similar to: capitalizing an attribute - view, controller, or model?

This question is more towards understanding how things work rather than trying to just get something to work. I have something like this in my user model. def full_name first_name + " " + last_name end This works find if I use it for display values in a collection_for_select. options_from_collection_for_select( @users, :id, :full_name) It displays the full name in the

According to the documentation<http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector.html#method-i-humanize> of ActiveSupport::Inflector: *humanize*(lower_case_and_underscored_word) Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a trailing “_id”, if any. * Example: humanize("employee_salary") # => "Employee salary"* I would

I managed to find toupper() which translates all letters to uppercase. Is there a function to capitalize only the first letter of word or phrase ? Thanks

I''m using Rails Recipes to create a login form but instead of username and password, my setup is firstname, lastname, password. I seemed to be gramatically challenged and not sure how to set up the parameter list. Can anyone offer up a suggestion. The book shows the method starting like: if request.post? user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''username = ?'' ,

I can''t figure out why I am getting a failure. It renders out fine in the browser. <h1>New member</h1> <%= error_messages_for :member %> <% form_for(:member, :url => members_path) do |f| %> <fieldset> <legend>Member Info</legend> <p><label for="member[first_name]">First Name:</label> <%=

I''ve added a drop-down list of first and last names of borrowers to a form. How do I sort them by LastName, FirstName in the drop-down? I''m using code based on the cookbook example: <select name="borrower[borrower_id]"> <% @borrowers.each do |borrower| %> <option value="<%= borrower.id %>"> <%= borrower.FirstName <<

Hi All, I''ve searched on this topic and can''t seem to find anyone results saying others have had the same problem, so hope someone here can help. if in routes, I map addresses: map.resources :addresses If get the following routes: addresses new_Address edit_Address Note that the singular routes (new, edit) are capitalized. to prove the issue, in console, I can type: >>

Trying to use Eric''s help and Amy Hoy''s page of playing with auto_complete and decided that the script/console is the place to rapidly test. I have this feeling that CONCAT isn''t working for postgresql... c = find_by_sql(SELECT * FROM clients WHERE CONCAT (first_name,middle_initial,last_name) = "johnadams") ^ (irb):61:

Hi all, For a dropdownlist (showing "Company - FirstName Lastname'') I want to fill an object @project_contacts with "Name" from table Companies and "Firstname" and "Lastname" from table contacts. Any idea? Regards, Gerard. -- "Who cares if it doesn''t do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS

Hi I use mongoid for rails application and I try to do @users = User.where("first_name = ? OR last_name = ? OR type = ?", firstname, lastname, usertype) but I am getting error but when i put: @users = User.where(:first_name => firstname, :last_name => lastname, :type => usertype).all the program run successfully but i need OR to execute in mongodb Also I need sql LIKE to

Hi, I have some questions about searching with Ferret. I have a user index with first_name, last_name and full_name (which is just first plus last with a space). Here are a couple of questions: 1) If I store the fields tokenized, it appears as though queries are case-insensitive. However, for untokenized, the query is case-sensitive. How can I make the untokenized searches case-insensitive?

Hi all, running into a little problem here. I''ve a list of things with a "New thing" link beneath it. When you click that link, obviously, a new thing shall be created. Now, that works pretty fine for things that don''t have foreign keys, but for things that do it crashes, since there is not yet a thing.other_thing.name available. I suspect you can somewhere in

Hi all, happily coding along, but it seems a belongs_to record is not saved. # Create some stuff def create_project @contact = Contact.new @project = Project.new(@params[''project'']) @project_contact = ProjectContact.new(@params[''collect'']) @project.project_contact = @project_contact contact =

I have a table of employees with the fields "last_name" and "first_name". I would like to populate a collection select so that what the user sees in the drop-down is "Last Name, First Name". So far, the only way I have figured out to do this is by using "find_by_sql" in my model, like so: @employees.find_by_sql("SELECT id, concat(last_name,

I am trying to clean up unnecessary lines (even as I hack my way forward adding more garbage) I have two questions on lines I have trying to keep the database and session info reflecting changes: def associate_pupil_to_teacher @teacher = session[:teacher] @pupil = Pupil.find(params[:id]) @teacher.pupils << @pupil @teacher.save #Q1 session[:teacher] = @teacher #Q2 end #Q1 do i

Hi, from example(capitalize) of the Hmisc package (v 0.8.3) you get: > capitalize(c("Hello", "bob", "daN")) [1] "Hello" "Bob" "daN" Is that "daN" correct? If so, then this behavior that only *all lowercase strings*, which the code indicates, will be capitalized is not documented. > Hmisc::capitalize function

I am sitting with the Agile book on my desk and scratching my head at the discussion on aggregation - perhaps that isn''t what I need. I have a db called clients. fields include - first_name middle_initial last_name I want to combine them all into one name element in a list view. I can add/edit the fields separately but in the list view, I only want the one combo field. Is there a

Hi, first of all I will apologize in advance for my presumably noobish question, but I''m only starting to learn Rails and am a little confused with all the changes in 2.0.1. There are as good as no tutorials out yet and the 2 or 3 screencasts I''ve seen deal with the creation of both the app and the database. Now my problem is that I already have a database with a fair amount of

I have a User model class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :account accepts_nested_attributes_for :account, :allow_destroy => true validates_associated :account attr_accessible :account_attributes is working fine, validating and updating both records (User and Account), but I caanot display the value in the form when is updated, ex: below the firstname is not displayed but

Hi, I''m a newbie on both Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and I''m struggling with my first app. I have a table with a column called "employee_id" which is a foreing key associating it with the "employees" table. I have populated both tables. When I run "ruby script/generate scaffold <model name> <controller>" it generates a web page with all