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Hi all, Here''s another little plugin I wrote to use AR models without tables. It''s dead simple, just extend from ActiveRecord::BaseWithoutTable instead of ActiveRecord::Base: class Contact < ActiveRecord::BaseWithoutTable column :name, :string column :email_address, :string column :message, :text validates_presence_of :name, :email_address, :message end

Ive followed this example of how to validate a form with a tableless model: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/11/19/validate_your_forms_with_a_table_less_model Ive got this example working but when validation fails the failed boxes are not highlighted in red. At the moment i have a contact details form and want to validate the information entered by the user but this will just result

...in the ''spec'', or spec helper methods i''m loading. Basically any command which should normally work like p, or pp, gets passed through to a method_missing. I''m kind of stumped on this one... any ideas? -rabble I''ve got the following plugins installed: active_record_base_without_table annotate_models asset_packager exception_logger fixture_replacement query_reviewer rspec rspec_on_rails spatial_adapter svn white_list will_paginate ym4r_gm and am using the following gems: GeoRuby-1.3.2 RedCloth-3.0.4 has_finder-0.1.5 json-1.1.1 mocha-0.5.5 oauth ruby-hmac-0.3.1 brickhouse:~...

...Search model just an Active Record object or do I need to > set up a database for it as well (if so then with what columns)? No, that search model is just a plain class that backs your search form. If you want to take advantage of AR''s validations for the search form, you can use the active_record_base_without_table rails plugin that gives you a base class for your model similar to ActiveRecord::Base, but without the need for a db table :-) > 2. Do I need to set up table relationships to the other models > (has_many) or do my models just inherit from the search class? No and no :-) A sample search...

I just can''t get validates_confirmation_of working for the life of me!... It''s not the first time I''m having problems with it but I just never understand why!... This time I pretty much followed *exactly* the example in Agile Rails Development and still...it just won''t work! I put 2 different passwords in the form and it doesn''t trigger an error,