similar to: Database calls in my views?

Hey all, I have two models in my rails project that share a lot of traits. They each have the same 4 properties, and now I need to add 2-3 methods to each one that will be the same. In the spirit of DRY I am looking for a solution to write these methods only once. Both of these models already inherit from ActiveRecord . . . and I didn''t know if it was safe to just "whip up" a

i don''t know how to access to the collecction of data that exists in other model. for example i generate two scaffold : company and employe both have a controller, a model and 5 files in the views: _form.rhtml, list.rhtml, new.rhtml, edit.rhtml and show.rhtml the views are working very well, but each access just one table: company or employe my problem is any simple, but i

when rendering a view, if the object being rendered doesn''t respond to a method it raises an error message. For example, I have an Employee class and each employee has many Tasks. So I may call: <%= employee.tasks.first.task_name %> If, for some reason an employee has 0 tasks associated with it, the above template method would raise an exception. Is it efficient to loop through the

Hi all, I cannot find a clean way to create/edit an object that ''belongs_to'' another one, just by using form fields. I always need to explicitely unassemble it, store the master id in a hidden field, and then refetch the master from its id, and put it back in the object. To summarize: I want to create a new member, for a given project @project= ... @member =

I''m currently try to push my limits a little bit with some of my unit testing -- trying to avoid saving ActiveRecord objects to the database and take advantage of mock/stub objects. How far should I expect to get in this direction? From what I can tell, ActiveRecord seems to fight me when it comes to associations. In other words, many associations seem to require database queries.

I''m try to verify users on login. Here is my code: def self.authenticate(username,password,account_code) employee = self.find(:all, :select => "e.id, e.first_name, e.last_name, e.username, e.account_id, e.department_id, o.pay_type_id, o.admin_yn, o.payroll_yn, o.files_yn, o.dept_report_yn,e.salt, e.hashed_password", :conditions => ["e.deleted_yn=0 and

Hello, I have set up that uses single table inheritance. I have a number of model subclasses following the example in AWDWR that uses Manager < Employee < Person. First question. Do I need to create controller classes for each? I don''t think I do because a single controller should be able to shunt the data between the models and the views. Second question. Say I have a view

I''ve read the stuff about polymorphic associations here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/UnderstandingPolymorphicAssociations But I''m not sure what exactly they are and what their advantage is. Are they the same as HABTM, but they''re "two-way"? Joe -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! I recently started with RoR and this may be a newbie question. I have a company table, employee table and transactions table. 1 company has many employees. Each employee performs many transactions. Employees from different companies LOGIN to the system to record their transactions. Employees can search on all transactions associated to their companies (indirect relationship via employee),

Hi all ! Loading fixtures doens''t seems to associate my 2 objects, do know what''s wrong ? In app/ class Manager < Employee has_many :employees, :foreign_key => :reports_to end class Employee < Person belongs_to :manager, :foreign_key => ''reports_to'' end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :address end fixtures for

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask if there is an official Samba Forum, because I could not find any on the Project Page. If there isn't any, is there a particular reason for this not-existance? Best regards Tom H. Lautenbacher

Lets say I have an owner record which has_many employees. If I want to eager load the employees then Owner.find(:all, :include => :employee) works fine and dandy. What if I only wanted to include male employees in the eager loading for instance? Is there an elegant and simple way to eager load with a condition applied to the included model? Have google and API''d around but

Hi, I am a little bit new to ruby. I have a requirement that I need to get the data from the database. I need to do this many times in the whole application. But, I am looking for a way with which I can get the data from the database table only once and store it in some variable, and I can use it anywhere I want.(I am trying not to use the global variable for this purpose). Is there a way

How well does Rails deal with ActiveRecord classes mapping to self-referencing tables and other more interesting database complexities? i.e. Employees table with supervisor_id and mentor_id both self-referencing Employees on the primary key "id" or Categories table with relation table (Parent_Child_Categories) with foreign keys parent_id and child_id both referencing Categories.id

Ruby/Rails n00b here so go easy on me... I''ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out what is wrong here. I''ve checked all my models for the appropriate belongs_to, has_many, etc. I''ve checked to make sure I''m using singular and plurals in the right spot. I''ve checked my syntax around all my "within"''s and nothing seems to fix

Is there way to get the scaffold command to work with PostgreSQL database views? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.54 Severity: normal Tags: patch When views are used in bind, the logcheck filters don't catch the common informational log messages. Added regex bits to the filter definitions. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel:

Hello to all, I am entirely new to Ruby and also to Ruby on Rails. As far as I understand, Rails builds its model according to the a specified table structuree in in the database. However, most of my applications, are for the most part (except some backend CRUD stuff) not database centric. They do a lot of calculation for the user. So, how can I create a model, when no database is needed,

I''ve been playing around with EdgeRails and checking out some of the new features. The one that will probably have the biggest affect on my designs is join models (or :through associations). For those not familiar with this feature, it lets you replace your habtm association with a pair of has_many associations indirected through an intermediate model class. Looks like good

I''m trying to figure out an elegant way to do this: I have the following three tables: people, employer, employees And consequently the following three models: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base end class Employer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees end class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :employer end I want to be able to say: