similar to: ActiveRecord:

In the Agile Rails book, on page 232 (PDF, 4th edition) there is an example of (within ActiveRecord) marking an article as read by a user at the present time. Short example code (from the book) here: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :articles def read_article(article) articles.push_with_attributes(article, :read_at => Time.now) end # ... end

I have successfully used HABTM to create a many-to-one-to-many set of rows in one step. Now, if two objects I want to associate already exist, how do I create the join row? The Agile book mentions the ''push_with_attributes'' method. The text says this method is useful for adding additional attributes to the join row (in the example a ''read_at'' timestamp). I

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

Hi, I''ve got the following models: Company Package with a habtm relationship. In my controller, I have a ''dispatch'' action which does the following @companies.each do |company| @packages.each do |package| company.packages.push_with_attributes(package, :sent_on => Time.now) end end my table ''companies_packages'' therefore lists which

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_CTX_new:: library has no ciphers This error is thrown whenever I use anything that uses Net::HTTP. OS X Tiger, ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.1] What could it mean? Joshua Sierles

The 1.0 version of our bundle is now available for download, along with a 10 minute demonstration of it in use. See http:// syncpeople.com/downloads. == What is syncPEOPLE on Rails? == syncPEOPLE on Rails is a bundle of snippets, macros and commands for TextMate that make Rails development on the Mac even easier. Generate scaffolds, migrations, models and controllers from inside the

I''m writing a ''Mailman'' model that catches emails sent to my application (kind of like backpack, I think). The trouble is that I''d like to save image attachments in the same was that file_column saves them--in fact, I''d really like to use a simple assignment like photo.image = attachment to save the image in its proper place. However,

Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that includes a Family News section, and an Address Book. Currently, there is no documentation on installing the Rails application itself (hence the 0.9 version number). Once installed, Family Connection guides the family website administrator through a simple two-page setup process. The web application restricts access

Originally posted at http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/02/11/textmate- backtracer-10/ == Announcing Version 1.0 == The backtracer has been around for a while now, and seems to have done its job well enough to deserve a 1.0 mark. == What Is It? == Whenever a Rails exception occurs, it spits out a backtrace full of filenames and line numbers. I?ve often thought, ?Wouldn?t it be nice if I

Just thought I''d announce this on the Rails list since I know several of you use Textmate: there''s a new feature I''m calling "Multiple Arbitrary Simultaneous Carets" or MASC for short, which is available in my personal TM bundle. It''s been handy enough for me that I thought others might enjoy it.

I''ve recently made a first release of what I''m calling "bundled_resource" which is a plugin that makes our lives *much* easier when we need to use javascripts, stylesheets and images in conjunction with one another to deliver a special effect or tool on the client (browser) side. If you missed the release, read about it on my blog at

I was talking to a friend of mine who''s developing PHP on trax and we came up with a solution to the ruby session file problem. I''m not sure if this idea has come up before, so I wanted to run it by everyone before making any code contributations and/or talking to the Rails core about it. It seems to me that the current situation we''re in with regard to

Hi all. I am trying to populate a dropdown based on two values. def self.clientref( reference ) @bugclientrefs = self.find_all(["bug_id = ?", reference]).collect {|b| [ b.client_id.strip << " - " << b.client_ref.strip ]} end This works fine. However this returns the reference to the client. I want the full name using this function. class Bugclient <

Here?s a small plugin that may be useful for documenting your database. Based on Dave Thomas?s AnnotateModels plugin, this plugin goes one step further and allows you to store comments on each column in the database (MySQL only). Full write-up at: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/04/27/ columncomments-rails-plugin Subversion at: svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/

Hello Railers, At the beginning of this year, I announced Family Connection, an open source, free, and easy-to-use family website built using our darling web app framework, Ruby on Rails. Now it?s available as a hosted, very easy-to-set-up web app called Family Anywhere! It has the same Family News and Address Book features as the original, plus a new Photo Album that lets you browse

This is a follow-up announcement from the 0.9 release. There are no major changes, but this release marks a downloadable (tgz) file as well as a promotional website, a demo application and screenshots. Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that includes a Family News section, and an Address Book. http://familyconnect.rubyforge.org/ Please note that the download

Random question: I''ve written a method for the String class that turns an arbitrary line of text in to an identifier, e.g.: "My, what a beautiful day!" => "my_what_a_beautiful_day" "(anb*#NF(AMNV" => "anb_NF_AMNV" We''ve got all these great names already like underscore, classify, titleize and things like that. I''d

I am being barraged with Ruby, Rails and Rich Internet application work right now. Almost enough that I could quit the day job and make a go of it, forgetting about Java altogether. Places in the greater Miami area are turning on to Rails and Ruby -- much of it fueled by the stronger voices in the local Java community. Am I alone in this, or do many of you see absolutely explosive growth in Ruby,

Hi. I am faced with a problem that has been described in other emails. The proposed solutions don''t work for me, and as I am stuck with it now for several hours, I ask here. I am running RoR 1.0 and Ruby 1.8.2 on SuSE Linux 10.1 and WEBrick 1.3.1 and following the tutorials in Agile Dev. With RoR. Since a few changes all my requests return Http 500 Internal Server Errors. The logs

This has been such a fun project. Couldn''t keep myself away: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/02/19/syncpeople-on-rails-07/ == Summary == Easily navigate between ActionMailer models, views, partials, controllers, helpers, javascripts and stylesheets with a single key (keypad ''enter'') in TextMate. This release also adds an Enhanced TODO List (ctrl-shift-t) and