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Why do the generated test files have: require ''test_helper'' It cannot obviously find the file because it''s located in a subdirectory. That''s annoying. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, thanks for reading. Till now, I''ve used railroad to visualize my models. But as far as I can see, there''s no possibility to add information about the model class methods. Methods are only added to a diagram, if you visualize your controllers. Is there a way to change this behavior? I''ve looked out for something else and found ''ruby-uml'', seems to

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Hello... I''m trying to generate and XML file using .rxml and I''m having a problem with element names that contain a hyphen. Here is a chunk of the .rxml file: xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.properties do @properties.each do |p| xml.property do xml.location do xml.street-address(p.street_address) xml.city-name(p.city) .. end end end

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

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

hi everyone.. i''m a high school teacher who wrote a webapp in PHP and MySQL for my curriculum.. i use it to keep attendance, take notes per student or class and keep track of activities. i would like to soup it up and have read both the pickax and version 2 of agile web dev... now i''m starting to work and i''d like to rename columns and relationships in the database so

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

I have a view that passes two params hashes (:user and :school) to my controller action. In the functional test for the controller action, how do pass these two hashes? I tried the following that did not work get(:create, [:user => {:firstname => ''xxx'', :lastname => ''yyyy''}, :school => {:id => 1}] ) It seems to pick only the first array

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and

How easy is it to do this. Is it simply a case of copying the project directory over to the linux directory or does one have to create a new project in the linux system and copy paste (due to the wonders of rails magic)??? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a long-running process to build a directory tree in a database from a very large and deep folder structure. I am using sessions for security, but the process takes so long that it never finishes. Having tried and failed to override the session time-out, I am trying to work around the problem by having a PeriodicUpdater tickle the session by loading a page every minute. But I am also

Hi all I''m using a_a_f in rails with a StemmingAnalyzer, in the index and in my search. I got the idea from this topic: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/80178 I''m having a problem with some search terms - i narrowed one of them down to the inclusion of the word ''fly''. Can anyone give me any clues at to what might be happening, or even how i can investigate?

Hi my 12 year old, WIX, is an amazing auto deductive computer whiz. I have to keep up... He is an excellent VB programmer and knows JAVA. I have been told ROR is the future. I want to guide WIX so he can build up a good methodical working knowledge but don''t want him to waste his time on archaic languages that will not be around soon...Should his next step be ROR or would you recommend

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

I can''t access my account page, my hosting page or their main site? Anyone else having this issue as well? traceroutes and pings return nothing at present. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hello, I''ve come across an issue that I''m sure is a bug when using after_create with a has_one association, but I''m not 100% certain if I''m missing something. This is pretty much exactly the code I''m using. Two simple classes (Account and Contact) and I create the contact after I create an account (via after_create). I''m not passing in a