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If I understand things correctly, by default, Rails expects both the ActiveRecord class name and the model name (i.e., the name of the file that contains the definition of the ActiveRecord class) to be the singluar of the table name. How can I override this default behavior with respect to the model name? That is, I would like to have the file name of the file that contains the definition of the

One more question: Is there some way to set the human_name of a column? e.g.: human_name for column address1 shouldn''t be Address1 but "Address, line 1". If not, should I make a hash with my custom names? Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yannick Majoros http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros Informaticien UCL/INMA-MEMA

Hi, Ruby-GetText-Package-1.3.0 is now available. Now ActiveRecord::Column.human_name values translate automaticaly. Changes for RoR --------------- * Improve Local::Object * POSIX, C convert to "en". * Enhance supports of Ruby on Rails. * ActionMailer localization support. * Use GetText function(_() N_() etc) in template. * ISO-2022-JP charset is used when language

Hi: Is there a good way to override the mappings between class variables and database column type as determined by activerecord ? I have a column in the database table (postgres) that is declared as numeric(1000,0) which is an exact precision type. However, activerecord maps the correspoding class variable to type float which will not work for me. I''d like to map it to ruby type Bignum

In Chapter 5 of his book, Flexible Rails, Peter Armstrong''s leads his readers through an exercise to override the behavior of to_xml() in ActiveRecord objects so that :dasherize would be false by default. I found his solution inelegant. I came up with a more elegant one, and it seems to work. All I did was add the following to the very end of myapp/config/ environment.rb: class

Short story: I need to use a different style of inputs to enter datetimes. What I want is to be able to implement these while still retaining the niceties of the built-in input helpers, like ActiveRecord error handling and automatic reconstitution of a single Date object from multiple form elements. What''s the best way to go about this? Long story: My form has one standard month

Anybody know how I can override delete/destroy in objects that have has_and_belongs_to_many behavior specified? I''m having issues overriding delete for an ActiveRecord object that contains a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship. Delete and destroy are properly overridden for objects that do not have has_and_belongs_to_many relationships specified, but as soon as I add any the overridden

"Service and class definitions are scoped just as variable assignments are." But what about types? Here''s an example: class solserver inherits server { remotefile { "/etc/shadow": mode => 400, group => staff, source => "solall/etc/shadow.server" } Is it possible to just override the "/etc/shadow" definition for

I''m having a huge memory leak problem with a rails application I''m developing! I first noticed that when running under webrick (via script/server) there was a fast memory leak.. several users using the app for a few hours would use 2 gig of memory!!! I searched the archives and found that some users found that it could be avoided by saying --daemon when launching webrick..

Maybe it works, maybe it doesn''t, but I sure as hell can''t make it work. I get stuck with "Could not find object(s)" whatever I do This is my module init.pp class ztest::setup { notice "MAIN SETUP CLASS" file { directfile: path => "/etc/directfile", owner => root, group => root, mode => 0644, content

I have a user model subclassed into Employees and Managers using STI. I am using FileColumn to manage images, in this case logos. If an Employee doesn''t have a logo of its own, I want my app to use the Manager''s logo in views. I did the following in models/users.rb: ------- class User < ActiveRecord::Base file_column :logo end class Employee < User belongs_to

I have a database column storing a duration value as a number of seconds, but I''d like users to be able to see it and edit it as a time value. I am trying to override the default accessor/mutator for the attribute and do the conversions there, using something that looks like: def duration Time.at(self[:duration].to_i).getutc end def duration=(value) self[:duration] = value.to_i

Hello, i use a file type to manage sysctl.conf. For some work i override this file by doign File[''/etc/sysctl.conf''] and i have an exec refresh only to run sysctl -p so it reread the sysctl.conf file if changed. My issue is that at each run i got, i start in state when i see the overriden one on the server: 1st run, i have the basic sysctl.conf not the ovveriden one

After messing around with PHP for over a year, I took one look at Ruby on Rails and fell in love. But it''s one of those confused "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" type things... I''ve written a method which does find_by_sql to pick a random row from a database. When I call that method I get an "undefined method ''text'' for ..."

Hello everybody, By default doing like this: person = Person.new person.name = "John" person.save! Will cause a new row to be inserted into database. But I don''t want it to be saved into DB, instead when "save!" method is called I want to connect to a particular URL and post data to it. For instance: POST http://my.app/people/create "name" =>

(This message was originally written on StackOverflow -- the formatting is much prettier there -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283046/problem-with-setter-override-on-activerecord) This is not exactly a question, it''s rather a report on how I solved an issue with write_attribute when the attribute is an object, on Rails'' Active Record. I hope this can be useful to others

I have two tables CREATE TABLE continents ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; CREATE TABLE countries ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(255) NOT NULL, continent_id int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; I generate scaffolds for country and for

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

I have a model where I need to calculate one of the fields when I create a new instance. It seems to me that I should do this in the model code and that I should override the new and/or create methods. Is this the right approach and, if so, how can I execute the existing method but add on my calculation? I want something like: def create -Do the original create first- field =

I''m trying to create a folder right after a user registers, so I override the create action on the registration controller (devise) but I don''t know how to access the newly created user in order to create the folder with it''s name to upload files later. So far I''ve got this: class RegistrationsController < Devise::RegistrationsController def new