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Hi, I have a scenario where a doctor can have one or more specialties. For each doctor, one and only one of her specialties can be designated as primary. So I have tables called doctors, specialties, and doctors_specialties, the last of which has a boolean is_primary column. The doctor model class specifies that: has_and_belongs_to_many :specialties I want to enforce, at the lowest possible

I have a rails app that is accessed through Apache 2 (just using cgi now; will add fastcgi later when everything is working). The app works fine with some os/browser combos at my work site: windows/IE Mac/safari Mac/firefox Linux/firefox But it fails on windows/firefox and my colleague''s (at a different site) mac/safari (we are running the same os version and version of safari) The

...> It still shows 1. This is using Ruby 1.8.2 and locomotive on Mac Os X 10.4.4 with PostgreSQL 7.4. I hesitate to post more details of the tables or the has_many relationship because it is proprietary stuff, but if anyone wants to email me off-list I can provide more info. Thanks Dan dan at dandante dot calm without the l -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am working with a legacy database that does not always follow the conventions for table names, primary key and foreign key column names, and join table names. This is no problem in my application code because Rails allows me to override the defaults. However it is making unit testing next to impossible because fixtures will still try and insert data into the wrong tables. Changing the

Hi, I''m new to ruby and rails. I just created a simple update page and the update works fine if all form fields are filled in. However there is one field that should never be allowed to be blank. So I put this in my model: class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :dr_title validates_length_of :dr_title, :minimum => 1 So, when I submit the form with a blank

By default, Rails logs all parameters passed to a controller method. As far as I can tell, this happens in both development and production modes. I have a form that collects some sensitive data. I don''t want that data sent to the log, at least not in production mode. Of course, I''d still like to log everything else. Is there a way to accomplish this? -- Posted via

According to the Rails book, the session object has an attribute called :session_expires, but they don''t encourage its use. Currently I handle session expiry by using a cron job to delete session files that have not been modified in the last X minutes (it is a design/security requirement for this project that sessions expire after a finite period of inactivity). However, this is a

I have some code that generates the following log entries (annotated with #). The code takes place inside a transaction. A record is inserted. Then I get the of the newly inserted record, then I explicitly select that record (this is just to illustrate the problem). Then another insert is attempted and fails because of a constraint that requires one of the values entered to be an existing

Hi, I have forms that are used to update rows in a table. There are some columns that allow nulls in the table. Say that column X is allowed to be null. The text box for column X shows up with nothing in it because it is null. When I hit submit on the update page, the value of that column is changed from null to blank (the empty string, or ''''). This might sound trivial, but

I am working on a rails app to serve as the admin app for an existing java webapp. For this reason, I am constrained by the current database structure, which does not by any means conform to the ideal rails defaults. Anyway, I have the following models: class Provider... belongs_to: login class Login... has_and_belongs_to_many :demographics class Demograpics... ... Everyone has a

Briefly, I want to create an :insert_sql attribute for a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship, and then add items to that relationship using push_with_attributes. Is that possible? Less briefly: I have a legacy postgresql database where one of the join tables has an ID column, so I had to set up the association with a custom :finder_sql attribute, as follows: class Topic <

I''m trying to set up a search field with autocomplete. I have verified that the server is called when I type a letter in the box, and that the handler creates the correct instance variable. However, I never see the partial that is supposed to be rendered. Here are the relevant files. I included their paths/names in case I am missing some nuance of the naming conventions.

I am running WEBrick in daemon mode (with the -d option). Where is the server output that would ordinarily be on my console if I ran without the -d option? APP_ROOT/log/server.log is empty and not being appended to, though it is owned by the same user WEBrick is running as and has write permissions. The only files in APP_ROOT/log are: development.log production.log server.log test.log Where

I''m working with a legacy postgresql database where the names of tables, columns, etc., do not usually follow Rails conventions. I''ve been able to work around it for the most part, but I ran into this: I have the following test: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class SponsorTest < Test::Unit::TestCase self.use_transactional_fixtures =

I have this code in a view: <% for topic in @topics %> <%= topic.id %> <%= topic.dr_title %><br/> <ul> <% for doc in topic.child_documents %> <%= doc.dr_title %><br/> <% doc = nil %> <% end %> </ul> <% end %> Though the topic titles and IDs display correctly,

I have a functional test class that uses the "topics" fixture. I verified that the fixture is loaded into the database by doing this: assert_equal 2, Topic.find_all.size So I should have an instance variable called @topics and instance variables for each of the rows in the fixture, in this case, @first and @another. But all those variables are nil inside my test method. Is that

Hi, I upgraded to Ruby 1.8.4 and whatever the latest Rails is as of March 29 2006. I am using PostgreSQL 7.4. With the earlier version of rails, I had insert queries that looked like this: Topic Create (0.001189) INSERT INTO topics ("inlibrary", "irx_display_title", "irx_title", "title", "creation_stamp", "last_update_stamp",