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I''m hoping there''s an easy way to do this.  I''m trying to read options from a database, and insert them into form tags.  So for example, In the Database Table: options size: 300 type: text_field maxsize: 300 and I want to create a text_field form tag, with all the appropriate options, is there an easy way to do this, other than having the code output the HTML

Hi! I need to set the primary key in a model and postgres table to something different than id. View Edit and such works in the scaffolded controller. However if I click in the controller below the list of data onto New then I get an error message like this: Showing app/views/admin/_form.rhtml where line #5 raised: undefined method `nr_before_type_cast'' for

I can''t figure out why I am getting a failure. It renders out fine in the browser. <h1>New member</h1> <%= error_messages_for :member %> <% form_for(:member, :url => members_path) do |f| %> <fieldset> <legend>Member Info</legend> <p><label for="member[first_name]">First Name:</label> <%=

Hi ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper methods (e.g. #text_field, #check_box...) take object_name as an argument. From this argument they infer a name that is supposed to contains the reference to the relevant object. I can''t see why the FormHelper methods were designed that way. Compared to simply passing them a reference, the current way seems too complicated and an invitation to problems

when the user click on "Search" I would like it to point to http://curentpage/?filter=searchtext (the filtering code is already written) it would look like this: <%= start_form_tag(url_for_options = {<something>}) %> <%=text_field (<my_filter>) %> <%= submit_tag(value = "Search")%> any idea how to do this? thanx in advance

This is probably something very simple but I can''t seem to figure out why I keep getting the ''wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)'' error with the following code when I try to create a new record. If anyone can see what is going wrong here please help! new.rhtml ------------------------------------------------- ... <%= start_form_tag :action =>

Hi, I have a question today regarding how the various form elements in _form.rhtml are named. I understand that for a database table "persons" with a column headed by "name", then in _form.rhtml it will probably be like: <p><label for="person_name">Name><br/> <%= text_field ''person'', ''name''

Well, I''ve researched the books and the web to no avail (I tried the search here too but kept getting page not found.I''m doing what the examples say to do but I cannot get this work. The form allows entry of characters beyond the maxsize which causes the app to abend giving me the browser page showing a trace with the following info preceding the trace: Mysql::Error:

Hi, Im trying to build a form using: <% facebook_form_for(:task, at task,:url => create_task_path) do |f| %> Assign Task To: <%= fb_friend_selector %> <%=f.text_field :ttype, :label=> "Title"%> <%=f.datetime_select :duedate, :label=> "Due Date"%> <%=f.buttons "Add" %> <% end %> But im getting an

Hi, I recieve error "undefined method `stories_path'' for #<ActionView::Base:0x995b4ac>" when going to the view via site.com/stories/new The model is setup correctly, I can retrieve data from the db fine. I think it might be related to the helper but I have no idea where to start. It seems to think its failing on the first line of the view, i belive on the

Hi, In a few words, can someone explain to me the NoMethodError. Googling for answers will get you to something but a direct answer from experts will give you something. NoMethodError in Book#new Showing app/views/book/new.html.erb where line #4 raised: undefined method `title'' for #<Book id: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> Extracted source (around line #4): 1:

I am using a serialized attribute in one of my models The serialized data is in the form of an array. I want to have a text_tag for each element contained in my serialized attribute. How would I construct the text_tag? My model name is ''questions''. The serialized attribute is "answers" So I might have: <% form tag %> <% text_tag ''question'',

I''m following the depot application in the rails bible Agile Web Development with Rails. In interation E1 NoMethodError in Admin#checkout Showing app/views/admin/checkout.rhtml where line #12 raised: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.include? Extracted source (around line #12):

I''m rendering partial a form comprising several text_field helpers to maintain my User model. For example, the email field is: <p><label for="user_email">Email</label><br/> <%= text_field ''user'', ''email'', :size => ''40'', :maxsize => ''256'' %></p> In my controller,

After much ado about the naming of model adn controllers... model : Expense controller : Expenses route : map.resources :expenses Here I am using mysql database and created a unique index, since db:migrated created an id object and made it as primary key. Now in the def create @expense = Expense.new(params[:expense]) if @expense.save flash[:viola] = ''New expense saved.. be

I have AMOUNT field that ActiveRecord maps to Float. Then I use text_field helper to generate text inputs on forms. Helper takes model object and attribute name and does not provide any formatting abilities, thus 2.40 is shown as 2.4 which is fine with floats but does not look good with currency. I have worked around this issue by adding amount_f attribute to the model that returns formatted

Can someone explain why form helpers appear to bypass any model methods I override for fields that are bound to database fields? It would be great if someone could tell me how to force the form field, etc to call the method instead of looking at the database / attributes collection. Let''s say I have a column called ''price'' in my database table "books"

I''m using the fields_for helper with accepts_nested_attributes_for The System model has_many children. If I do this in my haml template: -form_for @system do |s| =s.text_field :name -s.fields_for :children do |child_fields| =child_fields.text_field :name all is fine. The fields_for iterates over all children and puts the correct data in the fields. But...what I

I want to override the ''tag'' method in ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper to do some generalized error handling similar to the way scaffolding puts a red border around fields that fail validation. I''ve created a file lib/rails_patches/tag_helper.rb which contains the following. module ActionView module Helpers module TagHelper alias_method :orig_tag, :tag

I want to change parts of this form in order to use default values (with a disabled input). The problem is if I change it from text_field to text_field_tag that part of the form stops functioning. It seems like a silly question, but its been driving me crazy. Any help would help. Steve. <%= error_messages_for ''post'' %> <!--[form:post]--> <p><label