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What does the Magic Field Name position do? I was looking here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/MagicFieldNames And unfortunately that documentation is incomplete. Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What is the best way to get the running total of a number field in child records. Let say I have an Order model, which has_many :line_items, and each LineItem has an amount field. I would like to get the grand total of a specific Order. Is it a good idea to add a ''total'' column in the ''orders'' table and update it every time a line_item is

I am trying to subit some xml data over https to access an API. My code so far seems to generate a very non-helpful error in the guts of the net/http library. This code produces a NoMethodError for nil.strip" require ''net/http'' require ''net/https'' require ''uri'' url =

Is there any way to set database columns to auto update a timestamp column on update? Can I do something like t.column "timestamp", :datetime, :default => :current_time, :null => false, :on_update => :current_timestamp or do i need to just use custom sql like sql = "ALTER TABLE `table` CHANGE `timestamp` `timestamp` TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP NOT NULL

Greetings all, This is the first release of the SuperImage plugin. The idea is you upload images to the database, and then pull them out at any size you want. Combine this with caching and it will stay light and fast. More info and instructions are here: http://beautifulpixel.textdriven.com/articles/2006/04/27/superimage-plugin-making-resizeable-uploaded-images-easy svn:

Has anyone been able to get script/server to successfully use lighttpd on a Windows box? When I try to start the server I get: PROBLEM: Lighttpd is not available on your system (or not in your path) So then I add "C:\lighttpd\sbin" to the path for the console session, and it still fails with the same error. If anyone has some success with this I sure would like to know. Webrick

Is there a way to stop Rails automatically trying to load models? Cheers, Nicholas

If I want to do this but not save to the database, how can I go about it? things.each do |thing| changed = someotherqueryresult thing.update_attribute :testattrib, changed end Essentially I want to create a collection called things with some extra attributes that are not saved into the database, as they are just used for sorting in a view and should not be saved (in fact saving them wastes

Just released a very simple plugin for including all fixtures in your tests. Once you have a large number of table, manually managing the fixtures for every single test stub can be quite tedious. Use as follows class BlogArticleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase all_fixtures def test_foo ... end end Couldn''t be easier. More info here:

Can anyone tell me how to add routes from plugin? I know it is possible because of this changeset: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/2967 but i didn''t find way how to do it. retro -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! Definite newbie here - I''m working through this like-hate relationship with Ruby and Rails right now... sometimes things work really well (like blobs seem to rock) but other times, I dunno! :-) Anyway, I''d like put in create and update user timestamps on all my primary domain tables and allow them to be updated automatically by ActiveRecord. Coming from Hibernate, I just

(Rails 1.1, Ruby 1.8.4) In the layout for one of my controllers, I have a tag to display a flash message (copied from AWDWR), like this: <div id="data"> <% if @flash[:notice] -%> <div id="notice"><%= @flash[:notice] %></div> <% end -%> <%= @content_for_layout %> </div> If the

I am running into some issues with my functional tests because they need info from almost every single table in the database. I have long laundry lists of fixture names to include on these test files and then I have to troubleshooot bizarre test failures because of a fixture that was not included. So is there a way to simply include all fixtures in a test? Something like: fixtures :all

does anyone know much about resizing different versions of images with file_column? i tried it and everything works fine, but my question is can you do more than just make sizes with a version of image? i''m working on a photo album and i would like to resize the image to a medium size, but create a thumbnail as well and crop anything left to make the thumbnail a perfect square. --

I have a route that works under 1.1.2 but does not work under edge rails. route.wishlist ''wishlist/:id'', :action => ''show_wishlist'', :id => nil, :requirements => {:id => /\d*/} This worked great without an :id, but under edge rails when I call wishlist_url with no parameters I get: "Exception: can''t convert nil into

I would have never imagined that I''d be bitten by the Y2038 bug someday... but it just happened and, trust me, it hurts! I have to deal with a database containing datetime fields with dates up to 2050 and more. ActiveRecord raises an exception because Ruby''s Time class implementation. Besides running Ruby on a 64-bit platform, what can be done to avoid that? Does a

Hello, Rails provide counter cache field for associations, I want a similar cache for totaling up values (say account_balance = sum_of_deposits - sum_of_withdrawals). I was wondering if rails, already has another surprise in store for me, or is there any plug-in or how-to for doing these kind of things. Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read the

Hello, does someone knows how gmail does file upload when the attached files are automatically saved in drafts ? I am trying to do it in Scriptalicious/Prototype but I don''t see how they get the file on the system using js... Tarek _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org

For some reason whenever I try and create a timestamp column with migrations and mysql I get a datetime column instead. That''s kind of annoying because I want the column to update every time the row gets changed. Is this a bug, or is there something I can do about it? (Obviously I can manually change my mysql table, but that kind of defeats the point of migrations!) In my migration

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: