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I now have the acts_as_commentable plugin up on RubyForge. This plugin will allow you to add comments to any active_record object in your Rails application. So far the directions are simple, and there are only a few features: To install: ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/commentable/acts_as_commentable In the readme there is a sample migration you will need to use, with

I am trying to write a plugin, ''acts_as_commentable'', for my models - Image, Book, Music and so on, I do not want to use polymorphic association, so very model should have its own comment class. Here is my code acts_as_commentable.rb module Commentable def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end module ClassMethods def

With the help of several heroes here yesterday I beat my way into a working solution to adding comments to one or more models in my application using acts_as_comentable. Great plugin, but my implementation is lame. I need enlightenment. I have users who log in. For several views I want to let them add comments. Enter act_as_commentable which does just this -- it''s polymorphic, so you

Hi, i try to understand how plugins work in detail. Often you see stuff like: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base   acts_as_commentable end I wonder what''s happen all there. What kind of language-feature is behind this call "acts_as_commentable" ? In my opinion you need some kind of extend or include to extend the functionality of a model. And exactly this is which i found

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I''m getting this very weird error and I can''t figure out what the problem is. I''m using acts_as_commentable. Basically, I have a partial with this code in it: <div id="<%= ''#{comment.commentable_type}_comment_# {comment.commentable_id}'' %>" class="comment"> <dl> <dt><%= link_to comment.user.login,

Hi, Does anyone know where I can find a full step by step tutorial on Many to Many Relationships with Rails or can describe the steps in inserting data into the join tables, displaying the connections, etc.. - I don''t only need the model, but all the steps that you would use in the MVC architecture to make it work. I am a new to Rails and I cannot find a complete tutorial on all the

Dear R-Users, I'm trying to setup a personal repository for a few packages I'm working on. I am on R-Forge but I still need to have various versions of my package that R-Forge does not build (for R 2.8.1 for example). So I followed the instructions in this document: Hhttp:// cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Setting-up-a-package-repository and used this function as

Hi all, I recently started back up with Rails and things are going well up until now. I''ve set up acts_as_commentable in my Post model and it''s working great. Problem is users are able to create a "blank" comment. I''ve added the following validations in the comment.rb file generated by acts_as_commentable to limit the comment length: [code]

Hello, I have a Rails App which serve a Soap Web Service with ActionWebService. I accept 2 string parameters that must contain xml. The data sent are in UTF-8, but the non-ascii char (é, à ...) in the message are crippled at the end. I tested the app, database, html, ... all accept utf-8, a direct http post works well, but going through the web service broke the content. I tried to manually set

I got a application like following. A board has many posts All posts belong to a board I try to destroy all the posts under a board when I destroy the board. My destroy function is following. def destroy @board = Board.find(params[:id]) @post = @board.posts @post.destroy @board.destroy respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_to(boards_url) } format.xml

hi folks. on rails 4, can somebody confirm that pushing model instances onto a has_many :through relation does not create the necessary join model anymore? class Reader < AR::Base belongs_to :post belongs_to :person end class Post < AR::Base has_many :readers has_many :people, through: :readers end @post.people << Person.new so,

I''ve just about finished up work on a plugin similar to acts_as_taggable, but for comments instead which would allow you to attach comments (possibly even a threaded discussion if conbined with acts_as_tree) to any object. Is there anyone that would be interested in it? I don''t want to go throug the trouble of finding some way to distribute it unless I know that there is a

hi I amd tanizawa. I had problem. I can not get main.name value from below sql. "find_by_sql ''select main.id,main.name,sub.name from main left join sub on sub.id = main.id''" Please teach me how to get borth name value. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the

Hello I'm working on my RIS server; I got a problem when I use pxelinux.0 to load setupldr.exe from windows XP 32bits (both home and corporate) Here is how I configure a working server, then how to modify it to reproduce the bug: ========================= I suppose you got -a dhcp server configured to load pxelinux.0 to client computer. -a working tftp server (mine is tftpd-hpa, with a rule

Hi, I have three matrices (X,Y,P) with the same dimension. The X,Y grid is regular and I want to perform linear interpolation to pick out certain points. In matlab appropriate call is something like Pout=interp2(X,Y,P,Xout,Yout, method="linear") where Xout and Yout are the locations where I want the Pout data (typically a different grid). (Scipy has this routine in

Hello, I am using acts_as_commentable (related to Post) and I would like to know how to get the list the posts ordered by date of comment (i.e. post with recent comment first). in addition if a post has no comment, i would it to be inserted based on its creation date. Thanks for your help Nicolas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are

Hi, when I do cap deploy:cold I get this error: rake aborted! undefined local variable or method `acts_as_commentable'' for #<Class: 0x7fa1c34a2f10> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/ base.rb:1833:in `method_missing_without_paginate'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mislav-will_paginate-2.3.8/lib/ will_paginate/finder.rb:170:in

When i try it start my ruby server i get a error that looks like rails server Could not find pg-0.12.2 in any of the sources Run `bundle install` to install missing gems. I dont know what to do Thanks for all the help -- 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

Hi, I am very new to rails.. I am having hard times to understand the ActiveRecord associations.. I tried http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html .. But it is not for beginners. :) Is there any good tutorials, to understand the concept? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on