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I have a primary layout that I''m using in several controllers. On my sidebar I have a link that I set up as follows: <div id="sidebar"> <%= link_to("Items", :action => "list") %> </div> Everything is ok when I call it from my primary controller, but since I am also calling the layout from a second controller that does

I have an issue whereby, say I have a button in a view......that shows one way if a boolean field in a db is true, and another way when it is false. When the value of that field in the db changes, I want the button;s state in the view to change as well. How would you guys recommend I do this? Thanks, R.Vince -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby

Hi All I''m having some issues with the following routes problem. The routes.rb file ... map.resources :users map.connect ''/users/view_payments/:user_id'', :controller => ''users'', :action => ''view_payments'' The users_controller.rb file ... def view_payments @user = User.find[:params[:user_id]] @payments =

I''ve got the following in config\routes.rb: map.resources :users In app\views\shared\_menu.erb, I''ve got: Please sign in <%= link_to "here", :controller=>"user", :action=>"sign_in" -%> In app\controllers\users_controller.rb def sign_in end When I run the application, I crash with: Routing Error No route matches

I''m trying to create a basic web page where people can register. Before they are approved they are emailed a link where that they must click in order to verify their info is correct (or at least their email). Should I use acts as authenticated or the login engine for this? http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/show/Acts+as+Authenticated http://rails-engines.org/login_engine TIA

I am using the acts_as_authenticated plugin to manage logging in/logging out. There are a few controllers, such as search, that I don''t mind people accessing regardless of whether they are logged in or logged out. My current view just has some static links on the left that say Login and Logout. How should I set it up so that it says Login when not logged in and log out when logged

I wanted to use "integrate_views" as Ryan explains in his RailsCast #71 (http://railscasts.com/episodes/71) ...but I can''t get it to work: the view code in not executed I looked everywhere but I can''t understand what I am doing wrong. Here is what I did: I created a new application from scratch (Rails 2.0.2), added rspec and rspec_on_rails plugins, and run

I''m trying to grab a temporary variable from my view and then pass along that value to my model My view code is this: <td width="40" align="center"><%= text_field ''product'', ''qty_added'', {:size=>3} And I''m trying to pass the qty_added variable to my model. item.quantity = qty_added It doesn''t seem

Hi everyone, I''m working through the tutorial at the following link and attempting to customise/adapt the lessons for my own slightly different application. Link: Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts | by Michael Hartl <http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book> I''m currently trying to work

since upgrading to 1.1.4 (I had been running without issue on a git snapshot), I''m noticing that my filter actions initiated from application.rb seem to be running twice. I created a test rails project with the rspec scaffold and am also seeing the same behavior here too. Adding this code to application.rb: before_filter :foo def foo "foo" end and an example

Hi Im trying to link my User model to a Teams model. I seem to be getting the following errors. Any help would be great as Im just new to RoR Thanks error ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in UsersController#update Team(#2183395560) expected, got String(#2174675960) app/controllers/users_controller.rb:67:in `update'' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:66:in `update''

At the point of this section *http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-up#sec-signup_failure*<http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-up#sec-signup_failure> clicking the "Create my account" button on the signup form shows the following image at <http://ruby.railstutorial.org/images/figures/signup_failure_rails_4.png> According to the tutorial, I must modify

I''m trying to setup my rails application with Light+fcgi. This is the error I''m getting when I try to start Lighttpd : ============ [getcapture@alpha getcapture]$ ~/etc/rc.d/lighttpd.sh start Starting Lighttpd 2006-04-15 11:27:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.1022) execve failed for: /home/getcapture/application/public/dispatch.fcgi No such file or directory [getcapture@alpha getcapture]$

Hello, as attachment my problems concerning gmail Mailer errors in Rails. I hope anyone can help me out with the problem? If there is extra information needed, please tell me what you need more to help me out of my problems! Greetings! Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/7790/errnoECONNREFUSED.jpg -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

Hi, I want to develop my resources that deal with CRUD operations on my models in a namespace of /admin. How is the best approach to do this? What needs to be changed in order to do this? As in my last attempt of moving things to a namespace my software broke. TIA, Dean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

Hi Guys I am pretty new to Ruby. One of our client is using Firebird as his backend database. I have to create a script which will connect to his database, fetch some data and update few tables in MS-SQL database. Now problem is: i have installed FireRuby, got databaes, changed my database.yml file. I am trying to display all the users in Members table. but i am getting following error:

I am using this line on my index.rhtml page to capture the quantity required of a particular item for a basic shopping cart app: <%= text_field ''line_item'', ''quantity'', {:size=>3} %> </td> but my next screen (a cart screen) doesn''t reflect what was entered in that text field when the item is added to the cart. That is,

I want my helpers to generate paths using a superclass instead of the subclasses. Assuming I have Owner and Member that both inherit from User, rails will use the current objects class name when generating paths: Let''s say current_user is a mod: <%= link_to current_user.name, current_user %> will generate "/mod/:id". I want to force it to generate

I have a text field that I use for logging in users. Due to the design of my site, I don''t have room to put the word "username" in front of the text field so I''d like to actually display it inside the field and then have the word clear when the user clicks on it. How could I modify something like this <%= text_field "user", "login", :size

Has anyone tried using erb and builder in the same file? Either .rxml or .rhtml? I''m wanting to do some think like the following: xml.div(''id''=>''menu'') {|xml| link_to "create race", :controller=>"derby", :action=>"new" } Thanks, -- Tom. -- "Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must