ruby-on-rails

Rails can't find my route but it exists!

Ok I have events that I want to publish/unpublish with an extra action (nonRESTful) I watched Ryan Bates' railscast on this: http://railscasts.com/episodes/35-custom-rest-actions and it got me most of the way. I think the problem is that my route is nested in an /admin section so even though when I run rake routes and get: publish_admin...

How to implement a tagging plugin for jQuery

Goal: To implement a jQuery plugin for my rails app (or write one myself, if necessary) that creates a "box" around text after a delimiter is typed. Example: With tagging on SO, the user begins typing a tag, then selects one from the drop-down list provided. The input field recognizes that a tag has been selected, puts a space and then...

mongoid with rails - Database should be a Mongo::DB, not NilClass"

Greetings I am trying to get Mongoid to work with my Rails app and I am getting an error: "Mongoid::Errors::InvalidDatabase in 'Shipment bol should be unique' Database should be a Mongo::DB, not NilClass" I have created the mongoid.yml file in my config directory and have mongodb running as a daemon. The config file is like so: d...

Manually output HAML start and end tags

I have some code: - count = 0 - @clients.each do |client| %div{:class => "grid_2#{(" alpha" if (count % 3) == 0) || (" omega push_2" if (count % 3) == 2) || " push_1"}"}= link_to h(client.name), client - count += 1 I want to output an opening div tag right after the each statement if the (count % 3) == 0 and out put the end ta...

Rails Oauth Desktop Plugins

I am creating a rails application that I also wish to work as a native app on the iPhone and Android. In order to facilitate this, I was thinking about becoming an OAuth provider. Is there a rails OAuth plugin that will work like this, or is there a better solution to protect the API? Note: I have found pelle's OAuth plugin, and it...

Rails; save a rendered views html content to file

I'm trying to create a view with a download link to download the html source? ...

attachment_fu and RMagick

After finally getting RMagick installed on my Mac I have set up attachment_fu according to the tutorial here: http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2007/02/24#FileUploadFu&gt when I try and upload a file via the upload form I get around 80 messages like these: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/RMagick.rb:44: warning: already...

get the params from the querystring

In Rails, I have a question on how to get the multiple params ! for example: the string in log like this Processing ConfigurationsController#emergency_config (for 192.168.1.124 at 2010-05-31 11:45:53) [POST] Parameters: {"authenticity_token"=>"I3GPKyrjmDRLkMIxFVS/47mgEI4ETO/+YW+R8R5Q2GM=", "tid"=>"1", "emergency"=>{"department"=>[...

how can we include installed gem in controller in RoR?

I have installed gem successfully.But how can we use use in controller? ...

Use javascript variables in Rails view helpers

Using jqGrid I want to generate delete links for each row in the grid. The standard way to do this is to add the links in the gridComplete callback like shown below: gridComplete: function() { var ids =...

RSpec test failing looking for a new set of eyes

Guys, Here my issuse: I've got two models: class User < ActiveRecord::Base # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model attr_accessible :email, :username has_many :tasks end class Task < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end with this simple routes.rb file TestProj::Application.routes.draw do |map| res...

ActiveRecordStore InvalidAuthenticityToken

I have recently been using cookie store and I want to transition to active record store. However I keep getting an invalid authenticity token. After deleting my cookies, I was able to access the page just fine, but I don't want all my users to come to my page, get a huge error and then figure out that I want them to delete their cookies....

How do I handle Memcached::ServerIsMarkedDead error with Rails?

Hi, In my Rails app, I changed my model's find method to search into the cache before looking into the database, but I sometime get this error: Memcached::ServerIsMarkedDead While waiting for Memcached server to be up again, how should I handle this error and force Rails to search into the database? Thank you, Kevin ...

Rails: attribute_changed?

I have a model that has an amount and I'm tracking to see if this amount is changed with a Model.amount_changed? with a before_save which works fine but when I check to see amount_was and amount_change? it only returns the updated amount not the previous amount. And all this is happening before it is save. It knows when the attribute is ...

Automatically create tag based on the string

Hello, I am new to ruby on rails. Lets say i have this text.. Ashley Cole and Cheryl Cole Split. Is there a way to automatically tag this above text to Ashley Cole, Cheryl Code, ChelseaFC ( Ashley Cole plays football (Soccer) for that club. Please help.. Also which is the best tagging gem available? Looking forward for your help T...

Rails - Create form fields dynamically and save them

I'm building an ad-system where users can dynamically create 'fields' for each ad type. My models and example values: AdType: | id | name |----|----- | 1 | Hotel | 2 | Apartment AdOption: | id | ad_type_id | name |----|------------|----- | 1 | 1 | Star rating | 2 | 1 | Breakfast included? | 3 ...

DB fields not showing up in association custom queries?

I have a notification list that the user can select different show options for different kinds of notifications along with how many results are returned. I'm keeping them in the user model because I want the custom sort to stay with the user between sessions. Here is the association in my user model: has_many :notifications, :c...

rake test not copying development postgres db with sequences

I am trying to develop a rails application on postgresql using a sequence to increment a field instead of a default ruby approach based on validates_uniqueness_of. This has proved challenging for a number of reasons: 1. This is a migration of an existing table, not a new table or column 2. Using parameter :default => "nextval('seq')" di...

Rails: Added new Action in Controller, but there is no path?

Hello! I try to do following: A user is on his profile page. Now he edits his profile. He klicks on update and the data is saved. Now I want to redirect the user to another kind of profile-edit-page. I did the following in my users_controller.rb: def update @user = User.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| ...

How to make/monitor/deploy daemon processes in JRuby

I'm currently porting a Rails App currently using REE to JRuby so I can offer an easy-to-install JRuby alternative. I've bundled the app into a WAR file using Bundler which I'm currently deploying to GlassFish. However, this app has a couple of daemon processes and it would be ideal if these could be part of the WAR file, and potentiall...