We are using the devise gem for authentication in a Rails 3 application. We have multiple roles and from the devise stand-point, the roles will differ in terms of confirmation, activation and remember me functionality. The devise documentation has examples of two scopes being defined. One is the User itself and the other one is the admi...
I've got a nested form, structured: Question has_many Answers. So, the questions are multiple choice. Current form view: - semantic_form_for @question do |f| = f.error_messages - f.inputs do = f.input :question = f.semantic_fields_for :answers do |builder| = builder.input :content, :label => "Answer", :input_html => {...
Hi! I defined function in application helper: def display_standard_table(columns, collection = {}) content_tag :table do concat content_tag :thead do content_tag :tr do concat columns.collect { |column| content_tag(:td, column[:display_name]) } end end concat content_tag :tbody do ...
having trouble with testing devise sign up on Cucumber. After "Sign Up" click it shows uninitialized constant User::ArticlesController (ActionController::RoutingError) I suppose that's because right after Sign up, devise redirects logged user to Articles page and but it's not under namespace User. Because I test user it put everything u...
I have a Rails 3 project with Product. :product has_many :product_properties :product has_many :properties, :through => :product_properties :product_property belongs_to :product :product_property belongs_to :property :property has_many :product_properties :property belongs_to :property_type There is a attribute "sequence" on :proper...
Hello, I am troubleshooting why my ApplicationController's methods don't seem to work in my namespaced admin area and it seems like when I'm in a namespace I cannot access my ApplicationController's private methods, is this right? If it is like that, what's the best practise to reuse something like Authlogic's example ApplicationContro...
I have a widget for currencies which I use throughout my application. Ie. the user changes the currency from EUR -> USD, or about 13 other currencies. I have a few other use-cases such as dates but this one is the easiest to explain. Currency basically just updates a session variable by calling the currency controller and then uses so...
Hi! I'm writing helper to render html table header def display_standard_table(columns) content_tag :table do content_tag :thead do content_tag :tr do concat columns.collect { |column| content_tag(:th, 'Header'.html_safe) } end end end end The html output is escaped: <table><thead><tr><th>Header&...
I am using Rails 3. The main model is Product :product has_many :images :product has_many :related_products (self-referential) :product has_many :descriptions :product has_many :specifications :product has_many :upc_codes :product has_many :prices You get the idea. I'm trying to determine if I can shoehorn this into a properties mod...
I'd like "to mount" a Nesta CMS app onto a Rails3 app This should be possible couse of being Nesta a Sinatra app, which should be a Rack mountable layer, ... but how would you do it ? Where will you start from ? Does anybody has experiences on this topic ? Suggested docs ? thanks in advance luca ...
Hi there! I'm working on web app (Rails 3 based). And I really don't like the time it takes to generate the page - depending on the displayed data it takes up to 2.5 and even 4 seconds. So I just was wondering what is the average reasonable time for generating page in your apps. Saying you check the generation time, e.g. it's 750ms and...
Is it normal to have the following directory structure under "vendor" in a Rail 3 project? /vendor/ruby/1.8/bin /vendor/ruby/1.8/cache /vendor/ruby/1.8/doc /vendor/ruby/1.8/gems /vendor/ruby/1.8/specifications When I delete the "ruby" directory, and run "bundle update", the whole structure is recreated. "gem env" yields noth...
In my rails application I use some external web services: twitter, google picasa, flickr etc. Where should I put code related to processing responses of these services? ...
This is probably quite simple, but how can I make a params optional? resources :places match 'register/:id' => 'places#new', :as => :register currently... it breaks if the :id is not passed which most of the time it won't be. <%= link_to "Place Sign Up", register_path %> ...
I would like to remove/delete a migration file. How would I go about doing that? I now there are similar questions on here but as an update, is there a better way than doing script/destroy? Also, should I do a db:reset or db:drop if I remove/delete a migration? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I am writing my first ever plugin for rails. The plugin is supposed to extend the actioncontroller::base so after going through the tutorials here is what i did... # Foo class << ActionController::Base def function_name assuming the plugin is called foo... but when i call function_name from an action, nothing happens... It see...
Hi, I have three models presented in a multi-model form. class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :children accepts_nested_attributes_for :children end class Child < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :parent has_many :other_children accepts_nested_attributes_for :other_children end class OtherChild < ActiveRecord::Base belon...
Rails 3.0 deprecated f.error_messages and now requires a plugin to work correctly - I however want to learn how to display error messages the (new) native way. I am following the getting started guide, which uses the deprecated method when implementing the comments form. For example: <h2>Add a comment:</h2> <%= form_for([@post, @post.co...
Trying to use $SAFE=1 (just wanted to put some processing in a drb server) make rails unusable: it can't load some paths, data recovered from the DB are tainted, etc. For instance: rails console Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0) ruby-1.9.2-p0 > $SAFE=1; User.first SecurityError: Insecure operation - file? from .rvm/gems/...
I have an Array extension method I want to use in my Rails 3 project. Where should it live? I have a app/classes where I originally put it (array_extensions.rb), and in my config/application.rb I load the path: config.autoload_paths += %W(#{Rails.root}/app/classes). However, when I drop to rails console the extension is not loaded. I...