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Hi all, I''ve been Googling this one for a while now, and haven''t found a satisfactory answer. It has been posted here before by someone else, but it seems to have got forgotten, so here goes - perhaps someone can think up a way around the problem? In ApplicationController, I have the following method: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base <snip>

I''m already successfully testing before_filters in application_controller courtesy of this blog post: http://www.movesonrails.com/articles/2008/01/23/spec-ing-your-application-controller However, i can;''t work out how to test the sort of method that is added to application_controller so that all controllers can use it. It must be something simple that i''m doing

Hi all I want to outsource an extension for ApplicationController, that I had in application.rb so far, into a plugin. I have created this plugin, and in init.rb I load require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/lib/application_controller'' In lib/application_controller.rb I have the following code: class ApplicationController before_filter :prepare_user ... end This worked

Good morning rspec people! Still rspec nuby: I must do something wrong obviously. How can I spec about redirect_to at ApplicationController describe ApplicationController do it "method login_required should redirect to home path without login" do pending "I tried to use controller.login_required.should be_redirected and got NoMethodError with nil object

I''m trying to migrate to Rails 2, but keep getting these errors all over the place: ActionView::TemplateError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 3) On line #61 of users/new.rhtml 58: <% if @captcha_error -%><div class="fieldWithErrors">< % end -%> 59: <table class="signup"><tr> 60: <td

Is there an way to tell the browser to scroll to a certain anchor from an RJS template? I''m doing a page update, adding stuff at the bottom and want to browser to go there after it''s been added. Thanks, Helzer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.

Hey How do I access methods that I have defined in helpers? __________________________________________ Helper id_browser_helper.rb: module IdBrowserHelper def table_identities(message) render_text message end end ___________________________________________ Controller id_browser_controller.rb: class IdBrowserController < ApplicationController def view_genre()

Folks, I''d like to spec the behaviors that I''m adding to ApplicationController. Specifically, I''m adding: def authenticated? session[:username] != nil end I described ApplicationController, but couldn''t figure out how to call the authenticated method. I''m probably going about this quite wrongly and would appreciate any hints? Thanks, Scott --

Hi there, How is it possible to get access to an ApplicationController property from a view? Consider this (simplified) situation: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def folder_id @folder_id = params[:id] return @folder_id end end class FolderController < ApplicationController def show @folder = Folder.find_by_id(folder_id) end end So far,

I track svn/trunk of Rails using svn:externals Some change to Rails committed in the last 1-2 days broke my subclass of ApplicationController The example, below, works with Rails 1.0, but in today''s svn, it dies with the following error: "superclass mismatch for class FooController" class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base end class FooController <

This seems to have happened when I upgraded from Rails 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 (although I''m not 100% sure but in applicationcontroller doesn''t seem to be called when I try to access my default controller (I mean the one that''s mapped in routes.rb like this map.root :controller => "main") What this means is that all of a sudden I have to duplicate these types of

I created a user login system in ApplicationController. There is a def called signin. It needs a view file, signin.rhtml I have a couple of other controllers inheriting from ApplicationController. Where can I place the view file so it is viewable across all controllers? I tried the root view folder but that didn''t work. Right now, I would have to copy and paste the signin.rhtml file

Yes, more dependencies.rb fun! As far as I''m able to ascertain, these errors started appearing after upgrading from Rails 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 and persist in 2.3.3. They''re highly nonderministic and appear rather sporadically, which makes it extremely frustrating. Multiple developers on our team have experienced this problem across varying versions of Ruby/Rails. They''re

I''m trying to write some tests for the ApplicationController as shared tests that can be run in all of my other controller tests, but am getting a nil.rewrite error. Below is what I have... describe AccountController do it_should_behave_like ''Application controller'' end describe ''Application controller'', :shared => true do it

Hello list, I''m trying to start my Rails server after doing a long complex switch from Postgres to MySQL, and I''m getting the following error: => Booting WEBrick... /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in `const_missing'': uninitialized constant ApplicationController (NameError) from

Hi ! I''ve pasted Rails Recipe #31: Authentication code, but I wish to use these methods in several controllers. Then I pasted them in ApplicationController, using before_filter method in all the other needed controllers. The problem is that Rails always tries to render a missing template inside the current controller ( app/views/controllers/admin/article/signin_form.rhtml ) while

When running rake updatepo with gettext 1.10, for several controllers it gives Ignored ''app/controllers/sample_controller.rb''. Solve dependencies first. /Users/sava/code/sht/trunk/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:266:in `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant ApplicationController Rails is 1.2.5, frozen in

I''m dynamically generating menu options based on the currently logged in user: current_user. My menus are setup on the applicatin.rhtml file. The current_user is defined in the application controller. But, attempting to assign it a value while in the application controller results in an ''undefined method'' error. ApplicationController .... def current_user @cu =

Hi, I''m trying to added layered web services to my application and from some reason it''s not working for me. i''m working with ruby 1.84, rails 1.0. here are my files: 1. app/apis/kate_api.rb: class KateAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base inflect_names false api_method :check_version, :expects => [:string], :returns => [:string] end 2.

Have the Wrox guide, but still having problems getting my hello world to run (very frustrating! ;-) Installed latest InstantRails package for Windows (XP). Thank you so much for helping!! Dirk After creating the project directories, I created my \app\controllers\greeting_controller.rb file: class GreetingController < ApplicationController def greeting end end Then put in my