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Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers

What is the best way to create a drop down where the viewable text in a concatenation of 2 or more columns? For instance, I hane a lookup table with these columns. Model FOO columns: id , name, phone In my drop select tag, I''d like the user to see: "name1 phone1" "name2 phone2" etc.. I know I can do this using find_by_sql . .. But, isn''t there a more

Hi all, all the form helpers can take a serie for options but I cant find any documentation about them. Any one can point me toward one? Or at least tell me how I can for example add a function that would be call with the onblur event from a input box? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, Please anybody tell me how to Convert integer to string in Ruby and concat it. Suppose I''ve a string "ABC" , I want to concat it with a number say "ABC12" . Please help me out. Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post

I''m basically a Ruby noobie. At the moment I''m having a fair bit of trouble trying to figure out what''s going wrong here (partial template): <%= @project = Project.find(@the_id) if current_user.userid == @project.client hidden_field ''messages'', ''recipient'', ''value'' => @project.project_manager

Hi there, I thought it''s rather neat to use the javascript compression from http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/compressor_system.html This removes javascript comments and renames variables and seems pretty reliable and effective. For example, I keep the original htmlarea.js file from http://xinha.gogo.co.nz/ in a file htmlarea.js.txt and it compresses from 200K to 100K. With gzip it

I have a model where I want to change the display for a single attribute such that if the value is an integer, it displays with no decimal point (e.g. "1"), but if it is non-integer, it displays with a decimal point (e.g. "1.25"). The easiest way to do this seems to be if I could override the to_string method for my_model.my_attribute.to_s. Is there a way to do this? Or

I am trying to inherit from a ActiveRecord class defined in a plugin. The problem is that ActiveRecord thinks I am doing an STI and is looking up a table that doesn''t exist. Currently, I have a method in the parent class that looks like this: def self.fix_table_name class_eval do set_table_name(Inflector.tableize(self.to_s)) end end The problem is that this method

I''m using render to display a collection of partials, where each partial is a table row. Is it possible to zebra-stripe the table using this method i.e. alternate table rows get a different CSS class? I can''t work out how each row partial would know whether it was odd or even. In the normal scheme of things I could do: <% odd_or_even = 0 for asset in @assets

On 1/11/07, Mike D'Ambrogia <miked@jamagination.com> wrote: > > Ralph > > Kind of new to asterisk, and really new to AGI but it looks like you were > trying to have the AGI script tell asterisk to read and lay the results into > my_var and then regain control in the AGI script, is that correct? > > If so I don't think that will work since the dialplan

Hello, I am having difficulty dynamically building a query. I want to ensure that I''m using Active Record protection against SQL injection attacks. In PHP land, I would have built up the query in my logic & attempted to clean every variable - a bit tedious really. I want to be able to achieve something like: events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => [**DynamicallyBuiltQuery**

Running into an interesting problem that at first glance appears to be a bug in the AR association code. However, it''s explicitly coded this way so I''m not so sure. I have some code like this: class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :addresses, :as => :addressable,

I created a simple test to try and pinpoint my problem but nothing seems clear to me. I created a Thing model with fields { id (INT), date (DATE) } now when I try to create a new "thing" the date does not get stored, and no errors are reported. @myNewThing = Thing.new(:date => "2006-08-07") @myNewThing.save this results in a new record with a date of

Hi, I'm trying to write a AGI in PHP to get the numbers dialed (with read()), save it into a variable to insert it into a SQL server database. But I cannot see results into the variable, it always return NULL. Here is a piece of the AGI. fwrite(STDOUT,"exec Read my_var|/sound_to_play|5|||15 \n"); fflush(STDOUT); $conn=odbc_connect('MSSQL', 'USER', 'PASS');

Another newbie question: How do i convert a float to a string, rounded to a certain number of decimals? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have an app that requires me to define a class variable (actually an array) in a controller and then access it from within a view. It seems that the class variables aren''t working right. Here is an example of what I''m trying to do. class DisplayController < ApplicationController @@thumbnail_array = Array.new ... def some_method @@thumbnail_array = SomeModel.find_all

hi! how can i add all the values from one tables field? i mean, i have a table with the entries of a booking (amount), and at the end, i want to have the total. i tried with different loops making a method in the model, but nothing. im doing something wrong, but i dont know what. please could somebody help me? ty!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to sanitise a phone number input. In my UsersController.rb file I have written a method that will take a string and reduce it to numbers only. This works find if I call it manually, but in the interests of keeping DRY I would like to ensure that the code sanitisation method is called whenever the data is edited (I''m using standard scaffolidng for this test). Is there anyway

Hello Good morning to all, I am doing reports in ruby on rails,i am trying to export data throgh excel in CSV format.Now i want to set the font to the text exported to excel sheet.How can i set font..please help me regarding this ... my sample code was like this... report = StringIO.new CSV::Writer.generate(report, '','') do |csv| csv << [''Invoice History

Hi there, I''ve been trying to paginate over a list of members that all share a tag in common using the acts_as_taggable plugin. The regular way of paginating over a collection doesn''t seem to work with acts_as_taggable. Here''s what my method looks like that takes in a tag name, finds all the members that share the tag and then displays all the members. Nothing too fancy