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Hello All, Any one using acts_as_enumerated? I need help using (I like that it caches values in memory) I am working on a dating website and there are lots of options I want to store as enumerated like Status; divorce, single, Sex: male, female Eye color; blue, brown, green.... and lots more.... But I do not wanna keep them in seperate...

hello I want to do like the below code name=[''net'',''gross'',''amount''] avail= Avail.find(1) return avail.name[0] but it gets error I want to give " avail.name[0] " like this, rather than avail.net directly, can u guys plz help me, how to do this plz explain with code advance thx have a pleasant day narayana --

...specify that certain tables not be cleared on each example. I''ve inherited a project where a good amount of enumerated data is stored in the database (US States, statuses, about 15-20 tables worth. Over all, it''s a reasonable decision that leads to solid production code (acts_as_enumerated is good). This data is read-only and relatively static; any changes to these tables are done via migrations. The problem comes when I''m writing my tests. Obviously all these tables get wiped with each example. Yes, I could specify these as fixtures, but I really don''t want...

Hi all - I''d like to implement a lookup table in my app that contains some reference data, just some status codes and their descriptions. What''s the most appropriate approach according to the "rails way" of doing things? Would I just implement a has_many relationship? Let''s say these are Order status codes, would the StatusCode have many Orders? This

in my controller @cursos = Curso.find_all in my view i''m trying to do a select_tag with the results @cursos, using a helper select_tag "name" options_for_select(@cursos) --------> not works select_tag "name" @cursos --------> not works how to do it, using the helper? tks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to write a plugin, ''acts_as_commentable'', for my models - Image, Book, Music and so on, I do not want to use polymorphic association, so very model should have its own comment class. Here is my code acts_as_commentable.rb module Commentable def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end module ClassMethods def

This is more of a design issue I''m wrestling with, and was wondering what other people are doing. I have a products table with status values of In Stock, Out of Stork or Discontinued. This is unlikely to change any time soon. Approach A, is to have thses actual values in the status column, at least the meaning is very apparent, yet querying for products with a specific status could

Hi, I am a little bit new to ruby. I have a requirement that I need to get the data from the database. I need to do this many times in the whole application. But, I am looking for a way with which I can get the data from the database table only once and store it in some variable, and I can use it anywhere I want.(I am trying not to use the global variable for this purpose). Is there a way

Hi all! I have ''send_status'' table which looks something like these: id code title 1 sent Sent 2 error Sending error 3 success Success Next I would like to associate some processed records with their ''send_status''. Is it better to use: 1) record.status_id = SendStatus.find(:one, :condition => "code=''sent''").id to