similar to: Using view helpers from a controller

Hi, Is it possible to use the ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper.text_field with an instance variable instead of a model. e.g. In the controller: def meth @value = ''hi there'' end In view: <%= text_field ''value'', nil %> It doesn''t work with what is above (doesn''t like the nil) and produces very strange results replacing nil with

I''ve got Liquid installed and maybe since I''m not coming in with Django experience, I''m completely mystified by how to pass anything worthwhile to a template. In my controller: def preview @customer = Customer.find(1) @letter = Letter.find(1) @liquid_body = Liquid::Template.parse(@letter.body) @x =

Hello I have a view for user registration but when i try to view this page i get this error: undefined method `stringify_keys'' for "username":String Here''s my registration.rhtml: <% form_tag :controller => :user, :action => :register do %> <fieldset> <label for="username">Username>/label><br/><%= text_field_tag

hello PPL, I''ve seen now that the _form.rhtml generated by script/scaffold is populated by <%= text_field ''model'', ''field'' %> without _tag! but only text_field_tag is to be found in the 1.1.2 documentation.. (like in the rest of Module ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper there is _tag) I''ve tried to use <%= select instead of

I''m playing around with a list of todos, which I want to render as <ul>''s that can nest to an arbitrary level, so I wrote this as a helper method: def print_todo(t) str = "<ul>\n\t<li>" str += render_to_string(:partial => ''todo'', :object => t) + "\n" t.children.each { |c| str +=

Hi, Its taking me a long time to get my head around the Liquid plugin. I have a couple of questions which hopefully someone can help me with... - How difficult would it be to add some kind of Filter or Tag which would allow other Liquid templates to be included into the current Liquid template (eg. similar to render(:file => "filename") - How difficult would it be to add

I want to pass the partial to a Javascript function ( which uses the data for for creating an iframe) render_to_string is not accessible form a view thanks in advance -- Roberto Saccon - http://rsaccon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060313/8165bcec/attachment.html

Hi all, I have a query about how to access helper methods in a library. I''m trying to create a custom liquid drop thing which has a form in it (a poll), and I''m unable to get form_for to work with "vote_poll_path". Here''s my code for the custom drop (this is in a file in lib): def render(context) @vote = Vote.new(:poll_id => @poll.id) output =

Hi, I have one problem with validation I am creating e-shop and I have products. This view look like this: <% for product in @category.products %> <div class="produktyBox"> <%= product.title %><br /> Price: <br /> <div style="color:red; font-size:large; font-weight:bold; margin- bottom:5px"><%=

Hi All, Accidentally posted this in comp.lang.ruby, now trying again in hopefully the right place: I''m having a bizarre problem. I have a page that let''s you share a link from the current page with other users. You can share with other users of the site (by selecting them from your list of friends) or arbitrary users by entering e-mail addresses. In both scenarios the site

Hi, I have 2 models: Model 1: er, Columns: <er_id, er_name> Model 2: er_process, Columns: <er_id, er_process_name> er_id is a foreign key for Model 2. When I am creating a new er_process or editing an existing one, I have been successful to use collection_select to show the available er''s so that the user can select a particular er by its name (to populate the er_id

Hi, do you know how to add into this balise a class attribut: <% form_tag :action => ''search'' do -%> in order to do this in HTML: <form action="/people/search" method="post" class="foo"> I had try to use the official documentation (http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormTagHelper.html#M001036) but that

Simple problem but I can''t find a solution. I have this tag: <%=text_field_tag("query", params[:query], :autocomplete => "off" ) %> Its a search field box. Question: how do I update the text in the text field???? i.e is there a rails equivalent like query.setText("some text") Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I have a model with two entities (document and asset) and a 1:1 relationship defined between them (every model has an asset). I want to generate a rthml view that generates a hash for document attributes and a nested hash for asset attributes (for example {:document =>{:name=>XXX :asset => {date =>XXX}}) According to the Pragmatic Programmers book (page 355), the input

I am trying to rewrite my website in Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9.2. Can some one help me convert my observe_field which is working under Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3. I would like to avoid using JQuery as over the last year everything I have tried in JQuery has failed, including this one. Perhaps due to my lack of knowledge. I would not like to install the legacy upgrade. What I have in my website is several

I put the following code at the end of my index.rhtml: <%= form_tag :action => ''reverse'' %> <%= end_form_tag %> and I get the following code generated: <form method="post" action="/chapter3/reverse"/> </body> ... no </form> tag I''ve checked in ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper and the

Hi -- I''ve got a very strange error. I have an action called ''commit_input'' on a controller called ''SiteVisitController''. This definately exists, and is called from the functional test for it, and passes fine. My problem is with the form that is supposed to call this action. The form tag is: <%=

I want to clean my code by moving the duplicated lines : partial = render_to_string( :partial => "#{file}", :formats => [:html] ) to the pagination_partials function. ================================================= WORKING CODE: ================================================= def render_format_search_partial(file, options={}) # TODO remove this line to use the one

Hi All! This is not a problem in general but i''ve just missed the point. If my application has a global state, which i have to use both throughout ActionController and ActiveView, then, where to place that state? E.g. if I do this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base protected def authenticated? !user.nil? end end then I can''t use that from any

Hi, I have a long running task which generates JavaScript to files and I am hoping to move this to a backgroundrb worker. The javascript is currently generated with call to render_to_string: File.open(File.join(target_folder, ''all.js''), "w") do |file| file.puts(render_to_string :partial => ''partials/shared/javascript/tags'', :locals => {