I am currently learning Ruby on Rails. I currently do all my development on my laptop. However, I know in all "real world" situations, I will be connecting to a dedicated server that will hold the site. So here is my question: what are the pros and cons of developing on the machine I use vs running the website on a separate server? ...
Hi, As I am using Ruby on Rails to build an application, which only runs locally, I am lost in the woods (a nuby without a compass). I have a simple MVC application and my view is missing one thing I could really use. I want to select a local file just to retrieve it's filename. I know it's relatively easy to use the form tag helpers fo...
I have a simple class that is using curb to retrieve data. Everything works just find from the command line, but when I load it into my rails application WebBrick crashes on the "require 'curb'" statement. I'm extremely new to ruby so I'm not sure how exactly to debug the error from webbrick to determine what is wrong. If someone kno...
I am having some trouble with the nginx https setting in the nginx.conf file. server { listen 443; server_name domain.com; root /path/current/public/; passenger_enabled on; rails_env production; ssl on; ssl_certificate combined.crt; ssl_certificate_key key; When I att...
Hi - I want to detect if content was provided for content_for tag in my template, and if not fall back to default value: <title> <% if content_is_provided -%> <%= yield :title -%> <% else -%> 404 - Page Unknown <% end -%> </title> Any easy way to detect this? I tried <% if :title -%> but that didn't do much. thanks. ...
Hey. I use delayed_job for background processing. I have 8 CPU server, MySQL and I start 7 delayed_job processes RAILS_ENV=production script/delayed_job -n 7 start Q1: I'm wondering is it possible that 2 or more delayed_job processes start processing the same process (the same record-row in the database delayed_jobs). I checked the c...
How do I rename a file after is has been uploaded and saved? My problem is that I need to parse information about the files automatically in order to come up with the file name the file should be saved as with my application, but I can't access the information required to generate the file name till the record for the model has been sav...
I have worked on two projects using Ajax and Ruby. In one project, I used Rails Prototype helpers and RJS. In the other project I used HAML and unobtrusive Javascript with jQuery. Each had a learning curve which I have overcome. However, the long-term costs and benefits of either approach are not clear. For my next project I am trying to...
Hi All, I have 2 years of experience in Ruby on Rails. I have basic knowledge (very bsic) of mysql such as data insertion, join, select from more than one table. But now I want to know more about it because my friends are having trouble in interviews when they are asked questions like: What is the trigger? which trigger is called whe...
Ok, I'm probably going to feel quite dumb when someone answers this one with a simple thing that I'm missing but... here goes: I've got a brand new app on rails 3 beta and I'm using devise for the authentication. I've run all the comments and everything is working perfectly at the moment. I've created a user role and an admin role (foll...
Asking this question again with smaller code sample: # this is a dummy shoulda macro that creates a context def self.macro_context context "macro" do yield end end # i am expecting this test to fail within the macro context context "some context" do macro_context do should "test" do fail ...
I'm building out an API for web app that I've been working on for some time. I've started with the User model. The user portion of the API will allow remote clients to a) retrieve user data, b) update user information and c) create new users. I've gotten all of this to work, but it doesn't seem like its setup correctly. Here are my q...
Per the Agile Development book, I have an Admin MVC that controls how users log in. In ApplicationController, I have a before_filter that checks for authorization. So, this will check that the user has logged in for every page. The problem is that I want everyone to be able to access the new method, for example, in Users (that is, anyo...
https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3685-actionpack-235-gem-declares-incompatibility-with-rack-110 I am attempting to get thin running with rails 2.3.5 and it seems I need to modify some of the source code. Unfortunately I can't seem to locate this actionpack-2.3.5.gemspec. It is in the directory for rails 3 but for ...
Hi, <%= image_tag this.profile.expiring_url(180) %> keeps giving me grief when profile is nil... what can i do? Thanks in advance! ...
Hi, As Rails applications default run on port 3000, would it be possible to start the application on port 80? Is it really required to have a fastcgi/mod_proxy enabled web server in front? My users won't be more than three at a time. If so, how would I be able to do so? Thanks! ...
Is it time to start new projects in Rails 3? I'm nervous about using beta versions but at the same time I really like what they are doing and don't want to deal with legacy 2.3.5 issues with these apps. Is it better to wait these things out, or buckle-up, deal with early adopter issues and get a head start on the future. Thanks for any...
Hello Friends, i tryed to install the new beta on my system with the command: sudo gem install rails --pre but no matter what i tryed, i still get this damn error: Successfully installed rails-3.0.0.beta3 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rails-3.0.0.beta3... File not found: lib Since im very very new t...
I am doing this from the console but I'd like to do this in my code too. Basically I am trying to add a record to the table and then get the id back. >> @record = Physician.create(:pname => "someone2") => #<Physician id: nil, pname: "someone2", pgroup: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil, userid: nil, storeid: nil, licexpdate: nil, a...
I'm on Rails 2.3.5 and Ruby 1.8.6 and trying to figure out how to let a user upload a file to a FTP server on a different machine via my Rails app. Also my Rails app will be hosted on Heroku which doesn't facilitate the writing of files to the local filesystem. index.html.erb <% form_tag '/ftp/upload', :method => :post, :multipart => ...