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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

Hi all !! I have this code: require ''account'' describe Account, "when first created" do before do @account = Account.new end it "should have a balance of $0" do @account.balance.should eql(Money.new(0, :dollars)) end after do @account = nil end end How can I pass the @account.balance.should eql(Money.new(0, :dollars)) spec. From my

Hi, after changing a primary key column name, the auto-increment information (MySQL) and sequence (Oracle) are lost. What is the correct way to rename primary keys? Thanks, Gustavo -- 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

False Positives I just discovered how easy it was to create a false positive when I, trying my first RSpec test, did this: ob.should eql?(''foo'') instead of: ob.should eql(''foo'') or: ob.should == ''foo'' As far as I can see, this is roughly equivalent to: ob.should false Neither eql?(''foo'') nor false causes the spec

Hi there, I''m still trying to wrap my head around when to use a stub and a mock. If I understand this right, I should be using a ''mock'' when imitating an object, but not its behavior. I should be using a stub when I want to imitate the behavior of an object. Does that sound about right? With that said, I''m struggling a little trying to spec out this instance

Hello, i have 3 XCP 1.0.0 hosts in a pool, one of them is not enabled: xe host-param-list uuid=402f07f4-99c0-4501-9787-8dee8984e313 uuid ( RO) : 402f07f4-99c0-4501-9787-8dee8984e313 name-label ( RW): xcp1.domain.com name-description ( RW): Default install of XenServer allowed-operations (SRO):

Hi all, I''ve been playing around with Arel this week (actually outside of Rails) and found an issue with the clone implementation. I''ve added a patch and a testcase here: https://github.com/codders/arel/commit/660f706491ac012cb133554cffeaa6b9ae6046e9 and made a pull request against the rails/arel repo. I''ve also been playing around with support for ordering on

High everybody, currently I'm writinig a package that, for a given family of variance functions depending on a parameter theta, say, computes the extended quasi likelihood (eql) function for different values of theta. The computation involves a couple of calls of the 'glm' routine. What I'm doing now is to call 'lapply' for a list of theta values and a function, that

Hello, I''m confused why the spec described below is failing. Other simple comparison specs are passing fine for the same model. The code is working accordingly when I test it through the console, I''m just having difficulty getting this spec to work. Any pointers would be appreciated. Failure message: ''Address fetch and geocode should extract department and write to

I''m looking for 3 areas to work as dynamic assets: image_path, javascript_path, and stylesheet_path When I say dynamic, I mean that they will be dynamic through controller/models. I have been working through approx. 12 hours of searches to satisfy my answer to this question but am not finding much luck. The closest things I''ve found enabling this are use of config for assets

I''m already successfully testing before_filters in application_controller courtesy of this blog post: http://www.movesonrails.com/articles/2008/01/23/spec-ing-your-application-controller However, i can;''t work out how to test the sort of method that is added to application_controller so that all controllers can use it. It must be something simple that i''m doing

Thanks Wolas! Sorry if this seems like a newbie question, what am I supposed replace the stubbed_method_name with? Also, I came across the only thread on the Interwebs which seems to cover this topic - it''s over a year old, but I think they have a solution which could work around the issues you pointed out. However, I couldn''t work out how to get their subbing approach to

All, I have a left navigation partial that I want to dynamically generate CSS classes for based on the current controller action. In my ERb template, I have <DIV class="<%= get_menu_display_style(''login_form'') %>"> In application.rb, I have the method get_menu_display_style defined as: public def get_menu_display_style(action_requested)

When working with views, I use instance methods of ApplicationHelper: # app/helpers/application_helper.rb: module ApplicationHelper def distribute(total, min, cutof, list) [1,2,3] end end # app/views/planner/_mta_colors.rhtml: <td> <% ... dist = distribute(total_v_px, 4, 0, colors.collect{|color| color[1]}) ... %> So to test the distribute method in ApplicationHelper, I have

trying to set up a "has_and_belongs_to_many" relationship would very much appreciate the help, not sure what im doing wrong at all. Scheme.rb class Scheme < ActiveRecord::Base validates :schemename, :presence => true belongs_to :user has_many :levels, :dependent => :destroy has_and_belongs_to_many :works end Work.rb class Work < ActiveRecord::Base

I''ve inherited an EAV database and there''s really no option to remodel it. Data is stored as key_name, key_value pairs Trying to return a meaningful, unified recordset is far too complex to be efficient. I''ve decided to make use of the MySQL GROUP_CONCAT, and CONCAT_WS functions to return a fast query result, with the consolidated fields as one string. The final data is

Hi, I''m trying to install exception notification plugin and test it with rspec. The problem that I have is that when running the server in production mode : at the end of the log i get this when I have a critical error rendering section "request" rendering section "session" rendering section "environment" rendering section "backtrace" Sent mail to

I have these sql code in postgresql "SELECT * from convenios where id NOT IN (SELECT convenio_id from solicituds where usuario_id=?" but don''t find a way of used it in rails except find_by_sql. There is a another way?? class Usuario < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :persona has_many :solicituds, :dependent => :destroy has_many :convenios, :through =>

Hi list, I'm writing a little survey application, and surveys are generated dynamically. I use form_remote_tag and AJAX to submit the form to a method 'submit' in my 'survey' controller. The view generates the form as: <tr> <td>Question 1?</td> <td><input id="resultset_1" name="resultset[1]" size="30"

I''ve been using Puppet now for a month or so and I''ve come to a problem that may warrant an additional Puppet metaparameter. I''m advocating the addition of a metaparameter called "preaction" (or something like that), which will perform some arbitrary action before the resource is modified. There may be a way to do this within Puppet already (with some