I've been able to get haml working for a few of my views just fine, but try as I may, I'm not able to get application.haml to render a layout. Right now I'm focusing on a very simple controller with one view (index). The view itself renders fine but none of the code within application.haml works. I've also tried renaming to applicatio...
I have a Rails 3 App. When the user is not signed in... I want devise to show non-signed in pages: SignIn, register, about us, blog etc... When a user is signed in I want it to go to the web app where do I make this switch and how do I set it up? thanks ...
This question relates to this SO question and answer (rails-3-ssl-deprecation ) where its suggested to handle ssl in rails 3 using routes.rb and routes like: resources :sessions, :constraints => { :protocol => "https" } # Redirect /foos and anything starting with /foos/ to https. match "foos(/*path)", :to => redirect { |_, request| "...
I'm trying to add some syntax highlighting to my blog that currently uses RDiscount. I am converting the Markdown to HTML with RDiscount then parsing the HTML code blocks with CodeRay to add syntax highlighting. This is what I have so far: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base before_save :render_body def render_body self.rendered_bo...
Does rails provide solution to get website user time and timezone configured on his local machine, which is used in his web browser? ...
With the Rails text_field_tag --- how do you set an option for the tabindex? Thanks ...
I am having to explicitly render :layout => 'application' in my controller actions in order to get my new rails 3 app to actually use the application.html.erb layout file. Any obvious things to look for that I am doing wrong? If I don't call the :layout option it just doesn't render the layout. I get a message like: Processing by Foo...
I am trying to choose 5 distinct brands from among the cars that belong to my users. My current attempt is below (no approach to selecting at random). @range = @user.cars.select('DISTINCT brand_id').limit(5) How might I select these five random distinct brands? Thank you very much. ...
Hey, Im using rspec and when i run rake spec, the user mailer sends email through smtp and not stores the email in the ActionMailer::Base.deliveries-array (invoked by an user-observer)... Could you give me a hint why? # Rails version rails -v => Rails 3.0.1 # Ruby version with rvm (rvm version 1.0.16) ruby -v => ruby 1.9.2p7 (2010-09...
I want to use find_or_create_by, but this statement does NOT work. It does not "find" or "create" with the other attributes. productproperty = ProductProperty.find_or_create_by_product_id(:product_id => product.id, :property_id => property.id, :value => d[descname]) There seems to be very little, or no, information on the use of dynam...
Hello, I have two models, Product and ProductImage, and I'd like to offer the possibility to add up to 6 images to each product. Product has_many :product_images, :dependent => :destroy while ProductImage belongs_to :product So far, my views are the following: #products/_form.html.erb. <% @product.product_images.build %> ...
If I attach xls files as attachment in the mailer like this attachments["1.xls"] = File.read "1.xls" If I try open the attachment from the received mail, Excel is unable to open and it says the file is corrupted. Please let me know if I am missing something? Please let me know if additional information is needed? ...
I am following Ryan Bate's tutorial: http://railscasts.com/episodes/163-self-referential-association But my setup is slightly different. I am making comments that are self-referential so that comments can be commented on. The form displays in the view, but when I submit, I get this : Routing Error No route matches "/conversations" ...
I upgraded to RoR 3.0.1 and Ruby to 1.9.2. Now all the strings in my views are ASCII-8BIT? I believe I have my app set up to use UTF 8 application.rb config.encoding = "utf-8" database.yml development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 I'm running OS X RVM rvm 1.0.16 Ruby ruby-1.9.2-p0 Rails 3.0.1 I'd expect that the enodin...
Hello, I've created: PhotoAlbum (id, name) has_many: photos Photo (id, name, photo_album_id) belongs_to: photo_album I want to allow a user to upload 1 or more photos. Per Upload whether it be 1 or more photos, they should automatically be added to a new album. So the way i have it is, a user clicks upload photos: They get the ...
I have a helper in my plugin test_plugin/lib/test_helper.rb: module TestHelper def test_render render 'test_plugin/test_partial' end end I have a partial test_plugin/app/views/test_plugin/_test_partial.html.erb: <p>Hello World!</p> In my application app/views/tests/index.html.erb when I do this: <%= test_render %> I get ...
I'm trying to modify the default behaviour of showing errors before the form to show them next to the fields instead. I'm using this to achieve that: ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance| if instance.error_message.kind_of?(Array) %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error"> ...
So in rails, if any of the input is not valid, the page returns back to the input page and red errors will show up next to that input_text or textarea. For example, <% validates_presence_of :email %> It will say the error at the top, and the email input text turns into red. However, when I separately made a valid checking statement...
I'm learning RSpec 2 with Rails 3. In order to set the contents of the tag in the layout for each page, I have a helper that can be used to set the title and then return it: def page_title(subtitle=nil) if @title.nil? @title = ["Site Name"] end unless subtitle.nil? @title << subtitle end @title.reverse.join " - " en...
Hello, I have paper_clip installed on my Rails 3 app, and can upload a file - wow that was fun and easy! Challenge now is, allowing a user to upload multiple objects. Whether it be clicking select fileS and being able to select more than one. Or clicking a more button and getting another file upload button. I can't find any tutorials ...