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Hi! Yesterday I started to write my unit tests for the fist time using rails. I''m using this method: http://blog.codahale.com/2005/12/23/a-rails-howto-simplify-your-unit-tests/ My customer_test.rb looks like this: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class CustomerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :customers # Replace this with your real

Hi... Isn''t there a proper way or hack/workaround for the following? * For the example with unfortunate disabilities.. look below,,, Usage of has_* (associationmethods) do {def with_deleted AccociatedModel#with_scope} {Paranoid''s#find_with_deleted}... The has_one associations give me a nil object when invoking it with Model.association_OBJECT.with_deleted. Has_many does like

Fellow Railers, Is there anything, anywhere, that I can read that discusses overall RoR app design? I have the Agile RoR book, which is great for learning the details of RoR, but unfortunately doesn''t cover the overall issue of creating a large, complex RoR app. My staff and I are still in the process of getting up to speed on Ruby and RoR, but we also need to begin thinking about

Guys, I searched this forum and found plenty of people having this problem, but I didn''t see any definitive solution. Usings Rails 1.0. When I edit an existing record, I can''t get the basic "select" helper to display the current value contained in the field of the record. All of my other (text) fields populate correctly with current field values. There appears

How do you guys test transactional updates with story runner? I have an action that needs to update four different models: Enrollment.transaction do @contact.update_addresses(params[:contact_address], params [:billing_address]) @enrollment.update_attributes!(params[:enrollment]) end The last update_attributes! will raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotValid if anything was

Jamis, I''ve spent hours trying to get Capistrano working, to no avail. I''m hosting over at www.railsplayground.com, and here''s their instructions I''ve been following: http://tinyurl.com/hyo93 I can''t get past step 7. When I execute "rake remote:setup", I get a rake aborted! message. When I do a "rake --tasks", I get only a

Guys, I''m using select_tag to display a non-model dropdown, which works fine. However, I''ve tried every which way to use the :include_blank => true option, but it simply won''t display a blank value. Using :include_blank => true with select on model fields works fine. Can someone please show me a working example? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, newbie here. I am trying to implement a filtering interface using observe_field. Using firebug I can see that I am getting the properly rendered html blob back in the response, but when it get inserted into the dom element that I am targeting, the plain html elements from the partial template have been stripped, leaving only the elements inserted via the <%= statements. I would

So I''ve worked through Agile Web Development with Rails and I''m now trying my first little app to get into the swing of things. Its a task tracking app where people can create tasks and assign them to others, and also log time against the tasks. I''m having trouble working out the model relationships. This is what I''ve got so far, but its not right as

Anyone know why "rake db_schema_dump" would produce the following error: rake aborted! Don''t know how to build task ''db_schema_dump'' (See full trace by running task with --trace) Otherwise, my migrations work fine. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Guys, I''m having a problem getting acts_as_tree working. It seems from the Agile book (p. 255) that acts_as_tree only supports one-to-one record relations, whereas I need many-to-many support. In other words, looking at the picture at the top of page 256 where where only 1 id is linked to 1 parent_id, I need multiple id''s linked to multiple parent_id''s - for

Guys, Newbie here. Given the following table named Employee_Links: ID Emp_ID Parent_ID -- ------ --------- 1 200 100 2 300 100 3 300 200 4 400 100 5 500 400 6 500 300 I''d like to be able to generate a tree that looks like this: 100 |-200 |-300 |-500 |-300 |-400 |-500 Note that where 500''s Parent_ID = 300