similar to: OpenHash class I thought I would share...

class Mash < Hash def method_missing(name, value=nil) key = name.to_s.sub(/[=?!]$/,'''').to_sym self[key] = value if name.to_s[-1,1] == "=" self[key] = Mash.new unless self[key] || value return self[key] end end Its like OpenStruct...so what can you do? require ''pp'' m = Mash.new m.first_name = "john" m.last_name =

Hello, I''m completely new to Rspec testing and I''m finding it very difficult to mock specific objects. In this test, I have a before block setup as such: [code] before do setup_controller_for_warden controller.session[:operation_id] = 1 @operator = Factory :operator sign_in :operator, @operator @persist_herd = Herd.new

Hey, campineros. And many good handshakes to zimbatm for getting some patches applied. So, yeah, I''d really like to get rid of any serious dependancies with this 1.6 release. Anything that''s not in stdlib has to go. Of course, camping-omnibus will still assume the whole ActiveRecord, Markaby, Mongrel setup that''s in the history books. Metaid can be removed and

Hi all, I want to extend AR::B is such a way as to be able to support and display different language versions of objects. I know of and have tried Globalize but still want to do this on my own for a multitude of reasons (the educational value probably being most important). My table for the objects has columns named like en_name, de_name, fr_name, en_description, de_description,

i''m using method_missing to implement a simple metaprogramming that checks for account rights. in Account << ActiveRecord::Base i defined: def method_missing(m, a = {}) if m.to_s =~ /^has_right_(.*)$/ ... calls another method passing $1 parameter end end it seems to override some of the active record methods based on method missing. in the console it seems to work ok so i

I have the following two methods: def ProductFile::find_images(mode, prod_id) # convert to symbol in case it is not (most commonly it may be a String) mode = mode.to_sym case mode when :all, :first ProductFile::find(mode, :conditions => ["product_id = ? AND file_type LIKE ?", prod_id, "image%"]) end end def ProductFile::find_documents(mode,

hello, I installed a rails app on dreamhost, which I''m building based on the Comatose plugin, and it went smoothly for the first version. Now I uploaded a second version where I broke down the Comatose code into a regular rails app, which works alright locally, but can''t get routing to work the same as before on the server. I believe I double-checked all gotchas mentioned

I came across an issue in my code and after a hard debug session I found something that smells. First the context of my issue. I have a AR object that has a polymorphic belongs_to currently tied to nothing, I want to dump it to YAML. record.to_yaml This raises the following exception: TypeError: wrong argument type nil (expected Data) from

Hi all, I realized the current implmentation has a problem - you can only get the last value set? I realized, after looking at the old C code, that it actually stores values in a hash and marshals the hash, not the values themselves. That seemed clunky to me, though. I thought it would be more interesting if we just marshalled the entire mmap object and passed that back and forth.

I''m trying to use the Ferret DRB server to avoid concurrency issues when using multiple mongrels. I can successfully add and edit data on my index via the DRB server, however, when I search the index, I get the following error: DRb::DRbConnError (DRb::DRbServerNotFound): /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1647:in `current_server'' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1709:in

Hi, Just wondering when one would use "include" over "extend"? Both seem to bring in methods to the class no? The context is I''m just trying to understand why both are used with the acts_as_audited plugin: Full extract from plugin (used within here): ================================================== # Copyright (c) 2006 Brandon Keepers # # Permission is hereby

The following construct is an ActiveSupport-ism: returning(Foo.new) do |foo| ... end I don''t especially like it, since it''s both more verbose and less efficient than the direct alternative: foo = Foo.new ... foo It doesn''t occur many times in Merb, so does anyone agree with me that it should be removed? I tried doing this (patch attached) and I find

I have a couple forms that I''d like to be able to validate and automatically populate, but it shouldn''t be based on AR. In fact I often have a bunch of small forms that I can''t really justify writing a whole new model class for anyway. I''d like to validate the form input, and then use rails helpers to automatically populate the form if validations fail.

Hello I''ve been struggling with something for hours that I thought would be a simple job. Hopefully somebody can shed some light on what I''m trying to do :o) First of all I''ll explain what I''m trying to achieve. In a store application I want to have products and product variations. A product variation should inherit all of its properties from product unless

Hello, We are working on a centralized report generating project, which calls for data processing on different servers and then centralizes the reports into a single project. What we would like to do is have a Monitor BackgrounDRb worker call another BackgrounDRb worker to process data on a different server, and then have our Monitor Worker collect the data and then store it according to our

so i guess the parser changed or something.. -------------- next part -------------- Index: camping.rb =================================================================== --- camping.rb (revision 194) +++ camping.rb (working copy) @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ c=self/c;c="//"+ at env.HTTP_HOST+c if c[/^\//];URI(c)end;def/p;p[/^\//]?@root+p : p end;def errors_for o;ul.errors{o.errors.each_full{|x|li

I am trying to load conversion data into a postgresql database using activewarehouse-etl. I can create a flat file output from the conversion data without problem. However, when I try to load into the table using the information contained in config/database.yml I see this error: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record/ base.rb:1959:in `method_missing'':

Hi all, I would like to discuss a design idea I have in mind with you, in order to get critical feedback. ActiveRecord supports single table inheritance(STI) "per se", BUT you must add all possible instance variables(properties) of all subclasses to the "base table"(as columns). I would like to circumvent this restriction. Say we have a class AbstractGenericThing <

After searching arround I found a quite smart solution to me for binding form fields to model in an active way. I use aggregations with single value objects such as class Percentage attr_accessor :value def initialize(value) @value = (value.is_a? String) ? value.tr('' %'', '''').to_f : value end def to_s return unless value

Currently I''m developing a multilingual app on rails 2.2. I liked very much the idea of Xavier Defrang to provide a locale-aware accessor for the fields that needs a translation: http://defrang.com/articles/2005/12/02/playing-with-rails-i18n I modified code a little to make it work with rails 2.2: def self.localize(*attribute_names) attribute_names.each do |attribute_name|