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So, RoR is better at grammer than I. Well so is my nine year old. If I have a table named "people_type" will Rails see this as singular because of the _type or will it consider it the plural of "person_type" ? Is there a link to Rails that lists what words it knows, or what words not to use in table design etc. Kindest regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Does anyone have a tutorial on adding new parameters to the paramaters list and then creating find conditions around them? I''m wondering how I can get my index page to list only the items where some of the the databases fields match user form input. index.html.erb would be calling itself with a new parameter :searchdata So far the index.html.erb has... <% form_tag({ :action =>

Hello all, I''ve come up w/ a worker class that manages queued jobs using a fixed number of child workers. Well, that''s not quite true -- a new worker is spawned for each job, but you set the total number that may exist at once. There are three components: 1) queue_worker.rb: The singleton worker that manages the child workers. You probably want to auto start this. Make sure you

Hello guys, Im trying to make an advanced search form, actually i did like Ryan Bates teaches in this railscast : http://railscasts.com/episodes/111-advanced-search-form But my problem is that i dont want to save the searches in my database and i dont know how to do this... In the railscast, there was a comment like this: *14. Karl <http://www.vbsfinder.com/> May 26, 2008 at 23:01 *

Does anyone know how to use Mongrel to create virtual hosts? My production site will have all kinds of domains pointing to it, and I also need to figure out how to do subdomains. Rails should react to the host name, doing a lookup based on the name and pull different records from the database based on this. For example, I''d like www.mysite.com to point back to 127.0.0.1:3000, and the

Basically I need to know how to use forms fields when the attribute name for it doesn''t match a field in my database. I have a form like this. <td><%= date_select ''assessment'', ''ends_at_date'', :value => "Click here..." %> <%= time_select ''assessment'', ''ends_at_time''%></td> My

This example shows how to create a form for an associated model ''Comment'', where ''Comment'' belongs_to ''Post'' and ''Post has_many ''Comments''. http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#generating-a-controller How might I modify that to display all the comments in the form, and still have it call the

I have a previous question regarding long tasks and the thread_pool (sorry for the dup, I didn''t see the first go through). To try and track things down, I made a change based on a suggestion found in the archives. I moved my import contacts worker to its own file and set the pool_size to 1. class ImportContactsWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker set_worker_name

hey, I want to have this table structure with users and groups A user can be in more than 1 group and a group has more than 1 user. class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many_and_belongs_to :groups end class Group < ActiveRecord::Base has_many_and_belongs_to :users end I was wondering if i can do this for group in user.groups ...do stuff end -AND- for user in group.users ...do stuff end

I implemented creating an object within another object according to this Railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/74-complex-forms-part-2 but I''m getting this error after I submit. Any ideas? undefined method `each'' for "":String -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

Hi, how can I get Rails to generate SQL queries with conditions in the JOIN clause? What I would want is: SELECT * FROM people p LEFT OUTER JOIN jobs j (p.job_id = j.id AND j.salary > 9999999) I tried People.find(:all, :include => ''jobs'', :conditions => ''jobs.salary > 9999999'') but that generates SELECT * FROM people p LEFT OUTER

Hi all, I want to use Active Resource to communicate with other application. How can i use Active Resource in my ROR application. anyone knows please help me out. Thanks and regards, Shripad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hey Everyone! I have a newsletter system that contains a multitude of different newsletters. In this case three but the system allows the user to add more. Every user can be subscribed to any amount of given newsletters. So what I did was I created a user model, newsletter model, and subscription model. The subscription model belongs to one user and one newsletter. However,

Hello List, i have been agonizing over this for days, any reply would be greatly appreciated! Situation:___________________________________ My original dataset is a .csv dataset (w/ 2M records) with 4 variables: job_id (Primary key, won't be used for analysis, just used for join tables), sector_id (categorical variable, for 19 industry sectors), sqft (con't variable for square

I developed a rails application using rails 2.3.8 version but now how to upgrade this application in rails 3.0 version. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe

Hi all, How to create *Online Chat application* in Rails 3.1.3 and Ruby 1.9.3 Could any one please tell me the steps or any sample application..Please Kingston.s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To

I have a User and Topic model. A user subscribes to a topic, so there is a many-to-many relationship between User and Topic. So my User model object is using has_many_and_belongs_to :topics and vice versa. I want to find all the topics that a user has *not* subscribed to. This is what I''ve got: @user = User.find(params[:id]) @topics = Topic.find(:all, :conditions =>

Hi Gurus, I wanted to add siteadmin user(basically a user with a certain role) while creating the site itself. I hope that i have done all the necessary stuff by going through raynb''s railscasts ( http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1) But could not see user fields being displayed in the site creation form.. Below are the details. I Have two model users and

Hi everybody, I''ve installed Authlogic on Rails 3 following the Railscast (http:// railscasts.com/episodes/160-authlogic), and the resources I was able to find on the web, but I''m facing a problem. Once I''ve generated the user_sessions controller and mapped the login and logout routes, I get an error if I try to load the login page : uninitialized constant

Do you know when you are filling out a registration for a new account, and you keep pressing next to fill the rest of the information in separate pages? I''d like to do that, but I have no idea how. Basically I have a company model with its information, and a contacts model, with belongs to my company (also each company has only one contact), and I''d like for the user to fill in