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I''m having a problem getting this example from the book to work: class Cookbook attr_accessor :title, :author def initialize @recipes = [] end def method_missing(m, *args, &block) @recipes.send(m, *args, &block) end end cb = Cookbook.new cb << recipe_for_cake cb << recipe_for_chicken beef_dishes = cb.find_all {|recipes| recipe.main_ingredient ==

I''m trying to figure out an elegant way to do this: I have the following three tables: people, employer, employees And consequently the following three models: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base end class Employer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees end class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :employer end I want to be able to say:

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I''m using Rails-1.1.4 with Ruby-1.8.4 So let''s say I have 2 model classes: class Item has_and_belongs_to_many :things end class Thing has_and_belongs_to_many :items end i = Item.new i.things << Thing.new( :value => "Something").save i.things << Thing.new( :value => "Something Else" ).save i.save Fine, now I have two records in the

I have a users table. I have a assignment table. and I have to log in to see my assignments. i can and I hasve a session id. I can make a new assignment and save my id in the user_id field of the assigment table. I want to share my assignments. so I can create a assignments_users table. this way I can have assignment 1 shared with user 1 and 2. and If I log in as user 1 or 2 I see the assignment.

Hi, i was wondering if there was some kind of general line of code i could add to my application, anywhere i suppose, that would generate some kind of effect to notify the user that an effect is happening...it could be a box on the top of the screen or something, that would be like the small bar at the end of the browser that shows the user the status of a loading page ... i was hoping

I''m trying to figure out how multiple partials in one page would be configured when they are based on some action in the controller. As an example - I have a main/welcome page. If someone new or a user not logged in arrives at this page I display both a registration form and a login form. However, if they are logged in then those forms should not show up on that page. Also should

I fired up my rails app after a few weeks, only to find it was broken, in that the variable seems to be losing it''s value somewhere between the controller and the view. I''ve broken it down to the absolute simplest test, and here is what I get: THE CONTROLLER (controllers/visits_controller.rb) class VisitsController < ApplicationController def list @test = "test"

Hello, How can I pass a hash as parameter from a template with url_for? e.g. : if I have test = { :a => "a", :b => "b" } How can I pass that with my request? Is it possible to pass nested hash''es to? Right now, url_for :action => :test, test doesn''t seem to work. Thank you, --

In an early section on Action View, showing code being put directly into the rhtml file: <% require ''date'' DAY_NAMES = %w{ Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday } today = Date.today %> <h1>Hello, Dave</h1> <p> It''s <%= DAY_NAMES[today.wday] %>. Tomorrow is <%= DAY_NAMES[(today + 1).wday %>. </p> I get this

Is it possible to set up a list of checkboxes so that the form parameters are given in an array (eg {"delete_list" => [3,6,7]}) ? At the moment I''m using <%= check_box_tag "delete_list[#{post.id}]" %> ...which gives parameters looking like {"delete_list" => {"3" => "1", "6" => "1",

What is the equivelant of the following SQL in rails: SELECT person, count(person) as occurance FROM invoice GROUP BY person; This would give something like: Person | Occurance -------------------- Bill 1 Joe 15 Carlos 7 etc etc.. It seems the fx. Person.count(..) will only yield the actual occurance, but not listed with the actual person - and Person.find(..) will not

Hello I wanna create class on the fly, this class is generate in method, it need eval a class and instace a new object of this class. How i do it? Bruno -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, ...i''m fairly new to ruby on rails, so maybe this is a simple question, but i''ve been racking my wits for a while now, but i can''t figure out why this isn''t working... i''m implementing some kind of a questioniere, so that when a user picks a certain answer, the value of that answer goes into a session variable that stores the amount of points

class Page < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :lists end class List < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :page end ######### controller code, inside action: list = List.find(params[:id]) old_page = list.page list.page = new_page # what is the value of old_page now? old_page now is the same as new_page! what the heck?!? The only thing i can think of is that old_page is

In the book there is an example how to convert DB payment value to more readable from. PAYMENT_TYPES array is defined and then in your views you can use it as Order::PAYMENT_TYPES. The problem is: how should I convert DB values (for example with type char(1)) to full string representation. I know that I can add a Hash to a model: IM = {''S'' => ''Skype'',

For expats from other languages, what''s the next best step after the Agile Web Dev book: Rails Recipes or Ruby for Rails? Thanks, -- Austin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve got a weired problem. I got a RHTML page which is not rendered properly in the browser all other pages in my app do renders correctly. Only this one page returns the page''s HTML with the following header Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: _session_id=cb3c140fd4ef907c99ef203a053fba1a; path=/ Status: 200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache <html> .....................

hello, i have a problem. I want to upload a file with ajax and the following tag: submit_to_remote ''button_save'',''Speichern'',{ :url => {:action => ''ajax_update'', :id => @product}, :update => ''formular'' } it doesn''t work, my form_tag looks like: form_remote_tag(:url => {:action =>

i have: # file application_helper.rb module ApplicationHelper def load_components @right_sidebar = ''some stuffs'' end end # file user_public/blog_helper.rb module UserPublic::BlogHelper def load_components ApplicationHelper.load_components @right_sidebar += ''{blog archive}'' end end the problem is, i want to load the