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Hi all, I''ve installed paperclips but paperclip is not saving the files my model has has_attached_file :attachment,:styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb => "100x100>" } and i have db migration as class AddAttachmentToPolicies < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up add_column :policies,

Newbie question: want to following code to migrate to formtastic: <% f.fields_for :assets do |asset_fields| %> <% if asset_fields.object.new_record? %> <p> <%= asset_fields.file_field :asset %> </p> <% end %> <% end %> tried this: f.inputs "Appartment Details" do f.input :assets do |asset_fields|

Hello Rubyists, I am a bit stumped here. I want to extend the ''load_file'' method in the YAML module. Following along with the PickAxe example of making old methods do new things, I try this in irb: >> module YAML >> alias_method :orig_load_f, :load_file >> def load_file(*args) >> contents = orig_load_f(*args) >>

Hello, I''m trying to write a functional test for a simple CRUD controller which accepts / emits xml in a REST- like fashion. However the following code won''t work for me - an exception is generated def test_create post :create, ''<person><name>john</name></person>'',

Hi everyone, Does Ruby support variable variables like PHP (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php)? Or do I have to use eval, like some_hash.each_pair{|key, pair| eval "#{key} = #{value}" } Or is there some other way? I''m actually trying to figure this out in order to use ez_where to create its conditions from a hash, so if this isn''t even

Hi Facebookers, Is there a helper or suggested approach for presenting validation errors on an fbml form? Something to translate rails error markup to fbml:error markup? thanks Joel

I''m digging into rails source code. But I''ve got a problem in undestading actionrecord::base source code which is connection_specification.rb. In the body of establish_connection method, def self.establish_connection(spec = nil) case spec when nil raise AdapterNotSpecified unless defined? RAILS_ENV establish_connection(RAILS_ENV)

Greetings, I''m in the throws of deploying an app on site5, and I''m getting strange errors. I think I might need to understand how error_messages_for works. I get a pretty standard looking error: " You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occured while evaluating nil.errors Extracted

I''ve been working with the problem that Joe Hosteny has been talking about on this list and on the tickets he''s posted (http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1196) and have come up with a tentative solution that I''d like to bring up here. What if we use a "conditional" parameter in the validates_* methods? Here''s how it would look like in practice:

I''d like to write a test of a REST service wherein XML is submitted as the request entity. In Test::Unit on Rails, this seems to be possible in an integration test, but not in a functional test. RSpec uses the Rails functional test framework, as far as I can tell, so it suffers the same result; it tries to symbolize the keys of the ''parameters'' hash, except the

Hi everyone, I would like to decode a json string and transform it into a hash in ruby. I tried json = "{\"userid\" : \"21\", \"friendid\" : \"9\"}" hash = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(json) puts hash[:userid] however, this gives NIL back. How do I have to do this? Thanks for any help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

Hi, This is a bit of a special case. Ive got a POST form for a posts model which has a preview functionality. So if the user clicks on "Preview", then the model is saved and a new window opens with the preview. And the user can keep adding content to the post and previewing before he''s satisfied and clicks on "Publish". And for every subsequent previews, i pull that

I''m trying to dynamically set my Paperclip processors which are stored in my database, ideally I would want to access attachment.instance.paperclip_processor, but I can''t seem to do that. Any ideas? # class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_attached_file :image, :path => ":rails_root/ public/:hash_path/:style/:basename.:extension", :processors => lambda {

Hi all I''ve got a problem with the paperclip-plugin. Is it posible that the attachment is not destroy if i call the destroy- method of a model? Thank you for your help! sigma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi, i have a validates_something_of_something method in my User model...i added a :message => "you need to abcd" to the validation method, but when i try to access it through the <%= error_messages_for "user" %> it doesn''t give me any output... i was wondering whether there was a way to access all of the (:message => string) methods that are collected

Hi, I have been trying to do this for a few days now and cannot figure it out. I would be very grateful is anyone can help me I am trying to upload an attachment to AWS, S3 using paperclip, however every time I keep getting this error: ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in ProjectController#create_notice Graphic(#37649720) expected, got Tempfile(#27280470) RAILS_ROOT:

I have a problem with translation of english phrase when an input error occurs. When I put: error_messages_for("registratie") above my view. I get the error: "xx errors prohibited this registratie from being saved". The problem now is, the site is for dutch customers and I would like to translate this to a dutch phrase. I know I can translate the individual fields with the

Hi, I have been trying to do this for a few days now and cannot figure it out. I would be very grateful is anyone can help me I am trying to upload an attachment to AWS, S3 using paperclip, however every time I keep getting this error: ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in ProjectController#create_notice Graphic(#37649720) expected, got Tempfile(#27280470) RAILS_ROOT:

hi, all, I have a problem with image_tag, the url it generates keeps adding ???? at the tail. e.g. src="/images/gicon.jpg?1153577588??????????" src="/images/gicon.jpg?1153577588?????????????????" I''ve checked the source code of image_tag, and couldn''t find any solution. The ???? is appended to the "source" parameter before it goes to the real

I ran into an interesting issue today with ActiveRecord''s becomes method and discovered that it is mutating the receiver without me knowing it. The API docs<http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Persistence.html#method-i-becomes>say "The new instance will share a link to the same attributes as the original > class. So any change to the attributes in either