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I''m having a particularly difficult time undersanding one lesson from this book. This is in relation ot how one would grab "search" parameters from web forms to search for records in the database. I understand the :conditions part of find() but am confused on the code: 1- name = params[:name] pos = Order.find(:all, :conditions => ["name = ? and pay_type =

Hi all, I hope someone can help me with this. I''m trying to write a test to see if my versioning (acts_as_versioned) works. In order to do that, I have a class which inherits from ActiveRecord: class Order < ActiveRecord::Base However, when I try to update or to create a new order within the test, my changes do not affect the DB: o = Order.create(:name =>

I''ve got an integration test that''s failing but i can''t work out why: Here''s the action being tested - in case anyone recognises it, it''s based on the Depot app in Agile Web Dev with Rails. def checkout @in_checkout = true #don''t let user checkout with an empty cart if @cart.items.empty? redirect_to_index("Your cart is

Heya everyone! I am quite new to Rails and I am reading AWDwR. I am at Task E "Check Out!". I understand it quite well, but I have a problem with the last playground exercise: Add a Table which contains the payment types. All goes well, but I am not sure whether I should use has_many or has_one(as in the Playground wiki at http://wiki.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/PT-E-3). I use the

I have an e-commerce site and users check out with a form. The results of that form are sent to a "confirm your order" page via POST. I take great pains to NEVER store the full credit card number on my server--just the last 4 digits. I was very surprised to find that by default Rails will record POST requests with parameters in the production.log. And those parameters

In the book there is an example how to convert DB payment value to more readable from. PAYMENT_TYPES array is defined and then in your views you can use it as Order::PAYMENT_TYPES. The problem is: how should I convert DB values (for example with type char(1)) to full string representation. I know that I can add a Hash to a model: IM = {''S'' => ''Skype'',

Hi all. I keep having the following error when I invoke the rake db:migrate command for Rails 1.1 (Ruby 1.8.2 -- Windows 2000) ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:migrate == Realtorex: migrating ======================================================= -- create() rake aborted! undefined method `create'' for

I have my customer object with title attribute : @customer.title Where title is "Mr","Mrs", etc.... In edit/create from i have: @titles=["Mr","Mrs","Miss"] how do i create a selection box that sets itself to the value of @customer.title?? This doesn''t work: <%=collection_select(:customer, :title, @titles)%> Any help would be

Hi all, I''m confused about how migrations work. I''ve been using them for a couple of weeks but haven''t had any serious rollback issues yet. Just now I added a field to a table with a migration and ran "rake migrate", which added the field as expected. This was in the file db/migrate/007_mymigration.rb, making it version 7. Later I changed my mind and