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Hi, I wish to know it is possible to use a helper which is not inside the folder ''app/helpers'', if it is possbile, what should I do? Thanks you very much!!!! Saiho __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

It appears that in Rails''s initializer.rb, the $LOAD_PATH is initialized with the paths for all the components included in the app before the models. This has the effect that if there is Foo class in your models directory and a Foo class in a component you''ve included, the Rails loader loads the component and not the model from your models directory. While you could

Hi, I have rubygems installed in my home directory as I''d like to have control over gems without requiring root access. I''m trying to deploy a known working rails app on this machine but it falls down at the "require ''rubygems''" line in boot.rb. I have added the path to rubygems to LOAD_PATH in environment.rb; this is confirmed by dumping $: to a

I''d like to create a validation function that I can use in all of my models. What''s the best way to create a method that will be available to all of my models? It looks like Helper methods only work in Views and methods in the Application class only work in controllers, so how do I make one for models? I hope this question isn''t too lame, it seems like something I

Hello, I am unable to get the backgroundrb server to run. Initially I got: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:263:in `load_missing_constant'': uninitialized constant BackgrounDRb::MasterProxy (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in

Hi. When you have library foo.rb in your Rails project /lib directory, I notice that on some platforms - e.g. Windows with WEBrick as a server - you can require it by simply: require ''lib/foo'' However on other platforms - e.g. Debian with Lighttpd server via FastCGI - this does not work, and you need to specify RAILS_ROOT explicitly, like this: require

Hi, I think there is still a major vulnerability exists in the latest Rails 1.1.5. The problem is in the routing.rb file and safe_load_paths method. Because of the erroneous regexp it is possible to perform a DOS attack on any rails application. To reproduce: 1. start your application 2. use this url: http://localhost:3000/debug Routing module will load standard debug.rb script which stops a

Hi! If I have a method that is useful in both models and in views, where would be the appropriate place to put it? The method in question just takes two dates as strings, tries to parse them and returns all dates in the range between them. It also takes care of the issues when the dates are badly formatted etc etc.. This method is being used in several models (so a simple class method in

OK, probably the most frustrated I''ve ever been with Rails. If I don''t figure this out, I''m going to, um... try again tomorrow. I''m simply trying to create a plugin. I did the ./script/generate plugin MY_NEW_PLUGIN and wha-hoo great! Well, not really... This plugin uses other plugins. For example, acts_as_list, acts_as_money etc.. How the heck to I get these

Hello Chad, I installed and tried out rubygems for one of the win32-utils projects named win32-mmap. This is on Win XP (Home). Here is how I did it but got some errors (see at the end). I must be doing something wrong. Please help ... -- Shashank #------------------------------------------------------------ require ''rubygems'' spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|

Hey, I am trying to upgrade to 1.1.5 and rails no longer finds my controllers the live outside app/controllers. I was on 1.1.2 previously and here is my setup In environment.rb config.load_paths += [File.join(File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT), "rails_shared/controllers") ] config.load_paths += [File.join(File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT), "rails_shared/helpers") ]

I''m using backgroundrb in a rails project, with packet and chronic unpacked in the vendor folder, to make backgroundrb I''ve added the following line to scribts/backgroundrb $LOAD_PATH << File.join(RAILS_HOME, "vendor") Do you believe it''s a good idea? I don''t like depend on the installed gems ciao ciao paolo -------------- next part

I have an app that varies its content based upon the domain from which it is being accessed. Some of the domain characteristics are supported in the model but it is easier varying static text in the views and then sharing the form templates via partials etc. Rails 2.3.10 and looking at the documentation at

I''m going to take another stab at this question (my first one received no replies): I have two models: Author has_many: books Book has_one: author I have two tables: authors id ... books id author_id ... I let the scaffolding fly and it created the CRUD goodness for each model, as expected. However, I want to have only one view/controller "set" for both models; when I

problem: rails 2.3.2 is not generating config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store in environment.rb this is the code in environment.rb --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not present RAILS_GEM_VERSION =

Hi, I just got done using win32/service to run a very small/hack-ish "Riki" WEBrick service. Very cool stuff. Thanks. So, in the process, I noticed a lot of the "control" start/install/etc. command line parser stuff looked a bit boilerplate, so I pulled it out into a helper function "service_cli" (for lack of a better name). Its simple, but it allows me to do away

Good afternoon all... First, let me apologize for asking a potentially dumb question. I''m new to both Ruby and Rails, but I do have a long background in OO programming and web development. My question is about how to structure controllers for the various models which I will need in my application. My data will look something like this: Dog - (has_many) TrainingSessions -

Just upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10, which bumped my Ruby version to 1.8.7, and my Rails app (frozen to 2.2.2) gets a strange error on startup. I can easily reproduce just by running script/about: $ script/about /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handler.rb:11:in `initialize'': wrong number of arguments (0 for 1) (ArgumentError) Anyone else having trouble with Rails on Ubuntu

I am trying to teach my models how to render themselves, i.e. <%= my_model_object.render() %> Let me explain my reasoning and proposed method before this gets shot down as anti-MVC. Let''s say I am writing a contact-management application. I have a class Contact. I will need to display this class all over the application. My first choice is to use a partial. Now I can

Hello, I am learning rails and ruby and I have some questions about how should I go about doing certain things. [1]Many of my models have some functionality which is common, and instead of duplicating it across models, I want to store it in a single file, and then import the file into the models. Should I do this using modules, and then store them in the `lib'' directory? What is the