I have a string like this: "foo=bar&bar=foo&hello=hi" Does Ruby on Rails provide methods to parse this as if it is a querystring, so I get a hash like this: { :foo => "bar", :bar => "foo", :hello => "hi" } Or must I write it myself? EDIT Please note that the string above is not a real querystring from a URL, but rathe...
I have an XML file containing seed data that I'm trying to load into my production database. The problem being that I have associations between different data types / nodes in the XML file, and so I need the specified IDs to be the same when loaded into MySQL from Rails. This works fine with SQLite during development, I just use a line...
I have a Reservation model that I'm searching for with three fields. The container_id must always be self.id but as confirmed and auto_confirmed only one needs to be true. I have the following but it doesn't perform what I need: Reservation.find(:all, :conditions => ['container_id = ? AND confirmed = ? OR auto_confirm = ?', self.id, ...
I have a line of code in a basic Rails blog application I did that determines whether the suffix to the number of comments should be "comment" (if 1) or "comments" (0 or 2+) Currently, it is a line in the view looking like this: <%= post.comments.count() %> <%= post.comments.count() == 1 ? "comment" : "comments" -%> However, sinc...
Suppose I have a simple to-do list application. The application contains two models: lists (have an owner and description) items (have name and due-date) that belong to a specific list I would like to have a single edit screen for a list in which I update the list attributes (such as description) and also create/delete/modify associa...
Here's an interesting one for you folks... I have a HABTM (has_and_belongs_to_many) relationship between "Dogs" and "Trips". My goal is to find two result sets: 1) Dogs that have been on at least 1 of the last 3 trips and call that @dogs_current 2) Dogs that have NOT been on any of the last 3 trips and call that @dogs_old I found that...
Hello. I'm trying to access a network path in my ruby script on a windows platform in a format like this. \\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\ Now If I try to use this as a path, it won't work. Single backslashes are not properly escaped for this script. path = "\\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\" d = Dir...
What is the best way to add comments in erb files, if we do not want them to be generated into the html content? ...
How do I drop selected tables in Rails? I want to drop all tables from a database with a given prefix. PHPMyAdmin would be very useful at this point. Thanks ...
Hi all, Given the following routes.rb file: # Add Admin section routes map.namespace :admin do |admin| admin.resources :admin_users admin.resources :admin_user_sessions, :as => :sessions admin.resources :dashboard # Authentication Elements admin.login '/login', :controller => 'admin_user_sessions', :action => 'new' ...
I have a rails 2.3.5 application with an API I wish to protect. There is no user - it is an app to app style webservice (more like an Amazon service than facebook), and so I would like to implement it using a two-legged OAuth approach. I have been trying to use the oauth-plugin server implementation as a start: http://github.com/pelle...
I have a huge XML(>400MB) containing products. Using a DOM parser is therefore excluded, so i tried to parse and process it using a pull parser. Below is a snippet from the each_product(&block) method where i iterate over the product list. Basically, using a stack, i transform each <product> ... </product> node into a hash and process ...
Hi, How to get the news feed for a user with facebooker? If it is not possible, how can I use the graph api to take advantage of the fact that the user is already logged in with facebooker, and has a facebook_session active. Thanks ...
I am running CPanel and recently discovered that I can install RubyonRails there too (http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/RubyonRails/WebHome) I have the new icon RUBY ON RAILS in my CPanel (after installation following the instruction from the link above). Now when I create a test application, it runs OK but when I c...
Hello all, My current project requires me to assemble a .zip file containing HTML and text-only templates for a user to download, for importing into an email marketing program. I've inherited this project, and currently the code uses a "fake" model (that is a model that does not directly correlate to a database table), in which it stor...
Am adding to a sortable list using Ajax, and to get the Scriptaculous effects to kick in after the add, the only way I have found is by re-executing sortable_element. Can anyone suggest a better way of doing this, at the complete code is a hack: <%= link_to_remote "Add", :url => { :controller => "pages", :action => "add_fragme...
Just asking whenever devise authentication mechanism for Rails does not conflict with declarative_authorization. Maybe someone tried this combo and can share their knowledge, so I and other coders do not waste time trying to tie these ones up. ...
ruby-mode from svn, looks equal to 1.1 version here is emacs indentation of hash User.all({ :joins => :account, :conditions => {:delete_at => nil} }) here is the same in vim User.all({ :joins => :account, :conditions => {:delete_at => nil} }) How to make emacs indent like vim in ruby-mode? ...
Does anyone know of a full featured survey tool for rails? Like Limesurvey (PHP -unfortunately for my purposes.)? Tried to look on Ruby-toolbox, but it seems to be down. ...
I am using Factory Girl but like the machinist syntax. So I wonder, if there is any way creating a named blueprint for class, so that I can have something like that: User.blueprint(:no_discount_user) do admin false hashed_password "226bc1eca359a09f5f1b96e26efeb4bb1aeae383" is_trader false name "foolish...