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Hi all We all know the model-controller-paradigm: I have a model "News" which has a corresponding CRUD-controller "NewsController". But now I''m quite unsure about the following... Guess we have normal visitors that visit our site www.??.com/news and we have administrators that create and modify news items. The admin should see an "Edit" link and a "Destroy" link corresponding to every ne...

...attempts at writing functional tests for them fail. Trying to duplicate my normal controller tests I have: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''news_controller'' # Re-raise errors caught by the controller. class NewsController; def rescue_action(e) raise e end; end class NewsControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase def setup @controller = NewsController.new @request = ActionController::TestRequest.new @response = ActionController::TestResponse.new end # Replace this with your real tests. def...

I feel awful asking such a basic question, but here it goes.... I have a controller, "NewsController". The user enters and the "list" action is called and I populate an instance variable "@news" which contains all the elements I''d like to display using a form. The user then changes something and the "update" action is called. Is "@news"...

Using my application i can able to save a new record into my db but i cannot update a existing record into my db. using update query i can able to update my records. but using update_attributes it doesnot update my records. even i cant find any errors in logs or something. throughout my application i can able to save a new record but unable to update my existing records. actually i have changed

...ciated :user validates_length_of :title, :description, :minimum => 5, :allow_nil => false acts_as_commentable acts_as_taggable def self.find_recent News.find(:all, :order => ''created_at'', :limit => 10).reverse end end and a controller like this: class NewsController < ApplicationController def show begin @news = News.find(params[:id]) rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound flash[:notice] = "News item not found!" redirect_to :action => ''index'' and return else @comments = @news.comments...

Hi all Is there some sort of a built-in possiblity to disable the rendering of the layout using a GET parameter? Something like :url_for :controller => :news, :action => :show, :id => news_item, :layout => false This should construct something like that: /news/show/123&layout=false And automatically the layout wouldn''t be rendered. Is this already built-in, or

...ndex for the public and admin/news/index for the administrators. Everything set up fine with the generator and scaffold for adding news in the admin area. However now I can''t get the public area to show the list of news. Here is what I did: /app/controllers/news_controller.rb class NewsController < ApplicationController def Index @news = News.news_items end end /app/models/news.rb class News < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :date_added, :date_live, :news_date, :added_by, :headline, :summary, :article def self.news_items find( :all, :co...

...and I can''t got explanation why I have "execution expired" when I trying to test this web service: Pointed to: http://localhost:3000/news/list class NewsService < ActionWebService::Base web_service_api NewsApi def list [NewsTopic.new, NewsTopic.new] end end class NewsController < ApplicationController wsdl_service_name ''news'' web_service_dispatching_mode :delegated web_service :news, NewsService.new def list news = ActionWebService::Client::Soap.new( NewsApi, "http://localhost:3000/news/news") rsp = news.list r...

Sorry if this is a complete newbish question, but I''m trying to wrap my head around creating custom classes in my rails webapp. I''m normally a Java developer, but I figured I''d give RoR a try and see how I like it, and whether it would be useful for production use with a new client. Anyways, what are the best practices for custom classes? Where and/or how do I create