ruby-on-rails

How do I do a has_many through association on a has_many through association in rails?

Warning: I may have the wrong 'problem statement' but here it goes: A Campaign has many Contacts. A Campaign has many Emails. Therefore, a Contact has many Emails through a Campaign. And an Email can have many Contacts through a Campaign. Each Contact-Email pair has its own unique Status (status1, status2, etc). Each Status (for a ...

Getting started with learning the Rails source

Hello, I've been using Ruby on Rails for many projects lately, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the Rails source and really see how things operate underneath. I think it'd be a great learning experience and would probably enhance the way I code Rails apps all the more. Does anyone have any tips on how to get star...

Is there a Railscasts for Django?

I learned everything I know about Rails from Railscasts. Now I want to learn Django but I'm not finding any comprehensive tutorial resources like Railscasts. Does an equivalent not exist in the Django world? If so, is that because there is less to learn? ...

Building a wiki like data model in rails question.

I have a data model in which I would like to have an item that has a description that can be edited. I would like to also keep track of all edits to the item. I am running into issues with my current strategy, which is: class Item < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :current_edit, :class_name => "Edit", :foreign_key =>...

Rails route hanging

I'm trying to get someone else's app up and running on my development laptop but I ran into a routing issue and I'm not sure how to debug it. For a particular controller/action, it just hangs and doesn't time out and there is no error message in the development log. Does anyone know how I can debug this? Thanks. Edited per comments. co...

How to override a class method of the gem in rails Application ?

Hi, Best practice to Override a class method of the gem in rails Application ? . I need to override the behaviour of the find method of a gem. following is the code in the gem module Youtube class display attr_accessor :base def find(id, options = {}) detailed = convert_to_number(options.delete(:detailed)) ...

wp columns tag clouding with ruby on rails

i am wrking on tag clouds with wp columns ( java script) but it s not wrking .It contains files like tagcloud.swf and swfobject.js . I have added this file in public folder and added html.erb file in the view but its not generating the code and showing any thing on the page the code is <%= javascript_include_tag 'swfobject.js' %> <s...

Silencing Deprecation warnings in Rails 3

Can anyone tell me how to silence deprecation warinings in Rails 3? I have a few situations where it is throwing false positives. Namely using - for loops in haml and f.error_messages from the dynamic_form plugin. Thanks ...

Create a set column with database migration in rails

Hello. I need to add a new column to my users table in the database. I want the type of the column to be set. The column represents the users gender. There should be two options to the set. One form Male "m" and the other for Female "f". But i havent found any doccumentation for adding a column with the set type. How can i do this? ...

Rails partial gets double escaped when using link_to_function

Hi, I have the following code. def add_resume_link(name, form) link_to_function name do |page| html = form.fields_for :resumes, @general_resume.resumes.build, :child_index => 'NEW_RECORD' do |form_parent| render :partial => 'resume_form', :locals=>{:form=>form_parent} end page << "$('...

Fleximage gem on Ruby 1.9

Running a Rails application with Fleximage in Ruby 1.8.7 works fine, but in Ruby 1.9 returned error: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fleximage-1.0.4/lib/fleximage/model.rb:340: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.0.0] -- control frame ---------- c:0060 p:---- s:0295 b:0295 l:000294 d:0...

"rake test" doesn't load fixtures?

when i run rake test --trace here's what happens ** Invoke test (first_time) ** Execute test ** Invoke test:units (first_time) ** Invoke db:test:prepare (first_time) ** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations ** Execute db:...

Rails application and multilingual content, Model dilemma

I'm writing in Rails a website that will be multilingual, for the application translation part i will use the simple I18n gem, for messages and everything related. Yet, all the content must be translated, and we're talking about lots of pages, that will be stored into the database ( like articles, news, etc. ) For now, I'm thinking of ...

Excluding a folder from autotesting

I've just installed a ZenTest to use autotest in my project. I use rspec and have an integration folder inside it. As I don't want all my integration tests run every single time I start autospec , so I'd like to somehow restrict autospec from running tests in that folder. How do I exclude a chosen folder inside a /spec from running by a...

Uploadify and rails 3 authenticity tokens

Hi chaps, I'm trying to get a file upload progress bar working in a rails 3 app using uploadify (http://www.uploadify.com) and I'm stuck at authenticity tokens. My current uploadify config looks like <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#zip_input")...

Multiple Rails app, single MySQL database

I intend to have multiple Rails apps each for site.com, api.site.com, admin.site.com. All apps will access the same tables from one single MySQL database. Apps and database runs in the same server. Is there any settings in Rails, ActiveRecord or MySQL that I need to be concerned about for above access scenerio? Thanks Running: Rails 2...

Rails: 'Could not find table' in a many-to-many relationship

I have two tables set up in a many-to-many relationship: Incidents and Users. When a user is logged in, and they view the /incidents page (the index), I want to display all the incidents they are associated with. Unfortunately, the following error occurs: Could not find table 'incidents_users' It seems rails is looking for the table...

Is there any Ruby web app/gem which offsers a web shell?

Is there any Ruby web app/ gem which allows you to administrate a computer ( I'm mostly interested in running shell commands ) through a web interface? ...

How to add a has_many association on all models

Right now I have an initializer that does this: ActiveRecord::Base.send :has_many, :notes, :as => :notable ActiveRecord::Base.send :accepts_nested_attributes_for, :notes It builds the association just fine, except when I load a view that uses it, the second load gives me: can't dup NilClass from: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activereco...

How to make the 'week' starts with a specific day not Monday?

In an application am building, i'm trying to make the week starts with Saturday. In ruby on rails, by default, the week begins on Monday. So If you have any trick or a patch to make it work for me! Thanks in advance! ...