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All, I''m having a hell of a time figuring out what is going on here. I''m trying to override one of my getters so that I can format it a certain way in my form. But I can''t seem to get text_field to call the appropriate method on my object. So here''s my getter: public def FAX fax = read_attribute(:FAX) puts fax

Can you set a global before_filter action in application.rb? So, for example, you could control authentication for all of the controllers in an app.? Obviously, you would need a way to reference actions by controller within this "global before-filter". Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, Thanks for any help in advance. I have what I think is a very straightforward partial template and I can''t figure out why a text_field call within it doesn''t work. Here is my calling template: lists.rhtml <div id="target_lists"> <%= render(:partial => "target_lists", :collection => @target_lists) %> </div> In the partial

The ActionMailer/ActionPack gem release is still screwed up. Does someone test the gem releases to ensure that they work? Just an idea. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to put some smarts around a call to <%= error_messages_for %> so that when I first come into this page i.e. when my instance variable @target_list has not been defined yet, the page doesn''t break. I''m doing this: <% if @target_list? %> <%= error_messages_for ''target_list'' %> <% end %> I get a syntax error on line 1.

I''m trying to follow these instructions to include the Javascript progress bar on a page. However, I''m confused. In my controller, when I try to access update_upload_progress_bar_js which is defined in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/upload_progress_helper.rb I get a "no such method" error. Can I use helpers in my controller class and, if so, how do I

All, I''m attempting to update my gems to 1.2 and I get the following: Install required dependency activesupport? [Yn] Y ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError) invalid gem format for c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/activesupport-1.4.2.g em Anyone else seeing this? Anyone willing to try it to see what''s up? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via

All, I want to run automated unit tests as part of my build. I am building to my test environment. Upon successful completion of all of my unit tests, I would then like to load some data (using a fixture, I imagine) into my test database that will act as fresh "system test" data for my users to play with. What is the best way to "load the standard system test/user acceptance

All, I''m building model objects for existing tables that I cannot modify. In AWDWR, Dave says "Note that our join table has no id column...The second reason for not including an id column in the join table is that AR automatically includes all columns from the join tables when accessing rows using it. If the join table included a column called id, its id would overwrite the id

INSTALLATION: Ruby 1.8.2 Rails 1.0.0 rubyful_soup 1.0.4 (GEM) FACTS: 0) I have successfully installed the rubyful_soup GEM using (I had previously installed it, which is why the output may look sparse): C:\ruby>gem install -r rubyful_soup Attempting remote installation of ''rubyful_soup'' Successfully installed rubyful_soup-1.0.4 Installing RDoc documentation for

All, I''m finally doing my first real form in Rails - the model object that I''m entering information for has 8 validations so far. If I type in good values for all the fields but one, I get the pretty validation, and the nice field highlighting, but all of the fields are cleared, forcing me to retype all of that info. That is a big drag. Is there a standard way to get the

All, I have a left navigation partial that I want to dynamically generate CSS classes for based on the current controller action. In my ERb template, I have <DIV class="<%= get_menu_display_style(''login_form'') %>"> In application.rb, I have the method get_menu_display_style defined as: public def get_menu_display_style(action_requested)

Anyone know of any Ruby modules which can be used to parse an HTML page ? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, DHH has just announced the release of Rails 1.1.3 http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/6/27/rails-1-1-3-security-fix-and-minor-fixes rails-1.1.3 activerecord-1.14.3 actionpack-1.12.2 actionmailer-1.2.2 actionwebservice-1.1.3 The announce without the repetition :) "Rails 1.1.3: Security fix and minor fixes Posted by David June 27, 2006 @ 08:07PM We''ve found and fixed a

Hi everyone. I recently wrote a nice module that I want to use in my rails app. It consists of a few files in a directory that I have places in the lib directory. It looks like this: /lib/KMLTools/foo.rb, bar.rb, baz.rb Some of these files load each other and I finally got those to work by using the File.dirname(__FILE__) trick. When I simply require the file into my controller, everything is

I just took my HABTM and turned it into a :through since my join table has another "non-joiny" attribute. I went from this: has_many_and_belongs_to :jobs, :join_table => ''tablename'', :foreign_key => ''x'', :association_foreign_key => ''y'' to this: has_many :jobs, :through =>

I have a regular plain old static HTML file under my RAILS_ROOT that I would like to serve as itself (without any dynamic anything). How can I write a route to "pass the request through" succesfully. I tried map.connect ''path_to_file'', :controller => nil, :action => nil, :id => nil but that didn''t work. Also, note that I have this route

All, Apache 2/FastCGI on Linux My fastcgi config. file is set up to run the "test" RAILS_ENV. When I go to access a view associated with a particular controller, I keep getting a ENOENT (file not found) error on a custom config. file that I am attempting to load. What I can''t figure out is why it can''t find the file. Here''s the code that loads it in my

All, In JSP, I can output strings in the Web page by either <%= foo %> //foo is a string or returns a string or <% out.write("test") %> //write directly to the output stream. What is the method of "writing to the output stream" in RoR? Basically, what is the equivalent of out.write()? I have an if then statement that I want to put around a call to h

I successfully got rake appdoc to work on the depot application (after manually applying the patch for rake 0.70). Everything appears to generate fine, but I can''t pull up the documentation in my browser. I''ve tried: http://localhost:3000/doc/app/ http://localhost:3000/doc/app/index.html I always get: Recognition failed for "/doc/app/" with