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I''d like to always add a condition to any version of "find" (e.g. Thing.find(), Thing.find_by_name(), Thing.find_by_whatever) so that in addition to whatever conditions are set, an additional condition is set :conditions=>"user_id=#{current_user.id}" I''d like to make sure that a user only sees/edits/creates entries in the database that have the user_id field set to their id. I could wrap all of my...

I am using Rails 3 and Acts as taggable on in my application. I am fetching the articles associated with the tag by Article.tagged_with("tagname") and Blog.tagged_with("tagname") Now i would like to collect all the users from the above i.e.., people who are all posted articles and blogs with this tag Please suggest me.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You

I have a working Rails app with several related tables, but can''t find an answer to this question in the Dave Thomas Rails book. Imagine for example: table departments with columns: id, department_name table employees with columns: id, department_id, employee_name and of course the employees table has a constraint foreign key (department_id) references departments(id) So this is

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

Heya, I''m using globalize2 and have following problem with my fixtures: categories.yml: one: parent_id: two color: #ff00aa two: color: #00ff11 three: parent_id: two color: #ab00ab category_translations.yml one-en: id: one locale: en name: Cars one-es: id: one locale: es name: Coches two-en: id: two locale: en name: Start two-es: id: two locale: es

Sorry, but this is really NOT as easy as the tutorials/books make out. I''m really struggling at the first hurdle here. And while I''m not a programmer by design I do know my way around most stuff. And if I can''t get this to work I suspect more people will have the same issues. There seems to be too many variables to address. I have winXP, I have ruby and rails all