Hi everyone, I have a problem that needs me to convert my existing live production (I've duplicated the schema on my local development box, don't worry :)) table column types from enums to a string. Background: Basically, a previous developer left my codebase in absolute shit, migration versions are extremely out of date, and apparen...
I understand that it is a replacement for ActiveRecord and that it uses objects instead of queries. But... why is this better? will objects/queries be "easier" to create? will it lead to more efficient SQL queries? will it be compatible with all major DBs? - I assume it will. will it be easier/harder to use with stored procedures...
I've been having trouble discerning which version/build of ruby to use with the most recent rails 3 beta. I was using 1.8.7 but over time the server would use too much memory and begin to slow down and eventually not work at all. Which version/build worked best for you? ...
Hi I have a post model that :has_many :reply, when using searchlogic, doing Post.reply_content_like("search"), returns a result for every reply under that post, I only want it to return once. Anyone know a way to solve this ...
The Ruby LESS gem looks awesome - and I am working on a Python/Pylons web project where it would be highly useful. CSS is, as someone we're all familiar with recently wrote about, clunky in some important ways. So I'd like to make it easier on myself. Is there an existing Python module or library that provides parallel functionality? ...
I have a collection of links which are being displayed on the index page. Whenever a user clicks a link I want to keep a track of the number of unique views. I know it can be done by tracking the ips whenever a click happens by request.remote_ip and then the link of the page that was clicked. Is there any better approach ? Any plugins et...
Hi everyone! Is it possible to call a ruby method inside javascript? One way of implementing it is via ajax calls, but is there a way I can embed that ruby function inside the js file and call it just like calling any other js function? ...
This is theoretical question: is it possible to change FalseClass behavior to act like TrueClass? It is possible to override to_s, xor, &, | behavior but that is not enough. If you like Test Driven Development, follow my colleague's suggestion: puts "false is new true!" if false puts "never happens" if true assert false Asserts won'...
I'm trying to create a DSL in ruby, can you suggest me some good books? I looked around amazon and safari but so far couldn't find any. Thanks in advance! ...
I have what I think is a very simple problem (famous last words)... I have a Category model that has_and_belongs_to_many Events. I want to construct a simple and efficient query that finds all categories that have 1 or more events. (using Rails 3) I'm sure I'm having a dumb moment here - any help appreciated :) ...
Hello. I'm trying to access a network path in my ruby script on a windows platform in a format like this. \\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\ Now If I try to use this as a path, it won't work. Single backslashes are not properly escaped for this script. path = "\\servername\some windows share\folder 1\folder2\" d = Dir...
What is the best way to add comments in erb files, if we do not want them to be generated into the html content? ...
Hi all, Given the following routes.rb file: # Add Admin section routes map.namespace :admin do |admin| admin.resources :admin_users admin.resources :admin_user_sessions, :as => :sessions admin.resources :dashboard # Authentication Elements admin.login '/login', :controller => 'admin_user_sessions', :action => 'new' ...
I'm setting up to cron a web scraping job, using xvfb, firefox, and watir on my Mac OS X. In testing the script so far, firefox pops up visibly on the local desktop, the watir script executes, and then firefox exits (I quit firefox in my script). I'd like to set the xvfb DISPLAY such that firefox will run, but won't be seen on the loca...
I have a rails 2.3.5 application with an API I wish to protect. There is no user - it is an app to app style webservice (more like an Amazon service than facebook), and so I would like to implement it using a two-legged OAuth approach. I have been trying to use the oauth-plugin server implementation as a start: http://github.com/pelle...
I have a huge XML(>400MB) containing products. Using a DOM parser is therefore excluded, so i tried to parse and process it using a pull parser. Below is a snippet from the each_product(&block) method where i iterate over the product list. Basically, using a stack, i transform each <product> ... </product> node into a hash and process ...
The latest MacRuby release notes (v0.6) state that the authors have managed to get this release working with the SQLite and Nokogiri gems. However when I run sudo macgem install nokogiri I get the following errors: ERROR: Error installing nokogiri: extconf failed: and then a bunch of paths followed by: libxml2 is missing. try 'por...
ruby-mode from svn, looks equal to 1.1 version here is emacs indentation of hash User.all({ :joins => :account, :conditions => {:delete_at => nil} }) here is the same in vim User.all({ :joins => :account, :conditions => {:delete_at => nil} }) How to make emacs indent like vim in ruby-mode? ...
Does anyone know of a full featured survey tool for rails? Like Limesurvey (PHP -unfortunately for my purposes.)? Tried to look on Ruby-toolbox, but it seems to be down. ...
Has anyone tried creating end user (potentially online, potentially to be printed) help/documentation out of your cucumber scenarios? Or taken screenshots for use in documentation using RSpec and Selenium RC's ability to do so? For Cucumber, I'm imagining something like: Scenario: If you want to add a link Given I am on the edit blog p...