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Good morning rspec people! Still rspec nuby: I must do something wrong obviously. How can I spec about redirect_to at ApplicationController describe ApplicationController do it "method login_required should redirect to home path without login" do pending "I tried to use controller.login_required.should be_redirected and got NoMethodError with nil object

I want to read through all the child records for a given parent. What would be the correct way to do this? Advise would be most welcome. Regards, Paul

Hi all, Quick question - I have a project with a public front end, and an administrative back end. No need for them to be together. Would there be any speed gains on the hosting/serving side of things to keep them as separate projects? Thanks in advance! Cameron -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a table with (among others) :prefix and :lastname In my view in a collection_select I want to see "prefix lastname". I have ab-so-lu-te-ly no idea how to do this. Can anybody show me? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two tables that have a HABTM relationship: Teacher has_and_belongs_to_many Groups, and Group has_and_belongs_to_many Teachers. This is what I want: select a Teacher, and then drag Groups from one box to another to assign them to the teacher. Or, select a group, and drag and drop Teachers to assign them to groups. All using AJAX, (off course). Only problem is, I don''t know

Hello all, I am new to dovecot and have had a good experience so far. I'm using fetchmail - exim - dovecot - my email clients (mac os mail and thunderbird so far). I'm also using Ubuntu Server i.e. debian. I didn't like the inflexibility of mbox so I did a tweak to exim to deliver mail to a Maildir folder in my home directory on the server. I restarted Dovecot and it found it!

I have multiple drag and drop lists. If you sort within one list, you can pass the list back to the server using: <%= sortable_element ''task-list'' << person.id.to_s , :url => { :action => "noop", :id => @user }, ... %> Which causes this to be included in the javascript: onUpdate:function(){new

How do I best migrate the data? For small databases I can text-edit the dump file from MySQL. The postgresql compatibility switch doesn''t help on mysqldump. Any ideas. Can MySQL export CSV that postgresql can import ? W Fred -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi! Can anybody link to some ror based project what is using rspec, so nuby as me can learn from it. So it should have updated and practising advanced rspec. After reading last threat about "testing behaviour or testing code?", I just realised that I would definitely learn something from app like that. Some casual googling didn''t help me this time. Thanks! Priit at

i''ve seen both of these syntaxes before and have also used both in my own models: class Foo def get_bar @bar end end and class Foo def get_bar self.bar end end seemingly with no difference... i''m a nuby though so could anyone enlighten me to the differences if there are any? thanks, jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

OK, I am a Rails nuby, so please keep that in mind. I want to have a form on a page where users can enter in their email address in one field, a message in a text area field, and when they click "submit" the message should be sent to a static email address, say me@mysite.com. I have read the "HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer", but I am not sure this is exactly what I need.

Hi I am pretty sure that this is a common nuby problem but I cannot figure it out i try to run scfaoldong and get a error "Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model" I have mysql set up and created the tables etc. Derek -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is a bit of a nuby question methinks but i''ve had a play/search around and it''s just bugging me now :0) Say I have a conditional statement, testing a variable against a number of values. The first way i did this is like so: if myvar != "" and myvar != 0 and myvar != nil # .. code end This seems a bit messy - is there neater way of doing this? I thought of:

Hi! I know you must be answering a lot of basic questions, sorry about that :-) However I have not get it, how do you keep mocks updated without pain? I reached to the point where mocking things for view. I spec model-controller-view using "correct doc" way mocking-stubbing (plus I should run integration test to be sure that everything really works together). Now, when I want to

OK, I''m diving into new things - a .net programmer and windows user trying to develop in Rails on my Mac. Initial setup was easy, and I had things working and was thrilled with myself. Then I shut down. Next time I booted up, mysql was acting all kinds of funny. I finally got that working again (I *think* it mostly had to do with me not having the right path, I unfortunately

total rails nuby here. I have a table "thumbnails", hence the model Thumbnail. I''m extending the Thumbnail class with a few constants needed for thumbnail cropping: class Thumbnail < ActiveRecord::Base SOURCE_FILE_PATH = "path/to/source" TARGET_FILE_PATH = "path/to/target" TARGET_WIDTH = 100 TARGET_HEIGHT = 100 end Now, in my controller

Hi everyone, I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the list. Here''s my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem: Ruby version 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0) RubyGems version 0.8.11 Rails version 1.1.2 Active Record version 1.14.2 Action Pack version 1.12.1 Action Web Service version 1.1.2 Action Mailer version 1.2.1 Active Support version 1.3.1 I did

(Nuby to Ruby and Rails...) I''ve implemented security using the login generator in a simple app so that I have a user table, a roles table, and a join between them (roles_users). All works as expected. I now need to check if a user has a specific role, but my approach is off somehow. Here''s what I''ve tried thusfar: user_roles = @session[:user].roles

Hello, I have a few models -- book, cd, dvd -- for which I''d like to have an abstract base superclass to hold some common stuff. That abstract class, I was thinking, would inherit from ActiveRecord. Didn''t work, though, and looking around, I found this: <http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoMakeAbstractModel>

Hello all. I''m working on a program that uses both ActiveRecord and PDF::Writer. The latter requires the Transaction::Simple module, and ActiveRecord contains a "built-in" copy of Transaction::Simple - but the namespaces appear to clash, if I''m understanding things correctly. (I''m a bit of a ruby nuby, so please excuse me if I''m misunderstanding this