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Hello All, I have a little challenge and I am not sure if this is even possible I am working on a dating/event site and few functionalities are similar that I want to centralize them. We have users which can have - favorite users - interest list - blocked users All these relations are like; User <-> Relation <-> User I was thinking I could have a class called Relation (with a

I have a select issue with my members, my database structure is below User has many shops Shop belongs to a membership Shop has many items For front page I want to show items where membership of the shop has ad_enabled and this is what I have in mind but it returns with "Association named ''membership'' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it?" I tried to add to Item

Hello All, Any one using acts_as_enumerated? I need help using (I like that it caches values in memory) I am working on a dating website and there are lots of options I want to store as enumerated like Status; divorce, single, Sex: male, female Eye color; blue, brown, green.... and lots more.... But I do not wanna keep them in seperate tables, and wanna keep them all together. Anyone has a

Hi there, I have a database with phonenumbers, and I want to make a function that runs a command for each of these numbers, with the number as an argument Something like this in Perl: system("/bin/command $number"); mysql> select * from numbers where list = "one" +----+----------+----------+---------------------+-----------+ | id | number | name | email

Does anyone know if it''s possible to set constraints to the size & type of file that file_column will accept? I''d like to limit to image files of less than 2MB. If this isn''t possible with file_column, is there a graceful way of getting the controller to handle it? thanks dorian -- -- I do things for love or money

Is it possible to override has_many''s :order attribute at run-time? e.g. something like: <% for category in @site.categories(:order=>''name'') %> ... <% for category in @site.categories(:order=>''rank'') %> ... thanks csn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I wanted to check this with you. I have an rspec example that checks the correct expiration date set on an object. The expiration is set in the model with expires_on = Time.now + next_duration[phase] where next_duration can either be in units of seconds or n.days (should be the same thing). n can be 3, 7, 25, or 30 days. in my example I check an interval because the two events are not

is there any special requirement for validates_confirmation_of ? I am trying to make sure 2 passwords are equal (cleanly the rails way).. In my view i have two fields with id user[password] and user[password_confirmation]. in the model i have validates_confirmation_of :password, :message =>"Passwords do not match " Am i missing something here ? thanks adam

I''m getting markup violation errors on my tests and I noticed that a template with this (a modified 0.13.1 generated scaffold). <label for="credit_card_account">Account</label> <%= text_field ''credit_card'', ''account'' %> <label for="credit_card_expires_on">Expires on</label>

Hello all, I use lighttpd 1.4.8 and I have a problem with image uploads. I tried file_upload plugin, but it is strangely working sometimes and refuse to work sometimes. Function in the controller is (@user is loaded in before_filter) def update_watermark @user.watermark = params[:user][:watermark] @user.save redirect_to :action => "index" end Model is

Hi all, I''m using Capistrano and SVN to version control and deploy, but I''m not sure what to do about my images directory. I use file_column and RMagick to save images to the disk under a model called "Image", and they''re saved in public/image/... etc. Each time I deploy a new version, my image folder doesn''t exist anymore. I don''t want

I tried putting this inside my controller: def goodbye @link = Link_to "goodbye!", :action =>"goodbye" end and display it in my views calling the @link variable. Of course it doesn''t work. Why? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello everybody, I have been developing small applications in Rails from quite some time. But lately, I came across a bug which I have not been able to correct. If anybody could help me with it, would be of great help thankyou. Actually, the problem is that I have a form in my application with some set of fields. Now what "validates_presence_of" should do is that if I submit the form

Here are a couple of articles I wrote describing a couple of handy helpers for dealing with polymorphic objects. These helpers allow you to generate urls and render partials on objects without knowing what class they are ahead of time. http://www.sciwerks.com/blog/2006/05/24/polymorphic-urls/ http://www.sciwerks.com/blog/2006/05/24/polymorphic-partials/ Hopefully you will find them useful.

I am working on streamlining one of my apps, and trying to wrap my hands around through, polymorphic, and with_scope. All of these i know i need for what i want to do, based on the little documentation I have found. With this in mid I have tried to implement a simple through in the app to try and get my head around it. This is what I have: class Product < ActiveRecord::Base

Hey guys, I''ve been thinking lately about polymorphic associations, and I wonder: is there a noticeable or tangible performance "hit" from doing polymorphic associations when you''ve got your database under really high query load? So for example, maybe I have a "message" model, a "user" model and an "administrator" model, without any

My app has an association that''s got me scratching my head. I have Users, and Images. A User has many Images. (Yes, another picture sharing app, but it''s for a small niche, and it doesn''t end in -r!) I would like to express a "Favorite" relationship between both Users to Users, and Users to Images. This seems like the opposite of the standard

I am unable to call a polymorphic scope using the searchlogic plugin as it keeps on returning ''undefined method''. I am certain it is only a problem within my project as I created a test project and I was able to call a polymorphic scope using the searchlogic plugin. I am hoping someone can provide a suggestion on how to debug this issue. My project consists of several gems, and

Hi all. I''m having a problem naming a polymorphic relationship. Here''s my thinking... First, an analogy. You''re walking through the mall. Through a window you see a game you''re interested. I''m attempting to model the relationship between your interest and the game you''re interested in. I have an InterestList. It''s job is to maintain

Hello guys, I am building a photo website and I have some questions before I really start programming the site. My system will be Debian + lighttpd + mysql +fastcgi + ImageMagick I plan to use file_column for image handling/verification and thumbnail creation. My question is; I need to store images in a place outside of webroot so only registered members can see them. To serve them secure