similar to: Getting access to route-generating helpers from a migration

I have a controller named xyzController under app/controllers I have a helper class named xyzHelper under app/helpers. Shouldn''t I be able to call methods from xyzHelper inside of xyzController without any problems? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, I have an ActiveRecord object that I need to be able to uniquely identify _before_ I actually save the object (I may not end up saving the object based on conditions). This is because I want to use the ID in another context (a file name in the filesystem). Depending on conditions, I may or may not need to do a lot of stuff between the time that I generate the object ID and actually

All, I have a link that used to work but now generates a routing error. The link URL is a straightforward controller/action/id and of course, I have map.connect '':controller/:action/:id'' in my routes.rb file. When I click on this link, I get a routing error. What''s potentially interesting about this URL is that the controller name is mixed case. Class is

All, My Rails app. is required to interface with some pre-existing stuff that consumes the XML output of a Java 1.5 WebRowSet. If you''ve never seen once of these beasts, it is basically an XML-ized version of SQL data, chock full of table and column specific metadata. I should be able to generate this without too much trouble, but wondered in anyone had any advice for me about how

All, Just read in the Capistrano manual about the Capistrano "migrate" task. There it says that: "By default, all this task does is change to the directory of your current release (as indicated by the current symlink), and run rake RAILS_ENV=production migrate. You can specify that it should run against the latest release (regardless of what the current release is) by setting

All, In a template, I have <%= text_field :target_list, :DateReceived, { :title => ''uploaded_at'', :class => ''target_list_info'', :disabled => ''true'' } %> Here is the DateReceived method on my

I''m trying to follow these instructions to include the Javascript progress bar on a page. However, I''m confused. In my controller, when I try to access update_upload_progress_bar_js which is defined in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/upload_progress_helper.rb I get a "no such method" error. Can I use helpers in my controller class and, if so, how do I

I have a model that deals with HTML and I want to use the text_helper.sanitize method to strip the HTML of Javascript. However, it doesn''t appear that I can get easy access to the text_helper methods from within a model. Anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? In general, I think that there are some ActionView helpers which are generic enough to want to use in a model class.

All, I have a route specified as: map.connect '':folder/:filename'', :folder => /htmlfiles/, :controller => "eSimply", :action => "preview_HTML" I expect it to invoke the "preview_HTML" action in the "eSimply" controller. Given an argument of "htmlfiles/xyz.html", it keeps saying that it can''t find an

Hi, I am trying to spec helper methods in a Rails project, but it seems the specs fail with the error: You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.<< if the restful routes helper are used either in spec files, or the helper file. What can I be doing wrong? Or how can I fix this. Thanks! -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,

I have some code that is simply formatting and parsing URLs and I really don''t want to associate it with a view or a controller or a model - I just want it to be available as a utility class. Where should this utility class go? I would have to import it into my controller using "require" correct? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, I''ve decided to jump into Migrations before I get too far along on the DB side of things. I already have some tables built, and I went ahead and built the migration that would have created them from scratch, and I made sure that there was a self.down section to drop them. I wanted to verify that I could roll back so I figured I would use rake to drop these pre-existing tables

All, I have a left navigation partial that I want to dynamically generate CSS classes for based on the current controller action. In my ERb template, I have <DIV class="<%= get_menu_display_style(''login_form'') %>"> In application.rb, I have the method get_menu_display_style defined as: public def get_menu_display_style(action_requested)

I had a situation where I wanted to use a <%= %> (scriptlet) in my text_field call to set the "disabled" attribute on the text field, like so: <%= text_field(:current_job, ''removeLinkPos'', :value => '''', :id => ''offset'', :maxlength => 2, :disabled => <%= sometest ? ''true'' :

All, I''m having a hell of a time figuring out what is going on here. I''m trying to override one of my getters so that I can format it a certain way in my form. But I can''t seem to get text_field to call the appropriate method on my object. So here''s my getter: public def FAX fax = read_attribute(:FAX) puts fax

All, I''m attempting to use "form_tag_with_upload_progress" http://railsmanual.org/module/ActionView::Helpers::UploadProgressHelper/form_tag_with_upload_progress However, I''m having a hard time understanding what I''m supposed to provide and where in order to take advantage of it. There''s a lot of information and I''m sure I can figure it

I have a regular plain old static HTML file under my RAILS_ROOT that I would like to serve as itself (without any dynamic anything). How can I write a route to "pass the request through" succesfully. I tried map.connect ''path_to_file'', :controller => nil, :action => nil, :id => nil but that didn''t work. Also, note that I have this route

I dont'' understand why it''s not possible to have a conditional redirection in rendering respond_to do |format| format.js { render :update do |page| page.redirect_to posts_url if @located page.replace_html ''error_message'', "Error..." page << "$(''popup_error'').popup.show();"

All, I have two migration files, file 1 and file 2. For reasons that I don''t want to go into unless I must, I want to only run file 2 on my production database (file 1 contains a bunch of table creation stuff for already existing tables). I figured if I created a schema_info table and set the version in it to 1, then I could just run rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production and just

I have a couple of resources, one nested in the other, such that my resource spec in routes.rb is: map.resources :parents, :has_many => :children This will generate a route for a new child that assumes that the parent has already been saved, something like: /parents/:parent_id/children/new But what if I want a route that handles the case where the parent resource is also new, and thus