ruby-on-rails

Rails w/ HopToad -- Deploying?

Hi, I have a deployed Rails application that I'd like to use with Hoptoad (an online exception notification service). It comes packaged in a gem that I installed on my deployment server, but I need to run the script/generate hoptoad every time I deploy to configure it because the Hoptoad config files/changes exist only on my production...

Rails REST API design question

I am designing a REST api for one of my applications & considering using RoR for the same and had a few questions that I was wondering if Rails can support before I can decide on RoR - 1) does rails support setting HTTP response code status. So I want something like this if customer_save_fail response.status_code = 500 end 2) in rai...

Rolling up Migrations?

As I understand it the point of migrations is so you can revert the database back to a known state during the last stages of development. Right now I'm still "fleshing" out my first Rails app and I'm wondering if its ok to roll up my migrations into bigger ones rather than dozens of changes. ...

Rails finding notes by date

Hello I've created a simple rails app that has a people and a notes model. People have many notes and notes belong to people The app works and I'm able to show all the notes for a specific person, but I'd like to be able to show a single note for a specific date. The default scenario being todays date. I currently have the following...

cost of scaling and running a web site

This is a rather broad question..but throwing it out there. So let's say someone comes up with a decent web service idea, build an app on open source framework. Hosts it on a VPS for less than $100/month and things pick up, users start showing up. 1 - Assumming the above happens, how does one grow from a VPS to a full fledged internet c...

Is anyone using the Ambitious adapter for ActiveRecord?

http://ambition.rubyforge.org/adapters/activerecord.html What are your experiences? ...

How to organize controller in moderately large Rails application?

I'm working on an application with quite a few related models and would like to hear some opinions on how best to organize the controllers. Here are some options I have been considering: 1) Namespace the controllers. So, for example, have a controllers/admin directory and a controllers/public directory. This seems appealing for organi...

Algorithm development and Security Critique: Keeping website accounts in sync with system accounts

I am writing some software in Ruby on Rails to do some simple user management for login to our server. I am working on a method for the User controller that will allow a user to change their password on the server (FTP / website login) password. I would like the administration of the server passwords to be done through the website, and...

Dealing with conflicting javascript libraries in a Rails 3 app

Id like to understand the best approach when using multiple (and conflicting) javascript libraries in a rails 3 app. Before the js conflict was raised, I used the application.html.erb template to define all javascript libraries template on all pages with: <%= javascript_include_tag :all %> I intended to cache all the js files into one...

Loading up first time server for Rails 3, and received this error..

Started GET "/users/new" for 127.0.0.1 at 2010-07-11 23:07:03 -0400 Processing by UsersController#new as HTML Completed in 15ms I18n::UnknownFileType (can not load translations from /Users/johnsmith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-head/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/locale/en.yml, the file type yml is not known): I check out...

Using acts_as_recommendable for a production site

Hi...I was looking for ways to include recommendations in my application. I came to know about acts_as_recommendable plugin. I would like to know your experiences while using it in your application. I would like to specifically know about Accuracy Pitfalls and any other stuff you would like to point out Thanks :) ...

configuration.rb problems; failed rake.

Thank you in Advance! I'm using Capistrano to cap deploy:migrations. Two commands within the environment.rb file are causing some problems: config.gem "coderay" config.gem "RedCloth" An SSH into the Dreamhost server: gem: /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem /usr/share/man/man1/gem.1.gz [kinshasa]$ which gem /usr/bin/gem [kinshasa]$ gem lis...

How to convert a Ruby object to JSON?

Say I would like to do something like this, is it possible? require 'json' class Person attr_accessor :fname, :lname end p = Person.new p.fname = "Mike" p.lname = "Smith" p.to_json ...

Absolute path to partials in views

Normally, in the new.html.erb of a model(say Product), we render the partial _form.html.erb for the form. The _form.html.erb is located in the /app/views/products/_form.html.erb. Is there a way i can render another _form present in the Rails root directory in an other directory...e.g say /app/views/users/_form1.html.erb. Is there any w...

date_select tag when upgrading from 2.1.2 to 2.3.8

We are currently in the process of upgrading our rails version and I have come across some weird error in one of my date_select tags. Here is the culprit: <%= date_select :consultant_assignment, :start_date, :order => [:day, :month, :year], :start_year => 5.years.ago.year, :end_year => 5.years.from_now.year, :use_short_month => t...

Render a partial in a <div> on clicking a link tag

How can i render a partial inside a tag on the clicking of a href tag. <a href = "#" class= "addWidget" value = "Add Widget">add</a> <script type="text/javascript"> $(".addWidget").click(function(){ <%= render :partial => 'form'%> }); </script> ...

Searching a working library for rails 2.1.2

Hi, Do you a library like (or the good version of...) Mongoid or MongoMapper working with rails-2.1.2 and mongo 1.0 ? Thanks ...

How can I DRY this code?

This is a Ruby code: if (@user.isAdmin?) @admin_profile = AdminProfile.new @user.admin_profile = @admin_profile @admin_profile.save @user.admin_profile_id = @admin_profile.id else @personal_profile = PersonalProfile.new @user.personal_profile = @personal_profile @personal_profile.sav...

How to parse the contents of a uploaded file in RoR

I am new to Rails. In my project where users have to upload a file, I store it then I have to parse the file contents and show it in new form. I have successfully done the file uploading portion, now how should I read the contents of it? ...

Is there an rss parser that works with rails 3?

Are there any rss parsing solutions that work with the latest rails 3 beta? ...