similar to: insert value of primary key into another field before record is saved

Hi list, first evening of playing with rails, so please forgive me if I ask something stupid. ;-) I created a User model and tried to use ActiveRecord callbacks to convert the password to sha1 just before saving it. For some reason postgresql gives me a error because the given password is null. To test even further I tried to change :login too, same error happens, :login is empty too. I am sure

Hi, I''m having some strange behavior on callbacks when testing with RSpec2. On my test, when I create a resource using the #create method the callbacks related to #before_create are not called. If I go to the console and I try to type the command Resource.create(client_uri: "http://example.com") all works fine. There are no mocks around, and I can''t understand if this

Working through the beginning phase from the Agile book on ''Administration'' undefined method `hashed_password='' for #<User:0xb7911324> ... /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1498:in `method_missing'' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/user.rb:12:in `before_create''

I''m trying to be a good rails developer and fix DRY violations as i find them. However, i''m trying to fix this one, i cant seem to get it to work. I have two tables A and B that have a one-to-one relationship. Table B belongs_to Table A. Table A has_one Table B. I''m creating instances of Table A in different places, depending on the controller. However, for each

Hi! Definite newbie here - I''m working through this like-hate relationship with Ruby and Rails right now... sometimes things work really well (like blobs seem to rock) but other times, I dunno! :-) Anyway, I''d like put in create and update user timestamps on all my primary domain tables and allow them to be updated automatically by ActiveRecord. Coming from Hibernate, I just

2 quick questions regarding authentication ... 1) the flash[:notice] on successful login looks completely wrong to me. How should it be done? def index if request.post? @user = User.new(params[:user]) authentic_user = @user.attempt_login if authentic_user session[:user_id] = authentic_user.id flash[:notice] = ''Login successful! Welcome

Hi you all, I have a model simulating an ActiveRecord model, according to the tips stated in [1]. It is simulated because even though I am gonna save the attributes in a file, not in a DB, I still want the validations made by ActiveRecord::Base (see code below). Well, the thing is that I also want the behaviour of the created_on and updated_on columns, that get modified automatically before

In console, I am trying to create a User but the :account_id does not come in. Console just gives me back :account_id => nil. Obviously I''m trying to set it though. Silly console... But, I can set the account_id column in my controller like so: @user = User.new(params[:user]) @user.account_id = account.id @user.save Here''s what I give to the controller: User.create :name

Hi! I need to set the primary key in a model and postgres table to something different than id. View Edit and such works in the scaffolded controller. However if I click in the controller below the list of data onto New then I get an error message like this: Showing app/views/admin/_form.rhtml where line #5 raised: undefined method `nr_before_type_cast'' for

how can i access to a collection that was created in the same control and the data that a want to access isn?t the id the collection has : id, usuario, comandancia comandancia is the data to access the question is how to access comandancia in @acceso this code is wrong : def new @catelemento = Catelemento.new @acceso= Catacceso.find(:all, :conditions

Hi all I have the following model: class PhotoGallery < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :title, :description, :file_path, :title_photo_id has_many :photos, :dependent => :destroy belongs_to :title_photo, :class_name => ''Photo'', :foreign_key => ''title_photo_id'' validates_presence_of :title, :description, :file_path

Hi there, I have this model called InventoryItem. Every time an InventoryItem is created (through the CharactersController and the create_item action) I need to update others tables and make lookups in other tables, to check if the Character has the prerequisites to actually create the InventoryItem. My problem is that I cannot seem to find a good place to put this logic. I''ve tried to

I have an error I don''t know how to debug. I am adding the login suport in Depot (the example in the RoR book) and LoginController#add_user throws ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in an innocent /login/add_user GET request. The trace goes down to a call to SQLiteAdapter#table_structure, and the source code suggests what''s happening is that "PRAGMA

Hallo, I have a table like this: create table properties( id bigint unsigned not null auto_increment, property_variable_stack_id bigint unsigned not null, primary key(id), foreign key (property_variable_stack_id) references property_variable_stacks (id)) type=InnoDB; Here you can see a reference to a table property_variable_stacks. >From outside the Property class I can set up a Property with

In ActiveRecord''s callbacks, methods within a before_create callback are called after the validation, but before the model is created. This was an intentional design decision, but I think it was the wrong one. What do you think? When I think of before_create, I think of before_validation :foo, :on => :create, but, by default, before_create is synonymous with after_validation :foo,

Hi, I am having a small problem concernig how to access local variables in before_create. I am not sure how to really form this question but here goes: I am wondering why this works def before_create self.last_logged_in = Time.now self.created = Time.now end but this doesn''t def before_create @last_logged_in = Time.now @created = Time.now end The latter fails

Hello everyone, I''m having trouble figuring out which approach is better. I have the following tables: products, orders and line_items. Every time an Order is placed, the quantity field in the products table has to be updated for each LineItem in the Order. One option is to use DB triggers which is not as portable as using before_create in the Order model. But with before_create I cannot

Hi, I am having trouble using before_create when I have an specialized setter method: before_save :set_campaign_start #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- def set_campaign_start self.campaign_start = Time.now end # We want the date to always start at midnight

I''m using Restful Authentication, and the code to create a user is pretty straight forward - there is a before_save action and a before_create action: before_save :encrypt_password before_create :make_activation_code But for some reason when I try to create a user programmatically in the controller like this: User.new(:email =>

I have the following models: User, Registration, Event. User has_many Registration, Event has_many Registration, and Registration belongs_to User and Registration. So far, so good. There''s a registration deadline on a Event though, a few days before the Event occurs. So, I have this: class Registration < AR def before_create errors.add_to_base("Registration deadline has