similar to: creating models from existing db tables

I am using active record sessions and everything works fine. I am integrating it with phpbb however so i need some extra fields populated in the session table. In application.rb i put a before_filter to update the session table I have a model for the sessions $ more app/models/session.rb class Session < ActiveRecord::Base set_primary_key "session_id" set_table_name

Railers: Greetings from the low end of the learning curve. I have installed all the prerequisites on Win32, including a lite MySQL database with a table in it called Inventory. Then I run this command line... ruby script/generate ajax_scaffold Inventory ...and I get this error message: error Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model

I''ve got a problem with some tables that don''t follow any RAILS standards. how do I define the join in the model when all three tables have wacky names? class Machine < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Host" set_primary_key "Id" end class Pool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Pool" set_primary_key

This is my first rails app with a legacy database and I''m having a terrible time getting the models set up correctly. I have an order table that has a primary field named order_number. I have a name table with a primary of item_number. These two tables are liked by the item_number and the order_number, but not as you might think. If the order_number is 2500, then each entry in

I''m getting this error in webrick then it crashes leaving nothing in the log. ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/lib/mysql.so: undefined symbol: mysql_sqlstate Here is the standard query I would normally write to get the data. select * from child,parent where CONCAT(SUBSTRING(child.item_number,1,14,''00'') = parent.order_number and

Hello all. I am trying to create a self-referential has_many :through. I used the following site as a guide http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/21/self-referential-through but it still doesn''t appear to be working. I have two models. Person and Relationship. A person has many contacts (Which is another person) through relationships class Person < ActiveRecord::Base

I have some legacy tables that I used set_table_name on, I''m attempting to write a method that will get key value from a sequence table and then update it and return a value. I''m hoping to put this in the base ActiveRecord method so I would like to reference the table name with self.table_name or something... class Contacts < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name

If I understand things correctly, by default, Rails expects both the ActiveRecord class name and the model name (i.e., the name of the file that contains the definition of the ActiveRecord class) to be the singluar of the table name. How can I override this default behavior with respect to the model name? That is, I would like to have the file name of the file that contains the definition of the

Dear all, Please help me in this regards, I am using models to access LegacySchemas using set_table_name and set_primary_key... [code for model] class CdDetails < ActiveRecord::Base def self.find_data set_table_name ''cd_details'' set_primary_key ''cd_label'' find (:first, :select => "cd_label") end

Hi, I''m currently running an apache/jboss cocoon/flow/hibernate/ajax paypal (directpayment) project and am looking into the possibility of porting it across to ruby/rails. For that reason I would like to know the following: 1. Can I call my java classes or would I be looking at a complete rewrite in ruby? 2. How effective is ruby in terms of seperation of concerns regarding design from

I''m trying without any succes to create application in which I have one keyed table. The table structure is: CREATE TABLE employees ( pin INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, first_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL ); Whenever I enter new record, I need the the filed pin is also filled by user. Whenever a user edit the table, there should be option to edit or not edit the

I have been assigned a task of building a front end to a database that has already been created. All the database tables have the naming convention of lclclcClclclc. For example; tblComputerNames. How do i get around this in rails since it likes lower case table names to keep with its naming conventions for classes and objects? Mitch Mitch Raful MCSE, CCNP Network Engineer MCCS Quantico

I have a model (accessed restfully) named TranscoderQueue, it''s name is overridden to ''TransocderQueue'' so it is accessed as ''/ transocder_queue'' as opposed to ''/transocder_qeueus''. class TranscoderQueue < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :campaign, :class_name => "Campaign", :foreign_key => "campaign_id"

I am connecting to a legacy DB that has some names plural and some not. I have configured: ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false now when i make a table that has an s on the end, it truncates the s. example: Table name: foo_bars Rails command: ruby script/generate FooBars Response (localhost:3000/FooBars): uninitialized constant FooBar It works fine with non-pluralized

Hi, My tables are as follows: "tblusers" - primary key "TblUsersID" "tblregisteredphones" - primary key "TblRegisteredPhonesID" - foreign key "intUserID" My models are as follows: class Registeredphone < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tblregisteredphones" belongs_to :user, :foreign_key

Hello, I have a class Person class Persoon < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "Persoon" set_primary_key "p_persoon" has_many :adres, :class_name => "Adres" composed_of :name, :class_name => Name, :mapping => [ [:naam,:naam], [:voornaam,:voornaam], [:voornaam2,:voornaam2], [:persnickname,:persnickname], [:perssortname,:perssortname] ] def

I am applying Rails to an existing schema and not sure how much the existing developers will let me go in and rename things. So I need to discover the limits of what I can change with Rails. I''ve found set_table_name and set_primary_key, which have been very useful. If I have a "foo has_one :bar" relationship, but then in the bar table my column is named "fooid"

the compiler tell me it: invalid column name: INSERT INTO ago.prova_stats (cognome, nome, id, telefono) VALUES(''Medda'', ''Ivan'', :id, 70565611) where ago.prova_stats is the table used by me and that have only the columns ''cognome'',''nome'' and ''telefono''. My table hasn''t the column

A person has a many company_branches and A company_branch has many people. This join is represented using a "contacts" table. I am using a legacy schema so i am forced into using non-standard rails primary keys. I am using the new through relationship in rails 1.1. p=Person.find(1) b=p.company_branches # gives this error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: OCIError: ORA-00904:

I am mapping ActiveRecord classes to an existing Oracle database. This means I cannot change the database schema to fit ActiveRecord conventions. Predictably, I have gotten into trouble: I have several join tables that do not have a primary key column, and therefore no number sequence defined. ActiveRecord insists on requiring a sequence, and gets unhappy when there is none to find. Is there a