The spec library in Minitest is great. I've been able to use it within Rails unit tests no problem. However, Rails functional test inherit from ActionController::TestCase which provides instance variables like @controller in it's setup. Has anyone been using the Minitest::Spec lib for their Rails functional tests? If not, I'm conside...
How do I determine the link_to arguments for show, edit, and destroy? I know "new" is "new_user_post_path". Nothing else seems to follow this convention though? My relevant routes.rb snippet: resources :users do resources :posts end ...
pulled down a repo from git. For some reason I need to do ./script/rails.rb s where on the rails 3 ap I started on my box, I can just do the rails server can anyone help me set up my environment so I don't have to do this? I'm still trying to figure out what I need to type to do a migration... ...
The US date used to be accepted/parsed correctly, but not anymore in Rails 3. The %Y-%m-%d is accepted but not %m/%d/%Y. g = Grant.new g.budget_begin_date = '12/31/2010' #g.budget_begin_date returns nil g.budget_begin_date = '2010-12-31' #g.budget_begin_date returns Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 UTC +00:00 ...
I'm just trying to get the link to point to "user/1/post/1". I've tried using the link_to with and without the :method key and got the same results. ActionController::RoutingError in Posts#index Showing /home/test/rails_apps/test_app/app/views/posts/index.html.erb where line #22 raised: No route matches {:action=>"destroy", :controll...
I understand there are a lot of questions that answer this. I'm familiar with .htaccess and nginx.conf methods, but I do not have access to such traditional configuration methods on heroku. Simone Carletti gave this answer that leverages Rails 2.x Metals, but I'm using Rails 3 and this isn't compatible. http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
Working through Michael Hartl's RailsTutorial and came across the following error - even though I have followed everything to the 'T'. 1) UsersController GET 'index' for signed-in users should have an element for each user Failure/Error: response.should have_selector("li", :content => user.name) undefined method `name' for #<Array:0x000...
I've been looking for how to do a select with include in Rails 3 - I have a nested example: @items = Item.where("fulfilled = ?", true).includes({:order=>[:supplier, :agent]}, :manufacturer) This is a very taxing query to run without selects as it creates 1000s of rows of data by pulling information from all the above big tables. How ca...
I'm trying to build a CMS in Rails from scratch, and for showing the user generated pages I'm having trouble deciding exactly how to do it. The way I have it right now, I have a controller named 'content' with a single action called 'show'. In routes.rb I have a rule that passes any name after the name of the website to the content con...
Hello, I'm working to do the following in my Rails App: if record.updated_at > 15.minutes.ago do some stuff end Meaning... If the record.updated_at was over 15 minutes ago, do some stuff... This doesn't seem to be working. Ideas? ...
Hello, On every page of my app I want to show a user's projects... So which controller do I use to make sure that @projects from the projects controller is being made available in the view? Thanks ...
Hello, I'm building a header partial for a view. I call the partial as following: <%= render :partial =>"project/header", :locals => {:right_header => 'BLAH BLAH'} %> The header has a default right_header, but I'd like the option to overwrite it: <div id="header"> <span class="right"> Standard Header here </span> </div> The deal i...
I am using this Spreadsheet gem to export xls file. I have the following codes in my controller: def export @data = Data.all book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new sheet = book.create_worksheet :name => "data" contruct_body(sheet, @data) book.write "data.xls" end In this way, I can fill in the data and save it in the root dire...
So, each rails project i seem to run into this problem and would be really grateful if someone could enlighten me: With a "normal" setup when the form sits on the view immediately associated with the url/controller it is pretty straightforward, a render => :action on fail will display the validation message. Now what i have is a form i...
e.g. c=Category.new this is didn't persistence to db, how to distinguish a object wheather persistenced to db yet ...
Hi, Does anyone know of a gem/plugin for rails which can be used to manage bibliography or publication references? This tends to be quite standard format, so I am hoping there is something out there? thanks ...
Hi, I am making a update password module for an application in rails. Now the problem is that I am encrypting the password before_save, and it is required that the password be between 6 to 20, so after encryption the password becomes 64 chars, but since the encryption happens after validations, the code works. Now when I want to update ...
When I was using Rails 2, I did script/generate scaffold User to create the user model. Now I need to remove it, and I'm using Rails 3. I tried rails destroy scaffold User and rails destroy User, but these just created new rails projects named destroy. How do I do it? Thanks for reading. ...
Hi, When calling the _url helper in rails it will return host+port+path so for example photo_url will return http://localhost:3000/photo In my production environment I have thin serving the rails application on a given port and apache serving static content on another port. When the site is accesed without any port each server kno...
UPDATE: It works now. I truly don't know what happened. I'll leave this Q up for some time, in case other experience the same. If not, I'll soon delete it. TLDR: autotest rspec works with ruby1.8.7 but not in ruby1.9.2. Using rails3, rspec2, autotest 4.4.1. In 1.9.2, it doesn't do anything after starting autotest. OK, now I'm real tire...