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When using named RESTful routes, when should one use the generated ..._path helpers, and when the ..._url helpers? Say I did this in routes.rb: map.resources :users Where should I use users_path, new_user_path, etc., and where should I use users_url, new_user_url...? Thanks! Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

I am working on our (newly renamed) authentication feature. The current scenario is: Scenario: Non-administrators should not set administrator ability Given I have no users And I add a user named "admin" as an administrator And I add a user named "myuser" as not an administrator When the user named "myuser" authenticates And the user

Hi, how is it possible that I can use the restful routes helpers (e.g. new_user_path) in controller specs? I browsed the source code but I couldn''t find the magic. I''m just curious and would appreciate any hint... thanks Andi

I''ve been writing a gem to implement and extend common controller functionality so that Rails can be used with Javascript frameworks like AngularJS (which we are using), Ember.js, etc. in such a way that the user doesn''t have to tweak a a bunch of rails g controller boilerplate code to provide services for use in these frameworks that in turn would require various changes to

Hi!. Is there a way to call to another controller with link_to_remote? Something like this: <%= link_to_remote "Tests", { :controller => "tests", :action => "tester" } %> Salu2... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

I''ve got rspec and zentest installed as well as the rspec rails plugin, and my model/controller specs all pass and work well. I can''t seem to get views to work though - 100% of the specs fail with: NoMethodError in ''/users/show.rhtml should render attributes in <p>'' protected method `render'' called for

Newb here. I have a form and a value that is being displayed ... and I have no idea where the value came from. I have done a <%= debugger; '''' %> in the form and, indeed, the debugger stops at the statement. I have tried to trace through the code to see where the value came from ... and I gave up. So ... what in Rails initializes the fields of a form? -- Posted via

I am using prototype to create modal popups for my login and register pages, but the fields are populating with the data from certain variables. For example, I have a show page that finds a user like so: @user = User.find(params[:id]) and my form uses: <% form_for :user, :url => users_path do |f| -%> so it is populating the form with the data from @user. Should I rename the @user

Hey! Foe example i have next code: test "should update user" do put :update, id: @user.to_param, user: @input_attributes assert_redirected_to users_path end What return id: @user.to_param? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group

So I got CanCan and Devise working well. I have two types of users: Admins and Nonadmins. Admins can edit all of Nonadmins profiles. The problem is, every user (either Admin or Nonadmin) belongs to an Account or Organization. Admins should only be able to edit users from their own Account or Organization. I was able to do that too. The problem is, I can''t display the Create New User

Hi Im trying to link my User model to a Teams model. I seem to be getting the following errors. Any help would be great as Im just new to RoR Thanks error ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in UsersController#update Team(#2183395560) expected, got String(#2174675960) app/controllers/users_controller.rb:67:in `update'' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:66:in `update''

Rails newbie here, I have been stuck on this for two days and can''t figure out why its not working. I want users to confirm/verify themselves by entering their current/old password before any information is updated. This is what My user_controller update action looks like I''m currently using rails 3.2 with the basic has_secured_password authentication that comes with it. def

Hi, I need help with some AJAX in rails 3. So basically, I have a select option in my index page for my User model. This select option is a form that modifies the user''s type. The " :remote => true " works and the type is changed when hit the submit button. But, nothing happens in the browser. The user is updated. I''m actually not sure where to put either my JS /

is there a way to access a restful resource with mike''s new link_to_remote helper? something like: <%= link_to_remote h(user.name), :update => "div_id", :url => user_url(user) %> of course, that doesn''t work. i have also been trying things like: :url => controller.asset_host +

Hello, Is there any way to test controllers using cucumber. I was doing it with rspec but since cucumber''s description is good how can i proceed testing it with cucumber? For e.g. I have a scenario of user creation like Feature: User Scenarios Scenario: Successfull creation of user Given a new user When the user fill all the mandatory details Then that user should get

I have 3 tables keywords (keywords attached to a file) files (info about the file) paths (path for the file) [This is a legacy database, so I can''t change this] keyword belongs_to file and file belongs_to path. Users need to be able to search the keywords, but they only have access to certain volumes, so the results need to be limited by the path. I also need to show paging,

Hi guys, In my routes file I have the following nested resource: resources :users do collection do get ''posts'' end end However, when I visit this URL: http://localhost:3000/users/posts, I get this error: "The action ''posts'' could not be found for UsersController" In my UsersController I have the following: class

Hi all, I''ve trying to look for answers for my problem but so far couldn''t find one, hopefully you can tell me what to do. This problem is so ubiquitous to Web Development, pertaining the fact that the web is stateless, i.e. how to maintain form''s state between postback. Basically, I have a form with some validations run for some of the fields, whenever the user submit

So I am getting the error NoMethodError in UsersController#show error undefined method `feed'' for nil:NilClass {"authenticity_token"=>"zalkdfsjfksjd;lfs;lfksdkf/2tPzo=", "login"=>"session", "password"=>"admin", "commit"=>"Log in"} Why is login being set to "session"? Instead of the

Is it possible to automatically direct someone to a POST? Whenever a user comes to my site, I''m automatically creating a user in the DB for that person, however I''m also trying to stick to REST principles otherwise. My idea was to have a before_filter :check_user that checked to see whether this user existed or redirected to a POST users_url() to automatically create the