I think there is a wide consent that is a good practice to separate your REST API from your main website. The main reason is that you can scale your API and website independently of each other. Additionally, Rails has a lot of middleware that is not required for stateless services (e.g. sessions, cookies, view rendering, etc...). Jeff D...
We're developing a plugin for rails, and I've got Cucumber working with Capybara wonderfully. BUT, when developing, I've been (erroneously, I guess) putting the Javascript files in the parent test application's public/javascript directory. So when Capybara runs, it doesn't find the javascript file. How can we get Cucumber/Capybara to see...
for this command i got this error "sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby" Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /Syste...
This is a new application, and I have an index method on a Search controller. This also serves as the home page for the application, and I'm trying to decide if I am headed down the wrong path from a design pattern perspective. The method is already 35 lines long. Here is what the method does: 3 lines of setting variables to determine...
I had this working yesterday, I don't know what I did to break it. Here are the routes for a RESTful controller: brand_responsibilities GET /brands/:brand_id/responsibilities(.:format) {:action=>"index", :controller=>"responsibilities"} brand_responsibilities POST /brands/:brand_id/responsibilities(.:format) ...
I am attempting to get RCov to work with my RSpec and Shoulda test for a rails 3 app. It seems to work fine with my RSpec after using the Rake task below but all of the shoulda tests fail and I cant seem to find any documentation on getting these to work. They all run fine under autotest(rspec and shoulda). namespace :spec do desc "...
I have a REST API that I am trying to access using Rails 3.0.1 that returns: <Sessions> <Session> <Title>This is a sample title</Title> ...Misc </Session> <Session> <Title>Another Title</Title> ...Misc </Session> </Sessions> I have set up my session.rb class defined: class Session < ActiveResource::Base self...
I had taken from the database and sorted it according to the position. Then I had put the necessary datas into a Hash. After putting the data in hash and I printed the hash. But the result is in reverse order. So I want to reverse the hash. How can I do this? ...
I want my code to do two things that is currently not doing @students = Student.where(["first_name = ? OR middle_name = ? OR last_name = ?", params[:query].split]) Work. (it says im supposed to pass 4 parameters but I want the user to be able to type words and find by those words on each of those fields and return whatever matches) A...
Are there any plugins for Rails 3 (or ActiveRecord 3) that replicate the old deadlock_retry plugin? Or, does that plugin still work with Rails 3? ...
I am using Rails and I want to use contraint in route to exclude that route if keyword "incident" is anywhere in the url. I am using rails3. Here is my existing routes. match ':arg', :to => "devices#show", :constraints => {:arg => /???/} I need to put something in constraints so that it does not match if word "incident" is there. ...
I'm using Rails (3.0.1) and have the following code in initializers/inflections.rb ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect| inflect.irregular('nursery', 'nurseries') end From the console I'm getting: "nursery".pluralize => "nurseries" "nurseries".singularize => "nurseries" I should be getting: "nurseries".singularize => ...
Hello, I'm working to have Rails 3 respond with a JSON request which will then let the app output the search results with the jQuery template plugin... For the plugin to work, it needs this type of structure: [ { title: "The Red Violin", url: "/adadad/123/ads", desc: "blah yada" }, { title: "Eyes Wide Shut", url: "/adadad/123/ads", d...
I have successfully added the ability to use dynamic subdomains within my application. The issue is that when I run my Cucumber tests, I receive the following error when my application performs a redirect_to which contains a subdomain: features/step_definitions/web_steps.rb:27 the scheme http does not accept registry part: test_url.exam...
I've a view helper method which generates a url by looking at request.domain and request.port_string. module ApplicationHelper def root_with_subdomain(subdomain) subdomain += "." unless subdomain.empty? [subdomain, request.domain, request.port_string].join end end I would like to...
Just learning Rails via Michael Hartl's tutorial and one of the things we have to do is implement basic authentication with sessions instead of cookies. I am trying to find any literature online that discusses it, but can't find anything. The Rails Guides talk about sessions from a security point of view, so they assume you have your a...
Hello, in my controller I'm building a json object for books. I want to show truncate(book.content, 250) but that doesn't work in a rails controller? And given it's a JSON render, I don't use a view. So how does one truncate? I don't want my JSON object to be huge :)! thanks ...
Installing and running Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2 on Windows 7 went rather smooth. It's only now that I want to run autotest that I'm running into problems. The error looks frustratingly simple, but I can't figure out how to solve it. I have the following gems in my Gemfile: gem 'autotest' gem 'autotest-rails-pure' But then when I run ...
Hi, I have started a project using Rails 3.0. I am using devise for the authentication. Devise includes links to signin and forgot password in the sign up page. These links are loaded by means of a partial.I did not need these links, so I removed them and reloaded the page, but still these links remain. I tried clearing the cache and ...
I've try to use ckeditor in my apps. I followed instruction how to install it, but when I came to this step $ rails generate ckeditor:base I got this error message, uninitialized constant Ckeditor::PLUGIN_CONTROLLER_PATH, and I didn't know to solve it. Does any body know how to solve it? please. ...