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Hi all, When submitting a master/detail form I first want to handle the children before saving the parent. There are has_many and belongs_to relations between the parent and the children, so I can edit the children using (psuedo-)code like: child.destroy for deleting, child.update_attributes for updating and @parent.children.push(child) for adding child-records. I update the parent by using:

Hi, ? I''m a Ruby on Rails newbie.? I''ve been tasked with building our office''s first ROR application, and I am the only one working on it, so I am muddling through with a couple of books...? Moving along slowly but need some discussion time with some people who KNOW it and can maybe offer some answers to questions I haven''t found in my books. ? First - what is

hi, got a small problem below and not to sure how to overcome this using rails two tables involved with this projects and quotes each project has a field quote_id as a forign field. When a user is ready to upload a quote they are linked to quotes/new from the show project page. Once the quote is uploaded how can I then set the quote_id field with the correct key? -- Posted via

(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

This is simple (I am sure) but how do you get the id of the inserted element after the element has been save? I thought it was something like this: @product = Product.new(params[:product] if @product.save add_image(product.id, params["image"]) flash[:notice] = ''Product was successfully created.'' redirect_to :action => ''list_products'' end

Hi, I have a standard type authentication technique direct from AWDWR, so there is a before_filter :authorize_employee, :except => :login in my employees_controller.rb the authorize_employee is in application.rb def authorize_employee unless session[:employee_id] flash[:notice] = "Please log in" # save the URL the user requested so we can hop

I run a check on the address line parameters to make sure the user isn''t passing my list method a :year to search for that does not exist in the database, which would create null pointer exceptions. I then splash a flash message telling the user that the year doesn''t exist in the database. Then, if the user enters another year into the command line as an argument for the

Hello: I am developing a web application to book machines for an event. so I have an event model class Event < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :datetimes ... end and a datetime model class Datetime < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :event ... end I have developed a view with the event information and information for the datetimes. and in the event_controller when I capture a datetime I

I have the following form <%= start_form_tag :action => ''rejectQuoteSave'', :id => @project %> <p><label for="offer_reason_rejected"><span class="required">* </span>Reason</label><br/> <%= text_area ''offer'', ''reason_rejected'' %></p> <%= submit_tag

Hi, In my user_controller.rb, I have the following method, which is supposed to send the user to their profile, dependng on what "role" they are (the roles correspond to the other controllers: venue, band, fan): def login if request.post? if session[:user_id] = User.authenticate(params[:user][:login], params[:user][:password]) flash[:message] =

I have seen this numerious times and still have no idea what it means: undefined method `stringify_keys!'' for "blah22":String I am tring to change a password. My code looks like: def change_password @user = User.find_by_emailaddr( params[:email] ) if @user.nil? # user profile not created flash[:notice] = "<b style = \"color:red\">No such

any suggestions on why I am gaining this error. ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in ProjectsController#create Mysql::Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' , , , , )'' at line 1: INSERT INTO projects (`name`, `date_created`, `quote_id`, `client_id`, `description`, `user_id`)

Hey, May be it is just too deep night over here and I''m missing something though I got this failure on {{{response.should_not redirect_to}}}: ''QueuesController should allow authenticated user to access ''show'''' FAILED Matcher does not support should_not. See Spec::Matchers for more information about matchers. Also I''ve found this in

hi, could somebody tell me the difference between: if not params[:id] flash[:notice] = blabla'' redirect_to(:controller =>"calendar", :action => ''index'') end and: if params[:id] == nil flash[:notice] = blabla'' redirect_to(:controller =>"calendar", :action => ''index'') end the first one

I''m not sure why this is happening, but if I do this in a controller unless @variation && @variation.quantity > 0 flash[:error] = "Sorry, that product is currently not available." redirect_to(:action => ''error'') and return end rspec tells me 2) ActionController::DoubleRenderError in ''The Carts controller with an

Hi, I''m having a weird validation issue. Validation isn''t working for certain attributes and, for some reason, it''s also affecting things outside of validation. For campers on certain camp types, we require some information about their school. I tried to validate the information this way: validates_presence_of :school_type, :if => Proc.new { |c| !c.booking.nil?

Right now I have a controller for "events" that belong to a specific user. I only want the creator to be able to edit or delete the event. I''ve got the proper foreign keys set up. I''ve finally arrived at the point where I can take baby steps with code, but looks like my first steps are in flagrant violation of the DRY principle. Here''s what I have so far in

Hi, I have a redirect_to statement in a method that I would like to have at the end of the method to take you to a ''Success'' page if everything works. When I hit the redirect_to statement, ( redirect_to :action => ''show_success'' ) I get this in the browser: Application error Rails application failed to start properly" The development.log

Hi, I can''t list error_messages in my Form ??, and all the formfields are reset ...(I think my redirect :back clean everything, formfield and error_messages ...), only my flash[:notice] is ok.... I would like to use the "error_messages_for" tag to add a simple red * on my textfiled if a problem occurs ... thanks for help arnaud here are the basics steps to check that

Hello, I am updating an object with an AJAX form: view: <% remote_form_for(@sample, :update => "content2") do %> <p> parameter: <br /> <%= select("sample","parameter",Parameter.find(:all).collect {|p| [p.description.gsub(''_'', '' ''),p.id]},{},{:size => 4, :multiple => true}) %>