similar to: New to rails, looking for some advice re: migrations

All - Trying not to fight rails on this, basically have a form and all the same as would be with an ActiveRecord model except that there is no table. I started out using this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315850/rails-model-without-database ...which is kind of a hack by inheriting ActiveRecord in to non-AR model but am running into some problems and just have the feeling that I am

Ive followed this example of how to validate a form with a tableless model: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/11/19/validate_your_forms_with_a_table_less_model Ive got this example working but when validation fails the failed boxes are not highlighted in red. At the moment i have a contact details form and want to validate the information entered by the user but this will just result

I really like the idea of Mock Proxies as explained in Brian Takita''s post here: http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/users/brian/blog/articles/352-introducing-rr I posted to this list eariler with an incomplete implementation of .stops_mocking in the thread "Mocking Time, delegating to original object." The Mock Proxy pattern would make this simpler.

I know the scaffold generator is really only useful for beginners and/or very the preliminary state of a project, but I find that I use it a lot (especially, since I am still a beginner). There are a couple of things I find myself tweaking (or wanting to tweak, but never getting around to tweaking) each time I generate a new scaffold: 1) Change the layout from blah.html.erb to

I am trying to generate my first scaffold but I am getting a 500 error from http://127.0.0.1:3000/foo . Below is the information about my system, as well as the commands I am typing. I have also included the DDL ( Oracle 10g ). I am mid way through chapter 6 of "Agile Web Development w/ Rails". Why aren''t there any files under app/controllers/ ? C:\tmp\rubyWork>ruby

Hi all, Can I safely assume that each migration is excuted within a transaction, so that''s it''s safe to have migrations executing failing statements? Thanks, - Rowan -- Morality is usually taught by the immoral.

Hi Railsers, How do you design your applications? Do you start coding HTML? Start with the controllers/models? Start in a program like photoshop/gimp/illustrator/inkscape? I start in inkscape, it''s a SVG editor. I sketch all the views of my application, and then I create the views that belong to one controller in RHTML. After that, I do the models/controller, and move on to the

What does everyone on this list think about enhancing scaffolding somehow so that a "has_many" relationship will automatically drop the <select> box into the view to reference the "belongs_to" part of the view? I think scaffolding is great but I am always adding the <select> boxes to reference the parent association. Do you think this would be useful? just a

It occurs to me as a missing feature that there''s no way to indicate a lookup table relationship (as opposed to other sorts of foreign key relationships) in Rails and that the scaffolding generator could recognise this lookup and render a drop-down list automagically for the lookup table. Say you have an Address and a State, and the State is a lookup table. In addresses you have

I created some scaffolding for an Address model and an Addresses controller. When running the functional tests for the addresses controller, I get this exception: "NameError: uninitialized constant Addres" The exception seems to start from this function: def list @address_pages, @addresses = paginate :address, :per_page => 10 end I''m guessing pluralization bug?

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to maintain database reflection for the ''new'' and ''edit'' views whilst removing scaffolding? I''m trying to create a webapp that will be somewhat maintainable by colleagues (that aren''t necessarily web developers) through simple manipulation of db table fields. For example to add another field to the

I''m going to take another stab at this question (my first one received no replies): I have two models: Author has_many: books Book has_one: author I have two tables: authors id ... books id author_id ... I let the scaffolding fly and it created the CRUD goodness for each model, as expected. However, I want to have only one view/controller "set" for both models; when I

I beat my head against a wall for almost 2 hours with this issue. My first problem was easily solved. I wanted a class that could use ActiveRecord''s validation capabilities but without using a table behind it (I would be persisting setup information in the session, but the initial setup parameters come from a user input form) No problem...found this link which got me up and running

Hi All, I''m looking for a quality scaffolding plugin. So far I''ve discovered DryScaffolding and Streamlined. DryScaffolding doesn''t truly support Rails 1.2.2 so I dropped that. Streamlined works, but is full of quirks (e.g. many-to-many relationships not cascade updating correctly, etc). Can anyone suggest a quality scaffolding plugin/ generator/framework that

I''m doing very well with the Hibbs Rolling on Rails tutorial. I have an easy question for my personal notes. I''m coming up with a simple framework of steps for creating a basic database. It includes the following maxims to make original app creation easy: app_name = MySQL database name SQL_tablename = model_name model_name = controller-name Is this going to work for getting

I have developed 3 small applications using rails (nothing production worthy, just some small stuff "prototype" style). And I often end up changing my database scheme in the middle of development. I also use "script/generate scaffold" (this is somehow relevant to my question). Whenever I change my database schema I end up having to regenerate the scaffold. In the past this

I am having trouble generating some of my scaffolding. I''m trying to use PostgreSQL as my back-end. Some of my scaffolding generates with no problem but for other parts I get this: Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model The tables do exist. At least I can see them from psql. Here is the SQL I''m using to create my tables: CREATE

I''ve got a database with several tables. I''d like to create scaffolding for separate CRUD interfaces for several of these tables. I''m hoping that the scaffold generator can create the CRUD code for all these tables in ONE controller, but I don''t know how to tell it to do that, if it can. Can anyone verify if this is possible? Thanks, David -- Posted via

In Rolling with Ruby on Rails tutorial - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html - I saw that to introduce a new element to my domain, I needed to define it in a table, generate a model element with a similar name and the class would autoamtically take the attributes from the table definition. Is it possible to do this in the other direction... i.e to take the class diagram

Hi everyone, I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the list. Here''s my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem: Ruby version 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0) RubyGems version 0.8.11 Rails version 1.1.2 Active Record version 1.14.2 Action Pack version 1.12.1 Action Web Service version 1.1.2 Action Mailer version 1.2.1 Active Support version 1.3.1 I did