Hi, I have the following code in my project`s lib directory module Pasta module ClassMethods def self.has_coordinates self.send :include, InstanceMethods end end module InstanceMethods def coordinates [longitude ||= 43.0, latitude ||= 25.0] end end ActiveRecord::Base.extend ClassMethods ...
In Ruby on Rails, how is an ActionView object able to access the instance variables of ActionController object (how is view code able to use instance variables that are set inside the controller code)? ...
How should I be passing in the ID? Error: Couldn't find Product without an ID Form: <% form_for :product, @product, :url => { :action => :update } do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> <p> <%= f.label :names %><br /> <%= f.text_field :names %> </p> <p> <%= f.submit 'Update' %> </p> <% end %> Controller (for /...
I'm on Heroku, and emails don't get sent out in development, but are properly being sent in production. I'd like to run a seperate staging instance on Heroku, but don't want emails being sent out (just to a log). ...
I'm trying to install a Rails app on a Cygwin Rails + WAMP MySQL setup, but rake trows an error : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Of course, it's trying to connect to MySQL trought a Cygwin socket, and since there's no MySQL server running on Cygwin, it fails. How do I get Rails to connect to ...
I'm looking to build a Rails app to do internal reporting (make charts or general data visualizations, create reports, show statistical analyses, etc.) on data my company collects. What would be helpful in building this? For example, any Rails/Javascript libraries I should be familiar with, or any open source analytics apps or existing ...
We want to have remember_me enabled when the user signs up. When logging in its really easy to do this, how do to we do this on signup though, as we're literally only creating a User object? ...
Given any object in Ruby (on Rails), how can I write a method so that it will display that object's instance variable names and its values, like this: @x: 1 @y: 2 @link_to_point: #<Point:0x10031b298 @y=20, @x=38> (Update: inspect will do except for large object it is difficult to break down the variables from the 200 lines of output, ...
I have a Rails app that lets users create tutorials and quizzes. There are many users taking the quizzes and many quizzes in a tutorial. My client wants the quiz results to persist when a student navigates away from the quiz. So the use case would be: User starts to take quiz User answers some of the questions User navigates away from ...
Hi there, I have an emote selector that opens up when a user clicks an entry in a diary. The way I've worked it is that the emote selector panel lives hidden at the top of the page. When a user clicks on the 'emote control' associated with an entry, I use JavaScript to grab the HTML of the emote selector panel from the top of the page...
Is there a way to turn OFF autosave in Rails? I don't want modifications to an association to automatically save to the database UNTIL I call save on the parent object. some_parent.some_children << child #should not save, just adds to the association! some_parent.save #now parent and children are saved! It this possible or am I ba...
This is a 101 question I know, sorry. I have two controllers; Users and Static Static/index is my root index page I want the Users/new form to be displayed on my index page. All forms are working, just no idea how to include the User form on Static/index ...
I have several controllers that take an instance of different classes each (Email, Call, Letter, etc) and they all have to go through this same substitution: @email.message.gsub!("{FirstName}", @contact.first_name) @email.message.gsub!("{Company}", @contact.company_name) @email.message.gsub!("{Colleagues}", @colleagues.to_sentence) @em...
Hello, I'm pretty new to Ruby/Rails but I was taking a look at bundler and was wondering how it works exactly. Do you install a full set of gems like normal gem install XYZand then use the Gemfile to pull a certain subset of those gems for use with a specific application? Or do you not install gems normally anymore and just include them ...
[This is slightly different than a previous question about having multiple domains share the same cookie. It seemed like there wasn't an easy way to do that.] I have a application at application.com. A customer has app.customer.com pointed at my site on Heroku, and I have everything set up so that it renders a specific version of app ...
Hello, I am a ruby and rails newbie. And I am working on a rails application with RadRails. RadRails has a "Switch to Test" function for my controller, model, etc. but not for my library. if I have class Foo::Bar in /lib/foo/bar.rb, where should I put the unittest for it? or should I separate the foo library in a separated project? Th...
Let's say I run an ActiveRecord query and it returns 3 results, with a bunch of attributes. I want to add 3 attributes to each record in the Array so I can do sorting at a code-level. These 3 include: num_comments, num_views, last_view. How do I add these attributes? How do I then sort the records, in order of precendence, by num_comm...
Clients have many Invoices. Invoices have a number attribute that I want to initialize by incrementing the client's previous invoice number. For example: @client = Client.find(1) @client.last_invoice_number > 14 @invoice = @client.invoices.build @invoice.number > 15 I want to get this functionality into my Invoice model, but I'm not ...
I am trying to override Ruby's <=> (spaceship) operator to sort apples and oranges so that apples come first sorted by weight, and oranges second, sorted by sweetness. Like so: module Fruity attr_accessor :weight, :sweetness def <=>(other) # use Array#<=> to compare the attributes [self.weight, self.sweetness] <=> [other.we...
Hey, I'm just learning ruby on rails and I've been stumped on this for awhile now. Here's my url request: http://192.168.2.20:8080/Location/new/123.123,-123.123/ Here's my routes.rb: map.connect '/Location/new/:coords/', :controller => 'Location', :action => 'new', :coords => /\d+.\d+,-\d+.\d+/ map.connect '/Location/list/', :...