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Hello, I''m just taking a look at migrations, seems like a fantastic way to maintain the database. I am wonder if there is a way to maintain what I''ll call "reference data" along with the migrations. A lot of times in apps your have tables that have pretty static data, often used to generate select lists. Is there a way to insert the reference data into these tables

I''m trying to figure out how to design a view and controller to work with a simple collection. I have a Foo that has many Bars, so here''s what I did: $ ruby script/generate model Foo $ ruby script/generate model Bar (Uncomment t.column, :name: :string in foo and bar migrations) (Edit Foo.rb and Bar.rb, add has_many :bars to Foo, belongs_to :foo to Bar) $ rake db:migrate $ ruby

Hello, When I am writing rails migrations, quite often I make mistake in them which causes the migration tasks to stop halfway with error. This causes lots of problem, because it results in half of the things in migrations changed and other half not. Also, as the schema number is changed, so things cannot be rolled back. Is there any way to make the entire migration action atomic, i.e.,

This is the webpage: http://projects.exactlyoneturtle.com/date_picker/ I have downloaded and installed it. But how do I use in view page? This is the usual view with ordinary datetime_select: <p><label for="product_date_available">Date available</label><br/> <%= datetime_select ''product'', ''date_available'' %></p>

Trying to install rails/fcgi/apache2. Following these instructions: http://xmlareas.com/ruby-rails-howto.html Using Fedora Core 4. I installed ruby and ruby-devel using apt-get. Everything under Adding FastCGI (optional) works fine up to the gem install fcgi part. Here is what happens: [root@paulbarry fcgi-2.4.0]# gem install fcgi -r -- -with-fcgi-lib=/usr/local/fcgi/lib

Hello, Not sure if this is implied in the documentation or something given: does the RoR framework require "every table must have an id" ? If this is the case, then what happened to the concept of normalization ? Futher, if the tables have already been build for an existing appication ( without ID column in everytable ) , will the script / generate work ? Thanks -- Posted via

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Can I do any "fancy" conditionals when using the Pagination helper? The problem is that I want to be able to specify a conditional based on the criteria of a parent object. Here''s an example: Object A has_many Object B''s I want to paginate through 100 B''s but I *only* want it to return the ones who''s A.flag = true I poked around through the Wiki

Hello, I'm looking for some help troublshooting why I can't access this share. Everything looks good to me, but smbd does not allow my account in.... Samba 3.0.4 on Debian > [2004/06/21 11:41:35, 2] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(311) > user 'LABOR\TIM' (from session setup) not permitted to access this share (ISO) > [2004/06/21 11:41:35, 3]

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Hi, Is is possible to add this constraint: "null => false" and "limit => 45" like below: create_table :movie do |t| t.string :name, :null => false, :limit => 45 end ...just by using this kind of scaffold command (on Rails 2)? $ ruby script/generate scaffold Movie name:string Thanks, D. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i know it''s probably really simple, how do i work out someone''s age if i have their d.o.b. stored as a date in my db. cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi , i used the folllwing command to scaffold, G:\my\webblog>ruby script/generate scaffold webblog id:integer title:string body :text created_at:datetime after when i migrate with the follwing command rake db:migrate i got the error as (in G:/my/webblog) == 1 CreateWebblogs: migrating ================================================ -- create_table(:webblogs) rake aborted! Mysql::Error:

Guys, I have a relationship between model classes that I believe is best represented by inheritance, but the likelihood that things will change often is driving us to composition instead. So, I have a class called Autos, and subclasses called Suvs, Minis, Mids, Sports, for example. We have been requested to avoid the STI approach to this, because of fear of a quickly growing table with

I was hoping to use RedCloth for textilize support to allow end users to enter textilized text (In blog comments, for example), but these bugs seem to make RedCloth unsuitable for that purpose: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2989&group_id=216&atid=891 http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1779&group_id=216&atid=891

Hi all, I am mocking the following Rails view (inside a partial): <%= render :partial => "forums/forum", :collection => forum_category.forums.readable_by(current_user? ? current_user : nil) %> My spec fails with the following message: 1) ActionView::TemplateError in ''forum_categories/index (anonymous user) should only render forums accessible to anonymous

Greetings, we are trying to setup puppetdb, nut our clients get the following error: Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue: Warning: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not retrieve facts for lxa7t.unix.lan: Failed to submit ''replace facts'' command for lxa7t.unix.lan to PuppetDB at puppetdb:8081: Connection refused - connect(2) Info: Retrieving

Whenever I do script/console I get an error message: Loading development enviroment. c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:151: in ''parse_opts'' : undefined method ''upcase'' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb: in ''setup'' from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:54: in ''start'' from c:/ruby/bin/irb:13

Hi! UBSan bootstrap bot fails with error report on 5 llvm-cov and llvm-profdata lit-tests: http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer-x86_64-linux-bootstrap/builds/4526/steps/check-llvm%20ubsan/logs/stdio Also see http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20815. The error reports look vaild: in general it's incorrect to load uint64_t, or even structures like "RawHeader" or

I have set up some fixtures in test/fixtures/users.xml: # Read about fixtures at http://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/Fixtures.html admin: id: 1 username: admin password: admin pbarry: id: 2 username: pbarry I have a unit test for my user model: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class UserTest < Test::Unit::TestCase fixtures :users def