Modifying an Existing Rails Gem
I'm playing around with MongoMapper and have cloned the repository. I'd like to start modifying the code but am new to Rails and am not sure how to do this. ...
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Ruby on Rails: Cucumber: how to verify javascript alert text?
So, my app has a javascript alert... how do I, using cucumber and / or capybara, test that the alert hay a particular string? ...
Django: vibrant community and future?
I'm in that horrible questioning state. No, not trying to figure out if I'm gay. I'm trying to decide between Django and Rails. From what I've read, Django probably fits my needs better, both from a "cultural" and goal point of view. The baked-in admin interface pretty much sells me alone. However, I have one critical concern: it look...
After find() does ActiveRecord support accessing/seeking in memory row by particular field value (BESIDES seeking using primary key)?
In the .Net universe I can use an arbitrary SELECT statement and load many rows into DataTable object. I can then find various DataRows using various field criteria (Name='Jack', Age=34, etc.). In Ruby on Rails, after doing this to load all employees into memory rs = Employee.find(:all) I want to seek a row based an arbitrary crit...
in Ruby on Rails routing, can it be www.example.com/ ... #! ... always go to controller => 'redirect' ?
In Ruby on Rails routing (using route.rb), can it say, for any URL having the form: www.example.com/ ... #! ... then use controller redirect ? This is so that in AJAX, some page can tag the #! at the end of URL so that the real content of interest is the part after the #! ...
Rails - generating .sqlite3-databases
Hi everybody. My rails app. uses mysql database and I need to generate .sqlite3.databases. Is it possible to use activerecord and rails models for it? We are trying now to use models namespaced by Remote:: module but by this way we can't start concurrent generators. ...
How do the Regular expression in ROR
Hi i have a following huge string format example format : p=" --0016367d537a47795e0489ecb3c7\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\nok this is tested here\n and again going to test it \n\n\nOn Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:20 PM, kumar \n <[email protected]> wrote:\n\n>" From the above huge string i need only the following cont...
convert HASH into ARRAY
Hello every body, After saving some values into the database, I am finding it difficult to print them out. Though I have been able to pull the data out of the database, the output is like the following: @vars={:object=>"46789620999001", :source_id=>1, :comment=>"["This is my first commenttoday and tommorrow", "This is my first comme...
Ruby on rails: fields_for do nothing if defined submodel_attributes=
I have such code in new.erb.html: <% form_for(@ratification) do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> <% f.fields_for :user do |fhr| %> <p> <%= fhr.label :url %><br /> <%= fhr.text_field_with_auto_complete :url %> </p> <% end %> <% end %> If i have empty Ratification.rb it is ok, fields_for works ok. But if I wr...
Rails How to use the main layout in a plugin controller
I am writing a plugin for Rails and I want to be able to use the main layout within the plugin. The usual style layout :layout_name , doesn't work for some reason. Am I missing something? A tip will be greatly appreciated. ...
Tweaking Hash#to_json
Hi guys, I've been struggling with this one the whole day. In my Rails 2.3.5 app, I had a bunch of custom code which allowed the following to happen: >> strip_hash_keys_for_json({ "a" => 1 }).to_json => "{ a: 1 }" So you see that string keys don't get quoted. It was implemented by creating a String descendant class that returned self...
Does Ruby on Rails' ActiveRecord support "disconnected recordsets" (like ADO.net)?
Using Microsoft's ADO.net, one can you query database -> disconnect database connection -> query/manipulate locally -> connect again (re-synchronize local with database). I've found value in this as overall it can minimize database hits. Does ActiveRecord support such a model/pattern? ...
Convert Custom Auth to AuthLogic
I am trying to convert my custom simple auth system in my rails app to use AuthLogic. I have managed to get everything working fairly easily, but now when I try to login it will not properly validate my credentials. The pertinent code is below: # app/models/profile.rb class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_authentic do |c| c.t...
Updating models in rails / migrations
Let's say I used the following command to create a "User" model: script/generate model User username:string This creates the user.rb file along with the migration rb file to create the Users table. Now, I want to add an email column to my User model. What's the best way to do that? Do I do it manually and write the migration file by ha...
Multi-server Ruby on Rails Production Logging
I currently have an RoR app in production across four application servers with independent logs per instance. What's the best way to aggregate the logging to a common location without resorting to syslog? ...
City/Country text field validation
I need to keep track of the users lat/lng/city/country for my application with the following two requirements: 1) Get the users lat/lng/city/country automatically. (This is easy, I can use the ip or if they have a browser that supports geolocation, even better). 2) The user is allowed to customize this location (maybe the ip address lo...
find() on has_and_belongs_to_many not returning associations
I have a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship: class Staff < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :services class Service < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :staffs and I have a table called 'services_staffs' with columns service_id and staff_id But when I do Services.find(:all) it's not returning the staffs (I ca...
Ruby Module Include Question
Hi, I have a CommonFunctions Module inside the lib/ folder. I have a Question Model, which includes the CommonFunctions module. Now I am trying to access the favorite function of the CommonFunctions like Question.favorite. But I am getting NoMethodError. I have included the code. Can anyone please tell me where I am doing the mistake E...
how to expire page cache without sweepers
Hi, I am page caching a list of products - products.json in the public directory under the rails root. I don't add or delete this data through a controller action. This data is loaded into the database through a data migration script. In the development environment I delete this file from the public directory and restart the mongrel se...
Retrieving Class Name from an Object in Ruby
Hi, I am trying to retrieve the class name of an object. When I tried using the const_get, i am getting the entire model's table structure. So I used the following code. Code def classname(object) return object.class.to_s.split("(")[0] end def classrating(object_id) classtype = classname(object_id) return classtype ...