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Hi! If I have a method that is useful in both models and in views, where would be the appropriate place to put it? The method in question just takes two dates as strings, tries to parse them and returns all dates in the range between them. It also takes care of the issues when the dates are badly formatted etc etc.. This method is being used in several models (so a simple class method in

Yesterday, I opened a GitHub Issue<https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7071> about moving Rails inflections to an initializer. The idea wasn''t received well, understandably, as generating a large initializer with new Rails apps is pretty unappealing. However, the core members seemed open to the discussion of alternatives continuing here. For those of you not in the know,

Hi! I have a table with visits with a visited_at: attribute which is a datetime field. They seem to be stored as UTC. Now I want to count all visits each day and return something like: { 2013-01-01: 8, 2013-01-02: 4, 2013-01-07: 9, ... } So, I did it like this which kind of works...: def self.total_grouped_by_day(start_date, end_date) visits = where(visited_at:

Hi I want to use Sidekiq to run some jobs in the background. The jobs will be created by the whenever gem (or similar) which creates a Sidekiq worker at a specific time. This worker will in turn create a few hundred Sidekiq jobs. So, I''m using Heroku and wonder if I need to use a separate worker dyno for these jobs? Or can I use, for example, Unicorn to run Sidekiq "inside"

Hi i''m fairly new to ruby on rails and i''m creating a form using simple_form and in one bit i have radio buttons and say i have 3 buttons a,b,c so i want it to be if a is pressed then certain text fields show, and if b is pressed a different set of text fields show and similarly for c. Can anyone help me on this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Hi I''m building a small library to use in my Rails app which interacts with a 3rd party API. It fetches artists and tracks. So I have: lib/my_lib.rb lib/my_lib/artist.rb lib/my_lib/track.rb To get an artist I do artist = MyLib::Artist.find("Oasis") Which returns an instance of Artist if it finds (via 3rd party API) it or nil otherwise. Then I can call artist.tracks which

Hi! Let''s say I have an app that handles a TODO list. The list has finished and unfinished items. Now I want to add two virtual attributes to the list object; the count of finished and unfinished items in the list. I also need these to be displayed in the json output. How do I achieve that? Best Regards Linus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

I have an option in dropdown like "Add new option" written using grouped_collection_select. And when user clicks on the "Add new option". A pop up dialog appears to add a new value. And when I click create it hits the database and adds the value to the db. But It never updates the dropdown list. Suggest me a way to auto refresh only the current dropdown with the new

Hi I have created a polymorphic association for comments since I need commenting functionality on several models. The issue is that when I create the comment in my Commets#create action, I really don''t know what type the parent is of. So, let''s say I have Foo, Bar and Comment. Comment have this: belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true And Foo and Bar both have:

Hi! I have two models, artists and songs. I have this in my route file: resources :artists, :path => "ackord" do resources :songs end Which gives me urls like this (I''m using https://github.com/norman/friendly_id to create and manage slugs): example.com/ackord/artistname/songs/songname-id Now I want to remove the /songs part to get a url like this:

I''m a Rails newbie and I have added the CKEditor Gem which is working okay. To configure the gem though, you have to edit the config file, which is also working when I do that. However, when I push to github and pull to my other computer, the config file is not changed. This lead me to the following broader question: when you use a gem, where does the code go and how can you make sure it

Hi I''m trying to create a many to many relationship between two models. A User can be associated with many Incidents and vice versa. class User < ActiveRecord::Base include ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesProtection has_many :incident_participants, foreign_key: "participant_id" has_many :participated_incidents, through: :incident_participants end class Incident

I am a newbie in Ruby. I would to ask from all the experts in Ruby on how to create a checkbox with value as well as a dropdown menu. I want it like this site http://www.celiac.com/glutenfreemall/advanced_search.php. Their search form is good and I want to learn every aspect in doing it. Hope you can give me a step-by-step tutorial in doing it. Thanks in advance. -- Posted via

Hi, I have an advance search page and its code is as follows - I have written my code like this <div class="container"> <%= form_tag search_index_path, method: :get do %> <%= radio_button_tag ''user_type'', ''customer'' %><p>Customer</p> <%= radio_button_tag ''user_type'',

Hi all I am trying to use Fckeditor as text area to send mails.here is my code <% remote_form_for :send_sms, :before => "Element.show(''loader'')", :success => "Element.hide(''loader'')" do |sms| %> <div id="news_content_text_field_bg"> <%= fckeditor_textarea :send_sms, :message,:lang =>

Hello everyone, I am using rails 3.2.8. I want to change time zone to New York time. I changed following, but didn''t work #config/application.rb config.time_zone = ''Eastern Time (US & Canada)'' config.active_record.default_timezone = ''Eastern Time (US & Canada)'' If am wrong please clarify. Thank You! -- You received this message

Hello, I have a rails project with one controller and one action, as simple as posible. And I''m trying to put some custom css and js to my own index.html.erb (not public/index.html.erb), I inluded this on the layout file: layout file: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Volei</title> <%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media =>

Hi all, I am fairly new to ROR and recently i created an application where i have a combobox when on select the item from combobox i need the table in the view to be updated based on the selection of the item selected in the combobox. I need to do it using javascript , the whole data should be retrived once and when the user selects the item from combo the table data should get updated without

hello anyone know how i can set a default integer value with simple_form, i have code like this below in my view but its not working. <%= f.input :age, :value => ''30'' %> i would like the input box to have the value of 30 by default thanks for any help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Hi everyone, I need several pages to be static but also modify when requested. I try following the railcast from Ryan at http://railscasts.com/episodes/117-semi-static-pages?view=comments Here what I have done!! rails g scaffold Pages name:string permanentlink:string title:string author:string access_level:string is_published:boolean meta_description:string meta_keyword:string