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I have a working Rails app with several related tables, but can''t find an answer to this question in the Dave Thomas Rails book. Imagine for example: table departments with columns: id, department_name table employees with columns: id, department_id, employee_name and of course the employees table has a constraint foreign key (department_id) references departments(id) So this is

I tried to use named parameters in my SQL query , using find_by_sql Order.find_by_sql ([select * from orders where amount > ? and quantity > ?", [ @amount, @quantity ] works;.. but Order.find_by_sql ([select * from orders where amount > :amount and quantity > :quantity ", [ :amount => @amt, :quantity => @qty ] is not working a I wrong or should I use a plain select

Hi, There are many companies. Each company has many departments. Each department has many employees. The following find_by_sql method seems awful. What is the best way to get all the employees of a company? class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :departments def employees Employee.find_by_sql("SELECT employees.* FROM companies, departments, employees

How do I validate that a model object''s attribute is a valid foreign key? The problem is, I can''t check if the attribute is a valid foreign key if the attribute doesn''t even exist. For example, every employee must be in a department. In the following code, if an employee''s department_id is not present then Department.find_by_id(department_id) might cause

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

Hi everyone, I have a Department model that has_many people. How do I go about finding all departments with more than 0 people? Department.find(:all, :conditions => Department.people.size > 0) That, of course, doesn''t work, but it was as close as I could come. Thanks! Sean

I''m try to verify users on login. Here is my code: def self.authenticate(username,password,account_code) employee = self.find(:all, :select => "e.id, e.first_name, e.last_name, e.username, e.account_id, e.department_id, o.pay_type_id, o.admin_yn, o.payroll_yn, o.files_yn, o.dept_report_yn,e.salt, e.hashed_password", :conditions => ["e.deleted_yn=0 and

I am a newbie and I am running into a problem which I cant understand. I have a table called ''privileges'' which has the following fields CREATE TABLE `sdqualplanner`.`privileges` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '''', `description` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '''', `section_id`

Hi, I know that to make a dropdown box automatically submit when you change the value, you do this: <select ..... onchange="this.form.submit();"> BUT i''ve got an ajax form, and if i do the above trick, it simply reloads the ajax partial into the whole screen, rather than into the div where it is meant to go. I''ve already got it all working so that if you click

I have a function that displays all depts and related info from other tables in my Department model, such as: def dept_and_hospital "#{name} (#{floor.building.hospital.name})" end ... which is used in my view, like: <p> <%= f.label :department_id %><br /> <%= collection_select(:device, :department_id, Department.all(), :id, :dept_and_hospital,

i''ve figured out how to use the next and previous links with the paginator class but now i''m trying to figure out how to display all the page numbers in between. looking through the rails api, i found paginator.each() but i''m not sure how to use it, or if that''s even what i am looking for. also, is there a way to limit the amount of pages like some sites

I am trying to do a similar thing for some spares that I am trying to manage... My spare.rb file is as under class Spare < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :class_name => ''department'', :foreign_key => ''department_id'' belongs_to :subequipment, class_name => ''subequipment'', :foreign_key =>

I want to show a users entries based on there login id. I have tried this: View: <div id="myfish"> <%= render :partial => ''myfish'', :locals => {:user => session [:user].id } %> </div> Partial: <% for entry in @entries %> <table border ="0" CELLSPACING="0"> <tr class="<%= alternate

Hello, I have 2 tables table colors : +----------------------+ | id | user_id | name | +----------------------+ | 1 | 1 | test1 | | 2 | 2 | test2 | | 3 | 3 | test3 | +----------------------+ table users : +----------------------+ | id | enabled | name | +----------------------+ | 1 | 1 | bob | | 2 | 1

Hello, I''m confused why the spec described below is failing. Other simple comparison specs are passing fine for the same model. The code is working accordingly when I test it through the console, I''m just having difficulty getting this spec to work. Any pointers would be appreciated. Failure message: ''Address fetch and geocode should extract department and write to

As I am in development environment, I wrote in my config/environment.rb ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local = false in my application.rb, I wrote def rescue_action_in_public(exception) case exception when RoutingError, UnknownAction render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/404.html", :status => 404 else logger.error

I am working on a project that has some complex table associations, and I am having a hard time declaring this association in a Model, and fear it can''t be done. Here is an example of my issue... class StoreType < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Store < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Product < ActiveRecord::Base; end A StoreType has

I''ve got a User model, which holds the following (excerpt): def try_to_authenticate User.authenticate(self.username, self.password) end .. private def self.hash_password(password) Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(password) end def self.authenticate(username, password) @user = User.find(:all, :conditions => ["username = ? AND password = ?",

I read the following tag in teh Beast example <%= submit_tag''Login'', :or => link_to_function(''forgotten password'', "$(''reset-password'').toggle();") %> I understand the link_to_function, but what is this :or parameter used for ? the link doesn''t appear, so it cannot be used... thanks for your lights kad --

In a panel, I have an hidden input field which is modified by a javascript function (from calendar) how can I sent the value of this input field in my link_to_remote call ? presently I just send back one parameter (an id) but I need both... <input type="hidden" name="booking[start_at]" id="f_date_s" value="booking[start_at]" /> ... <%=