similar to: Rendering User attributes in XML

I''m currently doing all of this just to have a drop-down list of Courses for a particular student: ===== edit template ===== <%= f.select :course, @courses, :selected => @student.course.id %> =================== ===== students controller ===== def edit @student = Student.find(params[:id]) @page_title = "Edit #{@student.full_name}" @courses =

Hi, I''ve done AJAX calls to Rails'' Controllers before yet never required to generate a response back to the view. In this respect, I have tried to keep it moronically simple and just add a node to see that it works, yet the response doesn''t come through / isn''t interpreted as it should. Long story short, code : // Have to use Mootools to integrate a

I''m having a problem in Rails 2 where respond_to is always rendering the RXML view even in the HTML rendering response. Can anyone tell me why this might be happening? Here''s a code snippet: respond_to do |accepts| accepts.html accepts.xml { render :action => ''show.rxml'', :layout => false} end If I change this to the following it works fine:

Hi all, I am getting ActiveRecord to produce XML with render :xml => @user.to_xml However, on the client end it is a bit annoying for me to deal with attributes like first-name. I would much rather have first_name. Is there any way for me to turn off the behavior of converting _ to -? This seems to be done by a call to dasherize inside the to_xml of

Got a quick question regarding the latest and greatest: module ActionController module Routing SEPARATORS = %w( / ; . , ? ) Why is period (.) one of the separators? As it stands, the new routing code doesn''t recognize ''file.ext'' as the last component of a URL, which is sometimes defaulted to nil. See the generated code below. I don''t know everything

I am having 2 similar problems with routing. 1. With Rails if I make a js request using jQuery I always have to append a ".js" extension to allow the request to be handled appropriately. If I don''t append a js extension I get html formatted data back. Using Merb this never happened and worked like I thought it should. 2. Today I am having problems allowing xml requests to be

I really like the new mime type handler however I was trying to convert some code and couldn''t figure out how. My rails action was handle 2 formats, html and xml respond_to do |format| format.html # show.html.erb format.xml do if @account.active? && @account.valid_referer?(session[:referer]) render :xml => @account.to_xml(:except

Searched around this forum, but didn''t find an answer for this question. Can you help this newbie understand any overlap and/or difference between request.xhr? and respond_to? If request.xhr? is true, should I expect it wants.js below? respond_to do |wants| wants.html { redirect_to(person_list_url) } wants.js wants.xml { render :xml => @person.to_xml(:include

Hi, I have a Rails 2 app and I wand to provide an API for 3rd party applications written on any language the customer uses. My thoughts are that the best way of providing it is by taking advantage of rails RESTfulness and let them perform CRUD actions on my data through it. But I don''t seem to find many information on how to achieve this. I first want to develop .NET clients (or web

I have the following models class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ingredient_recipes has_many :ingredients, :through => :ingredient_recipes end class IngredientRecipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :ingredient belongs_to :recipe end class Ingredient < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ingredient_recipes has_many :recipes, :through => :ingredient_recipes

My problem: Mock ''Task_1005'' received unexpected message :user_id= with (1) No matter what I do to try to stub that out it will still fail out and give me that message. Here is my spec describe TasksController, "handling POST /tasks" do before(:each) do @task = mock_model(Task, :to_param => "1", :save => true)

Ez (or someone) asked on #merb tonight whether respond_to was the right API for what it does. After some discussion and pasties, I offer the following proposed API for content negotiation and response format selection: First, what does respond_to do right now? I see at as performing 3 distinct operations: 1. parse params[:format] and the accepts header to find out what format the

I''m having trouble using an application helper and understanding how I should make it work throughout my application - so if you can help me with this I''ll be overcoming a big hurdle in my learning. Here''s the helper method; [code=]# application_helper.rb def user_photo if @user.photo? return @user.photo.public_filename(:thumb) else return

After reading: <http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000572.html> I''m trying to experiment with respond_to in order to not repeat myself and create atom feeds out of a "browse" view. In application controller I created a before filter that checks for the extension of the current url and changes the accept header: [code] def check_headers @headers["Accept"]

Hi, Here''s two blog posts for those that need to test respond_to blocks and/or are currently using simply_helpful extensively. http://blog.methodmissing.com/2006/11/22/testing-different-content- types-with-rspec http://blog.methodmissing.com/2006/11/23/using-simply_helpful-with- rspec-controller-tests - Lourens

Hi, I am having problems with REST web-service support. I have a simple controller: class DocumentsController < ApplicationController wsdl_service_name ''Documents'' web_service_api DocumentsApi web_service_scaffold :invoke def list @docs = Document.find(:all) respond_to do |wants| wants.html wants.xml { return @docs .to_xml } end end end

i''m doing a site for someone that has a form set up to collect contact information from the user. i installed the vpim gem and was hoping to give my client a way to download all of the contact''s information as a vcard. using the examples, i was able to get it working in ruby, but i''m not quite sure how to generate and download a vcard on the fly. has anyone done

I am trying to deploy my first rails app with Dreamhost. I ftp''d over my existing app, turned on Passenger and pointed it to my /public directory. When I go to ''www.mydomain.com'' I get the ''Ruby on Rails: Welcome aboard'' default page, including the following: Getting started Here’s how to get rolling: 1. Create your databases and edit

Hello, everyone. I''ve been lurking here for a while, but this is my first post. I think I''ve run into a RSpec bug in a Rails project I''m working on. I was working on a few REST controllers, and started getting failures on a specific spec that verified whether a certain action returned XML output. I spent quite a lot of time checking my code to see if it was something I

I''ve set up my application to use edge rails in order to get REST functionality. I''ve a controller called team (team_controller.rb) with some actions (index, list, show, create, new....). Moreover in routes.rb I''ve added map.resources :team so I guess I could call localhost:3000/xxxx/team/1 or localhost:3000/xxxx/team/1;edit Well, when I do the first call, server