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Hi Is there any freeware anybody would recommend for showing database models and how they relate to each other? I''m picking up an app another developer left in a mess and I''m trying to sort it out. Diagrams would be a great help. Suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

I would like to know if there is a way to ''package'' an application with all the associated gems and ship it to a new server and having it to "just work" in a Windows environment. Although I have never done it I know that Rails can be frozen into the application. I am wondering if I can do the same thing with other gems. I have found this

I''m trying to run " rake db:migrate " and im getting an error back: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C:\wamp\www\demoproject>rake db:migrate (in C:/wamp/www/demoproject) rake aborted! Mysql::Error: query: not connected: CREATE TABLE `schema_migrations` (`version` varchar(255) NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB (See full trace by running task

I am using http.get in a model to parse html code returned from a Oracle server. My first try was to use assertions (assert and assert_select) to test and parse the html code. But I have problems including the methods in the model. Have tried both "include" and copy/paste to get assertion methods into my model. Works as a model, but I get load errors when I am using the model from a

What methods do people use to notify users of upcoming downtime in an application, and for handling requests nicely while scheduled downtime is occurring? My Google-fu is not yielding me anything useful-looking. -- 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

I''ve got two entities created by scaffolding: Expense & Vendor In Expense#new there''s a form with a Vendors-drop-down and a NewVendor- button. The latter button brings up Vendor#new. The Create button in Vendor#new brings up Vendor#show with Edit & Back links. I want to append a third link conditionally to Vendor#show: if the Expense#new form led to the Vendor#show

I am extremely new to RoR, I am. I am slowly but surely learning Ruby and the Rails concepts but the environment is confusing. I have an application that was written for my company in RoR. It is on a ubuntu server that is going to be shut down. I want to move the app to my two Macs (one Leopard and one Snow Leopard). We want to keep the app to demo a business concept but it can run locally

I am working my way through Agile web development with rails and I''m in the testing chapter. when I run the following test(or any other test) I''m new and not sure where to start looking. require ''test_helper'' class ProductTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase # Replace this with your real tests. test "the truth" do assert true end end I

I recently upgraded to Rails 3, and this error has come up ubiquitously: DEPRECATION WARNING: Base.named_scope has been deprecated, please use Base.scope instead. Any ideas on how to get rid of it? Or should I just wait for something? There''s actually no place in my application where the code "Base.named_scope" exists, so I assume the problem is inherent in gems that

So I just got involved in a huge team project with RoR and PostgreSQL. But I can''t find anywhere on the internet to find a proper way to put them together. I did find one but it is for iOS :-/ http://railscasts.com/episodes/342-migrating-to-postgresql?view=asciicast I have them both installed and the gem package for postgres also. the database.yml is already configured. I just

I''d like to display a banner on every page. Ultimately I''ll be tweaking which banner is displayed via different controllers but initially I''d just like to set a single banner application wide and display it in my "_header", a partial I include in all layouts. I''ve got a BannerAdvert model, simple. If I''m in my welcome controller index action

Hello, I have a user table that stores their username, email address, and password. (along with salt, etc) However, now I want to have more complex information associated with each user (address, etc). I''m no DBA expert, so in terms of performance, which is better: - A user table that has all the fields in it (Username, Email, password, country, state, zipcode, etc) - A user table that

Hi there - I''m a ruby newbie and am stuck on the Getting Started with Rails app. See output below. Problem arose when I ran the rake db:migrate command. I also tried the ''rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development'' command which may be obvious. Any ideas on how to fix this? Many thanks!! $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]

I''ve got a web-app currently partially working. The user uploads a .txt, .docx or .doc file to the server. Currently the model handles those files, saves some metadata (the extention and orig filename) then saves the file to the hard drive. Next it converts the doc and docx files to plain text and saves the output to a txt file. My problem is I want to copy the plain text contents of

Just wanted to see if I was using the latest acts_as_solr plugin, but the URL <http://acts_as_solr.railsfreaks.com/> takes me to a GoDaddy domain parking page. Anyone know what''s happened to railsfreaks, and more particularly this plugin? -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org twitter: @hassan -- You received this

Hello, I''ve been trying for hours to parse an XML using Hpricot. Usually it''s not a problem. Here''s my simple code: #This works and outputs the proper xml data @url1 = ''http://www.sportingnews.com/stories/sportingnews/MLB/rss.xml'' @page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1)) <%= @page 1 %> #This does not work, and I''m scratching my head @url1 =

Hey everybody, I''m trying to make an example of a small networking site, and when I log in a user, it should redirect and show his profile, but I get the following error: NoMethodError in User#index Showing app/views/user/index.html.erb where line #5 raised: undefined method `screen_name'' for nil:NilClass Extracted source (around line #5): 2: Your basic information 3:

Hello, I''ve got some experience in Java, and recently, I''ve begun to practice with Rails. One of the things that has surprised to me, after I''ve read some books, it''s that classes hasn''t got attributes; the attributes are in the files db/migrate/*. After that, the ORM makes the mapping with de Database. But the attributes aren''t in the files

Hi Folks, I use render :js => "alert(''Test !'')" in my modele, but instead of having the alert displayed, the browser try to donload a file containing this string : <<render :js => "alert(''Test !'')">>. Do you know why I the browser behaves such a way ? Regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

I''ve setup two models, 1 and 2, that are associated by has_and_belongs_to_many. I''m trying to get an attribute from model_1 to use in a method in model_2. When I use the code below, I get an error saying ''undefined method model_1_id''. What am I missing? Thanks! Model_2.rb Class Model_2 < ActiveRecord::Base ... has_and_belongs_to_many :model_1 def