similar to: Where should "business logic" reside in Rails?

I''ve noticed that using several TimedObservers (prototype.js) on a page to watch for changes to text fields (haven''t tried forms) can have a non-negligible effect on the CPU cycles used by the browser process. Nothing dramatic, to be sure, but unnecessary. Autocompleter.Base (controls.js) follows a smarter strategy to watch for changes. Currently this functionality is tied

I am having an issue of deciding where I should put the business code for example the more complex code coming off the controller. Right now, I am just thinking to put it in the ''lib'' directory and the do something along these lines: require_dependency "system_process" class SystemMessageController < ApplicationController include SystemProcess ... ... Where

It''s been a few days since I posted my last two emails (of which, no one replied to) so I''ve gone ahead and coded a working slider class as well as a ''resizeable'' class that allows a user to drag and resize the element. I also linked these two together as I want to have slider behavior that can resize the resizeable element. The end result is both the

Prototype.js and Thomas''s effects scripts use repeated setTimeout calls for timed looping, for instance in time-based observers. On Konqueror 3.4.1 (possibly other khtml-based browsers, too), these observers reproducibly crash the browser. Just keeping open a browser with such an observer is enough. After some time it invariably segfaults. When I substitute setInterval for setTimeout

I''ve always think that it belongs to controller but I''ve read few articles that it should be done by model and controller should be thin glue betwean model and view. Where should I put it? Regards -- I''ve probably left my head... somewhere. Please wait untill I find it. Homepage (pl_PL): http://uzytkownik.jogger.pl/ (GNU/)Linux User: #425935 (see

has anyone has any idea how to implement audit trail table for all update / deletion done on records? I''m thinking to have corresponding audit trail table to each table, so everthing before an update or deletion is done, a new record will be insert into the corresponding audit trail table. Is there a way to overwrite the save, destroy, method at the application level? so that I do not

Hi all, MenuEngine is a small Rails engine that can generate templated drop-down DHTML menus commonly used for web site navigation. Supports creation of menus from a YAML file, from code and from pre-configured HTML. Optionally integrates with UserEngine for authorization. http://www.muermann.org/ruby/menu_engine Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/menuengine This is my first attempt

Does anyone has any thoughts about starting a project to simplify client-side form validation and input? I started thinking about this because I think date input in most web applications is broken. I really like Simon Willison''s demo: http://simon.incutio.com/code/js/date-parser/ I think this could be improved (by mapping say shift+left-arrow to the previous day, and

Hi, I''m a newbie in both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I finished the Ruby on Rail Tutorial on Todo list and it was great. But, now I''m trying to understand the logic behind it, that is something that is not obvious on how each one of them ties together. Is there a flowchart that shows how the inner working of Ruby on Rails? In another words, let''s suppose we consider the

In a Rails controller I set the scope on a model class in an around filter. I have defined expectations on the model classes, and ideally, I would add a further expectation for the scope. Is this already possible in some way? How would I go about adding support a scope expectation? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:michael at schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

Has someone come up with a generic way to handle ajax requests that exceed a certain time? In my concrete case, I have several select boxes for drilling down a hierarchy. When the user clicks an option, the next deeper level is retrieved. To avoid multiple concurrent requests, I disable the select box. As the request may take too long or cause an error, I set a timeout that re-enables the

Hello people, I''d like to detect whether an attribute of a model has vaildates_presence_of applied to it so I can automatically apply a mandatory (*) to the field...it doesn''t look easy...any ideas? Cheers, -- Dan Webb http://www.danwebb.net

Recently, I''ve started to write unit tests for some of my scripts. In general,it''s no worse in JavaScript than in Ruby or Java. I didn''t have the courage to try Selenium, but had a look at JsUnit. Unfortunately, in Konqueror it produces unfathomable errors and in Firefox it is slow beyond imagination. Anyway, writing tests for functions that are computational or

Somewhere between 0.13.1 and the current SVN version the :overwrite_params option to url_for (and related methods) went missing. I can''t tell whether this was deliberate or by mistake, and I have no idea how to get the same functionality in some other way either. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Life is what happens

Hi Friends, Could anybody suggest me some nice and useful plugins for RadRails! It would be very great if we make list of all such plugins! 1)________ 2)________ 3)________ 4)________ 5)________ 6)________ 7)..... Please fill above blanks and lets make a big list of it! -- Don''t live to geek; geek to live. http://anilw.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

The validation reflection plugin adds three things (1) Reflective access to validations - ModelClass.reflect_on_all_validations - ModelClass.reflect_on_validations_for(:property) (2) It provides "declarative" methods for defining validations based on database metadata - validates_presence_of_mandatory_content_columns - validates_lengths_of_string_attributes -

I know there''s wiki page on generating PDF[*], but that''s not really what I want. I don''t need to create arbitrary PDF. What I''d like to do is create PDF templates and fill in the blanks. Roughly, I''m looking for functionality akin to the mail merge feature of word processors, including conditional and repeated elements, say, table rows. Michael

Hello everyone ! Thomas asked me to discuss here the behavior of Element.addClassName, as relating to ticker #2232 [1]. In HEAD, if the element passed-in to Element.addClassName does not exist, an exception is thrown, and script execution stops there. I believe this is inconsistent with other functions: Object.extend(Element, { hasClassName: function(element, className) { element =

http://rails-spinoffs.bombdiggity.net/index.php?title=Main_Page guys here is the wiki. Once you register let me know and I''ll give you full access to the site. Jon Jon Whitcraft Online Services (317) 492-8623 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Has anyone had any luck using the CalendarHelper plugin at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/CalendarHelper recently? I''m scratching my head over the following error when I look at any page in my application: NameError in CalendarController#index undefined local variable or method `date_format'' for #<CalendarController:0x24ccd4c> RAILS_ROOT: