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In the Agile RoR book, page 219 (softcover version) they talk about the fact you can use the methods: find_by_ and find_all_by_ and fill in the last piece with a valid column name. So I have a database table called "parts" and the following columns: id partname partnumber vendor I do the following: (connection to DB already established) class Part < ActiveRecord::Base end

When I use find_by_name method I get LIMIT 1 result. > SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."age" = 25 LIMIT 1 But the "age" column is not unique in my table and its value may repeat. So I expect that an array of records where "age" is 25 will be returned. But AR limits the query by 1. How to avoid it? Or is it the default

I was hoping that AR''s find_by_* magic methods would help me retrieve multiple items somewhat like the following: names_to_find = [''Larry'', ''Moe'', ''Curly''] found_people = Person.find_by_name(names_to_find) Is there a way to accomplish this using find_by_* (or even find(:all) using some sort of conditions) or must I resort to SQL

In my app, a user logs in [via the login generator] and has access to details of his account, and transactions attached to his account. This is achieved in the standard rail manner by passing the account id or transaction id between the controller and the view. But what is to stop someone hacking the URL or view html to access another account id or transaction id ? eg /account/show/46 becomes

Hello there, I''m wondering how do they create functions on the fly? find_by_any_column_name ?? I want to do something similar with my models, but I don''t really know how to do it? user_current_nickname user_current_id user_current_role etc.? Regards, Jamal -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

Dear all, I have a doubt, How to fetch records from tables, which are not having ID field as its primary key. If possible, please tell me to way to extract data from those tables. -- with regds, Nahalingam N. Kanakavel. (http://www.nahalingam.bravehost.com/PlanetN/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello everyone, I have a rails app which uses email as login name. At some point, I have to search the user, in the User model by email. For some reason, the method User.find_by_email(email) returns nil, even though the user is in the database. The same applies for any find_by_* method that searches by any database column. I was able to find the user using the User.find Does anyone have an idea

Is find_all_by deprecated and/or find_first_by for 2.0.2? If not, what is actually deprecated? just find_all(..) and find_first()? Thanks for clearing this up. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi all, I am currently trying to get a bunch of links to to display all the related console records upon button click so e.g. If a user clicks on the Dreamcast link then I would like it to display all records that have Dreamcast stored as their console. I have the following example code in my index class: <%= link_to ''DREAMCAST'', games_path(:console =>

Hello all, I just ran into something that I think is a bug, and I would like to confirm with the core team whether this is expected/desired behavior or if this is a bug that I should file and develop failing tests for (I doubt I have the active record method_missing fu to actually patch it). Test Scenario: I would like to find or initialize a new user and base the find on the users email

i am writing a test program for ActiveRecord, and it reads a document which is like 6000 words long. And then i just tally up the words by recordWord = Word.find_by_s(word); if (recordWord.nil?) recordWord = Word.new recordWord.s = word end if recordWord.count.nil? recordWord.count = 1 else recordWord.count += 1 end recordWord.save and so this part loops for 6000 times... and it takes a few minutes to run at least...

We have a Page model which acts_as_paranoid. AAP modifies ActiveRecord finders to ignore any records marked as deleted unless the :with_deleted => true option is supplied. We have a UI element which allows users to toggle whether or not to display deleted Pages, their current setting being stored in a session variable, session[:show_deleted]. What we would like is to automagically have

Hi I am having issues with getting my pretty urls to work. routes.rb: map.connect '':user'' , :controller => ''front'' , :action => ''list'' , :filter => ''user'' front_controller.rb: def list @advert_pages, @adverts = paginate :adverts, :per_page => 10 @user =

Hello again, I guess this is more of a Ruby question, but here goes anyways... I want to intercept all calls to non existent class methods and then call an existing class method with the non existent name. In code... class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base def MyModel.method_missing(symbol, *args) MyModel.func(symbol.id2name) end def MyModel.func(func_called) puts "You

I would like to have a table with some constants to use them later on for a drop down menu. How can this be done? My table looks like Table with constants ------------------------ id | key | value | type ------------------------ 1 | M | Male | sex .... I know it can be done like this <% select ''object'', ''method'', Constants.find(:all, :select =>

I am doing a typical database list, but when I do <% for m in @private_messages %> (Line 28) It tells me that the method ''each'' is undefined. What''s wrong, I did not call the method each.... Here''s the error: Showing app/views/account/mail.rhtml where line #28 raised: undefined method `each? for #<PrivateMessage:0x408bb830> Extracted source

Hello everbody, doing a #find(:first,an_id) with Rails 1.1.0 I expected that find returns the record which id mathches the given parameter an_id or nil if it couldn''t be found. This behaviour is documented on api.rubyonrails.org. But the find returns the first available object and not nil if an_id is not in the db. Is the doc on rubyonrails.org out of sync? Greetings, -- Daniel

I have a Newbee question: i have three tables and want to connect them. so is it stupid to make a triple m:n (rails style xs_ys_zs) or do i have to make a new table (newtable) where i got multiple 1:n? the habtm (has and belongs to many) do only work proper to join two tables, or i am wrong? -jens -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to ''destroy'' a particular record of a table >From the controller side, i''ve found a list of possible records that i want deleted. ie. @chart = Chart.find(:all, :conditions => ["record_id = ?", param[''id''] ] ''id'' is passed into the controller and @chart is all the possible records that have

Hello. I have a UsersController and a Model called User with a "new" method, like this: class User < ActiveRecord::Base def test return 1 #I can do anything and return any data, the problem continues. end end The problem is that I cannot access my "test" function from the controller. It says that the method doesn''t exists. class