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In the application I''m working on, a layout renders a partial that displays a breadcrumb navigation bar across the top of a page. In other words, the layout renders a partial that displays breadcrumbs. But the navigation bar rendered by a partial in a layout needs to use data from the view to determine which breadcrumbs to display. My question is: how can data be passed from a view to

hi guys, I have a new development server (ubuntu 10). I have done the following (the versions match my existing development machine which works fine): 1. installed ruby 1.9.1p378 2. installed ruby gems 1.3.7 3. installed rails 2.3.8 (used "gem install rails -v 2.3.8") 4. manually installed my other gems including sphinx and thinking sphinx with "gem install ..." 5. ran

Before I start down this road, has anyone done a breadcrumbs implementation they''d be happy to share? Thanks Chris T

>From looking at the RSpec Rails documentation (https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/docs/view-specs/view-spec) it seems like rendered is just a string and you can''t really do any assert_select type stuff out of the box. After Googling around, it seems that the RSpec authors decided that if you want that functionality, you should just use Capybara or some such... is that

Dear all, Is it possible to generate a breadcrumb from Rails controller without using any additional plugin? What methods should I look into to be able to generate breadcrumb in Rails? Thank you very much in advance for your assistance. Kind regards, Joshua -- http://twitter.com/scrum8 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

I''m sure this is really obvious but I''m feeling my way here with rails (and Ruby) and have tried a couple of things without success. So, can anyone tell me the best way to reverse order the retuen list of ancestors. In the controller I have: @ancestors = @category.ancestors which returns an array starting at the parent and ending with the root. When I then loop through the

Code sample: class SomeController < ApplicationController before_filter do |c| add_crumb "Blah", "/blah" #breadcrumbs plugin redirect_to :controller => "foo", :action => "bar" unless c.send (:has_package?) end # Rest of the controller... private def has_package? # A bunch of logic work to check to make sure # somebody''s session contains

Anyone aware of a Rails-based component/framework to allow for easy "breadcrumb" navigation links? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi guys, Assuming I made some changes to the source code. My production environment runs on passenger and nginx. How do I restart passenger and nginx with minimal downtime? Surely I can''t do a "w" on the terminal because a server will not always be in zero load. Would love to hear some recommendations. PS- I have read on unicorn

I have a basic login system implemented. I''ve recently added a timestamp field "last_activity_time". During the login process, if I successfully get back a user object, I do this: user.update_attribute(:last_activity_time, Time.now()) It appears to be successful given the breadcrumbs I''ve strewn around it, but nothing gets written out to my table. In

Hello again, It''s possible to use before_filter in the application_controller, and exclude for some methods from other controllers ? i have a before_filter in application_controller that checks if the user is logged, if the time hasn''t expired, ... and I want to exclude some methods of this check, like the login. This ''login'' belongs to other controller. I

Hi, I was wondering how to get url_for to work inside ActionMailer. I did research on the web but I can''t seem to find something that fits what I need. In my application, each user can specify their custom domain to access their. I have an ActionMailer that sends them notifications of changes that occur. In there, I have a breadcrumbs helper method, which generages something like:

hi, there rails: 2.3.8 machine os: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid I''m having some problems with my rails installation in one of my new development machines. I have installed all the gems in my config/environment.rb file. When I now run either script/console or script/server, I have the error of " `rescue in load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant Paperclip::Glue

hi guys, I have been trying to install Rmagick on ubuntu karmic koala for a day. Yes, ImageMagicK has already been installed and works great with paperclip and a few other perl scripts I have (which uses Image::Magick). The following is what the execution looks like when I tried to install rmagick ( " gem install rmagick" ): -------------------- Extract start

Forgot to CC the list. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Joshua Warner <joshuawarner32 at gmail.com>wrote: > >> In large-scale parallel simulations, sometimes you process an event >> speculatively. If it turns out you should not have processed that event >> (and such situations can be detected by our system), you need to undo all of >> the changes you made in

hello! i got this forum powered by apache and mod_rails lately when i create / edit posts, i get plain html text showing up instead of the actual page. here''s what i see: -- Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Set-Cookie: _mysite_session=BAh7CzoOcmV0dXJuX3RvMDoKdGl0bGV7BmkVdToJVGltZQ2IDhuAK1UeADoL %250AdG9waWNzewZpBnU7Bw2HDhuA2%252FZJ7zoJdXNlcmkGIgpmbGFzaElDOidBY3Rp

When I run rake db:migrate or rake -T I get these lines at the end: Finished in 0.000276 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors My Gemfile is: source ''http://rubygems.org'' gem ''rack'' gem ''rails'', ''3.0.9'' gem "acl9", ''0.12.0'' gem "fastercsv"#, :version =>

Hi all I want to outsource an extension for ApplicationController, that I had in application.rb so far, into a plugin. I have created this plugin, and in init.rb I load require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/lib/application_controller'' In lib/application_controller.rb I have the following code: class ApplicationController before_filter :prepare_user ... end This worked

Hi, I just started using R a few weeks ago and have a problem with linking Fortran subroutines to R. For some reasons, I need to compile a Fortran program in R (or Splus) and the whole program consists a couple of subroutines, say, subA and subB. There is no difficulty in linking the subroutines individually, but two subroutines are nested, as shown below, SUBROUTINE subA(arg.) EXTERNAL

From: root <root at ovirt.admin.virt.par.lng> Signed-off-by: root <root at ovirt.admin.virt.par.lng> --- src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb index 4c4666e..c7f8431 100644 ---