similar to: validates_presence_of

Hi all, I am a newbie to Rails. Please enlighten me on how to do this appropriately, the Rails and the Ruby way: Suppose I have a Recipe model. Let''s simplify things and pretend that it has only 2 attributes, a :name and the other is a ''category_id''. In the recipes table, category_id is a foreign key to field id of table categories. We also assume that I have generate

Hi, I have performed the cookbook tutorial. Before tailoring the views and controllers, when I put in the model recipe.rb: validates_uniqueness_of :title validates_length_of :title, :within => 1...20 And I tried to introduce some new recipe without the above conditions I got the message: --------------------------------------------------- New recipe 1 error prohibited this category from

This works : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end But (when I add validation) this does not work : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category validates_length_of :category, :within => 6..20 validates_uniqueness_of :category, :message => "already exists" end thank you -- View this message in context:

People, I can order categories when looking at the categories list page but how do I change the recipe page to list the categories in alpha order in the recipe pull-down box?: > <p><b>Category:</b><br> > <select name="recipe[category_id]"> > <% @categories.each do |category| %> > <option value="<%= category.id

Category.has_many :products Let''s say a product must belong to a category. I know it is recommended to do the following: class Product validates_presence_of :category_id end But, as we all know, this is a pain for new records, meaning what if the associated category is a new record? I''ve been meaning to ask this, but what''s wrong with doing the following: class

I am seeing a curious anomaly with the inspect method. It displays one of the objects in a way I don''t understand. I''ll use the Recipes example to illustrate. First, I''ll describe the recipes table, then show how the @recipe variable is being created in the controller and passed in to the show view, and then show how I''m using the

Still Stumbled on First things in trying RubyOnRails http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/tutorial/index.html http://rails.homelinux.org/ I had tried the first of the top 12 tutorials and got stuck after adding a new field ?category_id?in the table recipes,

Hi all, I am using "validates_presence_of" for validating all fields of my registration form. It is working fine and generating custom error message as mentioned. Also clearing all fields. How can restore those fields which are already filled. Problem is "validates_presence_of" clearing (blank) field if it fails, instead of restoring fields which are already filled. Help.

I can''t seem to figure out how to validate a few fields some1 please help me out model--------- class Record < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :sw, :flex end controller------------ class RecordController < A;;icationController def new @record = Rrecord.new @product = Product.find(params[''product_id'']) end def create

What have I missed I have a .rhtml with the sandard form parameters <%= image_submit_tag("excel.gif", :alt => "Download List to Excel", :border => 0, :name => ''render_action'', :value => ''excel'' ) %> Which genenerates I believe a valid html fragment for a submit button. <input alt="Download List to Excel"

Postgres database. I have a categories table, with two columns id, and name. I have a recipes table, with a category_ids column. I want each recipe to belong to one or more category. in recipe_controller.rb I have this: def create @recipe = Recipe.new( @params[''recipe''] ) @recipe.category_ids = @params[''recipe''][''category_ids''].map{

I have an ADD form with foreign key field values selectable via select list ( collection_select (...)). When I add validates_presence_of :someotherfield to my model for error trapping, I get the following error for each droplist: NoMethodError in Reviews#create_curriculum Showing /reviews/_form.rhtml where line #16 raised: undefined method `inject'' for nil:NilClass Extracted source

Hi, I have a small blog application, and I would like to shorten its routes. Here they are: Blog::Application.routes.draw do resources :categories do resources :articles do resources :comments end end A rake routes command produce the following lines: GET /categories/:category_id/articles/:article_id/comments(.:format)

I want to use mocks and stubs to test the controller, but am having trouble getting my validation not to trigger. Here''s the code: # spec: Image.stub!(:find).and_return(@image) @image.should_receive(:save!).once.with(:any_args) put :update, :id => @image.id, :category_id => @category.id, :image => {:name => ''test'', :image_number =>

I was brainstorming today about a smooth way to define conditions in an sql query, when the numbers of attributes increase, so does the uglyness. So instead of passing a hash, I thought you could specify the conditions directly in code. I hacked together some example code which actually turned out to work. The result is concise and pretty beutiful. def search(params) Ad.find(:all) do

Hi I''m new to Rails and I''m struggling with a ''has-one'' relationship. I''m trying to save product and image data in seperate tables with one to one relationship. I''m assuming the problem lies in the controller method below but can''t work it out. The models contain the has_one and belongs to statements, and I tried swapping these

I have a form that sends the following query string to my Rails controller: transaxion[category_association_attributes][][category_id]=2& transaxion[category_association_attributes][][amount]=12& transaxion[category_association_attributes][][category_id]=1& transaxion[category_association_attributes][][amount]=8 But ActionController parses it as:

I want to be able to find items according to various params - category_id, member_id, type_id, rating, etc. What I have now is something like: if(@params[''category_id'']) @items=Item.find(:all, :conditions=>["category_id=?", @params[''category_id'']) elsif(@params[''category_id''] and @params[''member_id''])

Thanks to everyone who responded to my first set of questions. Not only did I get my questions answered but I improved my code and learned a couple new things. I think I prefer the mailing list over IRC... easier to follow :-) I have some more questions if you don''t mind. Some are Rails related and some are Ruby related. 1) This is concerning displaying error messages. I am assuming

Hi, I have an array with objects and I want to generate an XML like: <objects> <object> <category_id>1</category_id> <helper-method>result 1</helper-method> </object> <object> <category_id>2</category_id> <helper-method>result 2</helper-method> </object> </objects> The helper