My website's root page automatically redirects all users to some subpage via http header. http://example.com/ → http://example.com/subpage I want to use my domain example.com as OpenID. The problem is that I have to add some tag to my root page, but it should redirect all users on subpage. I can change the type of redirection and use e...
Is this possible out of the box with Rails? or is an add-on or hack required? thxs ...
Any best practices for the following?: I have Manufacturer model that has_many Inventory In my new Inventory form I want a field that maps to Manufacturer.name so that when one submits the new Inventory form the app: searches for a manufacturer with the 'name' from the form if it exists then assign the id to @inventory.manufacturer...
I am upgrading my app from rails 2 to 3 and when i 'require' this file that has an email address validator i get an 'invalid multibyte escape' error with: dtext = '[^\\x80]' pattern = /\A#{dtext}\z/ Any thoughts? ...
I'm building an application that checks when a user needs to change the oil of one of his cars. Here's how it works: The user enters the name of his car (e.g. 'Ford Mustang') The user enters the time the car will run on one oil change (e.g. 3.months) The user saves the car to the database Repeat above process for all his other cars. (Y...
Hi... I want to create a WebService in Ruby (Sinatra, Padrino, maybe Ramaze... don't know yet...), but I definitely want to secure it... It will be the backeend for an Iphone-App, so I think SSL-Secured HTTP-Basic-Auth will be fine. I've been looking around at several authentication Frameworks and came across warden... Seems to be pret...
I am new to ruby on rails. I am originally a PHP/mysql programmer. I can not seem to understand how you connect any posts to the user and display them (e.g. a post is successfully created with the user ID and then the users ID is queried to get his or her name.) I am using devise for authentication. def create poll = current_user.p...
I have a different subheader partial I want to render dependent on where I'm at in my application. How do I go about determining where I'm at via ruby? Or do I need to parse the URL? Example : If I'm at my root level I want to use /home/subheader, if I'm in controller 'test' I want to render /test/subheader, etc... etc... basically...
Hi, Is there a Ruby on Rails way to do an image cache? Or should I just use javascript like this: test = new Image (50,50) test.src= "/images/test.png" Thanks ...
Hi, I have the following shoulda set up which I would like to use factory_girl to have the fake model available in other specs. So far I have this: context "on POST to parse" do setup do @fuzzy_lead = LeadCapturer::FuzzyLead.new parts = LeadCapturer::LeadPartArray.new parts << LeadCapturer::LeadPart.new('Mc B...
For example in open_id_authentication plugin. Inside folder test/test_helper.rb inside that plugin, it got: require 'test/unit' require 'rubygems' gem 'activesupport' require 'active_support' gem 'actionpack' require 'action_controller' gem 'mocha-0.9.8' require 'mocha' gem 'ruby-openid' require 'openid' RAILS_ROOT = File.dirname(_...
When you are facing with this kind of dilemma, what do you usually do, and why? In my case, I want to create a user authorization system that works with facebook connect and openID. Authlogic is working, but unfortunately authlogic-openid is no longer supported (they really should clean up ancient codes on github!) Thanks! ...
I'm introducing jQuery into a rails3 application, and have a question regarding best practices. I'm finding it very useful to do all my Javascript unobtrusively using jQuery, but I'm putting everything in application.js. The javascript is included in all my pages, as application.html.erb has <%= javascript_include_tag :all %> I'm also ...
Here is the Github link: http://github.com/ryanb/railscasts-episodes/tree/master/episode-170/blog/app Running: git clone http://github.com/ryanb/railscasts-episodes.git Gave me an empty folder with .git folder. ...
Take the most simple example: map.resource:account 1) How different is it from defining all the names routes - like: :map.new_account "new_account", :controller=>"activity", :action=>"new" 2) How do you set an additional route within the resource definition? For example, say there is one more method for the resource :map.b...
Hi guys, Please name RoR authorization plugins with Rails 3 support, which you think is the best. Regards, Alexey Zakharov ...
Hi, I am now trying to learn ruby-debug gem, but there are many jargons I am unable to catch up. Wondering if anyone could help with the explanations? I couldn't find them in http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/ruby-debug.html either. The author assumed we already understand them (where can I learn about them anyway?). For example here is a ...
Is there an easy way, to default will_paginate to last page? I would like to show user latest addition and allow to browse previuos pages of results... ...
I am using ubuntu to develop my rails apps in a virtual machine and I want to send growl notifications in my windows which is in a LAN (growl exists in windows also). I wrote a simple script to send notifications from ubuntu to windows remotely and it worked perfectly (with the ruby-growl gem), but I was wondering if autotest/growl sup...
Hi, before rails3 I had a working multiple ajax(mootools) file upload solution. I used form_to_remote with an iframe and responds_to_parent. In rails3 the ajax upload with form_tag remote => true, traget => "my_iframe" doesn't work. The the param[:uploaded_image]with the file is missing. I don't know why. Can anyone recommend a good a...