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I''m trying to learn rails as I go along, and having a bit of trouble. There is an undefined method cropping that I don''t know why rails thinks should be there. Firstly, I''m using rails 3, ruby 1.9.2 I have a controller with an index action This part works fine, but i am trying to add a comment form to the page that is rendered by that index action. Supposing my

Need some advice. I''ve got two modules: artists and paintings. In my home page, I''ve got a 2nd page that says "Browse paintings", which displays ALL paintings of ALL artists. This is being rendered by paintings#index. In another page, I should show all paintings of a specific artist ONLY. Meaning, paintings from ONE artist. I cant use paintings#index for this anymore

Hi list, how are ya? So, my current project is just begging for the ability to have parameterized associations in my ActiveRecord classes. Basically I need something that is a cross between named scopes and standard associations (has_many specifically). I''m wondering if such a thing exists or, if not, if anyone else has an elegant, equivalent solution? Example: class Sprocket <

Hey guys, I''m trying to merge a hash with another using the .merge! function. class User < ActiveRecord::Base serialize :preferences end This is what I end up with in the console: >> u = User.find(1) >> u.preferences.merge!{:test => 1} SyntaxError: compile error (irb):32: syntax error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting ''}'' u.preferences.merge!{:test

I have a dataset, which contains a day column that I would like to retrieve results on. Is there any reason why daily_stats.where(''day = Date(?)'', dte).first returns and empty set, daily_stats.find(:first, :conditions => [''date(day) = ?'', dte]) returns the correct data and daily_stats.where({:created_at => (date.midnight - 1.day)..date.midnight}).first

Artist.first.medias returns all medias. Media is an STI. Media can be video or painting. How do I return all paintings of an artist? Only paintings, not videos? In my Artist model, I tried putting: has_many :paintings, :through => :medias In console, I do: Artist.first.paintings.all And I get: ActiveRecord::HasManyThroughSourceAssociationNotFoundError: Could not find the source

...orenzi, Washington Bureau for ISP Advocacy Cory Doctorow, Author, journalist, Fulbright Chair, EFF Fellow Marshall Eubanks, CEO, AmericaFree.tv Harold Feld, Senior Vice President, Media Access Project Miles R. Fidelman, President, The Center for Civic Networking Richard Forno (bio: http://www.infowarrior.org/rick.html) Laura N. Gasaway, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University Shubha Ghosh, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University Fred R...