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I am looking at using acts_as_versioned to manage revisions of data in several tables in my application. However, the default behavior of acts_as_versioned appears to apply to individual rows within a table. The tables I want to version are complicated lookup tables and what I really want is to version the entire contents of each table as a single set. Adding a row, deleting a row, or updating

Hello everyone, I have another question related to a legacy schema I am working with. Do dynamic finders work with legacy schemas in general? The schema I am working with uses hungarian prefixes for column names. For example fOpen is 0 if a bug is closed and 1 if it is open (type smallint). When I try @bugs = Bug.find_all_by_fOpen(1), I get the following exception: undefined method

I am running Rails 1.1.2 with Ruby 1.82-15. My database is Postgresql. I haven''t had any problems generating models, migrations, using scaffolds, and generally building and using my application, but I haven''t been able to get testing to work. I initially just ignored the problem and kept developing, but would like to add proper testing from here on out. Currently when I type

Hi I''m choosing a database for a new Rails application. I pretty much ruled out PostgreSQL, since despite good reviews of the database itself, it seems it has countless issues with Rails (for example: in recent releases migrations don''t work, and unit-tests fail). So I should now choose between MySQL 4.1, which as I understand enjoys widespread popularity - perhaps the most

Hello Everyone, I have been reading this mailing list for a while and am impressed with the generous help that many here are eager to provide. Perhaps someone will be able to shed some light on a configuration issue I am having. Thank you in advance for any assistance. First, system setup details: #System Setup# * OS: Fedora Core 4 running in a VMWare box on Windows XP * Database: MS SQL

I read in various places that although migrations aren''t transactional, all you need to do is wrap you migration method in "ActiveRecord:: Base.connection.transaction do" to make the self.up or self.down transactional. In my experience (Rails + PostgreSQL), this doesn''t work very well. If my migration hits an exception, any tables that were touched remain modified.

This is way offtopic, but I''ve seen this several times recently and it''s annoying me. If you put "HOWTO" in your subject that means that you''re posting a guide on a particular topic. It doesn''t mean that you''re asking a question about "how to" do something. It''s not like it''s a crisis, but it screws up searches

I have a controller method called update_all that grabs parameters for about 30 form fields and saves them to the database. My current code looks to see if there is a string in params[] for each form field (two fields for each SelfEvaluationItem) and saves the updated self_evaluation_answer if a string is available. Since this is iterated code, I am almost certain that this generates 30 or so

Wow, I can''t believe that after a few weeks of playing around with Rails I got stuck on something that seems like it should be really simple. How do I display a default welcome page for visitors who are not logged in and send logged in users to the appropriate controller. I am using the login_engine and the user_engine. The two methods I have seen looking at sample code are to stick a

Hi there. Suppose I create some controllers like ruby script/generate controller Admin::product add remove ruby script/generate controller Admin::user add remove ruby script/generate controller Login login logout the directory structure will be app/controllers/admin/product_controller.rb app/controllers/admin/user_controller.rb app/controllers/login_controller.rb Now suppose I need some links

i installed and work fine with ruby on rails on windows. i used onlamp.com sites tutorial for that. now i want to install it on linux. how i can? Please help.... Thank You in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey All, Anyone know of a library for parsing "human" dates, like "this friday" or "2 days ago"? I used to use strtotime in php, but starting from here; http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/PhpStrtotime and doing lots of googling, I haven''t been able to find anything similar for ruby. I know of javascript solutions to this, but I''d need to do

I have a HABTM relationship between my agents and listings tables. Each listing can have many agents and each agent can have many listings. In the agents_listings table I have a column called ''is_primary_agent'' which denotes if the agent is responsible for the listing - only one agent can be primary. At the moment I use this in my listing_controller''s view

Greetings all. I have some controller code that uses win32ole (only available on windows). This code is now solid, and I''d now like to resume development on (any) other OS(grin). But alas, the controller bails because the OS specific library can''t be found. Can I conditionally specify action code compilation (and a require ''win32ole'') based on OS or

I find that many of my controllers have a dozen or more methods and that it can take a few moments to orient myself when I open a controller I haven''t looked at in a while. Does anyone have suggestions for organizing methods in a controller (alphabetical, by function, etc) to increase readability and scanability? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Hi all I have a new migration file created that adds some tables and fills one with some data: create_table :sound_styles do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end create_table :show_types do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end create_table :countries do |t| t.column :name, :string, :null => false end ActionView::Helpers::FormOptionsHelper::COUNTRIES.each

Hi, I have a scenario where a doctor can have one or more specialties. For each doctor, one and only one of her specialties can be designated as primary. So I have tables called doctors, specialties, and doctors_specialties, the last of which has a boolean is_primary column. The doctor model class specifies that: has_and_belongs_to_many :specialties I want to enforce, at the lowest possible

Hi all. I have a problem with postgresql PK columns and ActiveRecord. The error is: PGError: ERROR: null value in column "item_id" violates not-null. Ok, it''s wrong to insert NULL into PK columns, but rails doing it. How to fix? So sad..

Hi all! I am quite new to rails, and I would like to know if there is a tutorial, or if someone can tell me how to use rails with stored procedures and views. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks to all -- ------------------------------------------- Gioachino Bartolotta

I''m having a silly little problem with migrations.  All I''m trying to do is to add an SSN column to my Employees table.  I generated a migration which looks like: class AddSsn < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up     add_column :employees, :ssn, :string end def self.down     remove_column :employees, :ssn   end end When I run this, however, I get: >rake