I think the way I've modelled my app is a bit fishy and i need to rejig things, im just not sure how. I've already re-jigged and refactored before. It took a long time ( I'm a beginner ) and I'm hesitant to it again in case i head off in the wrong direction again. Basic Idea, user can submit an answer, another user can mark it correct o...
Hi, I'm a beginner at Ruby On Rails and am trying to get a migration to work with the name Priorities So, here is the code I use in my migration: class Priorities < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :priorities do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false, :limit => 32 end Priority.create :name => "...
respond_to do |format| format.html format.xml { render :xml => @mah_blogz } end respond_to do |format| format.js end Whats this respond_to, format.html, format.xml and format.js. Whats the purpose, How they work. ...
We're experiencing a really bizarre bug in our Rails 2.3.4 app. This bug only happens in Internet Explorer (7 and 8). Here's what happens: A new customer creates an account at https://domain.com/signup/free (notice no subdomain) Their account is identified by a subdomain like "example.domain.com" After signing up, they get a welcome s...
I'm developing the Order Model for a Rails application.I'm trying to represent an Order which has BillToAddressId and ShipToAddressId as the foreign keys from the Address table. The address table is below : create_table :addresses do |t| t.string :country t.string :state t.string :city t.string :zipcode ...
Hi (Ive looked at the other questions - none seemed to quite fit my problem.) I have some file-names under Windows 7 that need to be translated in to MySQL database (UTF-8) with Ruby on Rails. An example file-name includes "íéó" in some kind of Windows 7 file-system encoding. Ive tried many combinations of gsub and ActiveSupport::Mul...
Hi, I'm not sure how to do this... I have a database which contains a messages and categories tables. The categories table has a field which has a count of the number of messages related to it. Sometimes however I need to deactivate (active = 0) a message, at the moment this doesn't then update the category table... I will implement ...
This is going to be a really dumb question, I just know it, but I'm going to ask anyways because it's driving me crazy. How do I get acts-as-taggable-on to work? I installed it as a gem with gem install acts-as-taggable-on because I can't ever seem to get installing plugins to work, but that's a whole other batch of questions that are ...
I would like to use formtastic instead of standard Rails helpers for my forms, however I currently submit them using Ajax (with remote_form_for). I suppose I could use the jQuery form plugin to Ajax-ify formtastic forms, but would it be the best approach? ...
What are the difference between three modes in rails like:- In development mode, Rails reloads models each time a browser sends in a request, so the model will always reflect the current database schema. EDIT I was asking about the other differences. I mentioned one i was looking for other list of differences...!! ...
Hey all, I'm trying to use the scriptaculous helper method sortable_element to implement a drag-and-drop sortable list in my Rails application. While the code for the view looks pretty simple, I'm really not quite sure what to write in the controller to update the "position" column. Here's what I've got in my view, "_show_related_pgs.e...
Hi, many social networks let to invite your gmail-hotmail-yahoo friends (even Outlook, but I thinks that is more difficult) to the social network. Basically the app read your email friends list and sent a email invitation. How can I achieve this in RoR? Thanks ...
I ultimately want to get data from this page: http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/track/personal/findByTrackNumber?trackingNumber=0656887000494793 But that page forwards to: http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/track/personal/findByTrackNumber?execution=eXs1 So when I use open (open-uri) to try and fetch the data, it throws a Ru...
Ok, so I'm new to both Ruby and Rails and I'm trying to do what I believe is called a nested association (please correct me if this is the wrong terminology). I currently have a User model and a Domains model and I have many to many associations setup (using has_many :through) between the two, and this works fine. I now want to extend t...
Title says it all. I have a hybrid Ruby on Rails/GWT system and need to persist session data between the two servers, such that when a user is logged into the Rails system they are "logged in" to the GWT/Tomcat system, and vice versa. Anyone know of a simple way to do this? ...
Hi, I have tree tables books bookmarks users where there is a n to m relation from books to users trough bookmarks. Im looking for a query, where I get all the books of a certain user including the bookmarks. If no bookmarks are there, there should be a null included... my sql statement looks like: SELECT * FROM `books` LEFT OU...
I'm able to get my Gemfile how I like it: # Gemfile source "http://gemcutter.org" gem "rails", :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git" git "git://github.com/rails/arel.git" git "git://github.com/rails/rack.git" gem "sqlite3-ruby" group :test do gem "shoulda", :git => "git://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda.git", :branch => ...
Greetings, I'm currently working on a multiple database rails application. I want to off load the SELECT queries on to the slave databases for only SOME of the databases or specific models. The issue is that in places, we swap out the current database connection and put in a different one for a short time; to load fixtures or to hand...
I have Groups that has_many projects. I also created an order view that is similar to my Show view. The reason for creating an additional view is that I am using the Group#show view for a primary display in my site. So I have the following in my Groups_Controller def order @group = Group.find(params[:id]) end def sort @group...
Hello, I've been trying to learn Rails for a while now and I just can not piece it all together with random blogs and SO questions, so I've decided I need a full book/ebook. Can anyone suggest a good one? I've been looking at Agile Web Development With Rails 4th edition. There is an old question about Ruby On Rails books but it is from 2...