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Hi, in the past few months someone posted an entry on their blog about how to do validations in non-AR classes and I cant find it any more. Anyone have a link? Thanks, Trevor -- Trevor Squires http://somethinglearned.com

Hey, sorry if this is something better suited to another list. I''ve encountered a strange problem with the RSpec.tmbundle in trunk - namely that it was raising an exception when pressing ctrl-shift-downarrow (switch between spec and source - "Alternate File"). I tracked down the issue to be handling of the file_type in switch_command.rb#content_for() - the code expected the

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has seen (or completed) an effect to make something ''bounce'' like icons do in the OS X dock when you launch them? Something that looks like there''s a bit of gravitational behavior to it? Thanks, Trevor Trevor Squires http://somethinglearned.com

I have a photographers app that requires giving access to galleries for users. in one part, I want to be able to define gallery access for a user seperate from updating any of the user info. I have this function: def edit_access @user = User.find(params[:id]) @user.galleries = Gallery.find(params[:gallery_ids]) if params[:gallery_ids] if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])

I am getting the following error /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1129:in `method_missing'': undefined method `directory?'' for Msg::File:Class (NoMethodError) I have a model called Msg::File in models/msg/file.rb, and I have a file in lib/msg/helper.rb which references to both Msg::File and File.directory? How do I help activerecord

In console, I am trying to create a User but the :account_id does not come in. Console just gives me back :account_id => nil. Obviously I''m trying to set it though. Silly console... But, I can set the account_id column in my controller like so: @user = User.new(params[:user]) @user.account_id = account.id @user.save Here''s what I give to the controller: User.create :name

I would like to have a table with some constants to use them later on for a drop down menu. How can this be done? My table looks like Table with constants ------------------------ id | key | value | type ------------------------ 1 | M | Male | sex .... I know it can be done like this <% select ''object'', ''method'', Constants.find(:all, :select =>

I have a single table that two people enter data into. Person A creates the record and I need to specify certain required fields in his form. Person B has a separate form and she fills in additional fields and I need to specify that some of these are required. Since the data is all in one table and since the validations are in the model, won''t Rails complain when person A tries to

Hello All, Any one using acts_as_enumerated? I need help using (I like that it caches values in memory) I am working on a dating website and there are lots of options I want to store as enumerated like Status; divorce, single, Sex: male, female Eye color; blue, brown, green.... and lots more.... But I do not wanna keep them in seperate tables, and wanna keep them all together. Anyone has a

So any other ideas as to why my custom class under app/models is being cached even though all the caching is set to false in the config/environments/* files? Currently I''m having to restart WEBrick after EVERY change to the file. The controllers and views are reloading just fine and not being cached. It''s just the custom class I created that''s being cached. Any ideas

Hi, I am thinking about how to best design a quiz site in RoR. I think it should be fairly easy, but have run into a wall. In the simplest form, the view would grab all of the questions for a particular quiz and display them (e.g. multiple choice, so 4 option buttons per question). However, I can''t figure out how to "mark" the quiz. The form is submitted to the

Hi all - I''d like to implement a lookup table in my app that contains some reference data, just some status codes and their descriptions. What''s the most appropriate approach according to the "rails way" of doing things? Would I just implement a has_many relationship? Let''s say these are Order status codes, would the StatusCode have many Orders? This

Hi all, I''ve a model class Toto in the model directory. I don''t understand why i have to restarts WebBrick to view changes i make in this class FYI : in the development. rb i desabled class cache with config.cache_classes = false Regards Luciano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''m trying to produce a plugin to help me with my page caching woes. I can''t seem to get rails to see my method within the plugin. This is my first attempt at a plugin so I''m sure I''m missing something. I''ve created a directory /vendor/lib/plugins/broom_stick/. I then created an init.rb file with: require ''broom_stick'' I then

Hi all, I''m looking for some advice on where we should be putting an advert if we are looking to hire a full time rails developer? Or turning it around what websites (or mailing lists) do folks here use to if they feel the need for a change in view from their desk? A few details to narrow down scope since it might affect the advice, apologies in advance, trying to NOT make this an

Today, I was looking for an elegant (and efficient) way to get a named (atomic) vector by selecting one column of a data frame. Of course, the vector names must be the rownames of the data frame. Ok, here is the quiz, I know one quite "cute"/"slick" answer, but was wondering if there are obvious better ones, and also if this should not become more idiomatic (hence

Hi, I''m still test driving the improved support for module namespaces in rails and I''ve hit a problem with associations between AR classes in modules and AR classes in the root namespace. The long and short of it is I want to be able to say: Foo::Bar.belongs_to :wibble, :class_name => "::Wibble" If you don''t try to prefix ''Wibble''

when i run rake create_sessions_table, I get following output. tables donot get created and my application doesnot start. (in G:/rubysrc/blog) create db/migrate create db/migrate/001_add_sessions.rb info: the first time ran take everyting was fine, but now i have reinstalled ruby and rails and created the database, but i am unable to create session table with rake, please help.

Hi there, I''m currently developing a plugin to do authentication and authorisation. In the init.rb file of the plugin I have this code:- $:.unshift File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), ''lib'')) require ''open_advantage/authorisation'' ActionController::Base.send :include, OpenAdvantage::Authorisation and this is the skeleton of my

Hi All I am trying to implement a Back to Search Results functionality, by storing the user''s search criteria (params) in session and then reusing those params instead of request params when user clicks on "Back to Search Results link". here is my code ________________________________________________________________________ def search if session[:incidentSearch].nil? or