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All, I whipped up a small extension for Prototype to solve some modeling issues I was having on a large JS project. I know there have been serveral alternative "write JS in Ruby" type efforts, including ruby.js, rb2js, and prototype.js itself, but I was hoping to keep it as light as possible while gaining the most powerful aspects of derivation/mixins/callbacks. Much like the prototype

If I want to write a function which will be available to views, I write a helper function in one of the places set aside or that very task by Rails. If I want to write a little suite of functions to be mixed in by a number of model classes (but not all), where do I put them? Plug-ins look like AN answer, but they also seem a little heavyweight for simple, project-specific tasks.

I''ve been working on a plugin called Http Test where I add HTML validation and link checking to controller and integration tests through an after filter in ApplicationController. I used to mix in a bunch of methods that I needed into the ApplicationController class, but to me this had a bad smell, so I broke much of the code out into separate classes that I delegate to.

As is often the case when I tackle a new platform/language, I get the big picture very quickly (because frameworks are frameworks are frameworks) but its the nitty-gritty of the language that bogs me down... So I have some similar methods on a few of my model classes that I wanted to push into a helper. Now I reckoned that the Ruby way was to create a module and mix it in with include. However, I

Hi folks, Can anyone share some accumulated wisdom about the best way to spec mixins in general, and (Jamis Buck-style) ActiveRecord "concerns" in particular? The standard situation here is that there''s a bunch of functionality, related by concept if not by implementation, that one wants to inherit in many different classes (e.g. ActiveRecord models) without having to

I''m trying to understand how best to use inheritance and wonder if Rail''s Single Table Inheritance model too restricting. I have a model Companies who provide 1+ Services (HABTM relationship). I assume the best way to represent this is with a series of child models representing each type of service : ServiceType < Company. I want to return lists of companys for each

Hey all, I have two models in my rails project that share a lot of traits. They each have the same 4 properties, and now I need to add 2-3 methods to each one that will be the same. In the spirit of DRY I am looking for a solution to write these methods only once. Both of these models already inherit from ActiveRecord . . . and I didn''t know if it was safe to just "whip up" a

so as to not reinvent the wheel, are there any exisiting examples or mixins for a star rating system? basically what i''m looking to do is show pictures of local models which will be voted on by users, and the model with the most votes will get her photo in a calendar. anyone able to point me in the right direction... tutorials, code, whatever would be greatly appreciated! -A --

Hi, I just put together a little mixin to provide pseudo-RESTful services in camping apps. Basically, it looks for a hidden _verb field in form posts, and sets the @method to the supplied value (e.g. put or delete - which browsers don''t support). This lets you define put and delete methods in your controllers. Groovy. Code: http://pastie.caboo.se/22613 Is there any permanent repo of

Hi, there, I have some methods which I have written as helpers. They are in spec/support/controller_macros.rb (yes, I will change the name soon). The 2 methods, login_user and login_admin_user works in the controller specs BUT fail to work in the view specs when I call them in the view specs. ---------- spec/spec_helper.rb start -------------------------- # This file is copied to spec/

Hi, I am from a Java background and pretty new to Ruby and Rails. What I am wondering is how I would shared state accross requests and users without involving IO, i.e. use memory. My current understanding is that for each request a new process ist spawn and therefore it gets its own memory. So no sharing can take place between requests? Do I understand this right? For those who know

Is there a way I can read the user agent or something similar to determine whether the person is using IE, Mozilla/Netscape, Opera, Safari, etc? I want to dynamically output the CSS to the browser, but I''d like to change certain things (in this case the widths of some divs since IE adds borders and padding size to the total size of a div unlike firefox). Thanks, - Brent

If I have several models which exhibit the same functionality, it seems makes sense to create a mixin, ''include'' it in each model and save myself some work and repeated code. Where can I define a module which will be available to all models? I can''t seem to find a documented place for them. Alternatively, is there a Rails-standard way of achieving the effect? Ben

I want to include common auditing functionality in my models. This involves storing the changes made to a model in a seperate table : I have created the functions in an Audit module : module Audit before_update :before_changes after_update :after_changes def before_changes old=self.class.find(id).attributes @changes=[] attributes.each do |key, val| if val != old[key]

Hi, all, I need to DRY up some code in a few models. My first inclination, having come from the Java world, was to go with an abstract class. After a bit of reading, I then decided to follow the mixin route instead. Now I''m running into trouble, most likely from a few basic misunderstandings. There are three models I will be using to average and count rating data by executing a

Disclaimer: RoR newbie. Using the acts_as_taggable plugin. As an exercise I wanted to switch from the destructive TAG_WITH method to adding tags while preserving the existing ones. On the surface this seemed easy enough and eventually I got it working. However, the following method: def add_tags(list) Tag.transaction do Tag.parse(list).each do |name| if

It seems to me that Validations are quite useful for many objects, even ones having nothing to do with ActiveRecord. Common examples are Contact Us forms, multi-step forms, web service paramater validations, etc. I took a look at the source for Validations, and it seems that it is very independent from ActiveRecord. I caught only three depenedencies: 1. validates_numericy --> depends on

Hello everyone. I am not sure if this is the right place to post, please redirect me if there is a mailinglist more specifically dealing with prototype.js. After playing around with the very inspiring prototype library I have found a rather annoying thing, that makes the usefulness of the Enumerable mixin for Hashes questionable, if I am not totally wrong (again :-). Here an example:

Zed: 1) Error: test_more_web_server(HandlersTest): EOFError: end of file reached I solved this changing the following lines in test_handlers.rb:75-76 res = hit([ "http://127.0.0.1:9998/", "http://127.0.0.1:9998/test", I cannot solve the other failures: 1) Failure: test_header_is_too_long(WebServerTest) [./test/test_ws.rb:93:in

I''ve created an access control module that I''m including in several different controllers. Everything works fine, but I want to allow each controller to override the default login page with something like this: set_login_pages :secure => ''my_login'' In my module, I''ve set up the set_login_pages method like this: def self.included(base)