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What is the general opinion about fixtures versus mocking and stubbing in model specs? I heard from agile on IRC that they save the database testing for integration testing, but I also see that the caboose sample applicaiton uses fixtures. I also noticed that on the rspec site, it says "Ironically (for the traditional TDD''er) these are the only specs that we feel should actually

Hello, As I''m becoming more and more familiar with mocking/stubbing, I''m going back to some of my model specs and revaluating how I wrote them. I have certain models in which validation requires the presence of an associated model, which itself needs to be valid(validates_presence_of and validates_associated). When I wrote the specs, I wrote helpers for the attributes instead

Question about the number_to_phone function as provided by rails in actionpack: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/NumberHelper.html If I do this in my controller: num = number_to_phone(params[:phone_number]) I get this error: undefined method `number_to_phone'' for #<TicketsController:0xb7a2bfcc> Whereas if I do this in my view: <%

Hi All, Is there a way to filter / modify the output of a model class before it''s returned to controller/view that''s calling it? Example: I have a field phone_number which I always want to preformat using the number_to_phone() helper.... Any help is appriciated. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

The one area I keep hitting my head against in Rails is repeating fields via javascript. I frequently have forms where one or more fields are actually broken out into sub tables because there can be multiple simultaneous values. Rails seems to want to you to use the [] construct in the form helpers (e.g. text_field(''employee[]'', ''name'')), but I can''t

I''ve been going through Pat''s example story and noticed that there was no checking for a bad login. I assume this is because that would have made the article bigger and more complicated than it needed to be. So the question that comes of of this is: How do folks normally handle the negative case? My plan was to just use another scenario, but as a new person to BDD/TDD,

Hi, I need to allow login based on the phone number. During the signup they can give the number in any format with spaces, slash or (). But for storing in database and then during login to compare I just want the 10 digit number. How can I remove the special char from phone number before storing to db ? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to trim down a phone number to the last four digits before saving it to the db. How would I do this? For example, 800-555-1212 which could also be 8005551212, i want to save just 1212 (last four digits) only. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ok here''s a quicky... but a goody :) We have models Company, Reference and Applicant... and References and Applicants just inherit from Company, and are basically companies with the type field set to reference... All companies can have a phone number associated with them, and phone number is a different model... I''m having trouble using the form_for method with a company that

i have a one-to-many model (an addressbook of contacts with many phone numbers). i want to represent a select element so that its name is an array containing the phone_number id... <select id="phone_number_1_location_or_kind" name="phone_number[1][location_or_kind]"> <option value="Work">Work</option> <option

I am trying so learn how to do custom validations. The validation works as expected, but I can''t get "error_messages_for" to display. How is the name of the object supposed to be formated? Where is this object created, the model or controller? What am I doing wrong here? #### Model ######################## class MyFolder < ActiveRecord::Base def validate # validation

Egad, not again with Broadvoice! Anyhow, I recently installed AAH and configured my TDM11B and got that and some SIP phones working. I still have some issues to work out, etc, but my current problem is Broadvoice. I have checked out all of the online resources, including the recent list exchange about the recent changes made by Broadvoice. However, the one thing I have found to be consitent in

I am trying to use acts_as_ferret''s multi_search to search across multiple models, but i only want it to return one type of model. for example i have a page that lists out people. on this page it shows email addresses and phone numbers. I want to be able to search by any fields directly from the person model and search the fields from the email_address and phone_number models, but I only

I was thinking today, it would be nice if a view could tell a model how to format it''s data for that particular view. Kind of like, the view is bestowing instant, and temporary knowledge on the model for the duration of the views run. It seemed to me that this would be more objecty than say a helper that formats a string format_my_string( my_string ) Instead, in my view. Lets assume I

Hi everyone, I''m Italian and sorry for my english mistakes... I''m developing a web-site using rubyonrails. It''s REALLY COOL! But I''m obliged to re-use some javascript functions. Do you know where I can get the right documentation (and examples) in order to integrate these two different environments? Thanks, Matteo. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there, I''m still trying to wrap my head around when to use a stub and a mock. If I understand this right, I should be using a ''mock'' when imitating an object, but not its behavior. I should be using a stub when I want to imitate the behavior of an object. Does that sound about right? With that said, I''m struggling a little trying to spec out this instance

I have two partials to deal with contact information. The Contact information uses single-table polymorphism. I want to be able to use save on Contact and set ''type'' manually, based on the type of form the user is filling in. This is saved as the value on a hidden field. class Contact belongs_to :person acts_as_list :scope => :person validates_presence_of :type

i want to create link on the matched field: f.e. i have person and phone models. class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :phones acts_as_ferret :fields => [:phone_numbers] def phone_numbers phones.collect{|phone| phone.number} end end search result''s page lists out people with matched phone_numbers highlighted. i want to create link on matched phone_number to get

I am trying to get polymorphic relations to work for my app. What I am trying to do is explained by this picture http://iroll.org/code/ I can''t figure out the code for in the controller to create a new phone_number and assign it to a person. I have tried everything I can think of. A) do my models look correct? B) what would the commands look like in the console or a controller action

Hello, Here is my *pdf_helper.rb* => http://pastebin.com/QU1kTKXk. I want to test, if self.create method can take more than two arguments. But, when I try to run my test. It showed *PdfHelper Should have two arguments Failure/Error: create_pdf.should_receive(object,template).with(user,file) NameError: undefined local variable or method `create_pdf'' for