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I have three files organization.rb, company.rb, and department.rb. I want to ensure the department always has a company require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class OrganizationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :organizations def setup @smo = organizations(:smo) end def test_department_company_defaults_to_parent org = Department.new(:name =>

I''m trying to get one of those 2-column select lists (where there''s an "Add>>" and a "<<Remove" button between them) working for a Rails application. First of all, what the heck is this thing called? You''d list all of the available items in one select list, and the selected ones in the other. Items move from one list to the other, but

I have released a yhtml plugin, which is available at http://http://svn.visualjquery.com/admin_console/trunk/admin_console/vendor/plugins/yhtml You can also get my other plugins, specificlly: the pre-alpha administrative console (AJAX-based scaffolding engine), acts_as_automatic, which allows you to define associations in a single yaml file, and not need to define has_many, has_one,

Ok, Rails has been out for some time now. I''ve kept an eye on it pretty closely. I''ve heard Basecamp, Robot Coop, 43 Things, etc. are running on it. However, those have been the same apps people point to when the dreaded scalability question comes up. Are there any new web apps (large scale) in Rails or is it still the same old one? Something like on the scale of

Currently looking at adding spam protection and notice that both the Typo and Mephisto folks have recently added Akismet. Two questions: - does anyone have any commentary to share about the availability and responsiveness of the spam checking? - anyone have an firm reason to worry about the amount of personal data required by their APIs? In other words, citation of this data being misused?

Disclaimer: RoR newbie. Using the acts_as_taggable plugin. As an exercise I wanted to switch from the destructive TAG_WITH method to adding tags while preserving the existing ones. On the surface this seemed easy enough and eventually I got it working. However, the following method: def add_tags(list) Tag.transaction do Tag.parse(list).each do |name| if

Anyone have experience (or plugins) available for pulling web analytics into the rails environment? Our marketing folks want to combine the page view data together with our registration/activity info, not too different than advocated here: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/how-to-measure-the-success- of-your-web-app We''re using Apache 2/mongrel. Thanks.

Or better yet, a named route? Tried lots of searches and ugly hacks ... Thanks in advance.