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I have a single table that two people enter data into. Person A creates the record and I need to specify certain required fields in his form. Person B has a separate form and she fills in additional fields and I need to specify that some of these are required. Since the data is all in one table and since the validations are in the model, won''t Rails complain when person A tries to

I have a table of employees with the fields "last_name" and "first_name". I would like to populate a collection select so that what the user sees in the drop-down is "Last Name, First Name". So far, the only way I have figured out to do this is by using "find_by_sql" in my model, like so: @employees.find_by_sql("SELECT id, concat(last_name,

I have: <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''1'' %> <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''2'' %> <%= radio_button ''foo'', ''bar_id'', ''3'' %> I would like to have option #3 be selected if foo.bar_id is nil. Is there a way to do

I''m terribly new to Rails, so bear with me. I have an application I am working on which deals with projects and subcontractors. There can be several subs on each project and each sub can work on several projects. I have my join table set up and has_and_belongs_to_many in both models. If I manually put data in the join table, this works in my show view: <% for subcontractor in