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Hi all, I''m having trouble figuring out how to handle stock levels in a new store I''m building. When products are entered into the admin of the store, they have a stock number associated with them. What I''m not sure about, is how I go about maintaining this stock level. Take this scenario: 1. User A adds an item to their cart, and I check that it''s in stock -

Has anyone any experience of getting the Paypal plug in to work? I''ve set myself up on the Paypal sandbox, I''ve setup my sending and receiving accounts, i''ve got the Paypal button on my view, I can go and make payments ok, but I can''t get the Instant Payment Notification part to work. At the end of the payment process the user is left in a paypal screen

I''ve installed acts_as_authenticated and have that working like a charm and now would like to add the acl_system2 plugin so I can do some role based authorization stuff. I went ahead and installed the plugin like this: >ruby script\plugin source http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/dev/acl_system2 Then I installed the lib and test >ruby script\plugin install lib >ruby

Hi Everyone, I hope I get some feedback on my question. Here it goes. I have a situation here, I have a company table and then using Single Table inheritance it is of 3 types: class Company < ActiveRecord::Base end class Vendor < Company end class Customer < Company end class Agent < Company end Now I have a active record Association class QuoteSheet < ActiveRecord::Base

Hi, I''m obviously doing something stupid, but I''m trying to figure out how the Money library (http://dist.leetsoft.com/api/money/) is supposed to work. I have a Product model and I want to have an attribute in my model called "price" and I want it to accept Money objects. So I have this in my Product model. class Product < ActiveRecord::Base composed_of :price,

Hi all, I have created projects module in my application using scaffold, and it created me everything, and all the modules are working except the functional test. This is the error 1) Failure: test_create(ProjectsControllerTest) [test/functional/projects_controller_test.rb :55]: Expected response to be a <:redirect>, but was <200> 8 tests, 25 assertions, 1 failures, 0

Hi, I have a small app that needs to keep track of quotes, and organisations. An organisation can either be the unit who finally receives the goods (the end_user) or and intermediary (customer) (and in some cases both) An Organisation will (hopefully :) ) have many quotes; and a quote can belong to an organisation, either as a customer or as an end_user or both. So the quotes table

Hi, I am using file_column for some image uploading. I want to have all the images stored under one root which I have managed by setting the :store_dir option as below. file_column :filename, :store_dir => File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''public'', ''images'', ''products'') So, my images get uploaded to: /public/images/products/<primary_key>

I am trying to create a record with association. Within the create method, I would also like to pre-populate dependent (has_many) records from a template in the database. The child records are <u>mysteriously rolled back </u> if I insert them in a loop. If I try to insert a single child record, it works.I have read the books and tried to google my way out of this but am at a dead

Hello, I have a form that submits data to two related models/tables. One is Customer the other is Address. Validation for Customer works fine but not for the Address. Class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address validates_presence_of :login, :password, :email validates_associated :address end Class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :customer validates_presence_of

I have been trying to model a labeled graph using ActiveRecord (trunk version). Basically, I have a ''Node'' model which represents a node linking to other nodes. Links (aka edges) are labeled (i.e., have a ''label'' attribute and other behavior). Thus I decided to model edges as an ''Edge'' model and use a ''has_many :trough''

Hi... I want to know the equivalent instructions to insert, update, search and delete a registry. I know Rails can do it easily Thanks to ActiveRecord, but here''s the catch: I''m using PostgreSQL. As I''m using SQL to do the migration (Including the foreign keys), I need to know if I can use SQL queries to do those actions. Is there an example out there? I uncommented

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

Hello all I''m having an issue with ruby on rails, and it not throwing an error where it should. I have a class ''clientpool'' that is: class Clientpool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "clientpool" set_primary_key "id" belongs_to :clients, :foreign_key => "cliname" validates_presence_of :cliname validates_associated :client end

Is there an easy way to validate that a related record exists? I''ve got a table that contains a set of categories and I want to make sure the user has entered a vaild category (i.e. a category that exists in the categories table). So in the model of the table I put this: class Master < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category, :foreign_key => "categoryid"

I''m in the process of creating a sign up form for an online application. The form collects account info, company info, and then info for an administrative user. The method looks like this: def create @account = Account.create!(params[:account]) @company = @account.companies.create!(params[:company]) @user = @company.users.create!(params[:user]) end However, this inevitably fails

Hello Railslist, (I''m using RadRails 0.6.3 on Windows XP with Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1 and SQLite3) I have two tables in the database: "locations" and "customers": customers.sql --- id INT PRIMARY KEY name VARCHAR 255 address VARCHAR 255 postal_code VARCHAR 255 city VARCHAR 255 --- locations.sql --- id INT PRIMARY KEY postal_code TEXT longitude FLOAT latitude FLOAT

I am running rsync -avz from [A], to pull a directory from [B]. I want to _exclude_ several directories on [B] from being pulled across. Since these directories have short names, I hope that I can either specify them inline rsyncd.conf on [B]; or, inline to the CLI on [A]. I am confused with man rsyncd.conf, where the manpage states: "it only applies on the daemon" I have tried

I recently updated Rails to the latests version, and one of my existing apps broke. More speficially, it can''t find the method "updated?" when it is attempting to call it on one of my models. The stack trace follows: NoMethodError undefined method `updated?'' for #<MyModel:0xc91d50>

All, I''ve a question concerning STI in Rails. Let''s say I''ve a Person class and two classes that inherit from Person: User and Customer. In the DB I''ve the people table to store both instances of User and Customer. Now, let''s say I also have Address class, which references a Customer, and each customer has many addresses. How should I name the