In running through the basic rails tutorial section about outputting comments, I get the following displayed: Comments Commenter: Me Comment: Hi #<Comment:0x1052af610> In the view I have: <h2>Comments</h2> <%= @post.comments.each do |comment| %> <p> <b>Commenter:</b> <%= comment.commenter %> </p> <p> <b>Comment:</b> <%= c...
Just to be up front, although the title appears to be similar to the thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393622/rspec-vs-cucumber-rspec-stories, however my question is fundamentally different. I understand the difference between testing user stories and testing behavior of objects individually. My question is, why is Cucumber usua...
I used a script to install ImageMagick http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl After a while, I got ImageMagick installed. Then I ran sudo gem install rmagick and got Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing rmagick: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. .rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin...
Hi all, when I run rspec spec/models result is OK. But when I use spork, every test where shoulda macros (like it { should validate_presence_of(:title) } is used FAILS with error like: undefined method 'validate_presence_of' for ... I use: rails (3.0.0) shoulda (2.11.3) spork (0.8.4) rspec-rails (>= 2.0.0.beta.22) spec/spec_helper....
I am working on a rails project and am having some issues with the following join: @page = Page.find(params[:id], :joins => "LEFT JOIN page_translations ON page_translations.page_id = pages.id") For some reason its only pulling back everything from the Pages table. Here is my model for Page class Page < ActiveRecord::Base has_many...
Hi, i've developed a small website in rails 2.3.5 but when i wanted to deploy it on a server i started to get some issues. One of those issues is an interpolation problem. Whenever i want to format a date using i18n i'm getting this exception: ActionView::TemplateError (missing interpolation argument in "%{count} %B %Y, %H:%M" ({:object=...
I just added users to my app using Authlogic and CanCan. I just have a quick question about best practices for associating users to my other models. I have 3 models that are nested within each other with one-to-many associations like this: SENTENCE > WORD > LETTER So a sentence has many words, and a word has many letters. I am just ...
I'm moving some code from being pulled in via SVN's externals function to be part of the code base proper. It's all Rails plugins and doing this seems to have broken part of my code. It seems like Rails is misinterpreting a :belongs_to statement. I have belongs_to :target :polymorphic => true in one of my classes and previously that has...
Suppose I have a collection of Pages that are ordered by a column called :sibling_order. Is there a more efficient way to update the ordering of the collection than what I'm doing below: class Page < ActiveRecord::Base ... def update_order(order) if (order < self.sibling_order) siblings = Page.where("parent_id = ? AND sibling_or...
I'm using Devise for authentication in my rails app and I'd like to be able to block certain accounts and prevent users from reregistering with a blocked email. I'm just not sure what the best way is to go about it. My first thought was to override the sessions and registrations controllers to check the model for a user with a blocked ...
Desired Output: <ul> <li class="odd">stuff</li> <li class="even">stuff</li> <li class="odd">stuff</li> <li class="even">stuff</li> <li class="odd">stuff</li> <li class="even">stuff</li> <li class="odd">stuff</li> <li class="even">stuff</li> </ul> CSS: .odd {color:blue} .even{color:red;} In rails 3 is there a clean way to do...
Most of my views will required a wrapper of padding 10px,,, but a few will not... I was thinking of doing something like this in the view controller: respond_to do |format| format.html { render :layout => true, :padding => 'false' } And then in the application.html.erb have an IF to not add a padding class if :padding is false......
I was able to create nested arrays in my view to post to my 'create' action. But I'm not sure how to save the nested array. Here's the basic create action where it gets all individual params bunched in mass-assigned params: def create @post = Post.new(params[:mass_assigned]) respond_to do |format| if @post.save format.htm...
I'm trying to create a form that will show the id that the record is going to have, prior to hitting submit on the form. For example, if I have a form to create a new project, and the previous project was id 3, I want the new project form to autopopulate with 4, so that I know that it's going to be 4 before I submit the form. Thanks for...
Here's my current named_scope. It returns an aggregate result from a number of rows. Sample result from 300 rows: Total Points: 3000 Wins: 31 Losses: 11 Here is the code: named_scope :open_for, lambda { |sportable_id, sportable_type, days_ago| { :conditions => ['sportable_id = ? and sportable_type = ? and game_time > ? ', sport...
I have a development database on my computer and a production database on Heroku. I need to run a migration on the production database, to clear certain data, that I don't want to run on the development one. So far I've only been doing migrations that I've wanted to run on both, so I just create it on my computer, run it, then when I upl...
Hello, I have the following in my def create controller: @photo = current_user.photos.create(params[:photo].merge(:project_id => params[:project_id]) In my app photo records are valid if they have a project_id or not.... But I need my create statement not to error and work for both cases. A. If there is a param project_id, insertit...
I have this code here and it works but there has to be a better way.....i need two arrays that look like this [ { "Vector Arena - Auckland Central, New Zealand" => { "2010-10-10" => [ "Enter Sandman", "Unforgiven", "And justice for all" ] } }, { "Brisbane Entertainment Centre - Brisbane Qld, Aus...
I was wondering, how an association like the following might be done in Rails: class Car < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end class Truck < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base #How to do the association as below? has_one :car or :truck end Essentially, I am trying to enf...
Hi there, I have a paginated list, and a select box of numbers showing how many pages to display. When the user picks a value I want the screen to refresh with the resized list. View: <%= select_tag :paginate_size, options_for_select([['Display: 5', 5],['Display: 10',10],['Display: 20', 20],['Display: 30', 30],['Display: 50', 50],['...