So i need this format json and i have this so far { query:'Li', suggestions:['Liberia','Libyan Arab','Liechtenstein','Lithuania'], data:['LR','LY','LI','LT'] } query = params[:query] artists = search_object.map{|x| x["artistName"]} @all_instances_hash = {} @all_instances_hash[:query] = query for instance in artists @all_...
When I upgraded from rubygems 1.3.5 to 1.3.7, my GEM_PATH changed. gem environment gives me - GEM PATHS: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - /home/me/.gem/ruby/1.8 ... whereas it was previously /var/lib/gems/1.8 How would you handle this? I could set GEM_PATH, but this seems a bit messy, as I'd have to do this for my shell, and each of ...
Hi, I'd like to create a self referencing relation in rails. I have a Person model, and the person should have masters and pupils with same Person object. So far I tried: class Person <ActiveRecord::Base has_many :relationships, :dependent => :destroy has_many :masters, :through => :relationships, :conditions => "status='master'"...
Hey, I'm using TDD with rails for the first time... interesting concepts. Definitely useful. That is, until I come to this. When I run my test I get: 1) User should build the full name correctly Failure/Error: @u1.fullname.to_s.should be("#{@attr[:firstname]} #{@attr[:lastname]}") expected Joe Smith, got "Joe Smith" # ./spec...
In a Rails3 app, I want to use resourceful paths for an ActiveModel EntityImage representing image file uploads. In some directory I have these files dir/#{type}/#{id}/#{size}.jpg (which are basically all important fields of that class) Now, probably, because 'id' is a bad name rails wise (it is not domain wise), when I want to make a d...
I am attempting to create a friend network on a site I am making. I am using Mongoid. How do I instantiate friends? I assume that Users needs to have a relational association with multiple other users. But the following code: class User include Mongoid::Document references_many :users, :stored_as=>:array, :inverse_of=> :users en...
i've got a jruby regex that i'm printing in rails: @@private = /somethingthatshouldnevermatch/ def secure? puts "security test(#{action_name}/#{@@private}: #{@@private.match(action_name).nil?.to_s}" action_name =~ @@private end on os x, using WEBRick and jruby, this prints security test(index/(?-mix:somethingthatshouldnevermatch...
Hi, could you tell me plz - is it possible to disable warden/devise for one or more controllers/actions? I need to allow requests with basic auth to one of controllers, but everytime i send similar requests i've seed message, that basi auth is not required for my app. I'm writing oauth2 provider and its a problem to allow client applic...
I'm following part of this Railscast and trying to load a static file using Rack when a specific route is called: match "/myApi.js" => lambda { |env| [200, {}, Rack::File.new("/v1/myApi.js")] } No matter what I do, even if I just try to send a string through: match "/myApi.js" => lambda { |env| [200, {}, "Hello World"] } I still re...
I've been working through some issues getting rails to behave nicely with sqllite, and decided to move over to mysql. I ran my rake db:create and rake db:schema, and assumed everything was ok, but then mysql show tables displayed a complete table was missing. I created a migration with the create table details and ran rake db:migrate,...
I already have a form with normal HTTP post. Now, I want to rewrite this form usign jQuery Ajax request. Here is what I have: register_user.html.erb <%= form_tag :action=> "register_user" %> <label for="user_id_1">user_id_1:</label><br/> <%= text_field "user", "user_id_1", :...
I have following models in my app: class Game < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :players has_many :villages, :through => :players end class Village < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :player end class Player < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :game has_many :villages before_create :build_starting_village protected def...
I am thinking of running my cucumber tests on my rails app when it is running on heroku. Is this a sane way to check for differences between development environment and deployment environment? Does anybody have any experience of this kind of scenario? Rake -T tells me "cucumber rake task not available (cucumber not installed)" even thou...
Guys, I've got a controller called "ResourcesController", but its really managing the CRUD for two different models. I don't actually have a model called Resource, so the controller is balking that it can't find it. Is there a way I can inform the controller which model I'll be working with so it doesn't freak out? The error that is ...
Supposed we have something using Mongoid: data: 'products': "2010-09-07": { pageviews: 123 timeOnPage: 1823 } "2010-09-08": { pageviews: 138 timeOnPage: 2607 } ... So 2, 3 years down the road, there will be 700 or 1000 dates mapping to a hash. If we modify 1 number, will it require readin...
Suppose I have an object Person, which has_many :foos and :bars. Given an instance, p (p = Person.new), how do I programmatically determine what relationships are available? i.e. p.some_method => ["foo", "bar"] ...
I have a Rails site. I want to create a news feed. Does anyone have any pointers/advice/caution with this? What are some common schemas? We're using ActiveRecord+MySQL (at least for now), should that be sufficient, or is NoSQL the way to go? ...
I am using javascript to select a file and then to show the file upload progress. I would also like to be able to modify other attributes of the file. <script type='text/javascript'> var swfu; window.onload = function () { swfu = new SWFUpload({ upload_url : '<%= new_image_path_with_session_information %>', flash_url : '/flash/s...
So I'm getting started learning Rails. Now that Rails 3 is out, I want to stick to learning the Rails 3 way of doing things. One of the things I want to learn how to do is how to consume web services / work with third party REST APIs / create "mashup" applications. I've only done minimal work like this with PHP and pre-built libraries. ...
I am developing a web-based application using Rails. I am debating between using a Graph Database, such as InfoGrid, or a Document Database, such as MongoDB. My application will need to store both small sets of data, such as a URL, and very large sets of data, such as Virtual Machines. This data will be tied to a single user. I am in...