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hi, here is a snippet code in ROR''s attribure_accessor.rb. the usage of class_eval is different with "class_eval(string, <, file, <line>>)" somewhat, i don''t understand this usage, who can explain it more detail to me? def cattr_writer(*syms) syms.flatten.each do |sym| class_eval(<<-EOS, __FILE__, __LINE__) unless defined?

In some of my unit tests, I find the need to set today to a different value than the actual today. For example, to test the model method "balance_of_today", which takes no argument, I want to have Date.today be a specific date for the purpose of testing. In other words, I want to do something like this: mock_today(Date.new(2008, 2, 1)) do ... test code... end My implementation for

Hi *, I am writing my first app based on the ''depot'' application but with some suttle differences to help me learn. I am a bit sutck with following and would be grateful for any help: I have the following controller: class MainController < ApplicationController def index @objects = Object.certified_items end end This relates to a field called

I''m writing my own plugin and all the plugins I''ve seen use class_eval in the method that is called in the including module. For example: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToWriteAnActsAsFoxPlugin module Foo module Acts #:nodoc: module Fox #:nodoc: def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end # declare the class level

Hi to all.... Please help me =( I use rails_admin and I need to upload files with the help of it. I found carrierwave for it and installed it with the help of https://gist.github.com/884835. But It doesn''t work =( when i login in rails_admit? i see default text field instead field for choose a file, but this text field without CSS styles of rails_admin. I think, that my views, which i

i wont to change url name of model in rails_admin example i have model Help and *url : /admin/help/ * now i wont to change name of url to *"/admin/customerHelp"* so how can it be posible to change in rails_admin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

hello friends, i am using rails_admin as webapp admin interface. it create a User model by default using Devise gem. after that i am creating another authorization area member. now /admin route change to /member/sign_in from user/sign_in. any body have idea how to create a parallel login area in devise with rails_admin. /admin => /user/sign_in (default) after * rails g devise member*. it

MainController implies main.rhtml, which will automatically have access to the methods inside MainHelper (in \app\helpers\main_helper.rb). Should not the partial templates called from main.rhtml via <%= render :partial => ''partial'' %> also have access to the methods in main_helper ? I have tried <% display_dates = create_display_dates(@events) %> and <%

Hi All I can''t for the life of me see what is wrong with this. Maybe it''s cause it''s midnight... I want to put some data in a session and I have some code like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base model :mything def ApplicationController.chosen_thing session[:chosen_thing] ||= MyThing.defaultThing end end So whenever I try to

I''m writing an acts_as_* plugin and am trying to BDD it. Ideally my specs would look like: describe ActsAsCloneable, " basic cloning" do load_example_classes School.class_eval do acts_as_cloneable end before(:each) do @old_school = School.create! :name => "Baylake Pines", :city => "Virginia Beach", :guid => "abc123"

Hi all Very simple question, im sure, but I cant find docs anywhere that tell me how to do this. What I want is for the index page of the server to be generated from rails, is www.wibble.com/ will result in a page that has been processed by rails, has the templates etc. >From what I can see, the index page comes from public/index.html How do I get this to be a rails page? Thanks Jonathan

Hi, Just wondering when one would use "include" over "extend"? Both seem to bring in methods to the class no? The context is I''m just trying to understand why both are used with the acts_as_audited plugin: Full extract from plugin (used within here): ================================================== # Copyright (c) 2006 Brandon Keepers # # Permission is hereby

Hello there good rails people! Just did a fresh install of rails on my new (old) Ubuntu machine. I am running ruby 1.8.2 and have installed about five extra packages that do not come with Ubuntu. I managed to install ruby-gems and used gems to successfully install rails but I am getting an error message when I run rails, it seems to be choking on a Tkl paren. Google has not turned up much

Hi, I have a legacy web site based on ruby on rails 3.0.9 which works just fine with Firefox, chrome and IE 8, but I receive an HTTP 406 error every time when I check the web site with Internet Explorer 9. I narrowed down the problem to the respond_to + format.js + render :update trio, but I did not manage to solve the problem until now. I created a small example for reproduction: The action

Hi, I''m trying to write a plugin that should inject an action into the controller. Please note, not just an instance method, but also an _action_, one of those that are listable by running ControllerClassName.action_methods. I wrote the following code: def render_field_search(name, object, controller, options = {}) controller.class.class_eval do

Hi, i am using Savage Beast 2.3 plugin for the forum and i got and error undefined method `has_many'' for Object:Class C:/forum/vendor/plugins/savage-beast/lib/savage_beast/user_init.rb: 9:in `included'' C:/forum/vendor/plugins/savage-beast/lib/savage_beast/user_init.rb: 7:in `class_eval'' C:/forum/vendor/plugins/savage-beast/lib/savage_beast/user_init.rb: 7:in

I am trying to inherit from a ActiveRecord class defined in a plugin. The problem is that ActiveRecord thinks I am doing an STI and is looking up a table that doesn''t exist. Currently, I have a method in the parent class that looks like this: def self.fix_table_name class_eval do set_table_name(Inflector.tableize(self.to_s)) end end The problem is that this method

I really would like to know how people are using the Story and Example runner to write their software.It would be great to get some direction on it, because I think I''m missing some points. Taking the outside-in approach in thought: At first we write a high-level customer-facing story, this story fails. Then we start using mocks at object level to use them as a design tool, and so we

i keep getting this AssociationTypeMismatch error. i think this could be a bug related to ruby/rails when using mixins. heres a short version of my code: # user.rb require ''friend_invitation'' require ''friendship'' class User < ActiveRecord::Base include FriendInvitationUser, FriendshipUser ... end # friendship.rb ... module FriendshipUser def

I am trying to write a plugin, ''acts_as_commentable'', for my models - Image, Book, Music and so on, I do not want to use polymorphic association, so very model should have its own comment class. Here is my code acts_as_commentable.rb module Commentable def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end module ClassMethods def