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I read in the instructions of Tracks that "upgrading via the rake migrate command is quite a bit more tricky currently with SQLite and SQLite3". Is there any gotcha regarding migrations and SQLite3? -- fxn

Let''s imagine we are modelling a company that have several shops. I have a Worker model and a Shop model. A worker belongs_to a shop, and each shop has_many workers. But, in a shop there''s a distinguished worker that is the supervisor create table shops ( ... worker_id integer -- the supervisor ); How would you express this relationship?

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

I have just some vague and thus probably wrong ideas about when to use model() in controllers, and by now I err on being redundant. I don''t post them here to avoid leaving anything that may be false in the archives. Can anyone explain exactly in which cases one should use model()? -- fxn

I am pondering the possibility of encrypting/decrypting some fields in a SQLite backend on-the-fly. The point of the message is not security, I know that''s broken, but whether there''s a technique that provides on-the-fly save/read filters. Of course the solution would need to work transparently in joins, so user.posts.last.title would do the right thing if title

I am using mongrel_cluster with mod_proxy_balancer and would like to enable compression (assuming it improves throughtput) and limit file size upload. I configured mod_deflate and LimitRequestSize in Apache, but in my trials looks like the proxied calls bypass those directives (the conf goes below). Is there a way to get this? -- fxn # Adapt this .example locally, as usual. # # To be

What''s the standard way to prevent race conditions in controllers? Say user has many posts. Post controller has action add_post that receives user id, post controller find()s the user and while he is creating the post entry an administrator deletes that user in a separate session. We cannot assume the database checks foreign key integrity. How do you get that right? -- fxn

I would like to embed my login form on my app''s home page. What''s the best way to render the login action of member controller from another action? Thanks Frank --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I want to load about 14000 words (a subset of /usr/share/dict/words) into a MySQL table in a migration: class CreateWords < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :words, :force => true do |t| t.column :word, :string end say_with_time ''loading words...'' do words = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ''db'',

I have an application that worked fine, but after the recent updates has broken in some calls to render_component from views. I might be missing something but as far as I remember Rails updates is the only thing I''ve done in between. See the log: *** START LOG SNIPPET Start rendering component ({:params=> {:center_id=>10, :id=>25},

Given the following class Programmer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :assignments has_many :projects, :through => :assignments end if I call Programmer#projects.clear, it will delete_all the joining assignments; however, I have a situation where I''d like the assignments to get destroyed instead so that their after_destroy callbacks get called. It would be simple to

I have an application with 15 migrations under version control. In a Mac and and in a Windows, a rake migrate from scratch runs them all just fine. But in a different Windows machine rake migrate stops after migration 3 for no apparent reason. --trace seems normal. No error is reported. Both Windows are XP SP2. They all have the same svn revision and Rails-related software, database is

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There is a solution to use helpers from controllers ? I have an error : |undefined method `content_tag''| class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def test return content_tag("a","test") end end

friends of the int-arweb. what does this mean: (in bold) ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Contact#create SQLite3::SQLException: SQL logic error or missing database: INSERT INTO contacts Context: this happened after I had finished setting up RoR as per the tutorial at http://maczealots.com/tutorials/ruby-on-rails/ the database, is like, there. is there a nice ruby command like deal to

By trial and error I seem to arrive to the conclusion that 1. Validation recurses through has_many by default and a root save! call raises an excepcion if some child no matter how nested is fails validation 2. Validation does not recurse through has_one by default and you can change this with validates_associated, in which case exceptions behave like above

According to the documentation<http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector.html#method-i-humanize> of ActiveSupport::Inflector: *humanize*(lower_case_and_underscored_word) Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a trailing “_id”, if any. * Example: humanize("employee_salary") # => "Employee salary"* I would

In Depot, the demo application in the the Agile book, actions that modify the model such as add_to_cart redirect to another action that has a clear view role, like index, or show_cart, instead of generating the view themselves. This uses an HTTP redirect that goes to the client and returns. Is this an idiomatic way to design the flow in Rails? -- fxn

There is a dedicated section about eager loading in the docs. A coworker discovered eager loading does not work in polymorphic associations the hard way :-) so I''ve written a patch that documents it: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10610 There are at least a couple of tickets that implement something that would change that though: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9640

My application uses only UTF-8. Which is the canonical place to do something global like setting $KCODE? -- fxn