Hi all, I have an app where a 'user' belong to a 'client' or a 'vendor' (and client and vendor has_many users). In the admin namespace, I want to administer these users - so an admin would choose a client or a vendor, then nav to that client's or vendor's users. My question is, short of making the user model polymorphic, how could I mod...
Hey guys, I am using heroku for a RoR application and am trying to manually set the length of a string column and am having trouble. I tried making a migration along the lines of change_column :posts, :content, :string, :length => 10000 I assumed this would work but no such luck, anyone have some pointers? Thanks! ...
Hi, I am currently working on a Ruby on Rails app which will function in some ways like a site-specific social networking site. As part of this, each user on the site will have a profile where they can fill in their contact information (phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, employer, etc.). A simple solution to modeling this woul...
I have recently been getting my feet wet in MongoDB using Mongoid w/ Rails 3, but I'm now interested in learning the low level MongoDB features using only the Ruby driver, and trying some map/reduce that would not be possible through Mongoid (afaik) I'm not entirely sure where in Rails I should be setting up the db connections etc, and ...
When I type: git push heroku master, this is what happens $:sample_app git push heroku master Counting objects: 110, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (94/94), done. Writing objects: 100% (110/110), 87.48 KiB, done. Total 110 (delta 19), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Heroku receiving push -----> Rails...
Can someone provide a strategy/code samples/pointers to test Captcha validations + Authlogic using Shoulda, Factory Girl and Mocha? For instance, my UsersController is something like: class UsersController < ApplicationController validates_captcha ... def create ... if captcha_validated? # code to deal with user attributes end ....
Hi,I've just completed my freshman year in college and am majoring in EE (with a lot of interest in CS as well) . I know some Python,C/C++ and Java and also a little bit of Actionscript . I am planning to learn either Haskell or Ruby on Rails. Haskell because it is a functional programming language, and I've been really impressed by this...
I'm having an extremely frustrating time getting some images to upload. They are obviously being uploaded as rack/multipart but the way that I'm iterating over my params hash must be causing the problem. I could REALLY use some help, so I can stop pulling out my hair. So I've got a params hash that looks like this: Parameters: {"commi...
I have a remote form like this and a checkbox in it. When I select or deselect the checkbox I would like to set the value of a hidden field ajax submit this form to its designated url. I tried $('search_form').onsubmit(), but I get an error saying onsubmit is not a function. Using prototype. Whats the best way to do this? <form ons...
I am using search logic to filter results on company listing page. The user is able to specify any number of parameters using a variety of named URLs. For example: /location/mexico /sector/technology /sector/financial/location/argentina Results in the following respectively: params[:location] == 'mexico' params[:sector] == 'te...
I have a before_create filter that checks if people are posting too many comments. If they are I want to flag their account. class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :check_rate_limit def check_rate_limit comments_in_last_minute = self.user.comments.count(:conditions => ["comments.created_at > ?", 1.minute.ago]) if...
I have a a Comments table and a Posts table, where a Post has many comments and a comment belongs to a post (i.e. it has a post_id in the table). How can I efficiently select the last ten Posts that DO NOT have comments. I can't seem to accomplish this without first selecting all the posts and checking each for a 0 comment count. Thank...
Hi, I'm currently developing a user facing web application that gives each new user their own subdomain on the site, which is fine (using subdomain_fu), but is there a way to let a user map their own domain to this subdomain? I know how to do this manually through SSH-ing into the server and editing the Apache Vhosts file by hand, but i...
I have a Rails forum product that resides under the subdomains of my customers (i.e. http://forum.customer.com). Their main site has a CMS and an authentication system, and my forum product has a separate authentication system. Is there an elegant way to have "cross-signins" across these systems? I want someone already logged into the...
I am in the process of switching my development environment from sqlite3 to postgresql 8.4 and have one last hurdle. In my original I had the following line in a helper method; result = Users.find(:all, :order => "name collate NOCASE") which provided a very nice case-insensitive search. I can't replicate this for postgresql. Should b...
The new version of the ar-extensions gem requires that you load the appropriate adapter yourself. On my development side I use mysql, however Heroku uses PostgreSQL. For example, on my development side I need to do this: require 'ar-extensions/adapters/mysql' require 'ar-extensions/import/mysql' How can I audo-detect which adapter to...
Hi - I want to configure my app to use a different schema than the default for storing sessions. Basically, I want the app to store all its active_record objects in app_development and only its sessions in app_sessions. Normally this could be done by defining the sessions db in database.yml: development: # ... sessions: host:...
I have this routes: resources :tags do resources :comments end so the :create action for the comments has the following form tag_comments POST /tags/:tag_id/comments(.:format) how can i change the paramenter name from :tag_id to :commentable_id? ...
How can i replace all > with > and < with < inside a <code> tag with ruby? For example: <code><script>alert('I steal cookies');</script></code> With: <code><script>alert('I steal cookies);<script><code> The reason for this is because the h() method escapes all the < and > Thanks, Micke ...
I'm really new at Ruby on Rails development. I'm reading Head First Rails and it says that Rails uses SQLite3 as its database system. How exactly would I go about uploading my website/application so the world can use it? ...