similar to: has_many AND has_many :through ?

I just launched my first ROR app and i need to implement the session database cleanup. I am new to cronjobs. I have used one once but it was all copy/paste. I was hoping someone knew of a good tutorial or resource to get started here or might be able to give me a little help. I have seen a lot of posts that reference setting a cron job to clear old sessions but I am not clear on: Can you

I''ve got a polymorphic association on one table. I assign to it in the controller. This is handling invitations of users to tasks in a task management application. If the user issuing the invitation is the user being invited (ie the user assigned themselves to a task), I want to activate the invitation immediately in the model. The trouble is that this: if self.assignable ==

I have the following ActiveRecord objects: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ratings, :dependent => true . . . end class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :created_by, :scope => :recipe_id belongs_to :recipe, :counter_cache => true . . . end The created_by field on Rating is implemented as a "magic" field similar to this:

Hi, ruby 1.8.4, rails 2.2.2, mongrel 1.5.1, win xp I read in the docs that this : map.resources :articles do |article| article.resources :comments end should result in this lot: article_comments_url(@article) article_comment_url(@article, @comment) article_comments_url(:article_id => @article) article_comment_url(:article_id => @article, :id => @comment) So when I did

I am trying to optimize some methods in my model so they don''t repeat CPU intensive algorithms every time I call the method in the same request/response cycle. Eg. ================ def invitations all_pgm_updates.find_all do |update| update.invited? end end ================ I want to do something like: ================ def invitations if @invitations.nil?

Please excuse a newbie question, but I couldn''t find anything by searching the archives. What I want to know is how to have multiple references to the same class/table within a class. For example, let''s say I have a table called People: create table people ( id serial8 primary key ,name); which just holds a list of the people in the database. Then I have another

Hi, Can anyone spot why the below doesn''t work? * I have a "created_by" column in my create table in the dB * I have a "before_create" line, which definitely gets called * I tried a few different ways to set the "created_by" attribute in the model but it doesn''t seem to work, i.e. doesn''t appear in the database

I''m pleased to announce a new plugin for Rails: Userstamp. You can read my blog post at http://www.delynnberry.com/articles/2006/01/20/userstamp-plugin and/or read all about it at the perminant page http://www.delynnberry.com/pages/userstamp. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. -- DeLynn Berry delynn@gmail.com http://www.delynnberry.com A dump of the Readme

DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

Hi! This is my first post in this forum. I''m learning RoR for two weeks and I''m very interested about how to improve this framework. I was testing one app I''m working in and I had some problems with destroying. The code is simple (and maybe wrong, as I said i''m just learning!). When you destroy a league, you send a message to all the users associated to this

I have a model with a belongs_to association. The first model is called Thing and the associated model is User. I''m attempting to assign the user to the thing. To accomplish this I used a before_save method, like this: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :created_by, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "created_by_user_id" def before_create

Hello R users! I just found out that I have 49 invitations for Gmail (gmail.google.com). I have been using it now for a while and is really nice. Don't forget 1 GB for free. I will invite those who respond to this mail by FIFO. -- Lep pozdrav / With regards, Gregor Gorjanc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Ljubljana Biotechnical

INVITATION BETA EMAIL I have in the email that the app send to friend''s email address ------------------------ You are invited to ExampleApp.com click below to signup http://localhost:3000/signup.efweiuvwnjernfwkefwebhsohj ------------------------ But I have a dot in the url beteween http://localhost:3000 and the token I wish the following url

Hello, Thank you all in advance for your help with this. Environment: Windows XP Pro (Development only) Ruby 1.84 Rails 1.1.0 SaltedHashLoginGenerator Plugins: file_column, userstamp I have a user table per the salted_hash_login generator. I have an orders table that has a column named created_by that is updated by the userstamp plugin. I am trying to retrieve all of the orders for a single

Hello, I''m not sure if I''m missing something blindingly obvious here. All the relationships that Rails comes with assume 0..n, yes? It''s not a strict 1 to 1 or 1 to n because it''s optional. My question is this - What is the best way to implement a required relationship? For example, if I require that a comment is made by a user (a user has many

Hi, I want to automate somewhat the addition of created_by/updated_by fields on my models (i.e. to include username). What''s the best/recommended way to do this? Would it be to: a) Find out how to extend the ActiveRecord::Base itself (I haven''t extended a class before yet) b) Use a plugin type approach where you have to add a tag manually to each model file which then

okay... i have two models employee - id - username order - id - number - created_by - approved_by now created_by and approved_by are both id''s of employees. in most cases, two different employees. currently i do something like //controller @open_orders = Order.open_orders //model def self.open_orders find(:all, :conditions => [''is_open = ?'', true],

Hi All, I''m a bit stumped. All I''m trying to do is format a date and I get an error. Details below. I have a partial to list all "notes" associated with a "client" with the following code. <% for note in @client.notes %> <hr /> <%=h note.note_text %> Posted on <%=h note.created_at.strftime("%I:%M") %> by <%=h

Hi there, I''ve been looking for a while now and can''t seem to find where I''m going wrong.. I''m following a railscast tutorial to send invites out to people. there''s n invitation.rb page: class Invitation < ActiveRecord::Base #attr_accessible :sender_id, :recipient_email, :token, :sent_at belongs_to :sender, :class_name =>

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string