similar to: Mixin variables

I''m trying to write some tests for the ApplicationController as shared tests that can be run in all of my other controller tests, but am getting a nil.rewrite error. Below is what I have... describe AccountController do it_should_behave_like ''Application controller'' end describe ''Application controller'', :shared => true do it

I was having some issue getting the class variables in Camping::Session to work with some old apps, so I''ve changed @@state_secret to a method. module Blog include Camping::Session def state_secret; "kxxxx" end end Also, merged some of zimbatm''s patches. And trying to revive the Junebug wiki <http://github.com/why/junebug> since it''s still

Say that there''s a piece of functionality I want to call everytime the controller is invoked, regardless of what action I am calling. Where do I put that, exactly? Can I do that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

There seems to be a bug when deploying a rails application developed in windows to a linux box. The rake deploy command attempts to run the command "/install/path/current/script/process/reaper" but the files do not have the execute bit set. What can I do to make sure either the execute bit is run or prepend the command with sh or ruby? Thanks.

The SQL Server adapter can currently operate in two modes, ADO and ODBC, each of which uses a different interface to access the db. The ADO interface is currently the default, while ODBC can be specified as an option. I propose this situation is reversed, and that use of the ADO interface is deprecated, if not removed altogether. Here are some reasons, I'm sure there are more: a) ADO uses

I''m preety new at RoR (and programming), I tried a few tutorials, and really like the RoR simplicity, but my knowledge of the framework still isn''t very good (to be true, i understand the basics, but not everything that''s in the tutorials). But still I''d like to create a website which has: - front end interface (with no edit functions) - admin interface

I learned from the Centos-devel email list that they aren't sending out email to centos-announce for updates to CentOS 8, but only updating an RSS feed. I think this is a bad idea since no one uses RSS anymore (ducks for cover). What do others here think of this? -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical

I have a select_tag in my view that uses options_for_select with multiple = true. I am having trouble figuring out the Rails way to create and update that field. Please help. Models: ------------- Service has_many AccessControl AccessControl belongs_to Service application.rb ------------------------- $types = Array["Athens", "htpasswd", "IP", "None",

Just trying to run the example ***** require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' a = WWW::Mechanize.new a.get(''http://rubyforge.org/'') do |page| # Click the login link login_page = a.click(page.links.text(/Log In/)) # Submit the login form my_page = login_page.form_with(:action => ''/account/login.php'')

Hi! I have just added login feature to my rails application (followed the instruction from (Agile Web Development with Rails) but now I am getting strange errors (looks to me like some kind of routing problem) under the passenger/apache. The error is: 500 Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. From the log:

If I have several models which exhibit the same functionality, it seems makes sense to create a mixin, ''include'' it in each model and save myself some work and repeated code. Where can I define a module which will be available to all models? I can''t seem to find a documented place for them. Alternatively, is there a Rails-standard way of achieving the effect? Ben

Disclaimer: RoR newbie. Using the acts_as_taggable plugin. As an exercise I wanted to switch from the destructive TAG_WITH method to adding tags while preserving the existing ones. On the surface this seemed easy enough and eventually I got it working. However, the following method: def add_tags(list) Tag.transaction do Tag.parse(list).each do |name| if

so as to not reinvent the wheel, are there any exisiting examples or mixins for a star rating system? basically what i''m looking to do is show pictures of local models which will be voted on by users, and the model with the most votes will get her photo in a calendar. anyone able to point me in the right direction... tutorials, code, whatever would be greatly appreciated! -A --

I want to include common auditing functionality in my models. This involves storing the changes made to a model in a seperate table : I have created the functions in an Audit module : module Audit before_update :before_changes after_update :after_changes def before_changes old=self.class.find(id).attributes @changes=[] attributes.each do |key, val| if val != old[key]

Hi, all, I need to DRY up some code in a few models. My first inclination, having come from the Java world, was to go with an abstract class. After a bit of reading, I then decided to follow the mixin route instead. Now I''m running into trouble, most likely from a few basic misunderstandings. There are three models I will be using to average and count rating data by executing a

How do I show the selected values in options_for_select? I have a Service model and a AccessControl model. When a user edits a Service I want the services access_controls to be pre-selected. Models: Service has_many AccessControls AccessControl belongs_to Service application.rb: $types = Array["Athens", "htpasswd", "IP", "None", "Other",

I have a class in my /lib/ directory called tracker.rb It''s function is to receive an array of URLs and then perform 4 separate tasks on each URL Each of the 4 tasks gets it''s own thread. the class is called from my controller like: output = Tracker.go([array_of_urls]) Sometimes, when it hits an exception, instead of just dieing gracefully, my logs repeatedly display: A

Is anyone else having trouble accessing it with something besides IE on a Windows box? Opera on Mac/FreeBSD/Linux just hangs at the login page, IE on Mac and Netscape on Solaris & Linux explode when loading login_page.php.

Hi, I just put together a little mixin to provide pseudo-RESTful services in camping apps. Basically, it looks for a hidden _verb field in form posts, and sets the @method to the supplied value (e.g. put or delete - which browsers don''t support). This lets you define put and delete methods in your controllers. Groovy. Code: http://pastie.caboo.se/22613 Is there any permanent repo of

It seems to me that Validations are quite useful for many objects, even ones having nothing to do with ActiveRecord. Common examples are Contact Us forms, multi-step forms, web service paramater validations, etc. I took a look at the source for Validations, and it seems that it is very independent from ActiveRecord. I caught only three depenedencies: 1. validates_numericy --> depends on