I use Rails TZInfo::Timezone How could i add new city in this. For example : I want to show 'Washington, DC' time zone my application,but there is no mapping available for that city. I retrieve all timezones using TZInfo::Timezone.get() method Please give some expert suggestion. ...
Hi! Does anyone know if Rails can be configured so that rake (e.g. db:migrate) uses a different database user to the app itself? It seems to me that the database user for the app does not need permissions to drop tables and columns, where as db:migrate does, so separate should make for a more secure app...? But I assume by default bot...
Hi Everyone, I am using the following gem in my rails application: http://github.com/fnando/post_commit I am trying to learn how to send data to service providers such as Campfire on creation of a record in my application. Using Campfire as a test I have the following in my kase.rb model: # Campfire post_commit :campfire do author...
Hi, i use Jammit to pack all the .css and .js files in my project I faced a strange problem, that really confused me... When Jammit deals with .css, it kills some css rules. The rules: background-image: -webkit-gradient( linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0, #111111), color-stop(1, #303030) ); background-image: -moz-linear-g...
How do i cover the below method using Rspec? def validate if !self.response.blank? && !self.response.match("<").nil? self.errors.add :base, 'Please ensure that Response field do not contain HTML(< and >) tags' end end Can anybody help? ...
I have a simple rails app where user can send a mass email to 10+ people. In this email I'd like to always have a link at the bottom which the end user can click to unsubscribe himself from the notifications. I don't have much idea how I should tackle this. can there be just a generic link in the email which users click then enter th...
It really bites having to add an alias every time you need a subdomain on your development machine. Is there a way to configure passenger to use wildcards so that i can access randomsubdomain.mysite.local ? ...
I have a Ruby object and I want to use that object in JavaScript. I haven't seen that type of thing, but I want a Ruby object in my .js file. Is this possible? Thanks in advance ...
Hi, I have a self join model like: news relatednews No I have a form_for and want to fill relatednews but not via multiple elements in the form via fields_for (e.g. input fields) but with one input field that hold all id´s of relatednews. like (1,2,3). I want to store this and read it back without to break the relational activerec...
I'm using a modular system of JavaScript files when working in Rails - basically each view will have its own module in a .js file. My issue comes when I need a dynamic, Rails generated string within my JavaScript, for example translation strings and URLs. Translations are nicely solved using babilu but I'm still stuck on the generation ...
Hi there! I'm creating an application in RoR and I'm implementing unit testing in all my models. When I run every test on his own (by running ruby test/unit/some_test.rb) all tests are successful. But when I run all tests together (by running rake test:units) some tables from both databases (development e test) are deleted. I'm using...
Hi all, I'd like to run a script that does some evaluation of user-entered data after it is successfully created. I have a model representing the data, but how do I specify that the model class should execute function X after an instance is successfully created? Part 2: would it be more appropriate to put the code I want to execute in ...
hi all. I'm using the rails plugin acts_as_flying_saucer to generate a pdf, but the pdf doesn't work: i can save it ok, but when i try to open it i get this error message: Unable to open document File type SOR File (text/plain) is not supported Here's my set up. I'm using rails 2.3.4 and the latest version of the acts_as_flying_sau...
i want to store all my assets in mongo gridfs. i was trying to get carrierwave setup with mongomapper and gridfs but seems carrierwave supports mongoid now instead. I need to be able to save different size versions / cropped versions of an image so thats why i was going to use carrierwave. Currently its set up to store on file ...
I am using the active record store to keep sessions in the database. Is there anyway to get the user_id from the session stored in the database? In my application im adding the user_id to a session when a user logs in using session[:user_id] = @user.id. Does doing this also update the session in the database with :user_id?. Thanks for an...
I have a Rails app representing a card game. There are several different types of card, and a few expansions for the game, each providing more cards. So I'm using a single cards table and STI, with each expansion having a models subdirectory and appropriately-named module. Like this: app/models - card.rb + base_game - foo.rb - cla...
I'm currently using send_data File.new(filename, 'rb').read, :type => content_type, :disposition => 'inline' To serve up uploaded files, which are stored outside the public directory. Of course, I don't want files to be globally accessible, so I'm not sure I want to bypass Rails in the usual way by putting the file into public. I woul...
I want to learn Ruby on Rails. I've done some work with various java frameworks but I can no longer ignore everyone RoR craze. I did some looking around and found that a lot of people recommend Agile Web Development with Rails as a good starting point. Would you agree? I was looking on the site for it (http://pragprog.com/titles/rail...
First: Sorry for the ambiguous question, I'm not fully versed on Rails parlance yet. I am trying to search a dataset for a value. If the dataset contains the value, I'd like the app to do something. If it doesn't, the app needs to do something else. The data breaks down like this: I have affiliates and users, each with a HABTM relati...
I've got a model Product in my Rails application, its attributes can be edited, and I want to let user comment every change he makes (a comment can be blank, though). So, Product has_many :comments, it accepts_nested_attributes_for :comments and rejects it if the comment is blank. Hence, the edit form for Product is a multi-model form. ...