How Do I Find Common Dates in Two Ranges
I have 2 date ranges, start_date1..end_date1 and start_date2..end_date2, is there an easy "ruby" way to find all the dates that are in both ranges? ...
ruby-on-rails
Process for beginning a Ruby on Rails project
I'm about to begin a Ruby on Rails project and I'd love to hear how others go through the process of starting an application design. I have quite a bit of experience with RoR, but don't have that many starting from scratch with only a vision experiences and would appreciate the wisdom of others who've been there. I'm looking for an orde...
Rails: Multi-Step New User Signup Form (FSM?)
I've read the "Create Multi-Step Wizard" in Advanced Rails Recipes. I've also read and re-read the documentation for the updated FSM I'm using called Workflow, and looked here and here. The Advanced Rails Recipe focuses on records (quizzes) that already exist, and doesn't cover creating new ones. The Workflow docs don't cover any code fo...
Send value from one action to another
I have vendors/show view with button "Add new item" button. When i press "Add new item", it leads to items/new view with select which contain all Vendors. I want to send vendor id value to items/new, that way it will be possible to show correct Vendor on my select. How it can be done RIGHT? ...
Rails/SQl query help: Find all by created_at in past 7 days per each day?
I'm unable to get SQL and Rails to play properly when trying to find Categories that are created each day, the past 7 days. So basically I want to find each Category sorted by the day they were created for the past 7 days. I found this on stackoverflow, but it isn't finding a Category that I just created: Category.all(:conditions => [...
last_login_at not working (null) w/ Authlogic Magic Columns...
I am using the Authlogicgem for authentication and most of it seems to be working great. Authlogic provides several columns that you can add to your Users table (for example) that it knows to fill in if they are present. i.e. login_count, current_login_ip, last_request_at and last_login_at. All seem to be working fine with the exceptio...
How do I create the Controller for a Single Table Inheritance in Rails?
I am setting up the Single Table Inheritance, using ContactEvent as the Model that ContactEmail, ContactLetter, and ContactCall will all inherit. But I'm stumped on how to create the routing and the controller. For example, let's say I want to create a new ContactEvent with type Email. I would like a way to do the following: new_cont...
400 error when submitting tumblr post (ruby on rails)
I am having a bit of an issue with getting tumblr working within a rails app. This is the snippet of code which results in a 400 error (meaning that there was an incorrect parameter) @postcontent = @post.content.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "") post = Tumblr::Post.create(:email => 'valid@email', :password => 'mypassword', :type => 'video', :em...
How do I dynamically assign the Model for a .find in Ruby on Rails?
I am trying to create a Single Table Inheritance. However, the Controller must be able to know which class to find or create. These are based on another class. For example, ContactEvent with type = Letter needs to grab attributes from a corresponding Model called Letter. Here's what I've tried to do and hit a snag, labelled below. I...
Pass selected option to remote_function with Ruby on Rails
I have a list of options generated by the following Haml code. %select#tags{:onchange => remote_function(:url => {:action => :display_tag_cart}, :with => 'Form.Element.serialize(this)'), :prompt => 'Choose a Tag'} %option{:value=>""} Choose a Tag -Tag::TAGS.each do |t| %option{:value=>t.id} =h t.name For...
How can I reduce the number of loops in this VIEW in Rails when using :collection?
I am using the :collection to go through all the Contacts that are part of a given Campaign. But within that Campaign I check for three different Models (each with their own partial). Feels like I am going through the list of Contacts 3x. How can I make this alot leaner? <h2>These are past due:</h2> <% @campaigns.each do |campaign| ...
Add api key to every request in ActiveResource
I have 2 RESTful Rails apps I'm trying to make talk to each other. Both are written in Rails 3 (beta3 at the moment). The requests to the service will require the use an api key which is just a param that needs to be on every request. I can't seem to find any information on how to do this. You define the url the resource connects to via...
NULL value in :conditions =>
Contract.all(:conditions => ['voided == ?', 0]).size => 364 Contract.all(:conditions => ['voided != ?', 0]).size => 8 Contract.all.size => 441 the 3 numbers does not added up (364 + 8 != 441). What's the proper way write the :conditions to count the rows which the voided column value is NULL or equal to zero? ...
Headers on the second row in FasterCSV?
G'day guys, I'm currently using fasterCSV to parse a CSV file in ruby, and wondering how to get rid of the initial row of data on a CSV (The initial row contains the time/date information generated by another software package) I tried using fasterCSV.table and then deleting row(0) then converting it to a CSV document then parsing it bu...
Rails Habtm with a field
Hello, Is that possible to have a field in a has and belongs to many table? Just like favorite: create_table :messages_users, :id => false, :force => true do |t| t.integer :message_id, :null => false t.integer :user_id, :null => false t.boolean :favorite, :null => false t.timestamps end I saw timestamps works well, thanks ...
in rails, how to validate a fields which is NOT uniqueness?
can i have a validation which do exactly opposite to validates_uniqueness_of? i.e. i would like to show a error message when the user input is NOT exist in database. thanks all. :) ...
XMLRPC with long integer entry in hashMap from java server is not obtained in ruby client
I am using XMLRPC to get data from a Java server. I use HashMap as return value for a particular remote call. The server puts a long int into the HashMap (which is returned) along with other data. At the client end, which is ruby, I get all other data but for the long int. How can I get this data at the client? ...
Error installing FeedZirra
Hi, I am new to Ruby on Rails. I am excited about Feed parsing but when I install FeedZirra I am getting this error. I use Windows 7 and Ruby 1.8.7. Please help. Thanks in advance. C:\Ruby187>gem sources -a http://gems.github.com http://gems.github.com added to sources C:\Ruby187>gem install pauldix-feedzirra Building native extensio...
link_to_remote does not generate correct url in Haml
In Haml, I've been trying to get the following link_to_remote call to work. It's called from the /questions/new view. #{link_to_remote image_tag('x.png'), :url => {:controller => 'questions', :action => 'remove_tag_from_cart'}} I've tried the following variations. #{link_to_remote image_tag('x.png'), :url => {:controller => :question...
Cannot install Fast debugger in Netbeans 6.8 for Ruby 1.9
Hi, I am using Netbeans 6.8 version and Ruby 1.9.1 installed on Windows XP. I tried to install the fast debugger and I am getting the following error. Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing ruby-debug-ide: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. D:/Ruby19/bin/ruby.exe m...