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With the help of several heroes here yesterday I beat my way into a working solution to adding comments to one or more models in my application using acts_as_comentable. Great plugin, but my implementation is lame. I need enlightenment. I have users who log in. For several views I want to let them add comments. Enter act_as_commentable which does just this -- it''s polymorphic, so you

Hi to all. I''ve a very big problem. I know this can seem very loing, but please, try to read it. I have a simply blog, with posts and their comments. I''ve two tables in my db, posts, with post id, text and comments_count to store the number of comments-children of each post (as recomanded to do in AWDWR); and the table comments, with comment id, post_id for the post

First public release of Production Log Analyzer! Download it at: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=586 The Production Analyzer lets you find out which pages on your site are dragging you down. pl_analyze requires the use of SyslogLogger (included) because the default Logger doesn''t give any way to associate lines logged to a request. SyslogLogger gives you many other

Please can someone show me the correct syntax for a hidden field in forms, this is my code <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <div class="form1"> <table width="auto" boader="8" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <% hidden_field ''line_item'', ''client_id'', :value

should be trivial but I can''t figure this out from api <%= hidden_field ''certifications'', ''personnel_id'', {value = #{@personnel.id}} %> I want to pass the value of ''id'' field in my form to the certifications controller as personnel_id Craig

Instead of the user entering a name, I want to pass their screen name along with supplied :title and :content fields. here is what I''ve got.. f.hidden_field :author, user.screen_name here is the create method from Posts controller: def create @title = "Gravity" @user = User.find(params[:id]) # this does not work, and I don''t know why if request.post?

I am getting this error when trying to use the remove link explained in the Railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2 error: $(link).previous("input[type=hidden]") is undefined remove_fields()applic...1065175 (line 6) function onclick(event) { remove_fields(this); return false; }()1 (line 2) [Break on this error]

Hi, I am new to ROR. PLease tell me what is syntax of creating hidden field in form inside RHTML file. I knonw the syntax for text box (<%= text_field ''product_item'',''product_id'', :value=>product.id%>) But I don''t know syntax for hidden field(like <input type=hidden> in HTML). Please tell me. Thanx in advance. Prash -- Posted via

I have a question about the acts_as_commentable plugin. In the instructions it says to use hidden fields to pass the model type and model id. This is somewhat confusing me. I am trying to add comments to a user object and am not sure how to specify the model type. This is the link that I am using to get the comment view where one will enter his/her comments: <%= link_to "add a

Hi All, I am just trying to learn ruby/rails so please don''t flame me if this is a stupid question. As a learning project I decided to create my own blog using ROR. I have created a controller that shows paged blog entries, and below each blog is a list of comments along with a form alowing the user to add a new comment. To create the form for the comment entry I used form_for

For the life of me I can''t get it to work. Here is an example of my syntax. I''m trying to make comment.name a link to comment.web_site only if there is a comment.web_site. Can someone please help? <%= link_to_if(comment.web_site.length > 0, comment.name, comment.web_site {"class" => "comment_by"}) %> -- Posted via

Hello all, I''m getting this weird ''<input name value=''2'' type=''hidden'' />'' text printed out in my form. See attached image. I''ve spent too much time trying to figure it out already and it''s not going to stop me from moving on for now. As you can see it''s still very early on. I''m using

I''m trying to construct a form that would request a page using GET and would like my variables to be simple like q,v, etc so that the URL it calls is something like: /controller/action?q=80&v=100 However, I''m having trouble using the basic form helpers (probably doing something wrong) cos expressions such as: <%= hidden_field "q", "v", {:value

Hello. I want to select an item from a select list and have that result in an ajax call that updates two sections on the page. Here is the code in the controller def create ... render :update do |page| page.replace_html ''list_items'', :partial => ''lists/list_items'' page.replace_html ''add_item'', :partial =>

Hi Everyone - I have a rails 0.10.1 application deployed on a Windows 2003 server under XAMPP Lite 1.4.12. Running under CGI, the application works fine (a bit slow, obviously, but no problems). When I run under FastCGI, the app is fine until I leave it alone for a few hours. For example, last night I switched it to FastCGI and everything seemed to be working fine. When I woke up this

I''m basically a Ruby noobie. At the moment I''m having a fair bit of trouble trying to figure out what''s going wrong here (partial template): <%= @project = Project.find(@the_id) if current_user.userid == @project.client hidden_field ''messages'', ''recipient'', ''value'' => @project.project_manager

Hello, I would like to know is there is a way to avoid poluting the views with tons of <% %> ? Like this <%= start_form_tag() %> <%= text_field_tag(''category[title]'', category.title, {:size => 20, :maxlength => 128}) %> <% if not category.parent_id.nil? %> <%= select("category", "parent_id", Category.find(:all,

With the help of the Rails Recipes have got a self-referential HABTM relationship working, but I''m really struggling with getting a new entry from a form accepted. i should say here that the form is also submitting info for the join table too. So in my model I have: class Type < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :subtypes, :class_name => ''Type'',

In the example below, what is the dash doing between the class attribute and array: (field_helpers - [:label, :check_box, :radio_button, :fields_for, :hidden_field, :file_field]).each do |selector| -- 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 want to insert onto database the Current DateTime Value into database field "Store_date" with datatype (DATETIME). How to do tihs? I am usiing hidden variable into my form as follows:- ======================= <%= hidden_field("store", "store_date", :value =>:datetime ) %> ======================= But when I m submmittng form I couldn''t find