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Hi, I have a many to many relationship incorporating the following tables: taxes --> taxes_tax_groups --> tax_groups I have a model named tax with the following declaration: has_and_belongs_to_many :tax_groups and I have a model named tax_group with the following declaration: has_and_belongs_to_many :taxes I am attempting to run the following unit test: require

Hi, I am creating an order management web application, and have run into an issue over join tables. I am reading Agile Web Development and it says that I can put additional fields within my join tables, and they give the example of a date field. I want to know if it is possible to do the following: I have an orders table with the order information as well as an orders_items table and an

Hi, I have a site where I wish to upload a resize a picture, and store it in the file system. The best solution that I have found for this so far is using file_column. This was working great, for about an hour, but all of the sudden I began to get the following error (only when i attempt to resize). NameError (undefined method `assoc'' for class `Magick::ImageList''):

I have the following form that I am trying to use, but for some reason, the form gets submitted with out the params values. <%= form_remote_tag(:url => { :action => :add_item_to_order }) %> <tr> <td> <%=collection_select(:order_item , :item_category_id, @item_categories, :id, :name)%> </td> <td> <%= text_field

Hi, I have a customer add form in which i call form_remote_tag to update a customer list within another div on my page. I need to also, however, allow for proper error checking, and the issue is that the form_remote_tag will only update a single div tag. I have seen a few ways to deal with this, but I want to know what the best way is, while still allowing the model to do all of the

Hi all I am hoping that the experience and knowledge of this ''list'' will be able to help me out with some design decisions I have to make while porting a desktop app to rails. Here is the scoop: I am in the design process of porting a fairly large client/server app to rails. Average data set is about 200 MB per database/server. Altogether there are about 100 tables and about

Hi, I''ve searched the list and found that someone had the same problem as me http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/043760.html I''m have in my page a link like this <%= link_to_remote ("Add #{image_tag(''add.png'')}",:url=>{:action=>''addProduct''})%> and in my controller def addProduct ..................

Hi, I have this save routine: def customer_address_create customer_options @customer = Customer.find(params[:id]) @customer.addresses.create(params[:address]) @saved = @customer.save end That passes to a rjs template like this: if @saved page.visual_effect :Fold, ''add_address'' page.replace_html ''addresses'', :partial =>

I have a question about how to implement a design in Rails. I will try to make this as easy to follow as possible. First, let''s say that I have an ''Orders'' table that has different statuses. The 3 statuses that I want to track are ''Submitted'', ''Approved'', and ''Purchased''. I also have 3 users of this application.

Hi everyone, I would need to know if RoR follow any policy for version naming; I mean, something like linux´s kernel does or similar. For instance, kernel uses numbers separated in groups by dots (i.e. pre 2.6 - AA.BB.CC). These groups mean differents fixtures, bugs fixed... I will start a big proyect from scratch with rails and I want to choose now a standart to use and avoid future problems

My friend Ben Willis and I have developed a gem for the versioning of Rails views. https://github.com/bwillis/versioncake The versioning is done by the naming convention. Image the following series of files : show.v3.json.jbuilder show.v2.json.jbuilder show.v1.json.jbuilder create.v2.json.jbuilder create.v1.json.jbuilder The developer pre-defines all view versions in their config. When a

What are the standard best practices for sharing your rails application on the web? As far as I can tell, you just delete the logs directory and clear out the database.yml What am I forgetting? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

Hello. I''m creating my own RESTful blog app. I am wondering about creating post slugs. I think Wordpress creates a slug at post creation time and stores the string in the database, then uses that for URLs. I read about the acts_as_sluggable strategy (http:// agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_sluggable) but I don''t like having a number (the ID) in the URL. Any

I suspect this is something I should know already but I can''t seem to get it right, how can I create application wide variables and have them accessible to all my controllers? I tried creating a plugin and having my controller require a specific method from that plugin to access its variables but that didn''t work, so I am left scratching my head. eg from plugin

Hello list, I wonder if someone has some tips on joining a ferret search with a database. I have a rails project using a postgresql backend and I would like to utilize the superb performance of ferret for fulltext searching. The problem is that I have to joined the result with the database as I have some user access rights to different documents to take into account. Does anyone have

Hi all, I''m using acts_as_authenticated for the front end facing part of my site. I have a model called Customer. I now want to protect the admin sides of things. I am thinking of using Ezra''s acl plugin (http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/dev/acl_system2/README) for this. My only problem is that I don''t want the model for admin users to be called Customer,

I''m working on uploading my site to dreamhost. I just setup my production database, and gave it a host name. It said that it was successfully created. Now, it''s been like 25 minutes, and I still can''t connect to it. Is that normal? How can I get my tables created? Just wait it out? I''m trying to load it in the browser, and it says "server not

Hey Guys, need a hand again.... Lets say I have an Order... and an Order has Order Lines and Order_Lines have Items... I want to create a New Order, which would have New Order Lines with the same Items... Is there a fast / easy way to do this, w/o having to create a new order, loop through all the order lines, and create them associating them with the Items? Any help would be great, thanks --

Greetings! After successfully setting up the printer using my RedHat Linux 7.2 (using command-line interface), and after installing my ethernet card (again, using command-line interface), I've tried to setup my linux server to share the printer with Windows-based machines. I thought I pretty much did everything right, but when I type a "smbstatus", I get the following: >Samba

The documentation for the sanitizer special case list format[0] says, > The meanining of * in regular expression for entity names is different - it is treated as in shell wildcarding. In SpecialCaseList::parse, we see that this is just replacing * with .*: // Replace * with .* for (size_t pos = 0; (pos = Regexp.find("*", pos)) != std::string::npos; pos +=