similar to: AR after_initialize quandry

All, I have a quick question - is the purpose of implementing after_initialize to allow custom attribute initialization for AR descendants? I have been overriding initialize whenever I require custom setup of my model classes, like so: def initialize(attributes = nil) super self.Status = ''G'' end So I have a couple of questions: 1) Could I achieve the same

Hi, I''m using activemerchant and setting up a class variable using config.after_initialize. It works great for the first request, but then the variable is nil. config.after_initialize do ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base.mode = :test OrderTransaction.gateway = ActiveMerchant::Billing::PaypalGateway.new(...) end I''m assuming this is is due to the model reloading after each

Hi all, Just had an interesting production failure while updating my Rails application - a bunch of code previously in config/environment.rb was put into config/initializers. That resulted in me having to wrap some code in config/environments/production.rb into an after_initialize do ... end block When backgroundrb was run against that code, the setup done in that after_initialize block

After much fiddling and googling, it seems to me that Mongrel, even the 1.2.0pre2 release is not compatible with Rails 3 -- is that true? When I start up a new Rails 3 project (i.e. one fresh after a `rails new` command), mongrel appears to start (creates a pid file, and reports no errors on the CLI), but the app does not load in the browser and I find this in the mongrel.log

Hello, I am still reading Agile Web Developer pdf, it says about after_initialize and after_find. There is a Joe asks part when I read that they are special, however I didn''t really get the idea, why they are. On rubyonrails.org in the manual there is some sort description about their speciality, however their full descriptions are missing. What are the difference between

hi, i am having problems getting after_initialize for activerecord subclasses. basically, i am trying to use the guid plugin by andy singleton. i am having problems extending the class to the plugins i installed, so i figured i will just apply this to all the models in my project. i trled to add the following to my lib/ folder. my goal is to extended the activerecord class so that it uses

All, I''m wanting to initialize an ActiveRecord object. I understand that there is a method called after_initialize that appears to get called right after the ActiveRecord object is instantiated. Is after_initialize a Ruby thing or a Rails thing? Where is after_initialize documented? Can I pass parameters to it? If so, how? I want to initialize the "belongs_to" attribute of

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I''m trying to add some per-object behaviors to objects descended from ActiveRecord, by using after_initialize() and instance_eval(), like this: def after_initialize self.instance_eval(File.read(''customers/default.rb'')) end (Ultimately the file path will be dynamic, this is just proof of concept.) default.rb just contains a few method definitions like this one: def

I have the following models: class Order < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :billing_address belongs_to :shipping_address accepts_nested_attributes_for :billing_address accepts_nested_attributes_for :shipping_address, :reject_if => proc { |attributes| attributes[''has_shipping_address''] != ''1'' } def after_initialize self.build_billing_address

All, Can anyone see what''s happening here? ================== migration ======================= class CreateGreetings < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :greetings do |t| t.string :greet t.string :language t.integer :count t.timestamps end end def self.down drop_table :greetings end end ================== greeting.rb

Hi guys, I''m looking for a way to pass environment variables to my Rails app via Mongrel. I want to conditionally execute code in environment.rb based on these environment variables. Background: 1. I have some special stuff I want to do when my Rails app first starts 2. So, stuff it in environment.rb in after_initialize, right? 3. Not this time. I have several other background

I''m trying to figure out how Ruby in general, and/or anything extra Rails may have, can talk to Java APIs of third party server apps. After quite a few search attempts net-wide and on ruby forums, and with "Programming Ruby" in hand, I''m coming up with zilch. Either I''m not finding it, or I''m not recognizing it. I''m assuming there has

Hi, I have a AR model that I want to limit changes to be only via instance methods that I''ve added. How do I prevent my other sw from setting the instance''s attributes? I know about #attr_protected and #attr_readonly. But the first leaves the individual setters as they were and the second stops all changes. I want something like "attr_private" Thoughts? Thanks,

Guys, I''ve run across an interesting scenario with my migrations, and I hope you might share some insight. Let''s say I have 3 migrations and two Models (Person and Car): 001_initial_schema.rb 002_data_load.rb 003_add_car_association.rb The first creates the initial schema...the second loads default data using model objects of Person to do so, and the third creates a new

I have three model objects: 1. Document 2. Section 3. Content According to my requirements a Document must have at least one Section. Similarly a Section must have at least one Content. How can I add a Section when a Document is created and add a Content when a Section is created? My code: class Document < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :sections end class Section < ActiveRecord::Base

I am serializing a data object (FooData) into an ActiveRecord column (Foo). I''d like to be able to do delegate methods to the data class if the Foo class doesn''t have that attribute. So instead of: f = Foo.new f.data.item1 I''d like to do: f = Foo.new f.item1 I was hoping that I could add a method_missing method to my Foo class and call methods in the FooData class

Hi all, I''m having issues with Unicorn and connecting to RabbitMQ using the tmm1-amqp gem. I''ve tried lots of approaches. The classic initializer with Thread.new { EM.run } for the Rails app and even tried using the Qusion library. (https://github.com/danielsdeleo/qusion) I''ve made a simple mod to Qusion for it to monkey patch unicorn too. The code looks

Ok I would love to work out how to use the new Raisl 3.1 Asset Pipeline with SCSS variables, mixins etc and being able to use the asset_path tag. What I have so far is this. Im my application.css.scss I have the following. *= require_self *= require layout *= require home This works fine with using the asset_path helper and variable within layout ie, // layout.css.scss.erb

After a couple of thoughtful comments, I''ve made changes to acts_as_modified plugin. It no longer relies on after_find and after_initialize, which were both causing performance issues. Please check it out and let me know what you think, where you might recommend improvements or additional features and what not. One feature I do have planned (again, thanks to comments), but