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...tribute of the Advertisement model. I could check that the user has ticked the box in my controller but would like to bundle this up with the validation process. How to ensure that the checkbox is ticked before the ad object is saved as part of the model validation? Any clues appreciated Richard Sandilands

Hi there When running the initial ''rake remote:exec ACTION=setup_lighty'' command I get this error: ''No such file or directory - /tmp/501/nl.uu.phil.SSHAgent.socket'' Any clues would be appreciated. Richard Sandilands

Hi there Am hitting undefined method errors for ''assert_difference'' in my unit tests under Rails 1.1.4 What could I be missing? Richard Sandilands

...billing addresses in the scheme (schema?) of things? I have a copy of the ecommerce Rails pdf by Ben Curtis which is very helpful on other aspects of the various data relationships, but I''m hooked up on the relationship between addresses, orders and users. Any clues appreciated. Richard Sandilands

...on credit card processing in a Rails app through Australian gateways such as eway? I''m aware of Payment and ActiveMerchant, but neither support Australian gateways. It''s a little beyond me right now to hack these to work with eway. Any clues would be appreciated here. Richard Sandilands

Hi there I''ve got a user model and an address model; a user has_many addresses. A user object can be created via an html form which also allows for an initial address to be created. I''ve got a controller method working to save both objects via the form, but I suspect I can achieve this in a more rails-esque manner. Here is my controller method: def signup @user =

Hi there I have a Value class in my Rails app; however ''values'' is a reserved word in MySQL so in my value.rb file, I''ve declared set_table_name as ''vals''. However, in setting up my specs for this model, I''m hitting errors that seem to be resulting from rspec not seeing the set_table_name declaration in my model file. For instance,

Is there anyone who has (successfully) implemented a method of on-access virusscanning of files on a samba share? For Linux, I only know of Sophos and McAfee virusscanners but neither of them can scan files as they are written or read. Is there possibly a hook of some sort in samba for this? Michel. -- Michel van der Laan - michel@nijenrode.nl http://www.nijenrode.nl/~michel

...using the paginate helper. After reading the Rails docs, I''m still struggling to work out how, in my ''list'' view, to paginate these records. I guess there''s some stuff in the wiki on pagination, but it''s down at present. Any clues appreciated. Richard Sandilands

...y the first 60 characters of the remember_token string in the database, whereas the string in the db is 75 characters long. I can see in my dev log that login_from_cookie is trying to find the user but using a truncated string to do so. Any clues how to rememdy this would be appreciated. Richard Sandilands

Hi there I have a form that saves a user and an address, which are seperate objects. A user has_many addresses. How to display error messages for the adddress object which gets saved via the same html form? I''m getting all my validation errors for the user object, but no detailed messages for the address object despite putting error_messages_for :address in my view.

Hi there I have an online survey app built in Rails. I''ve just encountered an odd error where only one user is hitting application errors. All other users are fine. >From the log, it seems that no form params are being sent back from a form, which is comprised of radio buttons. None of the params from the radio buttons are getting back to the controller. But the controller name and

I have a User model and an Address model. A user has_many addresses, and an address belongs_to a user. An address object for a user could be a billing, shipping or marketing address. The way I''m tracking this is via the user attributes: billing_adress_id, marketing_address_id and shipping_address_id in the user table, which holds the relevant address id. But in my form that allows a

Hi there I have a helper method in my Rails app that uses Minimagick as a plugin. All is fine except for the write step where I attempt to write the resized file to another directory. I get the error: "undefined method `to_str'' for #<Array:0x25221e8>" Here''s my resizing method: def display_thumb(product_id) # glob through images/books/thumbs dir to find

Hi there I''m having difficulty succesfully updating attributes via a post request in a functional test. Here''s some pastes: ###################################### # account_controller.rb def edit_details @user = User.find(self.current_user.id) return unless request.post? if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) flash[:notice_good] = ''Your account details

Hi there I''m trying to "require ''xmlsimple''" in some code that lives in vendor/ I''ve installed the xml-simple gem, and can confirm this at the command line with ''gem list --local'' which shows I have v.1.0.8 of the gem. However, when I start up lighttpd I get this: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in

All of a sudden I''m getting the following error when running any rake tasks: "RubyGem version error: activesupport(1.3.1.4342 not = 1.3.1)" It started happening after doing an update of my gems and installing the Capistrano gem. Any clues? I''ve googled around with no success. Richard S

Hi there I''m playing with the ez_where plugin but am having trouble formulating a query. Let''s say that if my params[:search_terms] come back as "Ruby Rails", then I want to search for all books that have Ruby and/or Rails in the title. So how best to set up my ez_where conditions so that book.title is LIKE %Ruby% and also LIKE %Rails% ? Any clues appreciated.

Hi there I have an habtm association between 2 Models. I regularly have to truncate the table on one side of the relationship and repopulate the table with a fresh csv file. I notice that f I do Model.delete_all, none of the records in my habtm join table get deleted, whereas if I use destroy_all they do. However, the overhead of using destroy_all is too great. For the amount of records I have