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i am trying to create a system so that different users have different priviliges on my application. i was going to modify my authorize function so that i could pass the required role to it and have it check the current user for that role. i am using before_filter and would like to have just one function instead of writing one for each role like so: authorize(role) instead of:

I get this error ... NoMethodError in StoreController#index undefined method `salable_items'' for Product:Class and here is my store_controller.rb ... class StoreController < ApplicationController def index @products = Product.salable_items end def self.salable_items find(:all, :conditions => "date_available <= now()", :order => "date_available

Hi CAS is a centralized authentication service, and the cas_auth filter can be installed to automatically make your web application authenticate against a CAS server. The SVN path to the plugin is http://svn.ki.se/rails/plugins/cas_auth and a homepage with some information can be found at http://opensource.ki.se/casauth.html For use, just install the plugin in your application and set

Hi, I''ve created some extensions to script.aculo.us InPlaceEditor, allowing the use of either server-driven, or local autocompletion. I''ve also created new helper methods in Rails for this functionality. My question is, is there any interest that I package this and make it available as a plugin, or something like that? Regards -- Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com)

Hi All I have a requirement to consume a 3rd party web service from my Rails application. I am doing this in my action require ''soap/wsdlDriver'' factory = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(TRANSIDIOM_WSDL_URL) soap = factory.create_rpc_driver soap.wiredump_file_base="#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/transidiom.log" param = %(<Request

Hi I''m in the process of deciding how a plugin should be designed to make configuration as easy as possible. Right now I require the plugin from init.rb, and set some configuration options (as class attribute accessors) from environment.rb. Then I tried setting these from environments/development.rb instead, and to my surprise this didn''t work. It said the class in question

Hi railers, What do you do when you must use a plugin in a rails app that is under subversion? I think that an approach is simply install a version of the plugin, and once all the test pass, commit the plugin itself to the repository, inside the /vendor/ of the app. If a new version of the plugin is released, your app is still using the working one (although the new version could work too).

Hi Rails AJAX controls are very handy, and the InPlaceEditor is probably one of the easiest and most neat of them all. But, it doesn''t do autocompletion. I''ve rectified that situation. The plugin provides a few new helpers and a new JavaScript-file that extends the Ajax.InPlaceEditor with local and remote Autocompletion features. So, just install the plugin, include the

I would like to announce my plugin Swedish Rails. Rails provide many goodies and helpers for you, but some of these are dependant on your user interface being in english. Date controls, for example. Pluralization is another. And have you ever tried to capitalize a string with Swedish letters in them? Then you know it doesn''t work that well. Until now, that is. You install this

I''ve followed the instructions in the Rails Recipe #1 and have the in_place_editor_field working but now I want to tweak how it looks and behaves. I''d like to be able to override the default yellow highlight color, which is done using the highlightcolor param according to the scriptaculous documentation (unless I''m missing something). I''m new to Ruby and Rails

Hi, I have what might be a silly question but is there any way to put some of the database configuration information into a separate file? For instance, in config/database.yml I have: developer_database: &developer_database adapter: mysql username: me password: something host: 127.0.0.1 development: <<: *developer_database database: foobar_development test: <<:

Hi. I''ve placed the following in lib/mods.rb: class String def String.foo "bar" end def bar "baz" end end But it does not get picked up: white:~/svn/tagticks morten$ script/console Loading development environment. >> String.foo NoMethodError: undefined method `foo'' for String:Class from (irb):1 >>

Currently I have a registration form that is built like this: <label for="First name">First name</label> <%= text_field "user", "first_name" %><br> <label for="Last name">Last name</label> <%= text_field "user", "last_name" %><br> <label for="Email">Email</label>

class Array # break an array up into <size> chunks def chunk(size=1) return self if self.empty? raise ArgumentError if !size.kind_of? Integer y = self.length.divmod(size) rows = (y[1] > 0) ? y[0] + 1 : y[0] arr = Array.new(rows) (0...rows).each do |i| arr[i] = self.slice(size*i, size) end (arr.last.length...size).each { |i| arr.last[i] = nil }

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I reached page 82 of the Book "Agile Development with Rails" First Edition. After I compiled the code I got the following error message. [CODE] NoMethodError in Store#display_cart Showing app/views/store/display_cart.rhtml where line #11 raised: undefined method `product'' for 1099.0:Float 8: <table> 9: <% 10: for item in @items 11: product = item.product 12:

Hi I''ve compiled a small cheat sheet for Emacs-Rails. It can be found here: http://os.ologix.com/emacs-rails-cheat.pdf -- Ola Bini (http://ola-bini.blogspot.com) JvYAML, RbYAML, JRuby and Jatha contributor System Developer, Karolinska Institutet (http://www.ki.se) OLogix Consulting (http://www.ologix.com) "Yields falsehood when quined" yields falsehood when quined.

The ActiveRecord-JDBC adapter is rapidly maturing these days. I got the full set of AWDwR2 migrations to run with it against MySQL last night, and Ola Bini has gotten migrations working well against Oracle and Firebird. We also have SQL Server support running most of our test cases (under non-Windows environments too!) and have started adding support for Derby and HSQLDB (Java-based DBs). Things

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/.

Hi Everyone, I am following the ''Agile Web Dev. with Rails'' book, and I used instant rails to do the install on a Windows machine. Everything seemed to work fine until I got to: Booting WEBrick... After that, nothing happens. I tried creating a new rails application, but I get the same problem. I also tried reinstalling to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks for the help.