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In my database I have a products table that has a bunch of attributes (title, description, etc) including one for date_expires. Is there a best practices method to get the database to erase the expired items? Is that done outside RoR via Cron or something? Else is it better to just have my app filter out anything that is expired but still keep those records in my dbase? -- Posted via

I''m messing with the agiles store example. I added a field in my product table (user_id) that is also a foreign key relationship via fk_products_user In my scaffold I''d like to list the products as usual, but only those products from the logged in user. I assume that would be done in the controller.. How would I extend the basic controller: def list @product_pages,

How do I adapt this code to only list articles made by the user logged into the session? def list @article_pages, @article = paginate :articles, :per_page => 10 end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to do a simple search by product name. The first page returns fine, but when I try to go to any other pages of the search results, I lose the original search parameters from my search form and get NilClass errors. Here is the code in my controller: namesearch = "%" + params[:name].strip + "%" @product_pages, @products = paginate :product,

One of these days I''ll figure this out, but in the meantime help me be a better programmer by eliminating some excess code: I''m trying to check to see if somebody trying to view/edit/update a product is the owner. In my scaffold I have this code that works: def edit @owner = Product.find(params[:id].to_i) if @owner.user_id == @user.id @product =

I keep getting this error every time I try to pass a value to a method. Here is a sample nonworking method. I''ve been pulling my hair out over this all night! Why won''t it work!? My url path is :3000/store/browse/shoes and I''m getting this in the log Parameters: {"action"=>"browse", "id"=>"shoes",

I am a Rails newbie and I am trying to build a test site in which users will have their own sets of data. I understand how to manipulate shared data very well. Most of the Rails examples out there seem to deal with such shared data. I am struggling with the "best practice" method for a user to work with their own data however (and not be able to view/edit other users''

I have a template that is called by two different methods. I only want part of it too show up when it is called from one of the methods. It always shows up for me. Can someone help to point out my error? Below is the method that should keep part of the tempate from printing, and the relevent part of the template. method: def gallery @product_pages,@products = paginate(:products,

Hello, I have 2 tables table colors : +----------------------+ | id | user_id | name | +----------------------+ | 1 | 1 | test1 | | 2 | 2 | test2 | | 3 | 3 | test3 | +----------------------+ table users : +----------------------+ | id | enabled | name | +----------------------+ | 1 | 1 | bob | | 2 | 1

The automatically generated scaffolds made code like this: def list @address_pages, @addresses = paginate :addresses, :per_page => 10 end which was fine, but I only want to return the logged-in user''s addresses. So I changed it to: def list @address_pages, @addresses = paginate :addresses, :per_page => 10, :conditions => [''user_id = ?'',

Throughout my Message controller, I do this a lot: @message = Message.find(params[:id],:conditions => ["user_id = ?", @session[''user''].id]) Since you need to authenticate to use this app, is there a way i can tie the Accounts model in with the Message model so I dont have to pass in the user_id everytime? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

I have searched for days for an example that demonstrates what i would like to do, and this morning i thought i''d worked it out, but no....here''s what i have: Controller ========== class ProfilesController < ApplicationController def friends current_user.profile.friends end def list_friends @profile_pages, @profiles = paginate( friends, :per_page => 10) end end

Hi, I am trying paginate (will_paginate) users posts. It is counting and showing the page links correctly, but still showing all the posts on one page. @entries = @user.entries.paginate :per_page => 5, :page => params[:page], :order => ''created_at DESC'' If I change it to @entries = Entry.paginate :per_page => 5 ........ It is fine, but I would like to show only

because I am a grasshopper... Now that I can sort my ''list''...is there a logical way of not repeating myself to having essentially the same list view with multiple sorts? i.e. def list_cl # ordered by clients last name @placement_pages, @placements = paginate( :placements, :include => [:client], :order_by =>

Hi all, I''m creating admin module. in that module i need to get the list of users and also the projects created by the each user. No doubt i''m getting the list of users. but i''m not getting the list of projects done by each user.. This is my code:: <% for user in @users %> <%=link_to

There must be a better way to write this code: @project_pages, @projects= paginate :project, :per_page => 10, :conditions => ["account_id = ?", account] ?! If only I could pass the sub-collection account = ... @projects = account.project to paginate, instead of letting it extract it with a find :all + sql conditions Alain. -- Posted via

I am trying to paginate objects from a has_many/:through relationship using Paginator. current_user.things returns the objects that I''d like to paginate. For testing, I tried to make it 1 item per page. I initialise the paginator as follows: @thing_pages = Paginator.new(self, current_user.things.count, 1, @params[''page'']) I don''t know how to obtain

I''d like to always add a condition to any version of "find" (e.g. Thing.find(), Thing.find_by_name(), Thing.find_by_whatever) so that in addition to whatever conditions are set, an additional condition is set :conditions=>"user_id=#{current_user.id}" I''d like to make sure that a user only sees/edits/creates entries in the database that have the user_id

My problem: Mock ''Task_1005'' received unexpected message :user_id= with (1) No matter what I do to try to stub that out it will still fail out and give me that message. Here is my spec describe TasksController, "handling POST /tasks" do before(:each) do @task = mock_model(Task, :to_param => "1", :save => true)

I''m still a newb but having fun - Any help on this problem will be much appreciated. I have mymodel Call.rb class Call < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_many:visits, :dependent => :destroy has_many:visits do def latest find :all, :order => ''id DESC'', :limit => 3 end def all_latest find