similar to: DRYing up the view

Hello everyone! Ive been on rails for the last month or so and really enjoyed this framework. However its very hard to find documentation on how to do things right! For example every beginner after a while realizes that having similar CRUD actions in every controller and views for them is not DRY at all! Few days ago I found http://dereksivers.com/rails-shared-controller.html I quite like his

Hello all, I''m working on a couple of Rails projects at the moment and have noticed something that seems to go against the DRY principal. Why, when scaffolding, are individual CRUD rhtml files created instead of using one as a partial and having the others use that single partial? This especially applies to the list rhtml. I am about to get to the other operations and see how feasible

The number of stories I have is growing and I''m writing the following step long hand in each story. Given ''a user named'', ''Andy'', ''Watts'' do |first_name, family_name| @email = first_name + ''@test.lan'' create_user( :first_name => first_name, :family_name => family_name, :email => @email )

Hi all, Currently I''m having to do this: def self.authorized_roles(controller, action) specific = self.find_by_controller_and_action(controller, action) all_actions = self.find_by_controller_and_action(controller, ''*'') all_controllers = self.find_by_controller(''*'') role_ids = [] specific.each do |role_item| role_ids <<

For some fairly generic views and controller stuff I''d like to have a standard view, say app/views/shared/list.rhtml, and a way to override it per controller, app/views/mymodel/list.rhtml. I think I''ve read of a similar feature before, but I''m not really sure. I may be confusing things with engines and productize. Has someone implemented it for plain Rails apps?

Hello everyone! I have 3 models: === 1 === class Region < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :districts end === 2 === class District < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :region has_many :suburbs end === 3 === class Suburb < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :district validates_numericality_of :region_id, :only_integer => true end In edit.rhtml for SuburbController I need to specify

I''m finding that I''m writing sets of very similar scenarios to check access permissions for each of my actions. Does anyone have suggestions on how to dry this up: Given an existing Account And a logged in Admin When the user visits account/manage Then he should get access Given an existing Account And a logged in Manager When the user visits account/manage Then he should get

I am parsing an xml result using Hpricot, amazing .. I have a serie of tags to be transformed as parameters, so I am building Hash by looping on these tags , the resulting data is oK? but I ma not sure that I wrote a dry code ....... if doc.search(''response > error'').innerHTML.empty? accountTypes = [] (doc/:accounttype).each do |accountType|

def index if not @contest.nil? @videos = Video.paginate( :all, :include => { :ad => :contest }, :page => params[ :page ], :conditions => [ "videos.state = ''published'' AND contests.slug = ?", @contest.slug ] ) else @videos = Video.paginate( :all, :conditions => { :state => ''published'' }, :page

Hi! Currently both, the controller/functional tests and mailer tests, contain a lot of cruft. I''ve created two superclasses to DRY them up a bit. Here are some examples how tests using those superclasses will look: http://pastie.caboo.se/66139 Ticket with the patch: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8521 Known issues: * Since we don''t explicitly setup the @request and

I have a series of ''static'' pages for a site that need named routes in Rails 3. I''m trying to DRY the routes file, but can''t seem to find the proper code. The desired output/code is: match ''/about'' => ''info#about'', :as => :about for each page. My attempt to dry this: %w(about services articles marketing clients).each

Hi I''m a big fan of plugins such as Resource Controller http://jamesgolick.com/2007/10/19/introducing-resource_controller-focus-on-what-makes-your-controller-special However, recently decided I don''t want to depend on a plugin for this, and would rather stick closer to the rails core. So does anyone have any cool strategies or ideas for achieving this? Or is there any move to

Hi there, I''m now getting to the point in my rails app where I can use all of the nice basic features like AJAX and engines etc... but, I want to get my hands a bit dirtier, whilst learning to DRY up my code a bit. I''m using AJAX quite a bit to dynamically populate/edit/sort has_many relationships in forms, and consequently on a model with many has_many''s I end up

Still a semi-newbie, but so far I''ve managed to solve most things with a bit of help from the Agile book, some googling around, and a bit of trial-and-error, but I''m really stuck with this one (very much an Ajax newbie): I know how to gracefully degrade an AJAX newpost type call so it can appear inline or (for those without JS support) go to a new page (put an ":href

I''m sorry - just couldn''t come up with a subject that describes the problem :( Anyway, this is my problem. I have a long list of fields that need to be displayed when a ''show'' is requested on the controller. I''m now doing the list.rhtml and looking for a DRY way to do the following. For each data item, I have 2 fields - one is the item name, the

Hi All, I'm hoping someone else can help me out with this. I am doing some matrix algebra using sub-parts of matrices, and sometimes I need only a single row/column of the original matrix. However, whenever I pull out only a single row/column, R returns a row vector, but often this will break my matrix algebra. Is there any *easy* way to get R to remember what the single row/column came out

For edge rails there is a Crud generator. There is also a CRUD controller that is out there from which you can inherit your other controllers (see http://geekonomics.blogspot.com/2006/07/crud-and- shared-controllers.html) This got me thinking about Crud controllers in general. As far as I know, the generator can''t produce crud classes which are nested (i.e.

Hello, Has anyone already come up with a set of shared behaviours that someone could leverage when adhering to a CRUD concept, with respect to controllers? Relatedly, it would be nice if there were a way to share generalized behaviour specs. -Chris

I''m writing a controller which should only be inherited from, something like the generic crud controller seen here: http:// geekonomics.blogspot.com/2006/07/crud-and-shared-controllers.html Now, in my spec, I would like to create a controller which inherits from the generic CRUDController, without actually creating the controller. This controller is *only* for testing. How can I

I''ve got a database with several tables. I''d like to create scaffolding for separate CRUD interfaces for several of these tables. I''m hoping that the scaffold generator can create the CRUD code for all these tables in ONE controller, but I don''t know how to tell it to do that, if it can. Can anyone verify if this is possible? Thanks, David -- Posted via