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Hi, Anyone know how to run rspec on 1.2.3? It fails out of the box.... I newly downloaded rspec, rspec_on_rails and ran the command ruby script/generate rspec ==>>> Does this script work right? from the instructions http://rspec.info/documentation/rails/install.html I then created the directories in spec: controllers, fixtures, helpers, models, views I then created the

Hi, I have a AR model that I want to limit changes to be only via instance methods that I''ve added. How do I prevent my other sw from setting the instance''s attributes? I know about #attr_protected and #attr_readonly. But the first leaves the individual setters as they were and the second stops all changes. I want something like "attr_private" Thoughts? Thanks,

Hi, I newly downloaded rspec, rspec_on_rails and ran the command ruby script/generate rspec from the instructions http://rspec.info/documentation/rails/install.html I then created the directories in spec: controllers, fixtures, helpers, models, views I then created the file spec/models/user_spec.rb as a spec for my model User. (Is the convention to name the model''s spec

Hi, I''ve read the rails book and wiki entries such as http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseJoinsWithFindAll As far as I can tell, the recommended way to display the author''s name for a db of posts / authors is to use :include and then use post.author.full_name to see the full_name column. But: a) all columns of author are pulled down b) Not clear to me how

Hi, My app uses attachment_fu and I''d like to pre-load some data via a rake task. Thus: [code]desc "Upload template files" task :upload_files_test => :environment do |t| conf = Conference.find(1) [{:f => ''styles.css'', :type_code => ''css'', :content_type => ''text/css''}].each do |i| file =

Hi, I want to access a view helper from a controller. (Of course, you all want to know why??? -- See below.) To be specific, I want to access methods such as ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper -- form_tag and text_field_tag from either a controller or from a new class (in models? or lib?). If I create the new class then that class''s methods need to also be able to access the