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Hi, There is something I don''t understand about :dependent => :destroy. I hope someone can help me. Consider this code: class Folder < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :myfiles has_many :folders has_many :group_folders, :dependent => :destroy validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => "folder_id" validates_presence_of :name before_destroy

Hi All, I wonder how I can get rails to update just one field when I do Myfile.save. Right now this happens when I do a Myfile.save: UPDATE myfiles SET `folder_id` = 0, `filesize` = 1, `data` = ''2f7573722f6c6f63616c2f6d ... f7061636b65743d33324d'', `user_id` = 0, `date_modified` = ''2006-01-11T23:33:57+0100'', `filename` = ''mysqlscripts.sql''

Hi there, How is it possible to get access to an ApplicationController property from a view? Consider this (simplified) situation: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def folder_id @folder_id = params[:id] return @folder_id end end class FolderController < ApplicationController def show @folder = Folder.find_by_id(folder_id) end end So far,

Hello everyone, I''m using multi-search to search in some attributes of two classes. One of the attributes is the id of the customer. For each multi_search I want to do a give the id of the current customer as a parameter. This should only return results for the given customer. My current code looks like this: Folder.multi_search(@search_query, [Myfile]) I noticed in the API you can

I have a User class with a field called admin which is a boolean that determines if the user is or is not an administrator. I want to make it impossible for the last administrator for an account to be removed from the system. I need to protect against this both when deleting a user and when editing a user as you can revoke a user''s administrator privileges via a form. User

I''ve looked everywhere [except the right place], but I can''t find where to change WEBbrick from listening to port 3000 to port 80. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks Neville _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

I''m seeing the following in the WEBbrick console output after every GET 192.168.0.108 - - [03/Mar/2005:15:35:19 AUS Eastern Daylight Time] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 60 - -> /favicon.ico What does /favicon.ico (which doesnt seem to exist in my source) do for Rails? _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

I''ve been using the login generator ''out of the box'' for simple authentication, and its been working fine. Now I want to extend it by simply adding ''type_id'' field which links to my ''user_types'' table, but I''m hitting: #<ActionController::SessionRestoreError: Session contained objects where the class definition

Hi everybody, After staring at the a_a_f API for quite sometime now, I decided it''s time to ask... Which method should I use to get content from the index without using highlight? Consider the following controller action: def preview if params[:search].blank? # normal case @text = @myfile. # which method do I use here to get the :text from the index??? else # if we come from

is to run my Rails app on lighttpd .... Unfortunately, I am tied to SQL Server, and the database connector requires ADO.rb which only runs on Win32. And lighttpd doesnt run on Win32. *sigh* _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

Hi folks, I''m a newbie in the Ruby land, The Ruby language and RoR looks really great but I think in my situation there is a problem, we are an ISV that sells web application and we don''t want our clients see our source code, I searched the web but couldn''t find any way to compile and\or obfuscate ruby code (in web (RoR)), is there such tool available for the language?

In my app, a user logs in [via the login generator] and has access to details of his account, and transactions attached to his account. This is achieved in the standard rail manner by passing the account id or transaction id between the controller and the view. But what is to stop someone hacking the URL or view html to access another account id or transaction id ? eg /account/show/46 becomes

I''m hand editing my .css and .rhtml files using SciTE and hitting refresh in my browser to see the results - its slow going. What tools are people using to author their .css and .rhtml files? Thanks, Neville _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org

I am running the webrick server (/script/server) and I would like to be able to view the application from any browser. However, I can only see my application from a browser opened up on the localhost. When I use any other browser it times out. I have already modified the following line in the /script/server file (I''ve tried the numeric ip address also) so that it is the real ip

hi all, how are other people passing and accessing ''get'' parameters from their apps? what is the best way to do it? ie: www.example.com/controller/action/id/extra/extra2/ ?? or www.example.com/controller/action/id/~extra/extra2/ or what ever.... are there built in methods for passing and accessing extra parameters? thanks for your suggestions -felix

I''m in progress of making a little folder system with Ruby on Rails. I''ve got a "folders" table. Each "folder" has got an id and a folder_id. The folder_id is supposed to represent the folders'' parent folder. How can I tell Rails? I would like Rails to automaticly delete all subfolders of a folder when I delete the folder it self. Any ideas? --

I''ve seen some reports of problems with running Rails (version 1.0 here) on Ruby 1.8.3. Is this true across the board or just Mac OS? I''m setting up a Linux server and want to know if 1.8.3 is ok on that. Thanks, Jamie

> Because you mentioned "cookie-hacking": it is very easy to > take over a rails-session if you know the value of the > session-cookie. It is not possible to prevent that easily, > you can just make it harder by encrypting the whole session > (right from the beginning when the user enters the site, > and the cookie is created) by using https. https will encrypted

I implemented a "reindex" command which simply creates an IndexWriter with :create => true for a prexisting index. The "reindexing" seems to start out ok, with several thousand docs added, then Ferret throws an exception: IO Error occured: couldn''t rename file "index\_0.tmp" to "index\_0.cfs": <File exists> I guess that _0.cfs is held

I have an Order model with a ''status'' column. What I want to be able to do is validate that the status of the Order is not completed before it is allowed to be deleted. I tried the following method in my Model, but it appears that this only works for an :update or :create on the record. Anyone know how to do this, and if it should be in the model or the controller?