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value_to_boolean(value), does not always return a boolean value, only when true. 150: def value_to_boolean(value) 151: if value.is_a?(String) && value.blank? 152: nil 153: else 154: TRUE_VALUES.include?(value) 155: end 156: end If value is contained in TRUE_VALUES then it returns true(TrueClass). But if value is

Hi, is there a ruby / rails builtin function that converts - 0 / 1 - "0" / "1" - "yes" / "no" - "true" / "false" to a boolean? cheers peter

I''m studying the Agile Development with Rails book. In the chapter that first sets up the depot application (page 68), there is this bit of code from a view: <% for product in @products %> <tr> <% for column in Product.content_columns %> <td><%=h product.send(column.name) %></td> <% end %> etc... I am trying to absorb both Ruby and

Hello! I''ve modified ActiveRecord a bit to support enum columns. This is tested only with MySQL, and maybe needs some changes for other adapters (if they use another syntax or quoting style). I believe this patch should be tested well, so I haven''t (yet) tried to post it to the official Trac. It is also not solid-as-a-rock when it comes to quoting ENUM values. After

I have concluded that it is impossible to get this background process stable. I am out of ideas and could really use some help. Here is what I have: 50 workers, just running an infinite loop that constantly calls save! on a model. Keep in mind this is just for testing purposes. I catch all exceptions and put them in the log. I am tried setting allow_concurrency to true and false. Neither

Hi, I would like to test a sorting method that is in the user model, it''s a class method called search. What I would like to do is create 2 users and load the test database with just those 2 users, so that I can call User.search("john") and it would return those two users. Not sure how to clear the test database and populate it just with these 2 users for that specific

I am trying to take the input from a field in wich the user enters a date, and formatting it to my time format if params[:gotcha] != '''' gotc = params[:date].to_a gotc.strftime("%m/%d/%y") end Yet I get this error: NoMethodError in AddController#add undefined method `strftime? for ["00000"] What''s wrong. I''m positive this method is

I want to create a random string of length n that is made up of characters and integers. Is there a function in rails or ruby that allows me to do this? Thank you my friend :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net

Dear Gurus on Rails! How do I change the behaviour of one method in ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements ? Full story: I''d like to mangle ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements so when it creates a new sql table, it also (optionally) creates my created_at, deleted, key_id, session_id etc columns that I use on basically all tables. It would not be DRY to repeat

Hi, I''ve been trying to get JRuby 1.5.3 with Rails 3 to run on the Tomcat6 server with little success. Has anyone been able to do this? If so, what issues did you have to overcome to get this to work? Also, is this a combination that you would recommend for a production site, or is it all too new and untested? The latest issue I''m stuck on right now is with the mysql-connector-

Hi, I''ve just submitted a patch for ActiveRecord; http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10463 The patch includes new fixtures because I could not find a applicable combination among the existing fixtures. I hope that''s okee. Please +1 or comment it. Thanks, Remco --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Hi, I often find myself using bits of code like this inside ActiveRecord, perhaps it''s useful for others, or others can improve on it: ########### # fix user input before validating it before_validation :sanitize_input # santize input before actual validation is called # this uses the little methods defined below def sanitize_input trim %w(adres postcode woonplaats email naam

I have some code that calls a partial to display one or more blocks within a div tag. I want to have a close button (or cancel link) that will fade that block but leave the others. Here is the code: LINK: <%= link_to_remote "Add Miscellaneous Link", :url => { :action => :add_iyc_link } %> add_iyc_link.rjs: page.insert_html :bottom, ''links'', :partial

Hi, While I was hacking ovirt-server, I have found that it's currently restricted to Postgres DB. Even if I like postgres for serious work on a server, I really prefer to hack/dev locally on a Sqlite or MySQL DB. I have googled on rails in order to find a good answer for the "foreign key problem" which forces OVirt to stay on pg. I have found a plugin on this particular

I''m having a strange thing when using the Enumerable extensions for Rails: Have a look at the following code: class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :invoice_lines def total invoice_lines.sum(&:total) end end class InvoiceLine < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :invoice def total amount * price end end Now, when calling invoice.total, I get wrong

Dears, Remembering last value in a select box don''t work for me as : Controller : @years=(1970..2005).to_a Form: <%= select_tag "year", options_for_select( (2001..2005).to_a, @params[:year] ) %> I had to write <%= select_tag "year", options_for_select( (2001..2005).to_a, @params[:year].to_i ) %> for it works. Not important, but I''m

Hi there, Is there a neat and easy way to implement pagination with letters rather than numbers eg : A B C D ... Z Rob

Why the string interpolation is not working inside the Nokogiri method `#search` ? require ''nokogiri'' doc = Nokogiri::HTML::Document.parse <<-eotl <div> <p>foo</p> <p>foo</p> <p>bar</p> </div> eotl doc.class # => Nokogiri::HTML::Document class Person attr_accessor :name end ram = Person.new

I''m trying to setup a fairly simple GUI with Ruby to perform some SQL queries. There are a few drop-down boxes where users can select different options and then one button that when clicked should get the text from each drop-down in order to perform the query. Once it gets the result it should display it to a text control. The problem is I am not sure how to actually reference each

I have two model classes: class Item < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :channel, :counter_cache => true validates_presence_of :channel end class Channel < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :items, :dependent => true end In the Channel controller I have variable channel.items, an Array of Items. I would like to use the Array find method. However, channel.items.find() is a Rails