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Hi. I am writing an application that has a lot of boolean conditional display logic, like this: <% if user.description then %> <p class="css_class"><%= user.description %></p> <% end %> Often the displayed content is more complex than the above, and to clean up my views I am trying to pull a lot of this sort of thing into partials. However, the problem

Hello, In my rails application, I have a book model. I want to add tags. For that I have installed acts_as_taggable_on_steroids from this link http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids and do as the readme file. This is my Model : class Book < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_taggable end Here is my ApplicationHelper : module

Hello, I am trying to achieve a search functionality in the following manner i have an table called people which has first_name,last_name,etc... After the user form to search people is submitted i get the params hash as params[:persons]={"first_name"=> "%John%","last_name"=>"%Stevens%"} NOTE : I have changed the params hash to include the %. Now

Railsoids: FormTestHelper rules. It tests your response.body form at the same time as it triggers your action, with all the parameters in that form. This obviously improves quality. But it took issue with this: submit_form ''validate_stuff'' do |form| form[''IBhidden''] = ''validate'' end The field IBhidden is a hidden field. To be

Very new to this but would appreciate a hand as this is driving me mad, I''m trying to update both degree and assigned from a single form, the degree section updates fine but assigned just retains the same values, any help much appreciated! my edit.rhtml file looks like: <h1>Editing degree</h1> <%= error_messages_for :degree %> <%= start_form_tag :action =>

I''m on the downhill side of a large project that requires an additional integer field to be added to the tag.rb in acts_as_taggable. I feel I have a good understanding of ActiveRecord and have performed the correct migrations. (As a short background for those following this thread) when one wants to add tags to a model they call the ''tag_with'' method that jumps into

Hello, I have set up that uses single table inheritance. I have a number of model subclasses following the example in AWDWR that uses Manager < Employee < Person. First question. Do I need to create controller classes for each? I don''t think I do because a single controller should be able to shunt the data between the models and the views. Second question. Say I have a view

I am using ActionMailer to send mails. I want to send mails to multiple recipients which I get from a view. Here is the controller code. def groupcorres user = User.find(session[:user_id]) address = Array.new lines = Array.new args = params[:id].to_s # params[:id] is an array of user screen name. ex: j_doe, d_john lines = args.split(",") for line in lines

Hi everyone, I''m writing a lightweight AJAX application using Rails on the server side as a RESTful web service provider. I need the web service to support both JSON and XML I/O. Outputting data in XML and JSON is easy (using to_xml and to_json), and it''s also easy to do XML input as Rails does it for you automatically. Is it possible to somehow have the same automatic parsing

Hello I have a view which have 2 radio buttons : ... <td style="width:5%">Actuel</td> <td style="width:10%"><%= radio_button_tag(:actuel, value = "1", checked = false, options = {}) %> <td style="width:5%">Last</td> <td style="width:10%"><%= radio_button_tag(:last, value = "1", checked =

I have a link-to that I wish to look somewhat like this: link_to "link here", new_object_path, :method => :post, :confirm => ''Press OK'', #url options :class => "css_class", :id => "css_id" #html options In any case I can either get the url_for options to work or the html options to work, but

Hi, in my app, using the error_message_on form helper like this: <label for="user_name">User name:</label> <%= error_message_on ''user'', :name %> <%= f.text_field :name %> generates the following error: undefined method `errors'' for :user:Symbol I am using edge revision 5813 and the simply_helpful plugin. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi- Is it possible to use search parameters with will_paginate? For example, something like this: @var = Model.paginate :per_page => 20, :page => params[:page], :order => ''my_date DESC'', :conditions =>["my_date >= ? AND my_date <=?",@start,@end] I am getting some errors with this, but will this generally work?

<%= render (:partial => "collapsed_blog" , :locals => {:be => be , :hide => "yes"}) %> This above code is in a .rhtml page. Here is the partial it renders: <p class=<%="blog_content" + be.id.to_s%>> <% if hide == "yes" %> <%= be.blogshorttext %> <%= link_to_remote ('' [See Full Text ('' +

Hi, I''m stuck. How do you parse a "dd/mm/yyyy" formatted date string??? I get a date format error. Thanks in advance Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, I need some help. I`m developing a data base administrator using ruby and ajax, both for the first time and I have a problem: I have a form where you can add or delete some information about a person., information related with their studies. There is no problem when I add, but when I delete, it deletes from the database but when I try to save it throughs me an error because it tries to find

Hi guys, I have a group of check box in rails page. check box Code as below: <% for count in @total_cellno %> <input name="checkbox" type="checkbox" value="<%= count %>" /> <% end %> I want to receive the selected value in my controller model. @selected_box << params["checkbox"] I guess that it provides values

I''m developing database systems for clinical trials using Ruby on Rails. Some trials require ''double data entry'' as a form of validation; I need to incorporate this into my system and am having difficulties. My plan would be to have it work as follows: - Once a new record has been created, alongside the usual ''edit'' option there would be a

Hello, I''ve tried to set up a class with acts_as_list with a scope argument that restricts a list to records with the same foreign key. For example : database : CREATE TABLE `families` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '''', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ; INSERT INTO

I am working on a small model mixin called attachment_kung to make attachment_fu polymorphic, so you no longer need a different table and Model class for every associated attachment (Productimage, Ad_doc, etc). All you really need is one model and table to handel all your attachments - in some cases, anyway. I have the code working, but have run into one small hitch that I can''t seem to