similar to: acts_as_list query

I am creating forum application which needs usage of acts_as_list or acts_as_tree or acts_as_nested_set. I am unable to decide among these. please could some one recommend from their experience? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Here''s my issue: running ruby -I test test/unit/something_test.rb for each of my unit tests works perfectly. However, running rake test:units brings errors in all of them - some object becomes nil for some reason. Why might this be happening? Specifics: the object that is successfully not nil when I run the unit tests one-by-one but becomes nil when I do rake test:units is defined like

right now i''m adding an item to my ''list'' but i''m unsure how to move it to a certain spot in the list. specifically i want to put it at the bottom of the list. i assumed that if i did something like parent.children << new_child then the ''position'' field in the child table would be given some sensible default by rails but instead

in a single table inheritance model, rails will automatically set the scope for acts_as_list to the ''type'' field as well as any other scope conditions we provide. Is there a way to disable this? i want to use STI but I want acts_as_list to disregard the class type when getting/setting positions. thanks alan

I need an ordered (sortable tree) and I just was thinking if somehting like this is possible: class Item< ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree :order => "position" acts_as_list :scope => ''parent_id = #{self.id}'' end For my understanding mixing of two acts_as should be p?ssible, at least in this case, right? Unfortunatly the :scope is not working, I am not

I was curious if there was a built in feature in ActiveRecord or a plugin, but I basically have a database for phone numbers. I want a user to be able to make a phone number as main. There can only be one phone number marked as main at all times. Is there something for this? Thanks for your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~

I have the model that acts as list acts_as_list :scope => ''featured=1'' As you can see, I only need to order the records that are featured. However, from time to time I switch some featured items off and mark others as featured. When this is done, I start getting dublicate numbers on the list and ordering starts getting problem... What would be the good approach to

I''d like to be able to use a has_many :through association and treat the associations as a list but I''m getting this error when I try an use an acts_as_list method: NoMethodError: undefined method `move_to_bottom'' I''m using edge rails r6786. Here are my domain rules: Activities are things students can do. Units consists of a sequenced list of

I''m using Shoulda. After copying the code here.... .... http://joshuaclayton.github.com/code/2009/07/14/should-act-as-list.html.... into my test_helper file so I can test acts_as_list, I came across issues. For one I realized I had to get rid of the _ between the "should" and "have" in past cases, but here, I get this error when I run my unit test:

So I seem to be having an issue with trying to install acts_as_list in rails 2.2.2? I have downloaded the files from: http://github.com/rails/acts_as_list/tree/master I have put the files in the vendor/plugins folder the files are as follows: vendor/plugins/acts_as_list/init.rb vendor/plugins/acts_as_list/lib/active_record/acts/list.rb vendor/plugins/acts_as_list/test/list_test.rb

Hi ! There must be something I don''t understand clearly in acts_as_list I have a list of gallery entries (images + text), model is GalleryEntry. I have a field in_exhibition (boolean) I want the list to be sorted with a scope on in_exhibition : from 1 to N for every record having in_exhibition = false and 1 to N for every record having in_exhibition = true When I use acts_as_list

Due to some corporate firewall difficulties I decided to go to my home Mac and install the plugin in a rails project and then just copy the plugin from the vendors/plugin folder to my (inside) corporate project. Is there a special registration that needs to take place somehow for the plugin as rails doesn''t seem to recognize the method yet. How do you run the "test" function

I have a model "Childmodel" that belongs_to two other models "Parent1" and "Parent2". "Parent1" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp1" and "Parent2" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp2". i.e. The child is independently positioned within each of its parents. This works fine and gets me the useful

Hi, [reposting to list, posting via google groups apparently didn''t work] I''m trying to use acts_as_list for the first time. Can anyone confirm the odd behaviour reported here? http://blog.nominet.org.uk/tech/Web/2006/03/06/Using_acts_as_list_in_... i.e. element access and move_higher require an odd indexing scheme to work. I''m personally finding that I

Hi, I''m getting the error below, and I''m not sure where to find "acts_as_list" ... NameError in SpecialsController#printer undefined local variable or method `acts_as_list'' for #<Class: 0xb7a46994> RAILS_ROOT: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/dps Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace vendor/plugins/trunk/lib/scope_out.rb:70:in

I am trying to install acts_as_list in a rails 2.2.2 project but when I try the following: ruby script/plugin install acts_as_list I get: Plugin not found: ["acts_as_list"] I had to download the acts_as_list plugin from the github because it isn''t included in Rails 2.2.2. The files are in my vendor/plugins/acts_as_list folder so I have: lib/active_record/acts/list.rb

Hi Railers, I''ve got a Categories table. I want it to act as a list within the scope of the parent_id AND the site_id. Categories table : id label site_id parent_id So, in my Category class, I have : acts_as_list :scope => ''site_id = #{site_id} AND parent_id = # {parent_id}'' The problem is that when I try to move_up a Category with a parent_id that is null,

Hello Rails experts, Need your help in following issue with the acts_as_list and single table inheritence Code details : http://pastie.org/1214846 Hello Rails experts, Need your help in following issue with the acts_as_list and single table inheritence Code details : http://pastie.org/1214846 But here I need create those entries with the scope on Relater only and not on RelaterFeed or

This is what I have class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :image, :polymorphic => true acts_as_list :scope => image end class Place < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :photos, :as => :image end class Child < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :photos, :as => :image end I want to be able to reorder the images. What I need is for the position of the photos to be set

Hello all, I''m having trouble using acts_as_list with acts_as_tree to order the "children". I''ve found a few old posts on the web that seem to indicate that this once worked. class Whatever < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree :order => :position acts_as_list :scope => :parent_id Although the ''position'' field is being populated, it appears