similar to: Using helpers from controllers ?

Hello, I''m writting some helper methods to write forms, so I have this working code: class TableFormBuilder < ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder ["file_field", "password_field", "text_field"].each do |name| define_method(name) do |label, *args| @template.content_tag(:tr, @template.content_tag(:td, @template.content_tag(:label,

I am trying to teach my models how to render themselves, i.e. <%= my_model_object.render() %> Let me explain my reasoning and proposed method before this gets shot down as anti-MVC. Let''s say I am writing a contact-management application. I have a class Contact. I will need to display this class all over the application. My first choice is to use a partial. Now I can

A view display.rhtml sees no controller state variables set in the corresponding display action. Why? -- fxn

Hi, One of my apps has to export data for the backend system to process it. What''s the best way to create a CSV file in Rails and then return it as a file to the client? i.e when they go to the link /csv/get_data it would return a csv file. I''ve been messing with the CSV library and I can get it to write out to a file, but not sure how to best use this in a web app. Hope

Hi. in the Rails Agile book here''s what was happening: >>> module StoreHelper def hidden_div_if(condition, attributes = {}) if condition attributes["style" ] = "display: none" end attrs = tag_options(attributes.stringify_keys) "<div #{attrs}>" end # format_price method ... end Note that we cheated slightly here. We copied code from the Rails

This has been my little experiment for the last few weeks. I jumped straight into rails after a few tutorials and have been using "Agile Web Development with Rails" as a reference. I picked up the Ruby syntax from examples which was not hard to do as I know various other languages. I''ve started 3 database driven web apps and all was going really well. Rails is fun and

Hi, Is it possible to stub out a helper for development? I''ve got a (view) helper that renders a partial and runs all kind of javascript. But for dev purposes I''d like it to return some hardcoded html. I''m not having any success stubbing the helper out. Something like... test/mocks/development/helper_stub.rb require ''application_helper'' class

Hello Good morning to all, I am doing reports in ruby on rails,i am trying to export data throgh excel in CSV format.Now i want to set the font to the text exported to excel sheet.How can i set font..please help me regarding this ... my sample code was like this... report = StringIO.new CSV::Writer.generate(report, '','') do |csv| csv << [''Invoice History

Guys & gals, I''m also learning RoR (using v2.3.4). I''ve got a basic scaffold working for image file creation, and - to a point - image file display. The send_data function is working in my controller - no problem. The model code is able to parse the uploaded file construct too. def show @image = Image.find(params[:id]) send_data(@image.binary_data, :type =>

Sorry if this comes across as a bunch of disjointed thoughts...I''m just trying to put my thoughts down and I''d like to know what other people''s opinions on the subject are. I''ve been working with Rails for 3 or 4 months now and I''m constantly trying to look at ways of improving my testing techniques, especially when it comes to TDD. I have a few

I''m attempting to use the example given in the Rails Recipes book chapter 2, to create a select drop-down using the InPlaceEditor function (modified to be InPlaceSelectEditor. The example given works (a country list drop-down), but I''m attempting to use it to display a list of items generated from an object in another table that is linked to the table that I''m editing.

Hi, I''m trying to save multiple records of the same model in one go. Which is no problem at all. Problem starts when I want to introduce error handling. The problem is that no record should be saved when one of the records contains an error. I tried it as follows: session[:infos].each do |info| @quest.name = info["name"] unless @quest.valid? @errors_found = true

Hi. I am writing an application that has a lot of boolean conditional display logic, like this: <% if user.description then %> <p class="css_class"><%= user.description %></p> <% end %> Often the displayed content is more complex than the above, and to clean up my views I am trying to pull a lot of this sort of thing into partials. However, the problem

I''m trying to figure out a possible memory leak problem I have in my application. I''ve tested both with mongrel and webrick and the problem remains. So I think it''s not a mongrel problem, but I''m posting here to see if anybody can help me. The RAILS application is quite simple, no special plugins ( no RMagick that has the memory problem ),

Can someone tell if there is a reason models shouldn''t access the session? Models could easily be made to access the session or some other shared persistant data store such as a file or a table. _This is the problem_, a model needs to know certain information eg. the id of the current user. But the model has no idea about anything outside of its self, because it can''t access

hello, I have today updated my rails app to 3.0.4 security release but now this yield :javascripts fails in the layout and I get my custom js escaped as text in the view. anybody seeing this also? tia, jk -- www.least-significant-bit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to

I want to use helpers inside a controller method for an AJAX application. After the page is loaded and displayed, there will be an asynchronous javascript request to load additional resources such as html forms and other data. The controller which handles the request will collect the resources and send them back in json format. def get_resources data=Hash.new data[:form1]=form_helper1()

Hi all, What is the preferred location for my Business Logic? I have complex business rules that go across a specific data model. Are model classes primarily for record I/O and validations? Would business logic classes also reside in ./app/models? Or would these classes reside in the ./lib directory? (If not, what type of code goes in ./lib?) I am thinking about the differentiation of the

Hi! If I have a method that is useful in both models and in views, where would be the appropriate place to put it? The method in question just takes two dates as strings, tries to parse them and returns all dates in the range between them. It also takes care of the issues when the dates are badly formatted etc etc.. This method is being used in several models (so a simple class method in

I have found that if I initialize a flag in my controller (under def Initialize), it appears everytime I call a controller action, the flag is set to the initialize value (even though I''m not calling the initialized action). Am I observing this clearly? I don''t think I should initialize a flag in the index file. So where? Specifically, I want to know if this action is a