ruby-on-rails

Strange Email Activity Ruby on Rails

Environment.rb ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail ActionMailer::Base.sendmail_settings = { :address => "mail.example.org", :domain => "example.org", :port => 25, :authentication => :login, :user_name => "email+email.org", :password => "password" } ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ...

Rails "NoMethodError" with sub-resources

Hi. I'm a newbie Rails developer who is getting the following error when trying to access the 'new' action on my CityController: undefined method `cities_path' for #<#<Class:0x104608c18>:0x104606f08> Extracted source (around line #2): 1: <h1>New City</h1> 2: <%= form_for(@city) do |f| %> 3: <%= f.error_messages %> 4: 5: <div clas...

Rails choking on the content of this request because of protect_from_forgery

I'm trying to simply test my RESTful API with cURL. Using the following invocation: curl -d "name=jimmy" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://127.0.0.1:3000/people.xml -i Rails is dying though: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken (ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken): :8:in `synchronize' Looks...

Rails: storing erb templates in database

Is it possible to store erb templates in database? How? ...

Where To Put User-defined Classes in Rails

I'm trying to to use this class http://robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/05/11/parsing-a-rss-feed but am not sure where to place the file so that it functions like a helper. ...

Installing Paperclip - "undefined method `has_attached_file` for" - Ruby on Rails

I just installed the plugin for Paperclip and I am getting an error message "undefined method has_attached_file for. Not sure why I am getting this. Here is the full error message. NoMethodError (undefined method `has_attached_file' for #<Class:0x10338acd0>): /Users/bgadoci/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/will_paginate-2.3.12/lib/will_paginate/fi...

Ruby Rss parser and event trigger

I'm using RSS library so i can parse Atom and RSS in Ruby and Rails and store it in a model. I've looked at the standard RSS library, but is there one library that will auto-detect that there is a new rss feed so i can update my database ? what are the best practice to trigger an instruction in order to store the new rss feed ? should ...

Is anyone aware of any open source shopping cart packages that work with Rails 3 (something like Spree)

Title says it all....Is anyone aware of any open source shopping cart packages that work with Rails 3 (something like Spree) ...

Storing old previous year data in Rails?

Hi, I'm developing an app which has massive data entries. Its like Campaign which has attrs like rate_per_sq_feet, start_date, end_date. i.e it will have max date of around 30 days. Once the campaign is finished, its done and another starts. Now I'm confused that how to store those campaigns as reports so that its not accessed regurlarl...

Search by price interval in currency and other params using Searchlogic

Hi I need to reaqlize search in product model with prices in different currencies (price and currecny_id field). Every currency have own rate. When user search for product in price range [x, y] USD, range must be converted to all currencies and return values like (price > from_eur AND price < to_eur AND currecny_id = 1) OR (price > fr...

Creating a second form page for a has_many relationship

I have an Organization model that has_many users through affiliations. And, in the form of the organization ( the standard edit ) I use semanting_form_for and semantic_fields_for to display the organization fields and affiliations fields. But I wish to create a separete form just to handle the affiliations of a specific organization. I...

Authlogic, logout, credential capture and security

Ok this is something weird. I got authlogic-oid installed in my rails app today. Everything works perfectly fine but for one small nuisance. This is what i did: I first register with my google openid. Successful login, redirection and my email, along with my correct openid is stored in my database. I am happy that everything worked fi...

How to send emails with multiple, dynamic smtp using Actionmailer/Ruby on Rails

I saw this post but mine is slightly different: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1559879/rails-actionmailer-with-multiple-smtp-servers I am allowing the users to send mail using their own SMTP credentials so it actually does come from them. But they will be sent from the Rails app, so that means for each user I need to send their em...

Backing up my locally hosted rails apps in preparation for OS upgrade

I have some apps running on Heroku. I will be upgrading my OS in two weeks. The last time I upgraded though (6 months ago) I ran into some problems. Here's what I did: copied all my rails apps onto DVD upgraded OS transferred rails apps from DVD to new OS Then, after setting up new SSH-keys I tried to push to some of my heroku app...

How to handle this type of model validation in Ruby on Rails

I have a controller/model hypothetically named Pets. Pets has the following declarations: belongs_to :owner has_many :dogs has_many :cats Not the best example, but again, it demonstrates what I'm trying to solve. Now when a request comes in as an HTTP POST to http://127.0.0.1/pets, I want to create an instance of Pets. The restriction...

WYSIHAT 'resonds_to_parent" undefined method - Ruby on Rails

I just successfully installed WysiHat in my rails blog. Seems that the 'add a picture' feature is not working. It successfully allows me to find and select a picture from my desktop but upon clicking save, it does nothing. I also have Paperclip successfully installed and can attach images to records outside the WYSIHAT form field. An...

WYSIWYG displaying as HTML in view - Ruby on Rails

I have had this problem w/ two seperate WYSWYG editors in my rails application so I think it has something to do with modifying the way that the filed is being displayed. In my Post table the field I am attempting to affect is called body. When I use the WYSIWYG editor and save it, the display from the both the index and the show views...

Using send_file in rails

I'm sending a ms-word file using rails. i.e when I click on a link, a doc file from tmp folder (in project) is sent. The code I'm using is @filename ="#{RAILS_ROOT}/tmp/test/test.doc" send_file(@filename , :filename => "test", :type => 'application/msword', :disposition => 'attachme...

rake test:units fails with status ()

New user, haven't been building tests as I go, so I'm an idiot. The application is running, but the tests fail. Here is what appears to be relevant: .... ** Execute test:units /usr/local/bin/ruby -I"lib:test" "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/event_test.rb" "test/unit/helpers/calen...

Why do I get a AssociationTypeMismatch when creating my model object?

Hi I get the following error: ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in ContractsController#create ExchangeRate(#2183081860) expected, got HashWithIndifferentAccess(#2159586480) Params: {"commit"=>"Create", "authenticity_token"=>"g2/Vm2pTcDGk6uRas+aTgpiQiGDY8lsc3UoL8iE+7+E=", "contract"=>{"side"=>"BUY", "currency_id"=>"488525179", ...