similar to: DRY validation

I have a phone field in my table. But in my form i have two text boxes to get the phone number and the country code like below Enter country code ----- Enter phone code ------ In my table i have to save the phone code field after joining the above values with "-" symbol. Example => 0225-25874255 I dont have table field for country_code . So i created like below attr_accessor

Hi, I was wondering if someone wouldn''t mind looking at ticket 6953 and committing it if everything looks ok: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6953 This patch properly handles setting the Allow header and the proper status code when an HTTP method is used that a resource doesn''t support or understand. -- Thanks, Dan

THE SCHEMA IN THE MODEL a small write up on ''putting the schema in the model'' This is a write up on an issue best covered in a mailing list thread of Januari 2006 (see the links in the text), I repost it because I think it deserves a place on the agenda. == Why? == I was switching back and forward between the model files and the schema.rb -- off course I have

How does validate work? Is the file uploaded before the format is checked? I tried uploading a pdf and it crashed the WEBrick. Out putting this over and over: **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. But BookmanOldStyle is not embedded. Surely the file should have been rejected before it is even uploaded? Model: class Image < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user

Hi Everyone, Another note that there''s a pre-release available for non-win32 platforms that I''d like people to test out. As usual you can install it with: gem install daemons (if you don''t have this) gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ This release adds some fantastic file management gear from why the lucky stiff and Dan Kubb.

Hello Mongrel Fans, After about a Month of busy work, bad computers, moving half my house across the country, and other dramas, I''m finally pushing out the next release of Mongrel. This pre-release has lots of little goodies and the start of some documentation that should get everyone primed for the big "Mongrel 0.4 Enterprisey Edition 1.2" coming real soon now. INSTALLING

Hi Does anyone here know a way who I could remove the validation for a model''s property? For example, I would like to have in one file: class A < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness :title end And in another file I want to override or rather remove the validation: class A < ActiveRecord::Base # somehow stop validating :title for uniqueness end The

Hi Folks, As you can tell we''re getting closer to the 0.3.13 release being official. There''s a new pre-release available for non-win32 users: gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ Which has the following fixes and enhancements: * Rewritten internal HTTP processing to protect against trickle attacks. This means that a client can send one byte

Hi folks, I just put a pre-release of Mongrel up for people to try. You can install it with: gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ And try out your application and confirm the stuff works. USE RFUZZ AND RUBY If you find a bug, I''d appreciate it if you can go grab RFuzz (or use net/http) and work up a little bit of Ruby that demonstrates the bug. If

I have an ActiveRecord subclass that needs to generate a random (hard to guess) token for each record in its corresponding table. Currently I''m doing something like this: def before_create self[''token''] = random_value while self.class.find_by_token(self[''token'']) self[''token''] = random_value

Hi, I just wrote an article on how to easily create a REST API for Ruby on Rails applications: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html It describes how to create everything from the ground up and includes information on testing your API too. -- Thanks, Dan Kubb

My model is very simple, it''s mostly just a join table that represents which tournaments a user has registered for. class Registration < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user belongs_to :tournament validates_presence_of :user_id, :tournament_id validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, :scope => :tournament_id end the validates_uniqueness checks to make sure there''s no

Very often, I''d like to know if an object is .valid? inherently - that is, if it meets all the validations that are run on it by itself, but I don''t care if one of the fields is not unique. What''s the best way to determine this - that is, to run all the validations except the validates_uniquness ones? (A common use case is when importing data - it''s