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Hi. in the Rails Agile book here''s what was happening: >>> module StoreHelper def hidden_div_if(condition, attributes = {}) if condition attributes["style" ] = "display: none" end attrs = tag_options(attributes.stringify_keys) "<div #{attrs}>" end # format_price method ... end Note that we cheated slightly here. We copied code from the Rails

I know there''s wiki page on generating PDF[*], but that''s not really what I want. I don''t need to create arbitrary PDF. What I''d like to do is create PDF templates and fill in the blanks. Roughly, I''m looking for functionality akin to the mail merge feature of word processors, including conditional and repeated elements, say, table rows. Michael

I''m in a dilemma: In order to keep GET requests from deleting objects, I''d like to use the button_to helper to get "something" that generates a POST request. Unfortunately, that something is a form and forms can''t be nested. I''d also like to place buttons related to the same form close to each other. At the top are some navigational buttons

Somewhere between 0.13.1 and the current SVN version the :overwrite_params option to url_for (and related methods) went missing. I can''t tell whether this was deliberate or by mistake, and I have no idea how to get the same functionality in some other way either. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Life is what happens

I hope I''m not breaching etiquette too badly. It''s not my intention to offend or pressurize anyone. Also, I admit my personal motivation. I had a look at the list of pending patches (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/report/3) to get an idea what patches are currently open and see what their state is. From some of my own patches I know that they are basically ready for either

I''d like to run the FastCGI as a different user than the Apache2 server (www-data on Debian). I take it this is possible in some way with suExec2, but so far I haven''t figured out how to do it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Life is just as deadly mailto:michael-q5aiKMLteq4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org As it looks

I have several tables for enumerations. They all have the same content: id, name, position. I''d like to avoid the tedious work of defining a class for each one explicitly. Not least, in order to avoid clutter in the model directory. Here''s what I''ve come up with: class EnumRecord < ActiveRecord::Base def self.define_enums(*enums) enums.each do |spec|

With my functional tests (on PgSQL) I get strange errors like this 1) Error: test_create(AufgabeControllerTest): ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "aufgaben_pkey" Tracking this down, I found that sequences are only reset for some of the tables I''m using. The reason? Inconsistent singularization. I won''t go so far as

There really doesn''t seem to be a *declarative* way to define a default value for belongs_to and has_one associations class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :address end p = Person.new p.address.city = ''Atlantis'' # Bummer! Of course, there''s an easy way to avoid this class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :address

Here''s a simplistic model class. class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :relatives, :class_name => ''Person'', :join_table => ''relatives'', :foreign_key => ''from_id'', :association_foreign_key => ''to_id'' has_and_belongs_to_many :brothers, :class_name =>

I have a model layer containing Movie, Person, Role, and RoleType, making it possible to express facts such as "Clint Easterbunny is director of the movie Gran Milano". The relevant model and associations look like this class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :roles, :include => :role_type, :dependent => :destroy has_many :participants, :through => :roles, :source

I want to implement in-place editing for a hierarchical structure where the nodes are not simple text fields, but need to be represented by at least two input elements. The Rails helpers only support in-place editing for a text field, scriptaculous''s controls.js beyond that implements support for an in-place editor containing a select element. I need an editor where I essentially

In prototype/scriptaculous there are currently two different approaches to munging the class attribute of HTML elements. Scriptaculous has Element.Class which recently moved from util.js into effects.js. Prototype has Element.ClassNames and several convenience functions around it. In the past I''ve grown fond of Element.Class, but I''m perfectly willing to use

I''m trying to figure out how to use ActiveRecord in conjunction with ARel. In particular, I''d like to replace my residual literal SQL with ARel, if only I could see how. Let''s take Article with multiple Versions as an example. With ARel alone, I can find articles with their latest versions like this articles = Article.arel_table versions = Article.arel_table

Say I have tasks with a belongs_to association to categories where the later act as a nested set. Now I want to find all tasks belonging to a specific category (given as primary key) or any of its sub-categories. SELECT tasks.*, tasks_category.name FROM categories AS nested_set_categories, tasks LEFT OUTER JOIN categories AS tasks_category ON tasks_category.id = tasks.category_id WHERE

For some queries it is complicated to express them directly in SQL. Even more so when they are not hand-written, but generated from something the user entered. Say, the user wants to search for person records where the name contains some string. Now, while the Rails model may have a name attribute, the database table does not. There the name is decomposed into title, firstname, lastname and

When a select tag generated by collection_select has a validation error the tag isn''t marked in the page. That is, the generated tag looks like this, say, <select id="obj_attrib_id" name="obj[attrib_id]"> <option value="1">Option 1</option> <option value="2">Option 1</option> </select> Whereas is should,

When I redefine a method like this class Klass alias_method :method_without_addition, :method def method_with_addition ... method_without_addition ... end alias_method :method, :method_with_addition end I get into trouble in the development environment. As these definitions are executed again for each request, the second time around method_without_addition is actually the

No, not a question, but a few suggestions. I take it that everyone serious about using Prototype & Co. already has Christophe''s (Porteneuve) Prototype and Script.aculo.us book. Apart from that, I''d like to point out two new, library-agnostic books: Cameron Adams and several others The Art & Science of JavaScript Sitepoint 2008 http://www.sitepoint.com/books/jsdesign1/

Hi, I''m trying to write a helper for Scriptaculous'' InPlaceCollectionEditor component. I''ve already submitted a patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4302). This was a drunk patch; it needs a bit of work (Don''t drink & code!). So far I''ve gotten it to work correctly with normal collections, but I want to use it for belongs_to relations as