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I have a Shipment class that is used to ship packages between Branches. However, when I try to have two belongs_to in Shipment called shipped_to and shipped_from I can''t seem to make it work. I can get it to display the form properly but when I select the branches and click save I get the following error... "Branch expected, got String" Any ideas? I have added some code

Hi all I guess this is quite a newbie question, but I''m just stuck here and don''t know why. <%= form.collection_select :origin_country, Country.find(:all), :id, :name %> gives me a select list with name="member[origin_country]". When submitting the form the following error is shown: Country expected, got String When I try <%= form.collection_select

Hello everyone, first post to the list and a relative newbie to Rails development. Done quite a bit of JSP, PHP, HTML, XML etc and thought I would kick the tires on Rails to see if it can speed up development for internal applications. Anyway, I am running into a problem that is just driving me crazy and everything I read on the net doesn''t seem to help. I was hoping someone here might

Hello, 1. I have a form that edits a User and a Person at the same time. The controller is for the User. Everything works fine, except the fields that are populated by the Person fields lose state when validation fails. Do I use params to populate the user? I have tried a bunch of combinations with no luck. 2. The same users table has an integer column called

Hey, Is is possible to make collection_select return multiple values? If yes, how can it be done? I?ve tried: <%= collection_select("group[]", "id", @groups, "id", "name", {},{:multiple => true}) %> Leading to: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error

A person has a many company_branches and A company_branch has many people. This join is represented using a "contacts" table. I am using a legacy schema so i am forced into using non-standard rails primary keys. I am using the new through relationship in rails 1.1. p=Person.find(1) b=p.company_branches # gives this error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: OCIError: ORA-00904:

Quick Overview: I have an ''Employee'', some ''Merchants'' and some ''Products''. A ''Merchant'' has many ''Products''. An ''Employee'' has multiple ''Merchants'', depending on their relationship. For example, the Employee may be the enrollment contact for one merchant and the

I''m trying to get a collection_select generated Drop-down box to display two fields from a table (first name & last name); however, I am having trouble concatenating the symbols. It appears as though any code I put in the 5th argument for collection_select is processed prior to executing the collection_select method. The code executes successfully with 1 symbol in the 5th

Dear all I am using magic multi connections, there is some problem when using association. How can I dynamic determine the module name (i.e. A::Request, B::Request) in activerecord association. Below is my code: module A establish_connection :A end module B establish_connection :B end # and many module.... class Request < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "request"

I thought I had this nailed but.. now I''m seeing spots.. I''ve included my models below, feel free to ignore them. I''m really just after an example that works. I couldnt find one on the wiki... which is fair enough considering Ricks patch: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/4022 that fixed them only went through 5 days ago.. Cheers -henster

Hi All, I am having a problem to access multiple databases with mssql I am running Ruby 1.8.4 and Rails 1.1 on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I am simply trying to integrate the application I wrote before for Oracle to Mssql. The application works perfectly with Oracle with the installed driver OCI8. The app retrives data based on a search criteria from those databases. I followed the directions

i am working on a task management system for the company i work for. i just got the rails cookbook and am trying to use the section on creating a drag and drop sortable list. the tricky part is that my Task model references the User model in two different spots. i have one field for the creator of the task and another for the assignee. so in my Task model i have the following code: class

I know this has been rehashed many times, but I don''t get it. I can''t find it documented to were I understand all the parts. I can make this work using Rails database design conventions, but in this case I am not able to do that. I find examples, but the ones I find do not follow the conventions. They also do not give enough information to understand what is going on. In

I have the following models: class Comandancia < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :elementos end class Elemento < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :comandancia validates_presence_of :nombre, :apellido_paterno, :apellido_materno, :comandancia end In the view for New Elemento I''m using <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <%= render :partial =>

I know there have been threads on this before but I was thinking shouldn''t multiple collection_select automatically update habtm relations when you update_attributes? In order to get multiple collection_select to work I use: collection_select(:user, :group_ids, Group.find(:all), :id, :name,{},{:multiple=>'''',:name=>''group[id][]''}) In fact if I

Hi, I am filling a collection_select with a list of models references based on a column named "model_ref". <%= collection_select(:assets, :model_id, @models, :id, :model_ref,:prompt => ''- Select a model -'') %></p> I have two issues : 1) I would like to concatenate another column next to the model reference inside the option value with the description

I''m using activerecord outside of rails and find_first generates sql that postgresql doesnt'' like. This is rails 1.1.4, with everything up to date via "gem update". This is the command line: ruby -rrubygems seca -c ../etc/seca.cnf cert --export 1 --format pkcs12 --key root.key >root.pfx This is the error: (PGError: ERROR: argument of WHERE must be type

Hi, I''m new to Ruby and Rails and I would be very grateful for some advice. I''ve got the following code. class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base include Versionable # Some methods to handle my versioned objects has_many :versions, :class_name => "FooVersion", :foreign_key => "parent_id" belongs_to :curr, :class_name => "FooVersion",

I am creating a data entry form that allows a user to fill in multiple rows and save them all at once. In my controller, I create an array of "person" objects and pass it to the page. On the page, I have a text field like so: <%= text_field "person", "name", "index" => 1 %> Note the "index" attribute, which sets the name and id

I have form and a collection_select control. I would like to update form fields (text box) when I select an item from the collection_select box. It''s like selecting template from the collection_select and the template automatically loads to text boxes. Any help? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups