Do the following two lines of code behave in exactly the same way despite slightly different implementations values.map{ |k,v| __send__('%s=' % k.to_s, v) } values.map{ |k,v| __send__("#{k.to_s}=", v) } The second line would be a more common ruby idiom so I was wondering why the other method was used when this was in the Rails Core wh...
Using Ruby on Rails what steps can I take to create a image picker. This is a image object which I can use all over my app: Using paperclip and a polymathic association making images available to all other models. I wish to list the images in each model and chose which of them is associated to a individual new or old record. for exampl...
Uploading a file in a REQUEST/RESPONSE cycle for large files is not a nice experiences for the user, because the application seems to hang during the file upload. Even more critical is that the user can abort the upload, and need to re-start the upload process later. How can I do the upload process in the background? There are some exa...
Hello I have an html table which presents working hours for projects In the past 2 days I was trying to export this table to excel file. Finally i was able to do this by using an xml builder template. Here is my file xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0", :encoding=>"UTF-8" xml.Workbook({ 'xmlns' => "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:o...
Hi Everyone, I need to be able to call data from a different model - not just one field, but any of them. At the moment I have the following models: kase person company party I can call information from the company to the kase and from the person to the kase using this: <li>Client Company Address: <span class="address"><%=h @kase.c...
Hi, I need to do some special routing in cake, but can't for the life of me figure it out. I have a shop controller at /shop, the format of the url will be: /shop/:category/:sub_category/:product_slug In the routing I need to send each part of the url to a different action, for example if the url was just /shop/cakes it would go to t...
I have a private method in my controller. which is used for some database update. this method i am calling from another controller method. and it works fine. But when i am trying to write a test case for that method then It is tripping on accessing (session variable and params) in my functional all other methods are working fine the pro...
I have an indexed model called Article and I don't want solr to index unpublished articles. class Article < ActiveRecord::Base searchable do text :title text :body end end How can I specify that article that is not #published? should not be indexed? ...
I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong here. I have implemented the Super Simple Authentication from Ryan Bates tutorial and while the login portion is functioning correctly, I can't get an error message and redirect to happen correctly for a bad login. Ryan Bates admits in his comments he left this out but can't seem to imple...
I've got into trouble with nested attributes. Here is my Account model : class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :products has_many :blogs has_many :openings has_many :users has_one :logo, :class_name => "AccountPicture" has_one :address, :class_name => "AccountAddress" has_and_belongs_to_many :options...
Dear colleagues, I have been struggling with a problem in Rails for a couple of days and still could not find the solution. Could you help me with that? Problem: I have a search box that puts a :search_string entry in the params structure. I use a form_tag for that and it works fine. <% form_tag :controller=> 'items', :action => 'find...
Hi I have a rails model that I am adding validations to and I seem to have run into a bit of weirdness from one of the validators. So here is the table I am working with (From schema.rb): create_table "clients", :force => true do |t| t.string "name" t.string "last_contact" t.integer "contacting_agent" t.date ...
I have just installed Rspec and Rspec-rails. When i try to run the test, it says: rake aborted! Command /opt/local/bin/ruby -I"lib" "/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/bin/spec" "spec/controllers/free_controller_spec.rb" --options "/Volumes/Trash/dev/app/trunk/spec/spec.opts" failed Full log here: http://pastie.org/939211 ...
Hi, I've read many posts about this issue but I never got this to work. My model looks like this: class Announcement < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :title, :description end My controller's create method(only its relevant part) looks like this: def create respond_to do |format| if @announcement.save ...
I have successfully installed the Clearance Gem from ThoughtBot. Clearance sends a confirmation email upon a new sign_up and suggests adding: config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'localhost:3000' } to your /environments/test.rb and development.rb. I have tried this and also config.action_mailer.default_url_options =...
Hi guys, Is there a way to have treat google serach results as an rss feed? For example say I worked for stackoverflow and wanted to montior how if the results from the following search url: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stackoverflow changes from day today. It would be cool if I could append &output=rss to the url and get ...
I am trying to help some people getting started programming on rails identify which version that advice found on web pages corresponds to, and am seeking advice and/or guides on how to do it so they don't have to rely on me and/or waste time trying outdated advice. Narrative: I am helping some people get up to speed on rails developmen...
I have a before_save method that I call that renames an uploaded image. before_save :randomize_file_name def randomize_file_name extension = File.extname(screen_file_name).downcase key = ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(8) self.screen.instance_write(:file_name, "#{key}#{extension}") end That method is part of my Item model. Tha...
Hi Everyone, How hard/complex would upgrading an application from Rails 2.2.2 to the latest build? I have seen some rake tasks for upgrading from 1.2 versions etc. but havent seen any comments on a smaller increment upgrade. Thanks, Danny Error after upgrade macbook:trunk danny$ script/server => Booting Mongrel => Rails 2.3.5 appl...
Alright everyone this is a bit of a complicated setup so if I need to clarify the question just let me know. I have a model: class IconSet < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :icon_graphics end This Model has many icongraphics: class IconGraphic < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :icon_set has_attached_file :icon has_attached_file :f...