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Hi, I''m really new to rails, so i programmed some stuff and today i read some things about skinny Controllers, fat models. My Controllers are really fat now. So i''m asking myself how can i shrink my controllers and move the code to the models, especially in fact of REST e.g. in focus on error codes? code example: # POST /tasks # POST /tasks.xml def create @authorized

I''ve just stumbled (literally, while I was trying to fix a glitch I was having after upgrading Aegis...) on the Inherited Resources gem... why did no-one tell me?! ;-) Is everyone else using some form of controller base-class? Am I the last on this bus! https://github.com/josevalim/inherited_resources -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Need some advice. I''ve got two modules: artists and paintings. In my home page, I''ve got a 2nd page that says "Browse paintings", which displays ALL paintings of ALL artists. This is being rendered by paintings#index. In another page, I should show all paintings of a specific artist ONLY. Meaning, paintings from ONE artist. I cant use paintings#index for this anymore

Well, I''m starting on RoR, so I got a Book called simply rails...Following the steps in it sometimes when I try to call a property, the browser shows me the next exception: undefined method `name'' for nil:NilClass I don''t know why...here''s my controller: #Controller starts here class StoriesController < ApplicationController before_filter :login_required,

Hi I''m a big fan of plugins such as Resource Controller http://jamesgolick.com/2007/10/19/introducing-resource_controller-focus-on-what-makes-your-controller-special However, recently decided I don''t want to depend on a plugin for this, and would rather stick closer to the rails core. So does anyone have any cool strategies or ideas for achieving this? Or is there any move to

i think there ara two ways of relate products and categories , basically i want to fix one product(e.g hp dv7....) to some categories (notebook,17"notebooks...) i made a table named categorization(incuding category_id,product_id fields) then in models i write these codes below class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :categories, :through => :categorizations

Hi: I am using authlogic, and following railscast tutorial. I am running into this error code with the password confirmation. authlogic password confirmation is too short Has anyone experienced this error? I need your help. Thanks in advance for your help.

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/.

On 30 August 2010 15:47, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote: > Colin Law wrote: >> I have the following html >> <p><b>text</b>value</p> >> I can use >> assert_select "p>b", "text" >> to check the text portion, and >> assert_select "p", "value"

Hey all, im not sure where to set a default value if a textfield is empty? For now i do it in the controller, and check if the submitted parameter is blank. But this seems not to be the best solution... Thanks for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Any idea why this calculates the integer the way it does? irb> ("291.15".to_f * 100.0).to_i => 29114 Thanks, Tom -- 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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I am experimenting with a combined form. I wish to force the HTTP verb for this form to PUT. However, it always uses POST when submitted and I cannot determine why. The view template code is: <%=form_for( @user, :html => { :class => :edit_user_role, :id => :edit_user_role_form, :method => :put }, :url => user_roles_url( @user ) )

Hi, How to embed ruby code in xml . here is my XML template : string = <<EOF <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ozxmlscene> <ozml version="4.0"> <styleRun style="1091379" offset="0" length="7"/> <text>The End</text> <object value="84"/> <object

Hello, I''m using escape_javascript to return a partial to the browser via ajax. Something like: $("#inject").html("<%=escape_javascript(render :partial =>"feed/ index")%>"); Problem is escape_javascript ends up outputing all kinds of wasted space like \n\n\n\n\n \n Is there anyway in Rails to escape_javascript more

hi, im totally a newbie so i have got no idea whatsoever why i got this error, the thing that happend was i was doing a little coding along with the lynda.com rails series that i got this error. well as u can see this is the error which i get on terminal, but there is another one in browser too which says : "NoMethodError in AdminController#index " u can see it in the picture here :

I''m sure this is easy since rails does this internally, but I need to convert a string of url formatted variables "foo=bar&baz=snoo&why=because" to a hash, and I need to convert a hash to url format. Now before I roll my own methods to do this, does rails expose this functionality somehow? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Looks like I''ve gotten my app upgraded successfully, at least in the browser. When I ''rake test'' I get no love. I know I can start digging through the Rails rake tasks, first want to see if anyone has an idea what is going on: DKMac:creditcompare3 DK$ rake test (in /Users/DK/Documents/ror/projects/creditcompare3) DKMac:creditcompare3 DK$ (requesting verbose fares just

I have a controller test here: http://gist.github.com/275616, which works fine when account is an independent model, however I want: an account to be a property of user, ( and created and associated when a user is) when the user goes to /account/edit it should on edit the account of the logged in user - I can make rails do this, but I''m utterly baffled how I should alter this test to

Is there a relatively easy way to do this code in sql? @categories=Category.all.reject{|n| n.blank?}.sort{|a,b| a.name <=>b.name}.collect{|t| [t.name,t.name.downcase.gsub('' '',''_'')]} -- 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 tried out ''acts_as_taggable'', ''acts_as_taggable_on'' and ''acts_as_taggable_on_steroids'' and all of them output "undefined method ''empty?''" with the tag_cloud action. I am following the guides precisely. Yet I can find no references to this error anywhere, so I must be doing something wrong... I am on