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I''ve gone once through the Agile book and am now attempting my own rails app. I''ve created a table named ''volunteers'' with over 15 columns. The problem is the default list.rhtml that is created with the scaffold, shows all the columns. I only want to show 4 of them with the list view. Where would I start to only return a handfull of columns to the

My code executes fully: <% for column in ModelName.content_columns %> <th><%= column.human_name %></th> <% end %> but it does not pick up any columns in my model''s table that end in "_id". Is this by design? Is there a helper method that will reference the related tables? Or will I need to code the column titles and detail records by

I''m studying the Agile Development with Rails book. In the chapter that first sets up the depot application (page 68), there is this bit of code from a view: <% for product in @products %> <tr> <% for column in Product.content_columns %> <td><%=h product.send(column.name) %></td> <% end %> etc... I am trying to absorb both Ruby and

Hi guru''s out there, Im happilly coding my first rails app, and all goes well. I find myself manually coding in a particular field all the time (company_id), that relates the contact to a company. The total coding of this form seems somewhat much. Could somebody tell me what Rails power I''m possibly missing and stuborn as I am trying to do myself? I was wondering if the

Hi, I''m a newcomer to Ruby and to Rails, and am having a problem with character encoding. Now, I know ruby doesn''t handle unicode...but, characters like ? (eacute) and ? (ccedil) are part of the iso-8859-1 charset, so it shouldn''t be a problem, right? But, for some reason, the string functions still seem to hang on those characters. As an example, in a brand new rails

In a standard scaffold generator, the list.rhtml looks something like this ... <% for column in Book.content_columns %> <th><%= column.human_name %></th> <% end %> How can I modify this code so for each table column add my own name not the "human_name" generated code? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i''ve got a cool app going and it''s getting bigger and bigger, but now i''m trying to customize the show function. i''m using the scaffold code as a base but can''t seem to get anything to look right. i guess i''m confused about how exactly the scaffold code works for the "show" function. any help would be awesome! thanks. jon --

I''m trying to implement a show/hide details function. I have the show part done, but I''m not sure how to get it to hide. My app looks like this so far: View: <%= link_to_remote "Show/Hide", :update => "details", :url => { :action => "show", :id => leif } %> <p id="details"></p> Action: def show @leif =

Hi all! Playing around with in_place_editor_field, I found that when you set a field to be empty, you can''t edit it at all anymore after that. Am I doing something wrong or is this the way it is intended to be? If so, is there any way around that behaviour? Is it just styling? Best regards, Raphael -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi On every list request i render an item partial through a collection of items. the item table has 3 columns namely name,anotherName and id. the item partial looks like <%@item=item%> <%= error_messages_for(:item) %> <tr id="<%=item.id%>"> <% for column in Item.content_columns %> <td><%=h item.send(column.name) %></td> <%

I have two tables CREATE TABLE continents ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; CREATE TABLE countries ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(255) NOT NULL, continent_id int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; I generate scaffolds for country and for

I''m new to Rails and am trying to use a field called "code" instead of "id" in my URLs. For example, assuming I''ve got a database of motorcycles makes where the codes are "Honda", "Yamaha", "Suzuki", and "Kawasaki", etc. To show the info about Honda I want to use this url: http://www.mysite.com/makes/honda/

Hi, I''ve just been pleasantly surprised, again, by how much Rails does for me, but I am *really* surprised. Surprised as in "how the heck did that happen?" I''d really like to understand this and would appreciate any help. Big picture... the user is presented with a form that allows them to select one or more check boxes to record their allergies. The form uses the

I have this in a view: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create_price'', :id => @media.id %> <%= select("media", "price_code_id", PriceCode.find_all.collect {|pc| [pc.name, pc.id ] }, { :include_blank => false }) %> <%= submit_tag ''Add Price Code'' %> <%= end_form_tag %> My question is, how would I access the

Is Ferret the standard rails search engine? I''m looking to search the file system and MySQL. TextSearch is working fine for MySQL. http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TextSearch Is Ferret the solution that most people are using for documents in the file system? Thanks. Greg -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve got the following sortable list in one of my views: <ul id="sortable_list" class="sortable_list"> <%= render(:partial => ''section'', :collection => @sections) %> </ul> <div class="new_section" id="new_section"> <%= form_remote_tag(:url => {:action =>

First post/newbie post... bear with me. What I''m trying to achive (music site): A system containing tracks and moods with a HABTM relationship. I''ve got all that set up and functioning in the admin environment - i.e. admins can apply a variety of moods to a particular track via a series of checkboxes. Join table works just fine. I''m currently stuck on allowing

I''m having a problem getting this example from the book to work: class Cookbook attr_accessor :title, :author def initialize @recipes = [] end def method_missing(m, *args, &block) @recipes.send(m, *args, &block) end end cb = Cookbook.new cb << recipe_for_cake cb << recipe_for_chicken beef_dishes = cb.find_all {|recipes| recipe.main_ingredient ==

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to maintain database reflection for the ''new'' and ''edit'' views whilst removing scaffolding? I''m trying to create a webapp that will be somewhat maintainable by colleagues (that aren''t necessarily web developers) through simple manipulation of db table fields. For example to add another field to the

Hallo -- I''ve just installed the latest stable version of rails, and am following the rails recipies book''s first recipie -- using in_place_editor_field. My problem is that the code throws no error, but the resulting fields are not editable -- the values just come up as text, rather than clickable-then-editable fields. Can anyone help shed any light on why this might be the