similar to: active admin saving selection from collection_select and passing to controller

As the subjects suggests I''m trying to reiterate through certain pages, assigning them to certain menus. My code is as follows When I run the Below the position updates fine, but the menu_id in Page doesn''t seem to change it all. params["group_#{params[:id]}"].each_with_index do |id, position| Page.update(id, :position => position + 1, :menu => menu) end

I have the following ActiveRecord objects: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ratings, :dependent => true . . . end class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :created_by, :scope => :recipe_id belongs_to :recipe, :counter_cache => true . . . end The created_by field on Rating is implemented as a "magic" field similar to this:

I''m experimenting with Rails on the Recipes example first before I dive into applying it to my intended application. I''m exploring which will be more work: to rename all the primary id''s in the legacy database, or to work around the fact that the primary id''s are not called ''id'' within RoR instead. I''ve been successful in using a

Here''s the gist of my problem: (using formtastic) Models: Person (has_one :color) Color So I have this database full of already populated Color entries via a whole separate controller + views for creating Colors. When creating a person, I want to be able to select a Color object without creating it. So I''m not looking for something such as: = semantic_form_for @person do

Okay. So I have this simple site, which includes Recipes and then Comments. I want ppl to be able to comment on the recipes, and so I made comments have a recipe_id as it''s foreign key etc. I''m not that much of a noob to not know that stuff. When I click on a recipe, and then make a new comment and click ''submit'' (for the comment) it submits it, but it still

A course has many lessons and a lesson has many topics. A topic can have a recipe or vice versa, a recipe has many topics (optional). I need to come up with the most efficient way of querying the database to find those topics belonging to a course (via lessons of course) which have a recipe (in other words recipe_id is not null for this topic record). Simple but challenging :) Thanks for your

Rails 3.1.3 I am using Formtastic gem in order to deal with multi-select dependencies. <%= semantic_form_for(@give) do |f| %> <%= f.inputs do %> <%= f.input :departure, :collection => Departure.find(:all, :order=>:city).collect{ |c| [c.city,c.id]}, :required=>true %> <div id="destinationCity"> <%= render :partial =>

I want to be able to create one menu object that has fields_for :brunch, :lunch, and :dinner. The menu object has_many brunches, lunches, and dinners, but each time I "edit", only one brunch, one lunch, and one dinner object are added. I''m using carrierwave to upload brunch_menus, lunch_menus, and dinner_menus (attributes of brunches, lunches, and dinners respectively) as

Hello, I have a form that should be a POST method, but Rails insist to put a hidden field "_method" that has the value "put" does anyone knows why? Thanks, David Sousa Controller: ------------------------------- def new @user = @current_user end ------------------------------------------- View: ------------------------------------- <% semantic_form_for @user,

Hi, although I saw this problem in other blogs, I couldn''t make it works. My view: *<%= semantic_form_for :routes_status_race, :url => status_race_admin_routes_path do |f| %>* * <% contact_array = Contact.all.map {|contact| [contact.name, contact.id]}%>* * <% route_importer_array = RouteImporter.all.map {|importer| [importer.name, importer.id]}%>* * <%=

Hi, I''m currently stuck with a problem I just can''t find a clever solution for. I checked every tutorial, issuetracker, API reference I could find but found nothing to "enlighten" me --> I desperately need your help :-). My Question is: is it possible to use nested forms for habtm associations? --> Here some more info about what I wanted to do and what failed

Hi everyone! Please excuse my ignorance! I was working through the Rolling with Ruby tutorial to get a feel of things. Everything seems to work until I tried editing as in the last example in part 2 when I got the following error - |Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id ||| Extracted source (around line *#8*): |5: <body> 6:

I have tried to learn ruby on rails from scratch by going into a tutorial at the following website. http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/tutorial/index.html I followed the suggestions and encountered 3 problems so far. 1. Couldn''t start the Apache server. Error message "Port 80 was used by some other process." I over-came the problem by going into configuration and change the

I''m trying to do a find that includes a join. It has to be a find because I''m using the results for a Pagination, so I need to limit my query to the number of results I want to display per page. Here''s the type of thing I want to do: Employee table <-> Skills_Employees table <-> Skills table Let''s say I want to find all the employees who have

I''m trying to get a collection_select generated Drop-down box to display two fields from a table (first name & last name); however, I am having trouble concatenating the symbols. It appears as though any code I put in the 5th argument for collection_select is processed prior to executing the collection_select method. The code executes successfully with 1 symbol in the 5th

I am creating a data entry form that allows a user to fill in multiple rows and save them all at once. In my controller, I create an array of "person" objects and pass it to the page. On the page, I have a text field like so: <%= text_field "person", "name", "index" => 1 %> Note the "index" attribute, which sets the name and id

I use the following code in my view: <%= collection_select(''datedata'', ''date'', @allDate, :id, :date) %> It''s show me the date of all entries in the database (Dropdown menu). Additional, I wrote a helper method "showDate" in the application_helper.rb! How can I use this method in the collection_select for every date entry? thanks

I have form and a collection_select control. I would like to update form fields (text box) when I select an item from the collection_select box. It''s like selecting template from the collection_select and the template automatically loads to text boxes. Any help? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Hi, I am using collection_select to build a drop down list. I would like to have the current value selected. How can I do that? My current code is straight from the example in Pragmatic Programmers book [2nd ed, p480] copying here for reference. <%= @users = User.find(:all, :order => "name" ) form.collection_select(:name, @users, :id, :name) %> I went through the api docs

I have two collection_select in my list.rhtml: <%= collection_select (:region, :id, @regionall, :id, :title,html_options={:onChange => "new Ajax.Updater(''related_provinces'',''/categories/related_provinces/" + "?id=''+this[this.selectedIndex].value, {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true});"}) %><br> <%= render :partial =>