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Hello, how can I check if a destroy was successful? Is the object only frozen if deleted or do I have to do an additional find to see if there is a record left? What happens if an after_destroy callback returns false? Is there always a rollback? Markus

Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers

Hello- I would like to know what the suggested practice is for having multiple submit buttons on a relatively complicated input page. Let''s use the example of a Contact. There is lots of info there, including name, address, phone number. There is also a list of "contact associations" which can be modified on the same page. Ideally, the user could have one

alright i am doing a simple self blog in ruby. Now iw ant to be able to determine which controller action i am in inside _form.rhtml. So if i am in new or the creation control than i want to insert the text box for topics else i want to display the topic base on id. (i could do those already, i just need help finding the right if statement.. something like (if currentpage ==

Hello, The problem I am having is I have a form where a user can edit their data that does not include their password. I have another form that I allow them to change their password. Both forms use the before_update method that hashes the password. There is no password in the first form. Am I making this too complicated? How do I call the hash_password for only the second form? Both forms use

I am trying to calculate the number of days between 2 dates using Time.now - object.date where object.date is a date pulled from a database. I want to display the age of the entry in the database in days. I keep getting an error about not being able to convert a date into a float. What am I doing wrong. If I use object.date - object.date it seems to work but the answer is useless (0). I

Howdy folks, As I was putting together a rough form for a rails app, I got to thinking how much smoother (in my siytuation) a little calendar widget would be than the default date picker selects. Does anyone know if such a thing exists ? I suspect it would have to be somewhat designed with rails in mind to populate the right kind of post params for convenient use at the controller end.

I''m trying desperately to get visuall effects callbacks working in rjs templates to no avail What I''m trying to do is fade an image, change the div with the image to a new image, and then fade the new image back in. How would I go about this in RJS Here''s a simple line from my rjs that I can''t get to work. It is not using callbacks so the

Hi there I''m trying to delete a set of active record objects based on certain conditions. I''d like to do something like the following: Context.delete_all("uri IN (?)", uris) But delete_all doesn''t allow multiple arguments. Since I don''t have the IDs for the objects I want to delete, I can''t use delete(id), and have resorted to this,

I''ve got a fairly basic problem here that I''m hoping there is an easy solution for. I have a chunk of html code that I want to truncate to a given length... say 20 characters or so. If I use the ''truncate'' helper function I end up with unbalanced tags. For example. <a href=www.someplace.com>A really long string of words</a> becomes <a

Hi all, I have a select helper form on a web page which contains a list of dates. When the user selects a date, one of the other forms on the page needs to be updated based on the newly selected date. Is there a way to catch this event in Rails? Are we talking Ajax here? Or is there a simpler way? Thanks, Dan

Hi, I''m using scriptaculous to provide an auto complete textbox - and it works perfectly - but I was wondering if there was anyway to let users navigate the choices using the keyboard i.e the curor keys as opposed to having to use the mouse? Apart from that it''s perfect! :) Cheers, Pete -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have 2 radio buttons like this: <%= radio_button ''group'', ''public'', true %> <%= radio_button ''group'', ''public'', false %> They hold the correct values when viewing the @group object. However, when updating, it does not appear that the params[:group][:public] value is being typecast correctly. As

RJS templates are nifty. They let you put all sorts of fun effects all over your bland html pages without too much work. The link_to_remote function also lets you run scripts before, during, and after an AJAX call is run by using callbacks. There does not seem to be an equivalent method for running an RJS template before or during an action. Rendering it at the end is no problem. One

Announcing RJSCallback 0.1 The RJS Callback plugin is being developed to provide Ruby On Rails with the ability to easily call RJS templates for the various callbacks associated with AJAX function calls (e.g., :before, :loading, :complete). Currently this plugin automatically detects, loads, and renders RJS templates with specific names and inserts them in the appropriate spot in

I have a nice hierarchical table structure like this: divisions has_many groups groups belongs_to division has_many subgroups subgroups belongs_to group has_many units units belongs_to subgroup I have a report which is based on units, but i want to be able to filter the units by which subgroup, or which group, or which division. I also want to sort them by division.name,then group.name,

Hi folks, I''m curious how a lookup with a large group of values would be handled in Rails. For example, I have a (contrived) AnimalType filtering a list of many Animals--more than can be presented comfortably in a dropdown box. Therefore I need to either redirect to another screen to select an animal (returning after the selection is made), or show a dialog--modal or otherwise--to

Hi, I have the following problem that I can''t seem to figure out. I want to able to fetch some text from my database record in my controller, and then add two links within the text and then send that back to the view to get rendered so that the two links appear as links and when clicked on, they''d basically call the corresponding action for the link. Would anybody know how to

Hi, I am using the autocomplete for text field with ''Scriptaculous'' and it works perfectly fine in "new" action. All the examples I see are only for the "new" action. But doesn''t default to the selected value/text in "edit/show" action? Is this possible or should I write custom code for "edit/show" action? Thanks, Hari --

Hi there, I''ve been trying to paginate over a list of members that all share a tag in common using the acts_as_taggable plugin. The regular way of paginating over a collection doesn''t seem to work with acts_as_taggable. Here''s what my method looks like that takes in a tag name, finds all the members that share the tag and then displays all the members. Nothing too fancy