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I have an ActiveRecord model with a cattr_accessor. The class attribute is set up like this: class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base cattr_accessor :my_attribute end Because I need to give #my_attribute environment-specific values, I try to set this attribute in environments/development.rb like so: MyModel.my_attribute = 3 But this leads to odd and erratic behavior when #my_attribute is called

Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me why this is happening: I override ssn method of AR class so I can encrypt/decrypt to/from the db: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base def ssn=(value) write_attribute(:borrower_ssn, Crypto.encrypt(self.encryption_key, value)) write_attribute(:borrower_ssn_final_four, value[5,4]) end def ssn # this begin - rescue can be

One of my models has a column that is updated very frequently from a separate process, so it is important that when a record is saved in rails, this column should be left alone. In the update method of the controller I have: @record = MyModel.find(params[:id]) @record.update_attributes(params[:my_model]) params[:my_model] doesn''t have a reference to the column I''m talking

Could someone explain this? #config/initializers/ar_attributes.rb module ActiveRecord module AttributeMethods alias_method :ar_read_attribute, :read_attribute def read_attribute(attr_name) p "read_override" ar_read_attribute(attr_name) end alias_method :ar_write_attribute, :write_attribute def write_attribute(attr_name, value)

Guys, Say I have the following: ----- class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :house end class House < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person attr_accessor :color end ----- Then I have the following code: ----- john = Person.new john.house.color = "Blue" john.save ----- What I would like to have happen, is that on first call to john.house, if house hadn''t been

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

I''m using Windows and Postgres 8. I installed RMagic gem thingy and FileColumn plugin ok. I followed instructions exactly as directed on FileColumn web site which is very straight forward: ---model class My_model < ActiveRecord::Base file_column :column_for_file_name end -----view -upload form--set to mulitpart <%= file_column_field "my_model",

Hi all! I have come into a strange issue in Rails that I am hoping someone can shed some light. To make a very long story short, I have been researching how to override ActiveRecord::Base#read_attribute and write_attribute to perform security checks at the model level (influenced by the ModelSecurity generator). Shortly after implementing some code to check this behavior, I began to

This seems like it must have been asked before - I really _did_ try to find it in the archives, so my apologies if it''s already out there. Utilizing ActiveRecord, I would like to specify a prefix for the column names in my table. For example, in ''Recipe 16 Integrating with Legacy Databases'' (Rails Recipes, from PragProg, by Fowler) they deal with integration with a

Please excuse yet another newbie question... I''m getting this error: MissingSourceFile in <controller not set>#<action not set> c:/program files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.8.1/lib/action_controller/dependencies.rb:75:in `require_dependencies'': Missing model MyModel.rb From these lines of code: class MyModelController < ApplicationController

somple question here but pretty confusing on my side. i have a model towns that is mapped to my towns table. can i add an extra variable to the class and access it in my view? basicall what i am trying to do is return a list of towns, and next to each town, display a total number of what i have in each town. ive tried both attr_reader and @total but no avail. here is my view <% for

Hi All, Is there a way to filter / modify the output of a model class before it''s returned to controller/view that''s calling it? Example: I have a field phone_number which I always want to preformat using the number_to_phone() helper.... Any help is appriciated. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I''ve been trying to use a facade column but I notice that the form helpers don''t seem to respect the facade. In the following example I''m trying to story the prices as Integer values but present them to the user as decimals. class Product < ActiveRecord::Base def price=(new_price) write_attribute(:price, Float(new_price)*100) end def price

Hi all: I want to fit a multinomial logit model with VGAM package, however I cannot find a way to check the residuals since residuals(my_model) and resid(my_model) does not work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Alex Brito [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I''m looking for a way to extend one of my models to allow some level of abstraction between what goes into it and how it is stored. For example, say I have a Product and I want to set it''s price. A person using the website will type the price in euros. Internally, I''d like to store the price as an integer value of cents. I can currently do this with some ugly code

Hi everybody I would like a function as the "before_save" method in the model. But it must be the opposite. When I take out data from the database through the model, I want to call a function before the data are available in the controller. Can anyone help me? ---- >>>> thx <<<< ---- -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all - To avoid floating point issues, I''ve decided to store monetary values in cents in the database. However, the user will enter these in dollars and cents. Two questions: 1) How do I do the validation for the currency format? It looks like ActiveRecord truncates the cents since it thinks the field type is a Fixnum. Am I forced to do validation in the controller? 2) Where

Hi, I was trying to draw some ROC curves (prediction of case/control status), but seem to be getting a somewhat jagged plot. Can I do something that would 'smooth' it somewhat? Most roc curves seem to have many incremental changes (in x and y directions), but my plot only has 4 or 5 steps even though there are 22 data points. Should I be doing something differently? How can I provide a

Hi, I have problem accessing the testfixture. The values from the YML-Fixture-File are correctly written into database, but accessing the fixture is impossible. It is always nil. Is anything wrong with this test? class MyModelTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :my_model def test_simple a = MyModel.find(@my_model["first"].id) # Accessing @my_model is impossible ...

> On Jun 26, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Brian Smith <bsmith030465 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to draw some ROC curves (prediction of case/control status), > but seem to be getting a somewhat jagged plot. Can I do something that > would 'smooth' it somewhat? Most roc curves seem to have many incremental > changes (in x and y directions), but my plot