Anyone got SEO tips for Ruby on Rails
Can anyone recommend some RoR plugins and/or general sage that will help me with SEO? ...
ruby-on-rails
Override as_json or to_json model class name
I'd like to modify the classname when calling to_json on an AR model. i.e. Book.first.to_json #=> "{\"book\":{\"created_at\":\"2010-03-23 Book.first.to_json(:root => 'libro') #=> "{\"libro\":{\"created_at\":\"2010-03-23 Is there an option to do this? ...
Rails AR validates_uniqueness_of against polymorphic relationship
Is it posible to validate the uniqueness of a child model's attribute scoped against a polymorphic relationship? For example I have a model called field that belongs to fieldable: class Field < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :fieldable, :polymorphic => :true validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => :fieldable_id end I have several...
Rails rspec set subdomain
Hi, I am using rSpec for testing my application. In my application controller I have a method like so: def set_current_account @current_account ||= Account.find_by_subdomain(request.subdomains.first) end Is it possible to set the request.subdomain in my spec? Maybe in the before block? I am new to rSpec so any advice on this wou...
ordering a collection by an association's property
class Person belongs_to :team class Status #has last_updated property class Team has_many :members, :class => "Person" Ok, so I have a Team class which has many People in it and each of those people has a status and each status has a last_updated property. I'm currently rendering a partial with a collection similar to: =rend...
Is Rails default CSRF protection insecure
By default the form post CSRF protection in Rails creates an authenticity token for a user that only changes when the user's session changes. One of our customers did a security audit of our site and flagged that as an issue. The auditor's statement was that if we also had a XSS vulnerability that an attacker could grab another user's a...
Why is "rake tests" running an empty suite when I use shoulda?
So here is my test suite: class ReleaseTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase should_not_allow_values_for :title, '', 'blah', 'blah blah' should_allow_values_for :title, 'blah - bleh', 'blah blah - bleh bleh' def test_something assert true end end Shoulda's macros generate 5 tests, and then I have test_something below (just to se...
Google Maps API with Rails 3.0
I'm wondering if anyone out there has worked with Google Maps API with Rails 3. I'm looking for launching ideas, gems, plugins etc. I played around with ym4r-gm plugin for several hours today, with not much luck. Have you played with this API on rails 3 yet? Thanks in advance! ...
How does Rails Plugin Storage work?
Trying to figure out how to install rails plugins manually on windows so I have a few questions. What does the directory need to be named in vendor/plugins? Is it arbitrary or is it linked to something within the plugin config files or is that what you set in the environment.rb? Once I've copied the files to the correct directory, do ...
Rails Helper not outputting any html
I have the following helper: def new_child_fields_template(form_builder, association, options = {}) options[:object] ||= form_builder.object.class.reflect_on_association(association).klass.new options[:partial] ||= association.to_s.singularize options[:form_builder_local] ||= :f content_tag(:div, :id => "#{association}_fields_t...
PayPal Payments Pro Sandbox requires membership?
Do I need to pay the $30 just to play around in the sandbox for Website Payments Pro? I'm trying to get Active Merchant working in Rails, and it's giving me an error "invalid merchant configuration"... after digging around a bit it says I need to "accept the billing agreement" and/or sign up for the Payments Pro first. So, do I need to...
App session cookie not being created in Rails, sporadically
Hi everyone, This is an issue sporadically for very few users, however we haven't been able to replicate it. However I have now got a Chrome instance (Mac) which is reproducing the error (for some unknown reason), and I hope to not restart it until I have this nailed! Rails application, using memcached for session store. While the bug ...
HTML encode UTF-8 string gets mangled into latin1
I'm parsing my nginx logs, and I want to discover some details from the HTTP_REFERER string, for example, the query string used to find the web site. One user typed in "México" which gets encoded in the log as "query=M%E9xico". Passing this through Rack::Utils.parse_query('query=M%E9xico') you get a hash, {"query" => "M?xico"} When you...
show array size with will_paginate
@users = User.paginate( :page => params[:page], :per_page => 2, I would like to return the total number of results. @users.size simply gives me the number of results on a page. If page 1 has 2 users @users.size = 2, going to page 2 with say 1 user @users.size = 1. How can I show the size of all the users? ...
how to skip before_save filter in Rails for specific command
I have a before_save defined as follows: def before_save self.token = generate_token end I want to skip it for specific save method calls. so in my code I would like to do @user.save without before_save filter getting called. Can I do that? ...
What does it mean to add a hyphen to the closing tag of a ruby loop <% -%>
I'm a noob at this and can't figure out why the hyphen gets added to something like this: <% if flash[:notice] -%> <%= flash[:notice] %> <% end -%> Not even sure if my jargon in the title of this question is accurate. ...
How to use becomes in Rails.
I have a Post Class and a Comment Class. I have a post object and want to convert it to a Comment object. I went through Rails api and found becomes(klass).For now there is not association between a Post and Comment. So i tried @post.becomes(Comment). but becomes method could not be found for @post object. Am i missing something ? ...
Excluding files from being deployed with Capistrano while still under version control with Git
I want to start testing the JavaScript in my Rails apps with qUnit and I'm wondering how to keep the test JavaScript and test runner HTML page under version control (I'm using Git, of course) but keep them off the production server when I deploy the app with Capistrano. My first thought is to let Capistrano send all the code over as usua...
How do I add application specific code to Rails' plugin?
Hi, I am using facebooker in one of my applications. I want to add some application specific methods to various classes in it? e.g. In facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb module Facebooker class User # I want to add my methods here. for e.g my_method end end I can not directly put my_method in the plugin itself since I ...
rails validate_format_of non-negative integers
Hi, I am trying to validate the format of non-negative integers with the following validates_format_of :fundays, :with => /\A[\d]+\Z/, :message => "invalid fundays" And here is the form field used in the view <%= f.text_field :fundays, :maxlength => 3, :style => 'width:50px;' %> However, when I input a non-digit into this field an...