I have been writing specs for controllers and models, but I have never written a helper spec. I have no idea where I start. I have the following snippet in application_helper.rb def title(page_title) content_for(:title) { page_title } end How should I write a helper spec on the code? Also if there's any open-source Rails app...
Im trying to generate n unique random numbers between 1 and max I tried the following code but doesn't work (returns repeated numbers) r = [ ] n.times { v = rand(max) while r.include? v ; r << v} Whats wrong with it? Thanks added: max is thousands n is 10 ...
Hello I've set up a One-to-Many Association between "orders" and "users". I'm wondering how to have console just return an array containing ID's rather than a full array of data: user = User.find_by_login("Lesa") user.orders => [#, #] user.orders.id NoMethodError: undefined method `order' for #<User:0x...
Im trying to achieve the following effect in rails: If the text is bigger than x characters then make it smaller, the next x characters smaller, the next character smaller, ad infinitum for example x = 7 would output the following html Lorem i<small>psum do<small>lor sit<small> amet, <small>consecte <small>tur adip<small>isicing</smal...
A lot of information seems stale since _why took his toys and went home, yet I would love to use it as a educational tool for my family. Thanks. ...
Hi all, I'm in need of a two-way encryption solution for Ruby, such as Blowfish, Rijndael (AES) or other. The problem, however, is that I can't find an appropriate gem for it. I would like for the library to support several different encryption algorithms so I can compare the performance of each for optimal integration i my application....
How can I verify CMS/PKCS #7 messages using OpenSSL in Ruby? PKCS #7 message is used as a digital signature for user messages, so I need to sign a new user message and verify the incoming one. I haven't found anything helpfull in documentation and google. I have found few code samples for signing, but nothing for verifying: signed = Ope...
Hello, I am trying to run a script in several machines I have at work, to gather some information about them, such as which OS they're running, what services run on them, some configurations, etc. I have a machine on which I log before ssh-ing to any of the other machines, because of the public key setup it has. From there, I can ssh in...
I am building a mobile website were users can upload/download videos and am looking for a library that can convert the media files from mpeg, 3gp, mov depending on what the user wants to download. thanks in advance. ...
I have a shopping Cart that contains many cart item and price or the order. It remember the users choose in the cart, but does not store into database yet. What should I do to store these records. Cart have many cart item. One cart item contain the number of product, and the product obj. ...
I have a table called "order" which has many "order_items" , each "order_items" is belongs_to "order" and "product". In the db, I have one record in order. the record is like this: orders table: id = 1 name= customer and the order_items table is like this: id=1 product_id=233 order_id =1 id=2 product_id=454 order_id =1 I am trying ...
I'd like to read a large XML file that contains over a million small bibliographic records (like <article>...</article>) using libxml in Ruby. I have tried the Reader class in combination with the expand method to read record by record but I am not sure this is the right approach since my code eats up memory. Hence, I'm looking for a rec...
Hi, I'm still trying to make this work. Previously, ever since I tried to send an email I used to see a "Email sent" log in the Output window, but after I followed some steps on the web, setting up a smtp_tls.rb file at initializers folder, everything went wrong. Now I don't even see that "email sent" log, and once I delete that file I...
I'm trying send flash messages and welcome notices to users if it's their first time commenting; basically, something like this: class CommentObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer def after_save(comment) if comment.user.new? Mailer.deliver_welcome_package(comment) flash[:notice] = "Welcome! We just delivered a we...
Is there a standard or conventional system for organizing multi-file Ruby programs? I have embarked on my first large "project" in Ruby, a search program which is logically organized into multiple files and directories. I've outlined below my potential structure: The main file. This file implements the search class and general searchin...
I'm creating a library-style system in Ruby on Rails, and I'm trying to come up with a way to calculate the overdue days while excluding weekends when a borrowed item is returned. Right now I'm just calculating "dayslate" as the difference between the due date and the date the item was actually returned, but I want to exclude weekends, ...
Take this text for example: the three umlauts are ä, ö, and ü.. Let's assume they are in a text file, which I'm reading like this: data = File.read("umlauts.txt") Now, if I try to output them, I get this: the three umlauts are Σ, ÷, and ⁿ. If I write it to a file, they get outputted correctly. How can I make them show up properly...
Hi, Ruby 1.9 gives the ability to define variables that are just local to a block and do not close over variables of the same name in an outer scope: x = 10 proc { |;x| x = 20 }.call x #=> 10 I would like to have this behaviour as default for some blocks i define - without having to use the |;x, y, z| syntax (note the semicolon)....
I installed RadRails as a plugin to eclipse, and I set the interpreter to C:\ruby, the location of my ruby installation. I've also installed RubyGems 1.3.5 via the ruby setup.rb script. When I run the following, however, I get syntax errors in eclipse, although running works. test = { raw: '1', symbols: '2' } p test Furthermor...
My first question here, would be awesome to find an answer. I am new to using nokogiri. Here is my problem. I have something like this in the HTML head on a target site (here a techcrunch post): <meta content="During my time at TechCrunch I've seen thousands of startups and written about hundreds of them. I sure as hell don't know all ...