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I beat my head against a wall for almost 2 hours with this issue. My first problem was easily solved. I wanted a class that could use ActiveRecord''s validation capabilities but without using a table behind it (I would be persisting setup information in the session, but the initial setup parameters come from a user input form) No problem...found this link which got me up and running

All - Trying not to fight rails on this, basically have a form and all the same as would be with an ActiveRecord model except that there is no table. I started out using this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315850/rails-model-without-database ...which is kind of a hack by inheriting ActiveRecord in to non-AR model but am running into some problems and just have the feeling that I am

...ew places where I''m having trouble understanding the expected workflow. I''m trying to work with migrations from the beginner; its a port of an existing application, but I''d like to let the db schema evolve as the application grows, so I''m starting from an empty (tableless) database. If I generate a migration, I can fill in the up/down methods and start creating a table; rake migrate ran fan. However when I then generate a model it seems to create another migration automatically that is named appropriately for the eariler self-created migration. This seemed odd, s...

Ive followed this example of how to validate a form with a tableless model: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/11/19/validate_your_forms_with_a_table_less_model Ive got this example working but when validation fails the failed boxes are not highlighted in red. At the moment i have a contact details form and want to validate the information entered by the u...

Hi I''ve set a tableless model for a contact form with this instruction: validates_format_of :captcha, :with => ActionController::SessionManagement::session[:captcha], :message => "Security code is wrong. Please enter it again" Unfortunately it raises an undefinie...

Trying to setup a tableless model, and serialize it to XML, but am getting: NameError: undefined local variable or method `attributes'' anyone know what I need to get the attributes method defined? thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"...

I have a problem with ruby on rails validation total_book_toy.rhtml ================ <%= text_field ''book1'', ''title1'' %> <%= text_field ''book2'', ''title2'' %> I want to validate these text_field so user can''t insert same title. However, I was stuck how to do it. Or maybe you have another way how to do it.

I''ve inherited an EAV database and there''s really no option to remodel it. Data is stored as key_name, key_value pairs Trying to return a meaningful, unified recordset is far too complex to be efficient. I''ve decided to make use of the MySQL GROUP_CONCAT, and CONCAT_WS functions to return a fast query result, with the consolidated fields as one string. The final data is