I'm trying to access a model for global system settings. It should be loaded in almost every controller. The problem is I can't find any help on getting rails to load the dam thing. If this helps, the model is called Config and has two columns; 'key' and 'value' I come from a background in PHP. I remember codeigniter could load models ...
Hi, I am new to Ruby On Rails, and currently trying to modify an existing (uncomplete) plugin from github. Things went smoothly until I am trying to add new models to this plugin. I know script/generate model, and script/generate plugin. But how to add models into a plugin without regenerate the whole plugin? I don't want rewrite the pl...
I didn't skip prototype when I began my new project and I want to move to JQuery. What is the best way to switch libraries? ...
So Im trying to implement a file upload functionality where when a user uploads a file, I can read that into a File object and process it accordingly: def create name = params[:upload]['datafile'].original_filename directory = "public/data" # create the file path path = File.join(directory, name) # read the file Fil...
I consider myself a very enthusiastic amateur, no longer a beginner but unable to write code that goes beyond the simple examples found in most books. As often recommended, I've chosen a small project I'm passionate about and started hacking away on it, knowing that many concepts are still over my head. Given my past history, I'm concern...
I am using machinist and mongoid. How can I generate blueprint for embeds_many association. Mongoid embeds_many association embeds the hash of array. So I just started like this: User.blueprint do address { :address1 => "address", :address2 => 'next address'} end Any Ideas? ...
I'm having a pretty bizarre and frustrating problem with Twitter's API. The oauth process is working just fine locally but once I put the site on heroku it automatically adds the url of the testing server and redirects to a broken page. This is the code: def oauth oauth = Twitter::OAuth.new('*','*') request_token = oauth.requ...
I saw this in a rails 2 vs 3 comparison pdf lecture and I'm not sure what's going on with the preview and archived flags. post.resources :comments, :member => { :preview => :post }, :collection => { :archived => :get } Any ideas? ...
Hey there! Can anyone point me how I could deploy my rails app to GAE? I've been reading about it, but it seems to be a fairly complicated task. I tried with the google-appengine gem, but its not a piece of cake either. Has there been any progress with the DataMapper adapter or I'll need to make changes to my models? I was hoping to s...
I am stuck in this error for quite sometime now and have hit a dead end. I get this totally unhelpful error can't dup NilClass This is the situation. I have one class which is in a relationship with another. Say class Parent end class Child < Parent unloadable :has_many :parents, :foreign_key => "child" end The err...
I'm trying to implement support for Apple's enhanced Push Notification message format in my Rails app, and am having some frustrating problems. I clearly don't understand sockets as much as I thought I did. My main problem is that if I send all messages correctly, my code hangs, because socket.read will block until I receive a message. ...
Hi - I was wondering, if theres a way in rails to calculate time stamp like - half a minute ago, 2 minute ago, 1 day ego etc. Something like twitter real time date stamp. I want to know if ruby/rails has a pre-built function for such date-time conversion?? ...
Reading this article on nginx website, I'm interested in using X-Accel-Redirect header in the way that Apache or Lighttpd users might use the X-Sendfile header to help with the serving of large files. Most tutorials I've found require you to modify the nginx config file. Can I modify the nginx config file on Heroku and if so, how? ...
I have installed Ruby. When I start the Mongreal server I get this error message the program cant start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll is missing I even downloaded the file msvcrt-ruby18.dll, but no use I googled it, but cannot solve the problem ...
I found this Ruby code to help use the Imageshack API on CodeSnippets. I'm new to Ruby on Rails, so I know how to use models, views and controllers generally, but I'm not sure how I just use this code. Would it be a module? Thanks for reading. Usage: pic_online = ShackMirror.new(local_path_of_pic) pic_online.url # => retu...
hi I have a menu class and that have many menu_items and a menu_item class that is embedded docuemnt. I can get a specific menu like menu = Menu.find_by_name("menu 1") then i want to find and update or create the menu_item that matches a specific category id. I want to create the menu item if category id is not found in menu items...
I want to change how the in_place_editing view looks like. I want to change the button text and other view related things in the in_place_editing plugin I am trying with this code <%= in_place_editor_field :contact,:address_line1,:saving_text =>"Update"%> But nothing is getting changed. How else can I pass options to in_place_editor...
This is driving me insane! This code used to work fine, but as of a few weeks ago it stopped working, and I can't work out why. Basically a Game has many Patches. The error occurs in my PatchesController, but its reproducible in the rails console like this: first_game = Game.find(:first) first_game.patches As soon as I use the patches...
I have two identical controllers Submissions and Activities, both using the default resource mapping for routes. I want to use some RJS for the show method, both of which can be accessed as such as a GET request: /submissions/1.js /activities/1.js I have show.rjs inside their respective view folders like so: ../submissions/show.rjs ....
Right now I have this social media app, where I'm implementing ratings on users per category, What i want to do it's: Whenever an user casts a vote on an article, it will grab all the votes on the article and make an average of the score/votes and insert that value into another model that i have (User Category Rating), now my question i...