ruby-on-rails

To get FTS3 support in SQLite3 using Ruby, do you have to manually compile sqlite?

I've got a web app where I'd like to user FTS3 functionality of SQLite3. I've got the SQLite3-ruby v1.2.5 gem installed. I'd like to have FTS3 support, and I know, due to trying to create an FTS3 table, that it doesn't come with it. Do I need to compile the gem/sqlite3 myself in order to get this support? Is there a seprate gem I shoul...

Rails route rewriting quesiton

Hi guys, I think this is an easy question. I am using this useful Flash Document Reader called FlexPaper. I have it embeded in one of my Show pages. But when I click the a link on their tool bar to show the document in a new browser, it points to the following link ... http://0.0.0.0:3000/intels/FlexPaperViewer.swf?ZoomTime=0.5&a...

How can I get Hpricot to play nice with HTML5?

I am using Hpricot to parse a theme file. I have noticed, however, that if I feed a valid HTML5 document into Hpricot(), it auto-closes HTML5 tags (like <section>), and messes with the DOCTYPE. Are there any extensions to Hpricot, or perhaps a flag I need to set, that will allow HTML5 documents to be parsed correctly? ...

Ruby on Rails has_many minimun

Look: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :scores, :order => 'score DESC',:autosave =>true, end class Score < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end Now, I want to order the users by the maximun score of each one, The thing is that i need to get a user, two up and two down users like a top 5 scores how can I do tha...

Rails Plugin for Multiple Ratings Per Model?

I'm looking to add the capability of rating a model I have under several different categories like "Knowledgeable" "Organized", etc. Is there a plugin that will allow me to do this, and maybe even have a cool x/5 stars graphical representation as well? ...

Pre-done SQLs to be converted to Rails' style moduls

I am a Rails newbie and would really appreciate if someone converted these SQLs to complete modules for rails. I know its a lot to ask but I can't just use find_by_sql for all of them. Or can I? These are the SQLs (they run on MS-SQL): SELECT STANJA_NA_DAN_POSTAVKA.STA_ID, STP_DATE, STP_TIME, STA_OPIS, S...

rails data aggregation

Hi, I have to create a hash of the form h[:bill] => ["Billy", "NA", 20, "PROJ_A"] by login where 20 is the cumulative number of hours reported by the login for all task transactions returned by the query where each login has multiple reported transactions. Did I do this in a bad way or this seems alright. h = Hash.new Task.find_each(:i...

how to delete a document in scribd.com using scribd-fu

Can I delete a document that uploaded to scribd.com using Rails scribd-fu?? ...

Form submission and hyperlinks using GET and POST

I have a search resource, the user can perform searches by filling out a form and submitting it, the create action is called, the Search is saved, the show action is called, and the results are displayed. This all happens with the default POST, and all works fine. The user may want to save his search in the saved_search table (i don't u...

How to map non-REST URLS to REST ones?

I have a small rails app that has default scaffold generated routes eg. /stadia/1.xml. However I have to support legacy client app that can't construct such URLs correctly. What I need to do is to map URL in the form: /stadia?id=1?format=xml to /stadia/1.xml Or even something like: /myApp?model=<model_name>?id=<id>?format=xml to /<mod...

Ruby on Rails updating join table records

Hey, I have two models Users and Roles. I have setup a many to many relationship between the two models and I have a joint table called roles_users. I have a form on a page with a list of roles which the user checks a checkbox and it posts to the controller which then updates the roles_users table. At the moment in my update method I...

Log4r : logger inheritance, yaml configuration, alternatives ?

Hello, I'm pretty new to ruby environments and I was looking for a nice logging framework to use it my ruby and rails applications. In my previous experiences I have successfully used log4j and log4p (the perl port) and was expecting the same level of usability (and maturity) with log4r. However I must say that there are a number of ...

ActiveScaffold keeps rounding my numbers

I need to display & edit highly precise decimal numbers - latitude and longitude. ActiveScaffold keep rounding my values to precision 6 scale 3, can I change that to precision 11 scale 8 somewhere? Thanks ...

Ruby on Rails undefined method `camelize' for "app":String

Hi! I just tried to play with Ruby on Rails on Snow Leopard. I was following this tutorial: http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html Whatever I try to do with rails I end up with: MacBook-Pro-lm:~ lukasz$ rails blog **undefined method `camelize' for "app":String** MacBook-Pro-lm:~ lukasz$ rails --help **undefined m...

Rails select list reverts to top?

Hi Everyone, I have number of select lists in my rails application like this: <li>Company<span><%= f.select :company_id, Company.all.collect {|m| [m.companyname, m.id]} %></span></li> They all work well, except - sometimes if you go to the edit view, the select list reverts to the top item, not the item that was chosen when creating...

What exactly is REST architecture and how is it implemented in Rails?

This is what I think of REST architecture. For every resource, there is an unique URI. We can manipulate that object using its URI and HTTP actions [POST, GET, PUT and DELETE]. The HTTP request transfers the representation of the state of that object. In all the texts I have read, REST is explained in a weird and confusing manner. On...

Ultrasphinx and Rails: Completely wrong results - Why?

Hey, I'm using Ultrasphinx for searching on a Rails App. Everything seems to be working, the only thing is that the search results are not matching the search query in any way. I really don't understand this. I rebuilt my indexes and config files several times and nothing seems to work. When I perform a search for "test" I get results ...

Rails - session information being cleared?

Hi! I'm having a weird issue that I can't track down... For context, I have resources of Users, Registries, and Giftlines. Each User has many Registries. Each Registry has many Giftlines. It's a belongs to association for them in a reverse manner. What is basically happening, is that when I am creating a giftline, the giftline itself i...

is using has_and_belongs_to_many for models is a bad idea?

Can some one please explain the the pros and cons between has_many :through and has_and_belongs_to_many? ...

rails named_scope as an extension to AR::Base

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base named_scope :recent, lambda { { :conditions => ['created_at > ?', 1.week.ago] } } end I want to extend the AR::Base class to have this named_scope for all models, how I can do this ? ...