I have models A,B,C,D, etc. I have my usual controllers/views/helpers for each of these models. These are accessed by a set of content authors in a form based application to populate data into the db. The content authors will also have categories like authors, publishers, super admins etc. Essentially we have built out a mini content man...
I am trying to get LDAP authentication to work under Rails. I have chosen net/ldap since it's a native Ruby LDAP library. I have tried all possible stuff, specially examples from http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/classes/Net/LDAP.html but still unable to get it work. Any ideas? ...
I am trying to create similar functionality as this gem authlogix-rpx, which optimistically saves the session/user object even if some of the validated fields are missing. http://github.com/tardate/authlogic_rpx/tree/master/lib/authlogic_rpx (line 167) With this gem it's possible to create the record that does not meet validation crit...
Hi, I read the documentation on workers and delayed_job and couldn't follow exactly, so wanted to get head-start with some strategy and sample code. I have a controller which I use to send emails one by one. Now each day I want to check which emails need to be sent for the day, and then send them through heroku as a delayed_job. How ...
I'm sending a request from jquery and expecting json response. Configuration is like this: type: 'POST', cache: false, iframe: true, dataType: "json", Now there's a funny thing. When I return data as text, it works fine: render :text => "{}" But when I use :json option, firefox prompts me to down...
I'm trying to accomplish the following content in source code: <div id="box<%=id%>"></div> Without escaping any signs in Haml. %div{ :id => "box_<%=id%>" } produces <div id='box_<%=id%>'></div> Right now the only way I can do this with Haml is to use :plain filter and hardcode HTML without using any View Helpers. How can I...
I'm porting my OpenId authentication scheme from Sinatra to Rails 2.3.8. Everything works well up until I get the response back from my OpenId provider. The Response object I get back is an OpenId::Consumer::FailureResponse, when it should be a SuccessResponse. I ported this directly from Sinatra, and the only difference is what sessio...
I haven't been able to find a very good way of getting 10 random records out of a sqlite database. Seen a few examples that work with mysql, but they don't seem to work well with sqlite even though I am trying to us Random() instead of rand(). I have tried to get random numbers and then get the records by id, but for some reason I am ge...
So I was doing a refresher on Ruby and I saw this guy's blog about creating class-level instance variable in Ruby. I am still trying to understand what the code actually does here. His blog can be found here http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2006/11/18/class-and-instance-variables-in-ruby/ and I have created a simple code based on his...
I am trying to follow the rules and stay RESTful, but I am running into some problems. I set my routes so I am sure it is calling the right action, when I run rake routes this comes up: PUT /admin/settings {:controller=>"admin", :action=>"save_settings"} So I know my route is correct, and in my *views/admin/settings.html.erb" I hav...
The following SQL I am trying to run is returning sql_string of "SELECT id FROM people WHERE id IN ("16")": @ids = ["1", "6"] sql_string = <<-SQL SELECT id FROM people WHERE id IN ("#{@ids}") SQL Can someone please help modify the above query so it will create the sql_string of "SELECT id FROM people WHERE id IN (1, 6)" ...
I tried rake gems:unpack, it worked for most gems, but facebooker gem doesn't get frozen. How to freeze it? Thanks ...
Hi, In my Rails app I have a has_many_through relation. I want to use the join model/table to store some data about the relation (how many times that particular relation is used, to be specific). I'm writing an add-method on one of my classes which should check for any existing relation with the subject, update a counter on the relatio...
Since I had so many issues installing RoR on my laptop with Windows 7, I thought I would share my steps with you. Many people tell you to use InstantRails. I did that one too, but the option below worked best for me. Download and install Ruby 1.8.7 http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71492/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p299.exe Download the l...
i I am new to rails and ruby. I am trying to make a ActiveRecord::Migration to match my wishes, but where can I find documentation for what is possible in a ActiveRecord::Migration? I mean how to define field lengths for e.g. string and if null values are allowed or not and how to define/create different indexes? Thank you Søren ...
I would like some suggestions on how to do this the best way: I have a Rails application that handles comments. Each comment belongs to a context, such as a forum topic, or an image. The context reference is polymorphic. I have partial that displays the comment, and that partial also holds links to edit or delete it for example. The li...
I have a Rails-based site with a basic two-column layout. On the right is a sidebar with different (let's just say) vertical widgets. Depending on what page you visit, the widgets can be included, excluded, and in different order. For ex: Main Page (Application) PAGE CONTENT... SIDEBAR Widget A Widget B Widget C Page X PAGE CO...
i want create something like "link_to" which can link to "request for permission" in facebook, so if user click "allow" then redirect to my site and i can get their data. my question is how to create a "link" like that? so i can get access token from facebook user. (i had register my app) thx.. ...
I have a student that has many courses. In the student#update action and form, I accept a list of course_ids. When that list changes, I'd like to call a certain function. The code I have does get called if the update_attributes creates a course_student, but does not get called if the update_attributes destroys a course_student. Can I get...
I have this form and in it I have this: <%= f.select(:category_id, categories_for_select) %> <%= f.select(:subcategory_id, options_for_select(["Choose category"])) %> Then, when the user change the category the subcategories select box fill itself via ajax. Both of the category and subcategory are mandatory for my model and included ...