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I''m pleased to announce a new plugin for Rails: Userstamp. You can read my blog post at http://www.delynnberry.com/articles/2006/01/20/userstamp-plugin and/or read all about it at the perminant page http://www.delynnberry.com/pages/userstamp. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. -- DeLynn Berry delynn@gmail.com http://www.delynnberry.com A dump of the Readme

I have the following ActiveRecord objects: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ratings, :dependent => true . . . end class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :created_by, :scope => :recipe_id belongs_to :recipe, :counter_cache => true . . . end The created_by field on Rating is implemented as a "magic" field similar to this:

Hi! Definite newbie here - I''m working through this like-hate relationship with Ruby and Rails right now... sometimes things work really well (like blobs seem to rock) but other times, I dunno! :-) Anyway, I''d like put in create and update user timestamps on all my primary domain tables and allow them to be updated automatically by ActiveRecord. Coming from Hibernate, I just

Hi, Can anyone spot why the below doesn''t work? * I have a "created_by" column in my create table in the dB * I have a "before_create" line, which definitely gets called * I tried a few different ways to set the "created_by" attribute in the model but it doesn''t seem to work, i.e. doesn''t appear in the database

What do I need to do to be able to use an acts_as_authenticated current_user in a model? Is there some sort of include or require I can do some where that would allow this? ********************************************************** Here is what I am trying to do: ********************************************************** class Setting < ActiveRecord::Base before_create :created_by_user #

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string

Hello, Thank you all in advance for your help with this. Environment: Windows XP Pro (Development only) Ruby 1.84 Rails 1.1.0 SaltedHashLoginGenerator Plugins: file_column, userstamp I have a user table per the salted_hash_login generator. I have an orders table that has a column named created_by that is updated by the userstamp plugin. I am trying to retrieve all of the orders for a single

DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

Quick question about userstamping records in a similar way to timestamping. There is an example of how this might work at: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Howto+Add+created_by+and+updated_by/versions/7 This seems to work fine on my development system. However, I am not sure how the User.current_user method, which is required, can guarantee to return the correct user since this is a

Hi guys, I tried reading up the RSPEC Book (Dec 2010) and googled a bit but I could not find anything. I''m using Rspec2. Example: spec/factories/categories.rb ====================== FactoryGirl.define do factory :category_intakes, :class => ''category'' do name ''intakes and filters'' description ''airfilters and

I have a model with a belongs_to association. The first model is called Thing and the associated model is User. I''m attempting to assign the user to the thing. To accomplish this I used a before_save method, like this: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :created_by, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "created_by_user_id" def before_create

Hi list, I need to represent a relationship between three tables: Tags (id, name) Users (id, name, email, ... ) Documents (id, title, ... ) I created a forth table called Assignments(id, tag-id, user-id, document-id, date). I have couple of questions: Should I use belongs-to and has-many to capture this? If so, How can I do that? should I have the id as the primary key in Assignment table or

Hi everyone. This is a real noob question that I''m hoping someone out there can help me with. I have followed the tutorial How to Ad created_by and updated_b<http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Howto%20Add%20created_by%20and%20updated_by>y and it works ok for retrieving the data. I''m using the Login_Generator. I cannot get it to work on create or update. I think

I''ve got a polymorphic association on one table. I assign to it in the controller. This is handling invitations of users to tasks in a task management application. If the user issuing the invitation is the user being invited (ie the user assigned themselves to a task), I want to activate the invitation immediately in the model. The trouble is that this: if self.assignable ==

hi there, How do we share variables in a given data migration? For example, the code below fails to work because "statuses" don''t seem to be in scope for both up and down. class AddDefaultValuesToStatuses < ActiveRecord::Migration statuses = [ { ''details'' => ''details'', }, {

So I''m new to all this Rails stuff and this is probably a database design-related question to, but here it is... Just for learning I''m trying to build a little real estate listings application. Of course there is the listings model which will store basic information like name, price, description, and all that jazz. I''m to the point where I want to figure out how to

Dear Gurus on Rails! How do I change the behaviour of one method in ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements ? Full story: I''d like to mangle ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements so when it creates a new sql table, it also (optionally) creates my created_at, deleted, key_id, session_id etc columns that I use on basically all tables. It would not be DRY to repeat

Please excuse a newbie question, but I couldn''t find anything by searching the archives. What I want to know is how to have multiple references to the same class/table within a class. For example, let''s say I have a table called People: create table people ( id serial8 primary key ,name); which just holds a list of the people in the database. Then I have another

Hi In the controller I have the function def convert_sd_ticket_to_incident ServiceDeskTicket.close_ticket(sd_id,created_by_id,modified_by_id) Incident.convert_sd_ticket_to_incident(sd_id,created_by_id,modified_by_id) end Now in the ServiceDeskTicket model def self.close_ticket(sd_id,created_by,modified_by) begin ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do

okay... i have two models employee - id - username order - id - number - created_by - approved_by now created_by and approved_by are both id''s of employees. in most cases, two different employees. currently i do something like //controller @open_orders = Order.open_orders //model def self.open_orders find(:all, :conditions => [''is_open = ?'', true],