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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"

I''m trying to run some non-ruby code in my rails app and i''m not sure how to do this. The code i have would take a really long time to port to ruby and so i''d rather run it as is (its php). What i would like to have happen is that the code can be invoked as an ajax call. And just return some data in JSON. I keep running into a routing failure by actioncontroller and

Hi. I get some strange results when using rename_column on a primary key in a migration. It seems like the migration script removes the auto-increment property if you rename a column. This is a minimal example. create_table :foo, :primary_key => :foo_id do |t| t.column "name", :string end # renaming the primary key makes auto-increment disappear. rename_column

I created a subversion repository on my new vps and i''m trying to setup my rails app there. However i keep getting this error: subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:2516: (apr_err=13) svn: Can''t create directory ''/home/svnadmin/rapleaf/db/transactions/0-1.txn'': Permission denied How do i fix this? I know others have had this before, so i would appreciate some help.

Hi, I''m somewhat of a Rails newbie and am trying to understand how to formulate n-way (3 or 4 way) joins in Rails (where the join tables contain extra data as well.) Let me give you my basic entities: foos id - pk name - unique bars id - pk name - unique bazs id - pk name - unique frozs id - pk name - unique then i have two separate join tables: foos_bars_bazs - 3 way join

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

I cant seem to figure this problem out and i was hoping someone could help me out. I have a page with a list of forms. I would like the user to be able to submit each form individually, or submit them all at once, to a different action (bascially, one that will do batch processing of all the forms). Is this possble? Please help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

I''m trying to implement a cross domain solution for my rails app. I want people to be able to fill out a form on their site and the data will be passed back to my site through ajax, and their site gets updated. I''m looking for the best way to implement this. I would like to use a JSON approach like yahoo does, but i''m not sure if it will work. Though the form is

I followed this tutorial on the rails wiki about how to get apache with fastcgi working on a vps machine: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoInstallAndRunRubyOnRailsOnCpanel In the tutorial it said to add this to the httpd.conf file to get fastcgi working. <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi </IfModule> However

(Rails 1.1, Ruby 1.8.4) In the layout for one of my controllers, I have a tag to display a flash message (copied from AWDWR), like this: <div id="data"> <% if @flash[:notice] -%> <div id="notice"><%= @flash[:notice] %></div> <% end -%> <%= @content_for_layout %> </div> If the

Does anyone know the easiest way to put up a splash page where people can add their email addresses to be notified when the site is ready? I want regular visitors to be directed to this page. How can i have this and still be able to test/develop the site? I know a lot of web apps do this while still developing, so i''m looking for a solution that i''m sure exists, but i cant

Hi, i''m wondering how to setup a staging site for my RoR app. Right now i run webrick on my laptop to develop, then i svn commit my changes to the production server. However i need to make my development environment available to others and not just for me on my laptop. I have RoR setup on a hosted vps server which runs in production environment. Its on apache 1.3 and mysql. How can i

A lot has been posted about validation issues with associations, however, I don''t see this issue addressed specifically. ex: class Foo has_one :schedule, :dependent => :destroy validates_presence_of :schedule class Schedule belongs_to :foo validates_presence_of :foo_id this creates a circular dependency that breaks test frameworks like pickle and machinist. At first I was

Hi I have created a polymorphic association for comments since I need commenting functionality on several models. The issue is that when I create the comment in my Commets#create action, I really don''t know what type the parent is of. So, let''s say I have Foo, Bar and Comment. Comment have this: belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true And Foo and Bar both have:

2 quick questions regarding authentication ... 1) the flash[:notice] on successful login looks completely wrong to me. How should it be done? def index if request.post? @user = User.new(params[:user]) authentic_user = @user.attempt_login if authentic_user session[:user_id] = authentic_user.id flash[:notice] = ''Login successful! Welcome

When you define belongs_to in a model, you can either access association or association_id. I was wondering how Rails would handle things if you set each one to be different. I made two simple models: class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :foo end Now here''s a script/console session. >> f = Foo.create => #<Foo:0x270ec10

I want to setup an api for my web app, but i had a few question on the best way to do this. I was hoping for some input from you experienced individuals and rails rock stars. 1) Is there a way to implement a login in feature so that api methods cant be called without proper authorization? This is so i can log activity and use of the api from different people and so -------------- next part

I''m wondering how i can detect the browser type for the client. I know this is possible, but i cant seem to find how to do this, nor any example code for this. I would appreciate if someone could point me to some info or just give me an explanation. thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I recently setup a subdomain to run my app as a staging site before pushing changes to the main site. So i setup a subdomain in cpanel, symlinked that the directory to point to a staging directory where i check''d out my rails app. However, when i go to staging.railsapp.com, it times out and says application failed to start properly. I''m not sure what is causing this, but

Does anyone know how to add image verification for forms? I cant seem to find any information about how to do this. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060321/b3db745a/attachment.html