Hi, I have a quite long method. It copy an ActiveRecord object with all relations, and changes relations in some cases. To make code more readable, I use private methods. I would like to test them. Technicaly, in Ruby it is no problem, but I suspect, I have bad design. Do you have any advices how to deal with such case? ...
Hello, I have this method (50+ lines) in one of my models, I prefer not having to scroll so much and not losing my cursor sometimes because of its taking up so much space. I wonder if I can put it away in a separate file and sort of include it in the model instead. Thanks! ...
Hi, I have a requirement where a screen allows and end user to create a filter that is basically any valid sql fragment. For reasons beyond my control this is what is needed so I need to work within this boundary. This sql fragment gets appended to a where clause in a sql statement.Currently to avoid anything to nasty going on the log...
I have some classes in the lib directory, and I want to test it. My class which I want to test looks like: class StatAggregation class << self def skills_rate(user_id) user_id = User.find_by_id(user_id) ... end end end I created spec: require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper') des...
Hi, Today I implemented a small piece of code that include analytics only in production environment using something like: <% if Rails.env.production? %> analytics here <% end %> I don't see anything wrong about it... however one of my c0-workers told me that it wasn't a good practice at all, that it would for sure introduce proble...
I need to have one table in which i can set user preferences I want to have one table in which all preferences values are set and another relation table in which i will have user_id and the preference_id but I need to have preference for three different pages item favorite recent. I need to show the list of results as set by user...
Hi, When I call the action, the action should open up the thick box with the value. So for that I have used something like thing, but it didn't work def call render :action=>"call_page", :class=>"thickbox" end and also used def call render :partial=>"call_page", :class=>"thickbox" end so, please tell me how I can go with this...
I have a few places in a model that does stuff like def ServerInfo.starttime(param) find(:all, :conditions => "name ='#{param}_started'", :select => "date").first.date.to_datetime end Now, for reasons not relevant to the question, it can happen that this particular row is not in the database at all and the code above fails wit...
I have a signup form, and I wanted to make it so that they have the option of recommending this signup to all their friends in facebook. Is there a rails API/gem for doing this? Is there an appropriate name for this? Thanks! ...
NoMethodError in ContainerformatsController#create undefined method `yuvstreams' for # hi all, i am getting this error i don't no what happened ,its working fine few days before but it not working this is code for create function @containerformat = Containerformat.new(params[:containerformat]) if @containerformat.containerFm...
Hi there, atm i'm trying to create a AMF request to a rails backend. I allready successfuly implemented the AMF communication, but i still got some problems with the custom functions i'm using. I created a function to request the server if a property in my SQL DB exists, the server return a boolean. In my flexapp the function looks lik...
Here is my case: I want to use a web browser to connect to a Rails application that runs this example code on the server side: Dir.chdir path_typed_in_by_user system "ls -la" I want the output of "ls -la" to be displayed on the web browser. Is this possible somehow? ...
Here's the scenario of out of the box map.resources I'm on /users/new Submit -> /users/ rescue error render new URL: is /users/ If User.index never defined. I copy the URL to another tab, it'll have routing error. How can I have the URL showing /users/new while activerecord errors persists on the page? ...
I'm trying to use delayed_job to send emails from an input form. In my view i have replaced the line Emailer.deliver_signup(@usercontact) with Emailer.send_later(:deliver_signup, @usercontact) but when i run the job with rake jobs:work, i get: undefined method 'deliver_signup' for "CLASS:Emailer":String What am I doing wrong? (N...
I am new to Ruby-on-rails and need to be able to build a Rake file that will connect to a corporate data source and then use the data to update a table in SQLite3. Is that possible? Should I be using a rake file? I would eventually want to use a timer to run an update on a daily basis. ...
It used to be that the ruby on rails guides for version 3.0 were at http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/ and the guides for version 2.3 were at http://guides.rubyonrails.org . Now that version 3 has been released, its guides have been moved to the main URL. Is there any way to access the guides for rails 2.3? ...
I am using respond_with and everything is hooked up right to get data correctly. I want to customize the returned json, xml and foobar formats in a DRY way, but I cannot figure out how to do so using the limited :only and :include. These are great when the data is simple, but with complex finds, they fall short of what I want. Lets say...
Maximum(:created_at) does not give the timestamp in local time format but in UTC. I am using Rails 2.3.8 Is there another way to get the latest created_at in local time? ...
I get the following error: Delayed::Job SomeMailJob# (NoMethodError) "undefined method `subject' for #<YAML::Object:0x2b0a191f4c78>" This comes from the following code which references the SombMailJob above: class SomeMailJob < Struct.new(:contact, :contact_email) def perform OutboundMailer.deliver_campaign_email(contact,co...
i'm a .net guy doing some work/learning RoR. i have a handful of environment-specific settings i'd like to externalize (s3 access info). what is the way to do this? I realize the place for it is in config/environment/[environment], but i'm asking beyond that. Should it be a global constant? should i use an initializer? how do i cleanly m...