similar to: Recognizing routes?

Can I set an application wide instance variable that is available for all actions...and their views? eg. class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base @current_user = User.find(session[:user_id]) end and everywhere I can call @current_user.id and I can get that object? Even down in the views? I could not get this to work... Thanks in advance, Jeff -------------- next part

I''m releasing a very small plugin that allows you to specify default values for fields in models. Ordinarily, you might do this in your schema, I guess, but then it''s awkward if you need that on a serialized field or need your default values calculated somehow. So you can do something like this: (repeated from an earlier post and the README) class Mixture <

I am trying to use routes with default params to have routes ''/mycompany/departments'' and ''/companies/1/departments'' mean the same thing (both restful routes). When I set up the files as below, I get an error of ''Couldn''t find Company without an ID'' and my log file shows the following .. Processing DepartmentsController#index (for

Hello! I''m releasing an extraction from an application I''m currently working on. It''s a small library for dealing with points and polygons, called Polygons. It really just implements some textbook algorithms w/ Prototype-style JavaScript classes. Check it out here: http://polygons.mdaines.com/ The demo on that page (Firefox/Safari only right now) uses the

This might be more a question for the guys in the "Ruby on Rails: Core" group, but I''ll try it out here first... So, while writing a gem (engine) for rails, I found that I needed to have my app (in a pre-filter) directly query the router. In the "old" days, this was done using ActionController::Routing::Routes.recognize_path(). My 2nd edition of "Agile Web

For a permissions system i''m writing i''m extending the standard link_to helpers to check if a user has a permission to perform that action before displaying a link to clean-up my code so i don''t have to put if checks all over them. I''m trying to use.. ActionController::Routing::Routes.recognize_path(url, :method => method) to get the action and controller

OK, I have a routing problem, that seems to be working in the console, and with rake routes but not in the app. I have people that have nested tasks, like so: ------------------------------- # routes.rb map.resources :people do |person| person.resources :phone_notes person.resources :documents person.resources :tasks, :member => {:complete => :put} end map.resources :tasks, :member

Sorry if this question isn''t really "Ruby on Rails: Core" material. I feel it is, at least kind-of (also, I first tried asking in "Ruby on Rails: Talk" to no avail.). So, while writing a gem (engine) for rails, I found that I needed to have my app (in a pre-filter) directly query the router. In the "old" days, this was done using

I love the routes feature for RoR...until now. I''m trying to write tests to make sure my urls are correctly mapping to the routes I expect them to map to. This is driving me nuts because I simply can''t get any of my tests to pass. I have thus concluded that routes must work differently than I thought. I will try to explain my understanding of how routes work. Via this

What would be the proper way to specify this route? ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.resource :recipes end Would the specification go into recipes_controller_spec? Also, what methods are available for testing RESTful routes (i.e. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)?

I came across this when switching from rails 1.2.6 to 2.0.2, there is a change in the way routes are generated between these to version due to the routing optimization in rails 2.0.2. In version 1.2.6 it was possible to overwrite the default_url_options method in ActionController::Base to define parameters attached to each generated url. Due to the routing optimization in rails 2.0.2 this is not

I''m getting a weird error in a call to assert_redirected_to in one of my functional tests. Here is the test: def test_signin admin = users(:adminuser) post :signin, {:login => admin.email, :realpass => @password} assert_redirected_to :action => ''list'' # failure happens on this line assert_equal admin.id, session[:user].id end The error

Here is what I''d like to be able to do: I want to be able administer routes using a rails application. So an interface would list routes and give users the ability to manage these on the fly: class RoutesController < ApplicationController # very simple example def add ... Routes.connect ''customurl'', :controller => "customcontroller",

Hi, I''m attempting to add a route via a plugin. I attempted to add the following to my init.rb: myroute = ActionController::Routing::Routes.connect "boo2", :controller=>''plugin'', :action=>''index'' puts "path=#{myroute.path}" myroute.options.keys.each do |k| puts "#{k}=#{myroute.options[k]}" end The newly

I have the following functional test in test/functional for testing my products_controller: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require ''products_controller'' # Re-raise errors caught by the controller. class ProductsController def rescue_action(e) raise e end end class ProductsControllerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures

I''m writing a plugin that automatically creates a named route buy hijacking RouteSet''s draw method. This no longer seems to work in edge rails. Anyone know what changes in routes effected this and what the preferred way would be now to automatically include route? Here''s the code that used to work: class ActionController::Routing::RouteSet alias_method

I am building an app with existing controllers/actions, using traditional rails routes. I recently started moving over to RESTful routes and have hit a snag. Now I am reconsidering my whole effort and may go back to the original, more flexible, map.connect method. My problem is, one of the resources has composite keys. The keys are both strings as well, and can include dots. Here''s

I have a plugin that I am working on that will as part of its distribution contain a controller. I would like to be able to add a route for it in the plugin''s init.rb so that when the plugin is loaded, the route will automatically be registered without having to force the user to edit routes.rb or even make a rake task to do it for them. I saw the following code in one of the SVN

I''m working on a library similar to acts_as_taggable. I''d like it to be a simple, one file drop-in: i.e., put my_library.rb into RAILSROOT/lib/ and have everything work. However, the library requires a controller to render some stuff, so I need to be able to create the controller class, set the routing, and extend the controller at run-time from within my_library.rb. I have code

I am trying to develop a new webapp using Rails 1.2.1. I am installing it onto a production web server running Apache w/ fastcgi. The server already has some older webapps running on it using an older version of Rails. The apps are not installed in the document root; they each have their own subdirectory which is a symlink for the apache document root to the "public" directory of each