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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)

Is it possible to determine which action call the function ? In example, func_test in ApplicationController could determine which action from SiteController is calling her ? in class ApplicationController I have def func_test if ( calling from index ) return "1" end if ( calling from contact ) return "2" end end and in class SiteController def

How do I do multiple layouts for a single controller: I am aware I can do... render(:layout =>''mylayout'') for individual actions, however this becomes a multiple render problem. I tried this... layout "mylayout", :except => [:myaction, :myotheraction] layout "myotherlayout", :only => [:myaction, :myotheraction] However that doesn''t

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Hi, Is this possible ive got layout "loggedout_layout", :only => [:login, :logout] but I also want to do somthing like layout "loggedin_layout", :except => [:login, :logout] When the second one is introduced it seems to cancel out the first request, any suggestions how to get around this? Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I''m still dtarting with ruby on rails. And I''m trying to have a menu depending on the current controller/method. Here is what I was thinking of (please tell me if there''s a better way to do it): I have a database with menu_groups (corresponding to controllers) and menu_elements(corresponding to methods). Each menu_element belongs to one menu_group. I created a

I have a pre-existing form with one existing "SUBMIT" tag generated by <%= submit_tag %> I would like to add another <INPUT type="submit" ...> to my form. How do I successfully associate that <INPUT> tag with a different controller action than the default one specified by my <%= start_form_tag %>? Or does this approach even make sense? In RoR, is

When I run my functional tests, they throw an error with the following message: ActionView::TemplateError: Missing template /_captcha.erb in view path app/views:test/vendor/plugins/brain_buster/views/brain_busters On line #23 of app/views/contacts/_form.html.erb 20: <%= f.label :message %><br /> 21: <%= f.text_area :message %> 22:

Hello all, I''m using the following _form.rhtml layout for a number of pages, including edit record and new record (which each has it''s own definition in the controller). I''d like to display a different author form field depending on which page they are using. I''d rather keep using _form.rhtml as a layout template, instead of customizing each separate page.

Hi,From within an action called manager within a controller called storedorders, I want to render to the view for the manger action of controller orders. It really seems like the following syntax should work: (within the StoredordersController manager method...) respond_to do |format| format.html {render :controller => ''orders'', :action =>

In the Rails Recipes book the recipe "Keeping track of who did what" explains how to do decoupled observing of models. In my application I''d like to do a similar thing but watching the controllers. For example, when somebody hits the login method of the Security controller, I''d like to make a note of it. In this case I could observe the User model and watch for

Hiall, I want to make an image_tag from within a controller in order to be able to present a link (with a status image) in a view. Here is my controller method (in file webca_controller.rb, hence WebcaController) def untouched_status_image_tag image_tag("open", { :alt => "Offen", :title => "Offen", :size => "12x12", :class =>

Question for you all is it possible to use an action in an if statement? I am using the same form for edit and new and I have a cancel button on the page. This cancel button is built with an if statement that looks right now to see if a parameter exists to define where to go back to if the user cancel. The problem occurs when the user submits the form and there are missing fields by

Hi, guys, I''m in the midst of moving an app from rails 2.3.8 to rails 3.0.9. Sadly, rails 3 no longer has javascript generators and I''m now forced to do more javascript. For my project, I have selected jQuery as the javascript framework for my rails 3.0.9 app. What I have done to have my app''s deletion link (for each item) trigger an alert box when the deletion

Hi, I am having a routing problem and can''t figure out why its happing. I have added the following line in my routing.rb file. map.connect ''name/:id'', :controller => ''controller_name'', :action => ''action_name'' When I use http://domain.com/controller_name/action_name/id then it works fine on the local machine using webrick

This small series for p2v refactors the Reboot menu of the conversion dialog into something slightly more general, and add the possibility to shut the machine down. Lots of work to deal with old GTK versions ... Changes from v1: - fix shutdown command Pino Toscano (2): p2v: turn Reboot button into a Shutdown popup menu button p2v: add a Shutdown action (RHBZ#1642044) p2v/gui.c |

This small series for p2v refactors the Reboot menu of the conversion dialog into something slightly more general, and add the possibility to shut the machine down. Lots of work to deal with old GTK versions ... Pino Toscano (2): p2v: turn Reboot button into a Shutdown popup menu button p2v: add a Shutdown action (RHBZ#1642044) p2v/gui.c | 119

Hi, Im having trouble figuring out how to query my database in ruby and i''m hoping someone can help me out. I''d like to find all my departments that match a permalink passed from the url. The department must also match a particular category, also passed through the url. I have written the following code. But unfortunatley I get an error "wrong number of arguments (2 for

Greetings, I''m a newby to both "R"s in RoR. I would like to use Builder::XmlMarkup to generate my pages. If there is a working downloadable example somewhere, that would probably be enough. Otherwise, here''s what I want to do: With the following controller: class AccountsController < ApplicationController layout ''accounts'' model :account

I have met a problem on Feedtools and felt very confused about it: The feed that I generated using feedtools can not be read correctedly by feedtools,while rss from other websites can be read. Still,the code for rss generating: def userrss @user = User.find_by_id(params[:id]) @articles = @user.articles(:all,:order => ''updated_at desc'',:limit => 15)