.name ="a" a.core.i...
Martin Fowler's Runt library is really handy for date/time comparisons, and this code works great in an irb console: require 'runt' include Runt r_start = PDate.month(2010,12) r_end = PDate.month(2011,12) range = DateRange.new(r_start,r_end) o_start = PDate.month(2010,11) o_end = PDate.month(2012,2) o_range = DateRange.new(o_start,o_en...
Hallo rails version 2.3.5 I'm learning rails and I run into a problem. I'm doing some nesting forms from the railscasts tutorials. I changed the text area into a data field to upload photos and everything is working. Now i have to display the uploaded pictures and i simply can't do it. I Tried everything I could find on the net but...
In my users controller I have this in a method: @users = User.paginate :page => params[:page], :per_page => 10, The results are rendered on users/search. The 2nd page link points to users/search?page=2, but it leads to an unknown action error. ...
Hi I am trying to figure out the "right" way to do this. In my application every time I create a new user I want to have specific data loaded into an associated table. The associated table is a different preset lists. So a User has many lists and those lists have many items. Some of those Items I want to be loaded when the User is creat...
I have a file called config.yml in my /config folder of my rails application. I also have an initializer: config/initializers/load_config.rb with the following code: APP_CONFIG = YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/config.yml") I am using the Whenever gem to set up a cron job, and would like to use my APP_CONFIG to call a function li...
How can I make a helper that will tell me how many weeks ago (rounded down) with rails? It could be based of the time_ago_in_words helper however I'd want it to return: "last week" then afterwards just two weeks ago, three weeks ago, etc... ...
I'd like to have an image and a combo box with 2 options: color, and black and white. When the combo box selection changes, I'd like to return the image as black and white and have this done dynamically on the server (so I don't have to store the black and white image on the server). I was thinking I could point the img tag at a url li...