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Hi, I would like to have the ability for my application''s .rhtml files to be customized after I give my app to a client. However I don''t want them to mess with the existing templates. Basically I would like to look in a directory lets say "customize" which would be off the RAILS_ROOT directory. If a .rhtml is in the "customize" there use that one, if not

Hey all! We''ve been using Ferret to great success these past six months. But recently we''ved tried adding many new ContentItems (only thing being index by Ferret at the moment), and things came crashing to a halt. ferret gem: 0.10.9 acts_as_ferret plugin (not sure which version) How we''re using the plugin: class ContentItem < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_ferret

Hi! Yesterday I started to write my unit tests for the fist time using rails. I''m using this method: http://blog.codahale.com/2005/12/23/a-rails-howto-simplify-your-unit-tests/ My customer_test.rb looks like this: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class CustomerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :customers # Replace this with your real

Hi, I have a many to many relationship incorporating the following tables: taxes --> taxes_tax_groups --> tax_groups I have a model named tax with the following declaration: has_and_belongs_to_many :tax_groups and I have a model named tax_group with the following declaration: has_and_belongs_to_many :taxes I am attempting to run the following unit test: require

Hey all, I''m following along with AWDWR, specifically the unit testing. On page 148, it shows you how Test::Unit::TestCase will automatically define instance variables based on your fixtures. It doesn''t seem to actually work, though. It seems that both @artists ["beatles"]["name"] and @beatles.name are nil objects in my test, where as

Help! I have a new/create process that works fine in the actual app. But when I test I always get a failure in the test_create section. Here''s some controller code: def new end def create begin @borrower = Borrower.new(params[:borrower]) if @borrower.save flash[:notice] = ''Borrower '' + @borrower.FirstName + '' '' +

Hello, I''m trying to write a functional test for a simple CRUD controller which accepts / emits xml in a REST- like fashion. However the following code won''t work for me - an exception is generated def test_create post :create, ''<person><name>john</name></person>'',

Hello everyone! I want to have login field in User model which is set only once (on create), and then it should fail validation if the value is changed. How can I do this? I dig around for validation and tried def after_validation_on_update unless User.find_by_login(:login) errors.add(:login, "is immutable. You can''t change it") end end in model, but somewhat it

All, I''m using InstantRails 1.0 on Windows XP and all my functional (controller) tests fail with ActionController::RoutingError, although the actions work OK through a web server/browser. Here''s an example of an error: 1) Error: test_create(AdminControllerTest): ActionController::RoutingError: No url can be generated for the hash {:controlle r=>"admin",

Hi all, I have created projects module in my application using scaffold, and it created me everything, and all the modules are working except the functional test. This is the error 1) Failure: test_create(ProjectsControllerTest) [test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb :55]: Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200> 8 tests, 25 assertions, 1 failures, 0

Hi, I was very excited to hear that Rails 1.1 project has been released. It gave me the fire I need to get started on a pet project I''ve been thinking about. However I have a couple apps that don''t seem to play nice with Rails 1.1, mainly Typo. So my question is: How can I install Rails 1.1 for only a new application? thanks, scott.

hi all, trying my first foray into testing and having trouble with accessing the fixture instance variable built a test for my NewsRelease model. have a news_releases.yml as a fixture with: first: id: 1 title: my first release body: this is still my first test of a news release publish: 0 date_publication: 2006-06-06 17:28:00 in news_release_test.rb, i have def setup

I am trying to figure out a way to call the expire_fragment outside of a controller. I need to expire some fragments on a hourly basis. I have a Thread that every hour that will perform a task. The expire_fragment is located in the module ActionController::Caching::Fragments as an instance method. Do I need to mixin the model ActionController::Caching::Fragments into my class? Or is there

Hi all, a little off topic, but was wondering what the best way is to re-write incoming requests so that they all end up at the same domain. For example, if I had: my_domain.net my_domain.com my_domain.org Whats the best way to map/redirect all of these to www.my_domain.com ? I know its possible, just not sure what to add for rules/virtual hosts in my apache config. Thanks for the help! -Nick

I have finally decided to look into testing and I am going through the examples in the AWDWR book and I tried the following and it does not work... even though I don''t see why it shouldn''t. =========== posts.yml =========== basic_post: id: 1 title: Title body: Body created_at: 2006-02-01 00:00:00 updated_at: 2006_02-02 00:00:00

hi all, my first attempt at tests and i''m having trouble accessing the fixture values, if anyone can make it suggestions. i have news_release_test.rb, using new_releases.yml as the fixture file according to the agile book, i should be able to access the fixture properties within my test as such: assert_equal @first_test.id , @news_release.id unfortunately, i try that and get:

Hello, I tried to post this as a bug on the trac site, but whenever I hit submit, I got the error message: --- Precondition Failed The precondition on the request for the URL /newticket evaluated to false. --- Anyway... Let''s say I have the following model classes: --- class Project < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :tasks end class Task < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to

I''ve just started working through ''Agile'' chapter 12 ''Testing''. I''ve followed the steps carefully, setting up a fixture and unit test to check the creation of an order. When I run the test I get the following: Loaded suite test/unit/order_test Started F Finished in 0.108008 seconds. 1) Failure: test_create(OrderTest)

I''m using the functional test for a method like this: def test_create post :create, :phase => ''copynew'', :id => 1 assert_response :success assert_template ''create'' assert_tag :content => ''New Item'' assert_not_nil @item end This posts a request to the create method in the controller. Is there any way to look

I have a problem with tests. I always thought that the order of tests doesn''t matter because the fixtures are reloaded before every test method. However, I''ve just discovered that this isn''t true. This is a quote from the "Guide to testing the rails" howto: "... if we had another test method, we wouldn’t have 10 users on the 2nd test because they would