similar to: Retrieving a record using created_by

I''m pleased to announce a new plugin for Rails: Userstamp. You can read my blog post at http://www.delynnberry.com/articles/2006/01/20/userstamp-plugin and/or read all about it at the perminant page http://www.delynnberry.com/pages/userstamp. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are much appreciated. -- DeLynn Berry delynn@gmail.com http://www.delynnberry.com A dump of the Readme

Hi, I want to automate somewhat the addition of created_by/updated_by fields on my models (i.e. to include username). What''s the best/recommended way to do this? Would it be to: a) Find out how to extend the ActiveRecord::Base itself (I haven''t extended a class before yet) b) Use a plugin type approach where you have to add a tag manually to each model file which then

I have the following ActiveRecord objects: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ratings, :dependent => true . . . end class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :created_by, :scope => :recipe_id belongs_to :recipe, :counter_cache => true . . . end The created_by field on Rating is implemented as a "magic" field similar to this:

I''m working on an app. with the userstamp plugin in it (from 2 - 3 years back). In the init.rb file, there''s this: ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveRecord::Userstamp) unless RAILS_ENV == ''test'' This causes certain tests to fail since created_by is a required attribute. Does anyone know the idea behind Userstamp not loading in the test environment.

Hi! Definite newbie here - I''m working through this like-hate relationship with Ruby and Rails right now... sometimes things work really well (like blobs seem to rock) but other times, I dunno! :-) Anyway, I''d like put in create and update user timestamps on all my primary domain tables and allow them to be updated automatically by ActiveRecord. Coming from Hibernate, I just

Hi, Can anyone spot why the below doesn''t work? * I have a "created_by" column in my create table in the dB * I have a "before_create" line, which definitely gets called * I tried a few different ways to set the "created_by" attribute in the model but it doesn''t seem to work, i.e. doesn''t appear in the database

Quick question about userstamping records in a similar way to timestamping. There is an example of how this might work at: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Howto+Add+created_by+and+updated_by/versions/7 This seems to work fine on my development system. However, I am not sure how the User.current_user method, which is required, can guarantee to return the correct user since this is a

I have a model with a belongs_to association. The first model is called Thing and the associated model is User. I''m attempting to assign the user to the thing. To accomplish this I used a before_save method, like this: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :created_by, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "created_by_user_id" def before_create

Hi everyone. This is a real noob question that I''m hoping someone out there can help me with. I have followed the tutorial How to Ad created_by and updated_b<http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Howto%20Add%20created_by%20and%20updated_by>y and it works ok for retrieving the data. I''m using the Login_Generator. I cannot get it to work on create or update. I think

Are class attributes thread safe? For instance, the userstamp plugin creates a User.current_user attribute and then it aliases the ActiveRecard create and update methods to write created_by and updated_by attributes using the value of User.current_user. For some reason I can imagine a case where multiple users are logged in at the same time and saving objects, and the value of

I''ve got a polymorphic association on one table. I assign to it in the controller. This is handling invitations of users to tasks in a task management application. If the user issuing the invitation is the user being invited (ie the user assigned themselves to a task), I want to activate the invitation immediately in the model. The trouble is that this: if self.assignable ==

okay... i have two models employee - id - username order - id - number - created_by - approved_by now created_by and approved_by are both id''s of employees. in most cases, two different employees. currently i do something like //controller @open_orders = Order.open_orders //model def self.open_orders find(:all, :conditions => [''is_open = ?'', true],

DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

Please excuse a newbie question, but I couldn''t find anything by searching the archives. What I want to know is how to have multiple references to the same class/table within a class. For example, let''s say I have a table called People: create table people ( id serial8 primary key ,name); which just holds a list of the people in the database. Then I have another

Hi guys, I tried reading up the RSPEC Book (Dec 2010) and googled a bit but I could not find anything. I''m using Rspec2. Example: spec/factories/categories.rb ====================== FactoryGirl.define do factory :category_intakes, :class => ''category'' do name ''intakes and filters'' description ''airfilters and

Hi In the controller I have the function def convert_sd_ticket_to_incident ServiceDeskTicket.close_ticket(sd_id,created_by_id,modified_by_id) Incident.convert_sd_ticket_to_incident(sd_id,created_by_id,modified_by_id) end Now in the ServiceDeskTicket model def self.close_ticket(sd_id,created_by,modified_by) begin ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string

Hi All, I''m a bit stumped. All I''m trying to do is format a date and I get an error. Details below. I have a partial to list all "notes" associated with a "client" with the following code. <% for note in @client.notes %> <hr /> <%=h note.note_text %> Posted on <%=h note.created_at.strftime("%I:%M") %> by <%=h

So I''m trying to do a find with an order by specific column values thing, but some of the columns are attributes through associations. So I did some eager loading with the :include option to try and access the attributes of the object I''m doing the find on. Stuff has been blowing up on me so far. Here''s the code in the controller right now: sort_by = params[:sort_by]

If you are running on Windows you can use create and read speadsheets using the ''win32ole'' require This sample should give you the basic idea ------ def export require ''win32ole'' @sort_by = ''last_name'' current_user = ''steve'' @records = Contact.find( :all, :conditions =>