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I want to make a for loop that concats strings onto a variable: html .= var1 + "this is a test" + whatever What is the syntax that does this in ruby/rails? Also, is there a ''print'' method in ruby? Because when I try to use render_text it will only let me use this once. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have a self-referential has_many :through relationship setup to track relationships between users. Basically relationships are modeled as a join table with an extra column ''relation''. create table relationships ( user_id integer unsigned not null, friend_id integer unsigned not null, relation char(1) not null, ) --- relations --- f = friend r = request to

I want to be able to have different layouts in my rails program for different functions. For example, when a person first comes to the site the layout will have a link that says ''home'', ''login'', or register on the menu bar. Once the user logs in however, the layout will change. I want it to show the links ''account manager'',

I''m trying to use has_many :through, since my join model deserves being more than just an intersection table. But when I try to break the association, the break only seems "temporary": Let''s say my two tables are Users and Colors, and the join model is Favorites. user = Users.find(1) user.colors.length >> 2 c = user.colors.first >> #<Color:....>

If I have belongs_to :user Do I need to have validates_presence_of :user_id ? Does Rails validate the presence of :user_id automatically if I have belongs_to :user? In other words, does Rails prevent against creating orphan records that belong to non-existent users? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have a question about displaying digits in Rails. whenever I print the price of an item, if the last digit is a zero or double zeros then it doesn''t display properly. How do I display a number so that it looks like currency? thank you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Class Role has_and_belongs_to_many :users Class User has_and_belongs_to_many :roles Class RolesUsers has_and_belongs_to_many :roles has_and_belongs_to_many :users According to the logs...I''m good through here @roles_users = RolesUsers.find(:all, :conditions => ["user_id = ?", params[:users_id]] ) the next section of controller code is a problem...

I need to use a method (called by one of my controllers) without using the layout. All the other methods in the controller need to use this layout except for thismethod (becausae it''s called by an Ajax script). I know how to use :layout=>layout_name when calling a method from another method, but nothing is calling this. The layout needs to be removed in the method itself or I need

Hi I have a has_many :through. It''s a basic mapping of Project id .... User id .... TeamMembers project_id user_id role What I would like to do is have different roles so I can have in the project model has_many :core_members, :through => :team_members, :source => :user but I would like to limit this to only those with the "core" role in the team members table for

Hello All, I have a little challenge and I am not sure if this is even possible I am working on a dating/event site and few functionalities are similar that I want to centralize them. We have users which can have - favorite users - interest list - blocked users All these relations are like; User <-> Relation <-> User I was thinking I could have a class called Relation (with a

I finally got around to upgrading from 0.8.2 (!!). I had a spec which looked like specify "should render abc123" do controller.should_render :text => "abc123" get :key end With 1.0.0, the new spec is it "should render abc123" do get :key response.should render_text("abc123") end However it doesn''t work, giving me the error: undefined

Hi, I''m starting to use GetText and have this code: render_text %(<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> parent.mainframe.onUpdateNew("Gallery <b>#{@media.name}</b> was successfully created.", "#{@media.name}","#{String(@media.id)}","#{@media.media_type}"); </script>) I need to convert

Hi there I need to store additional attributes on join table. Searching the Wiki [1] revealed two possible methods: 1) push_with_attributes, as described by Justin Palmer [2]. Unfortunately, "this method is now deprecated" [3]. Even if it wasn''t, there seem to be inherent problems with that approach, for example with updating those additional attributes, though Joshua Muheim

I''m really new to Ruby on Rails, and I''m trying to read an XML file with REXML. No matter what I try, I am only getting the last result returned from my query. I should be getting 365 results. Here is the code: include REXML require ''rexml/document'' require ''rexml/xpath'' class MakeFootprintController < ApplicationController def index

why does <%= render_text "hey ya" %> cause ''undefined method `render_text'' for #<#<Class:0x3851120>:0x3851000>'' can i use render text in a template? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am having a problem with doing a :through that goes back to the same table. The following are my two classes: >>>>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :spanks has_many :spanked, :through => :spanks, :source => :spanked_user has_many :was_spanked_by, :through => :spanks, :source => :user end class Spank < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :spanker,

I am using many-to-many using :through since I need to store additional information in the join table. I am doing this and it seems to work. I want to verify that this is the best way to do this. Tables foods - id, food foodallergies - food_id, symptom_id, a few other columns symptoms - id, symptom Models class Food < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :foodallergies has_many :symptoms,

I have a form under one controller/model called "billing" using the "bills" table. When this form completes I want it to change the "has_billing" field for the user under the "users" table from "0" to "1". I''ve almost got it. I put: user = User.new user.update_attribute("has_billing", "1") under the

I''ve got two tables set up - Things and Users where Users have many things and Things belongs to Users. They''re connected by Things.user_id => User.id and Things.updated_by_id => User.id both in the Things model using Belongs_to and custom foreign key for one of them. Problem is when I''ve got the updated_by_id belongs_to I can''t add Things using

I am running (testing) a noob-tube for myself as follows: Windows XP SP2 lighty ruby 1.8.x rails 1.1 scgi I have everything working fairly well, but with one minor exception: the actions that I have defined as follows are not found. class MytestController < ApplicationController def index render_text "Hello Nurse!" end def dilbert render_text "Dilbert