ruby-on-rails

Super inplace controls in_place_select displays incorrectly

I'm using the super_inplace_controls plugin to allow users to edit fields on the "show" page. However, I'm running into an issue with the in_place_select function. Here is my view: <p> <b>Status:</b> <%= in_place_select :incident, :incident_status, :choices => @statuses.map { |e| [e.name, e.id] } %> </p> This is in the 'Inci...

Ruby on Rails: has_many through frustrations

I'm having a frustrating problem with a has_many through: namely the fact that the through models are not created until save. Unfortunately, I need to set data on these models prior to saving the parent. Here's the loose setup: class Wtf < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :foo belongs_to :bar end class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base ha...

Refinery CMS (Rails): Creating a plugin or plugins with multiple models and relationships

My goal is to create a way for an admin to create two models in the Refinery admin: Campaigns and Videos I would like to have it setup so that a Campaign has many Videos and that each Video belongs to a Campaign. Both Videos and Campaigns will have a title, description, and a preview image. I'm not certain of the best way to go about...

Workling not running tasks in background

Hi, I followed the railscast that describes how to get workling running background tasks, but can't get it working. The task runs, but not in the background (it's taking 5 secs before I'm redirected to admin_path). Here is what my code looks like: class AdminWorker < Workling::Base   def test_workling(options)     sleep...

Rails: i would need to load a haml file in a class and render in the caller

I have this: app/modules/grid_module.rb app/modules/grid.html.haml then in my view: app/views/layouts/default.html.haml I want to make a new instance of the grid_module and render it content. Its content is into the grid.html.haml and this file can only use the instance vars set in the grid_module.rb is this possible to do? (the grid ...

What might be causing this Rails method error?

My error: Notice the undefined method '-@' . This is for a sort by. All sorts on one page break, but all the sorts on other pages use the same helper and do not break. Does it allude to something obvious? Processing OrganizationsController#search (for ::1 at 2010-05-13 15:42:01) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"search", "controller"=>"or...

how to add unique to a table column in ruby on rails

hi, I have a table with some columns, now i need to modify one column to make it unique(no duplicate values), how can i do that in ruby on rails? ...

Rails gems and plugins usage in Netbeans

Hi, I am working with rails 2.3 with netbeans 6.5.1 on vista. I want to install more plugins from Git in netbeans like shoulda, cucumber etc. I have these questions: 1) I do not have much knowledge of Git. Is it necessary to install Git to make use of the Git plugins in netbeans? Are gems and plugins dependant on each other? 2) In ...

ruby on rails: audio/mp3 content header download

How do you set the headers for downloads in ruby/rails? In php I'd set the header for an mp3 download like this: header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header("Content-type: audio/mp3"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$songname.mp3\""); header("Content-Length: " . $size); @readfile("http:...

Rails: load a html.haml file and render it in the view?

How to load a html.haml file from a custom class, store in a var its data, then apply some instance variables and render it in the view? ...

Rails and SWFUpload: Sporadic Failure on Upload and Response Issue

I've got SWFUpload version 2.5 beta 3 attached to my Rails 2.3.2 application and it works great 75% of the time. The other 25%, I get types of failure. The first failure is a failure to upload. The activity starts, but never actually sends the file to the servers. In my JS, when setting breakpoints, it stops between setting the post pa...

ruby get instance variables in hash, not an array? how to do it?

ruby get instance variables in hash, not an array? how to do it? ...

Need ideas for reprocessing images using attachment_fu

Hi, I discovered a bug in my Rails app due to Rails app and gems upgrades and undocumented code from the previous developers. I have a lot of images that have been processed, but not sized correctly using attachment_fu. All of the images that were uploaded since the upgrade need to be resized correctly. Does anyone have any ideas to ...

can rails send data to browser chunk by chunk?

Hello all, I have a very large dataset (100,000) to be display, but any browser I tried that on including chrome 5 dev, it make them choke for dozens of seconds (win7 64bit, 4gb, 256gb ssd, c2duo 2.4ghertz). I did a little experiment by some_controller.rb def show @data = (1..100000).to_a end show.html.erb <% @data.each do |d| %> ...

Rails find through association

class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address, :foreign_key => "customerid" end class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :customer, :foreign_key => "customerid" end How do I find records in customer that do not have customerid in address table? in SQL i'd do select * from customer a, address b where a.custome...

Issues with rake after installing FreeImage on Mac OS X 10.6

I am trying to setup my dev environment on my Mac (running Mac OS X 10.6) for my work's rails application. It requires FreeImage and now that I have installed that, I run rake db:migrate and receive the following error: dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _FreeImage_SetOutputMessage Referenced from: /Users/username/.ru...

Multiple merchant accounts with Activemerchant gem.

I am developing a rails site that will allow a group of merchants (5 - 10) to accept credit card orders online. I plan on using the Activemerchant gem to handle the processing. In this case, each merchant will have their own merchant accounts to handle the payments. Storing banking information like that is not something I am a fan of. T...

How to drop columns using Rails migration

What's the syntax for dropping a database table column through a Rails migration? ...

In Rails, how can I allow some html in a text area?

I have a Rails app (blog) that I am creating. Very basic stuff. In my content area I have a text area for the content of the post. I am needing to include some html in the text area (links, formating, etc). <%= f.text_area :content %> Is there another tag that I can use instead of text_area, that will allow me to do this? ...

Rails: updating an association

I have a Reservation model which belongs_to a Sharedorder and so a Sharedorder has_many reservations. Give you a little background. I sharedorder has many reservations and each reservation can have an amount. A sharedorder has three status: 1) reserved, 2) confirmed, 3) and purchased. Here is my problem. When a reservation gets added ...