similar to: Using Helpers inside a Controller

Hi! If I have a method that is useful in both models and in views, where would be the appropriate place to put it? The method in question just takes two dates as strings, tries to parse them and returns all dates in the range between them. It also takes care of the issues when the dates are badly formatted etc etc.. This method is being used in several models (so a simple class method in

Hello everyone! I''m trying to create an after filter for all my actions in all controllers. I put it in application controller (application.rb). class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base after_filter :tidyit def tidyit xxxx # syntax error - intentionally end end I have a Example (example_controller.rb) controller with index action. class

I am getting the following error /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1129:in `method_missing'': undefined method `directory?'' for Msg::File:Class (NoMethodError) I have a model called Msg::File in models/msg/file.rb, and I have a file in lib/msg/helper.rb which references to both Msg::File and File.directory? How do I help activerecord

Hi, Is it possible to stub out a helper for development? I''ve got a (view) helper that renders a partial and runs all kind of javascript. But for dev purposes I''d like it to return some hardcoded html. I''m not having any success stubbing the helper out. Something like... test/mocks/development/helper_stub.rb require ''application_helper'' class

I finally got around to upgrading from 0.8.2 (!!). I had a spec which looked like specify "should render abc123" do controller.should_render :text => "abc123" get :key end With 1.0.0, the new spec is it "should render abc123" do get :key response.should render_text("abc123") end However it doesn''t work, giving me the error: undefined

Hello, Maybe this is super-trivial... I need to have a list of links on the left hand side of my application, for *every* single page. So, I''ve created a layout called "main" (main.rhtml) under view/layouts, and included >layout "main"< in pretty all of my controllers. main.rhtml has, amongst all the other HTML stuff: <%= render_component

Any ideas why I would get an error in a RJS helper on view helpers such as number_to_currency. Example: # my_template.rjs page.help_me # my_helper for my_controller def help_me number_to_currency(10) end I have also tired page.number_to_currency but that doesn''t work either. Cheers, Nicholas

Hi, Not able to recognize helper class method in controller! When I try to call some method "get_formatted()" in my controller, it says local method not recognized. Please help me out. Thanks, josua -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to add this to my project: class String def escape_quotes self.gsub(/["'']/) { |m| "\\#{m}" } end end I tried putting it in application_helper.rb, but it''s not getting found. Where does it need to go? Thanks, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I''m having great trouble accessing a constant declared in a helper for one of my view templates. I am trying to create a grouped selection list based on a predefined set of values. Rather than declare this set of values in the view, I wanted to put it in the helper that automatically gets included for the view. Unfortunately, it doesn''t seem to work. All methods

There is a solution to use helpers from controllers ? I have an error : |undefined method `content_tag''| class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def test return content_tag("a","test") end end

Forgive me if this isn''t the proper list. It''s specific to the rSpec Rails plugin. The problem is, some controller actions are rendering the "diagnostics.rhtml" template when I''m expecting it to render something else in a controller spec. I''m assuming this is the template that displays the error message and a stack trace when an error is raised in the

How would I go about writing specs for a lib, particularly one with all protected and private methods. I''m trying to spec the AuthenticatedSystem library from the rails restful_authentication plugin: http://pastie.caboo.se/103625 Also, when you''re mocking objects, a side-effect is helping you define the api of the object. Is there a way to get all the behaviors that

Hi. I have a simple application and I want to add a file upload functionality. How can I write a spec? Here''s my try. # directory structure app: - controller.rb - controller.spec.rb - files: [] - fixtures: [test_file.png] # controller.spec.rb require ''rack/test'' require ''controller'' module MyHelpers def app Sinatra::Application end end

Hi! If i have an object it''s easy. But i''m making a simple contact form and i check if email address is correct. If it''s not i redisplay the form with the info that there was an error (should i use redirect_to or render :action? what''s the difference?), but all previously submitted data is lost. I tried creating variables using names of the form fields, but

Hi all, I cannot figure out how to correctly use the with_output_buffer helper method (located in ActionView::Helpers::CaptureHelper) inside a custom FormBuilder. Below follows a simplified example. I''m trying to achieve the following behavior in an ERB as suggested in the form_for helper docs in the Rails source: ========== <%= form_for @object, :builder => MyFormBuilder do

Hello! I have a lot of contexts for testing Rails controllers, that must do something like ''session[:logged_in] = true'' in their setup. How can this be refactored? In unit tests I would simply create a LoggedInControllerTest base class, that all my functional tests would derive from. And another small question: In my controller specifications I often have to decide whether to

I am very, very new to rails (and ruby) and am working on a view extension helper method. In a template I have <%= my_helper params %> my_helper does some system calls and ends up placing an image file in the public images folder (which I referenced within the plugin using RAILS_ROOT). I want the helper to then return an appropriate image link to the template. I want to use the

Hi! I have some questions about quota plugin. I have taken quota-maildir as example. What does the function maildir_quota_root_get_resources? When it is called? I have tested including some log messages, but it wasn't appears in the log file. When dovecot calls this function? It is an important function? Regards / / -- Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou <thiago.monaco at

Here''s a controller spec I wrote, it''s for a very simple RESTful controller (well, aren''t all RESTful controllers simple? :) I''ve created a couple spec helper methods to refactor some of the common code...for example, require_login_and_correct_user creates two specifications: one for when the user isn''t logged in, and one when the user is logged in but