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I have multiple roles in my application. Now I want to block a method for all users except the administrator and a manager. When I do this: before_filter (:check_administrator_role), :only => [:administration] before_filter (:check_taskmanager_role), :only => [:administration] The user must have both roles. How can I change that to an "OR" combination? -- Posted via

Hello everyone, I was trying to set up access control in a new application Im working on, I''m trying to use the excellent authorization plugin from Bill Katz, Its pretty straight forward to setup and should be to use. But when i try to give the same permission on two differents users on the same object i get an error. (Well , Im kinda new to all this rails stuff) r = Red.find(1) u1 =

I''m trying to jump on the TDD/BDD bandwagon, but am having trouble understanding how i should mock my user. The user has a habtm relationship to a roles model (acl_system2 plugin), but I''m not sure how to tell rspec about a model. My code: describe UsersController do integrate_views before(:each) do @user = mock_model(User)

Hi, Does anyone know much about abstract_class? Does it actually prevent instances of the class from being created? Does it disable certain methods? I already know what it''s for, but I want to know what setting self.abstract_class=true actually does. The reason I ask is that I want to use it for a slightly unorthodox purpose. I want a class who''s only attributes are its

I''m dynamically generating menu options based on the currently logged in user: current_user. My menus are setup on the applicatin.rhtml file. The current_user is defined in the application controller. But, attempting to assign it a value while in the application controller results in an ''undefined method'' error. ApplicationController .... def current_user @cu =

Dear all, I am using R CMD SHLIB to compile a c++ code into a library (.so) and dyn.load to load this library into a R code. I am facing some problems in the c++ code that I can not figure out how to solve. Do you recomend any good way to debug this R + C++ program? If I was programming only in C++ I would use GDB. I would much appreciate any help or suggestion! Best regards, Charles -- Um

Greetings, I have been trying to install Cool Edit Pro 1.2. I'm running Mandrake 8.1, which came with Wine release 20010731. This is a dual-boot system with MS-DOS 6.22 in addition to Mandrake 8.1. There NO version of Windoze of any kind is installed. I have 512 MB of RAM; the DOS partition has 941 MB free and 777 permissions. I mount the CD-ROM drive, cd to it, and execute wine setup.exe

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

If you select an option that's not listed during ipv4/ipv6 setup it will accept it without verification. This corrects that behavior and forces a valid option to be picked. --- scripts/ovirt-config-networking | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/ovirt-config-networking b/scripts/ovirt-config-networking index

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gabriel Becker" <gmbecker at ucdavis.edu> > To: "Charles Novaes de Santana" <charles.santana at gmail.com> > Cc: "r-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org> > Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 12:02:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Rd] A good way to debug a c++ library embedded to R code > > Charles, > >

It looks like cached-model is broken again under rails 1.1. Can anyone confirm? Note that the exception below indicates it''s trying to treat CachedModel as the class name of the model, rather than using the proper class name (which is Entry in this case, and the table called entries). This is a model using Single Table Inheritance and acts_as_tree, and worked just fine under 1.0 and

Still new to Specs... How do I create a spec to test a model method? Specifically, here is my spec: #testing model describe User do it "should have many user roles" do User.reflect_on_association(:user_roles).should_not be_nil end it "should have many roles though user roles" do User.reflect_on_association(:roles).should_not be_nil end it "should know

This is a maintenance release to fix a bug triggered while working with Ruby on Rails and Informix. Web site: http://ruby-informix.rubyforge.org Changelog: 0.6.1 13/10/2007 ------------------ Bugs fixed: * Database#columns was returning an empty array from within the Informix ActiveRecord adapter (ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::InformixAdapter#columns) if

Hi, Could you please advice some easy way to do the following for a dataframe (header=F) having unequal column- & row- length. 1. Combine/stack/join contents from - a) multiple rows into one column. b) multiple columns into one row. 2. Stack contents from multiple columns (or, rows) into one column (or, row). Thank you. Cheers, Santana [[alternative HTML

i got two controller (with restful actions) where my code is quite ugly and not very dry. every action looks quite like this: if @logged_user.has_role?("admin") User.find(params[:id) else @logged_user.group.user.find(params[:id]) this is a security check that enforce a simple spec: normal user should read/write information only about their group''s users, but

Hello, I''ve got a problem with the inheritance as soon as I try to use it in a model. I''ve got plenty of items which can share a lot of code, so I created a class "Item", which inherits from ActiveRecord::Base, but because it''s not a "real item" but an interface, I set it abstract (writing abstract_class? method). Then I have all the differents

Hi All, I am new to this list and to rails. So far I am loving the way in which it is easy to put together web pages with a database backend. I would love to use the rails functionality (to do the sql queries) and then process the results using some very cpu intensuve tasks. The results will take far longer than it is viable to use a web browser to view the results. I would like to see the

FWIW, I''ve wrote puppet-cleaner to help me make comply thousands of lines of puppet 2.6 DSL code to puppet 2.7 style guide and expectations. I''m uploading it to github today for anyone to use. https://github.com/santana/puppet-cleaner Externally, you run puppet-clean file.pp and it can transform this: /* multiline comment trailing white space here -> */ class

Hi,- I am looking for a clean and secure way for an ActiveRecord instance to delete itself. Say I have a User model in my app. Then the destructive action would be /users/user_id/destroy. If this action is not secured by a filter like: (*) before_filter :check_administrator_role, :only => :destroy then any user could potentially log in and start issuing: /users/1/destroy /users/2/destroy .

Dear all, Happy New Year for all of you! I hope we have an year of essential freedom for everyone! I am trying to manipulate a matrix in order to know in which column and in which row a number is allocated. But, when we use the function "which" it returns the position of the number in the "vector representation of the matrix". For example: >