similar to: after_find callback in an acts_as plugin

I have 2 distinct types of users (artists and curators) in my system and they currently share all associations (eg has_one :portfolio). However, a curator shouldn''t have a portfolio so I would like to only add that association when required. Obviously I could just return nil for that method, but it doesn''t feel right having that there in the first place. What''s the best

I''m writing my own plugin and all the plugins I''ve seen use class_eval in the method that is called in the including module. For example: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToWriteAnActsAsFoxPlugin module Foo module Acts #:nodoc: module Fox #:nodoc: def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end # declare the class level

Hi, I need to understand how to write an acts_as_XXX (similar to acts_as_tree) plugin Any good resource to get me started? Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060706/a974ff06/attachment.html

Hi, My question is a bit of wonder and a bit of enlightment. I have two models, Channel and ChannelItem, the second is a list of Events, ordered by position (because I''m using acts_as_list). Later I use a method in Channel to recalculate the hour when that show come online, based on the duration of it and doing math based on the previous one duration and start time, starting from

I''m creating a hierarchical tag structure for my portfolio. I have a few top level tags. those could then have children, those children could then have children. Pretty standard so far. Often a child tag will be under more than one parent (i.e. a child might belong toone or more parents) and it wouldn''t necessarily have the same children under one parent as it would in another.

Guys, I''ve created a plugin, i wanna put my automated test there. However, I got bad file descriptor error when i run the test like normal unit test file: "ruby plugins/acts_as_fox/test/acts_as_fox_test.rb" How to test a plugin? Also, is it right to say that I should only put my unit tests (but not functional test for example) for the plugin in the plugin test folder?

After a couple of thoughtful comments, I''ve made changes to acts_as_modified plugin. It no longer relies on after_find and after_initialize, which were both causing performance issues. Please check it out and let me know what you think, where you might recommend improvements or additional features and what not. One feature I do have planned (again, thanks to comments), but

Ask and ye shall receive. 1.1.3 now has a plugin test. i had one small issue with after_save being called, so i added the callback in. it works when i create a test app and run the unit tests so i think it has something to do with how i override the save method. if you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment. As far as the AR test suite goes...I''m not sure how this plugin

Just starting a new thread so that it''s easy to follow. I just submitted a patch at trac to add a new class method called "set_default_values" ( not a great name I think ), which lets you do all kinds of crazy stuff with setting default values. This ticket is at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9093 and example pastie is at http://pastie.caboo.se/81925 It also lets you make

Hello, I am still reading Agile Web Developer pdf, it says about after_initialize and after_find. There is a Joe asks part when I read that they are special, however I didn''t really get the idea, why they are. On rubyonrails.org in the manual there is some sort description about their speciality, however their full descriptions are missing. What are the difference between

I am pondering the possibility of encrypting/decrypting some fields in a SQLite backend on-the-fly. The point of the message is not security, I know that''s broken, but whether there''s a technique that provides on-the-fly save/read filters. Of course the solution would need to work transparently in joins, so user.posts.last.title would do the right thing if title

Hi, What is the simplest way to validate a positive integer? validates_numericality_of :foo, :integer_only => true how do I add the positive part? Do I need another validation statement for pattern matching or do I have to write a validate() funciton for my model? Thanks, Peter

I''ve always wanted to be able to do stuff like this in my functional tests c = customers(:customer_1) c.expects(:great_customer_service) post :service_customer, :id => c.id This of course fails because inside the rails action a different instance of customer is used. Some of the time setting your expectation/stubbing on Customer.any_instance works, but it''s not

Hi, I am having a problem saving a new model that has an associated child model. If a new ticket is being created and will have one comment to go with it then I tried this in my action @ticket = Ticket.new(params[:ticket]) @comment = Comment.new(params[:comment]) @ticket.comments << @comment if @ticket.save @notice = "Ticket added. Thanks for

Hi, I want to create a plugin that allows easy use of the Yahoo! UI library similar to the prototype.js and scriptaculous helpers that come packaged with rails. just one line in plugins/yui/init.rb require ''yui_helper'' a little more in plugins/yui/lib/yui_helper.rb module ActionView module Helpers module YuiHelper def yui_form_remote_tag(options = {})

Hi, I would like to add a new method to the rjs "page" object through a plugin. For a simple example, suppose I want to add the following which is really just an alias for the usual page.replace_html. def replace_html2(id, *options_for_render) call ''Element.update'', id, render(*options_for_render) end How can I stitch this new method

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

Hi, A store front a customer wants to GET /product/5/show. But for the application this is really GET /cart_item/new/5 or even better /cart_item/new?cart_item[product_id]=5 When the customer clicks add_to_cart they POST /product/5/show so that the url doesn''t confuse the user when any validation errors occur. But for the applicaiton this should be POST

Hi, I''ve read the Agile Rails book''s chapter on ActionMailer a few times. Seems pretty straight forward. Unfortunately I can''t get my application to actually send mail. I uploaded my application to the web server and tried to get a mail message sent. Nothing happened. I looked in the log file and it says Sent mail: From: service@freedomkilts.com To:

Hi, I want to start using has_many :through. I think that eventually I''ll be removing all uses has_and_belongs_to_many from my project. Here is my situation I''m using SVN I want to use edge rails Reading the wiki about switching to edge rails[1], I can''t figure out which combination of subsections I must perform. Do I want edge rails to reside in the vendor