similar to: order.products << product w/out persisting

In my model, I am attempting to correct some bad data rather than just pass an error message back to the user. The problem is that my fix seems to get the data past validation but it then puts the bad data into the database rather than the new(and improved) data. If I pass in web_site with the value of ''www.test.com'', it will pass validation but it won''t add

Hey all, I''ve been battling with ruby configurations for days now...trying to get either SCGI or FCGI to work on my Apache 1.3/Linux Red Hat 3 server. I''ve pretty much gave up that battle since either of them will work with me after trying dozens of configurations, but now even when I try to run apps with dispatch.cgi I get this error in my log: "Premature end of

i guess its better form to keep form tags outside of table tags anyways, but it took a lot of trial and error to figure out thats why @params were no longer showing up after switching form_tag to form_remote_tag. not sure if this is a prototype ''bug'' or ''feature'' or what. but my next step was to switch to a seperate form tag for each row to reduce needless

I am using a serialized attribute in one of my models The serialized data is in the form of an array. I want to have a text_tag for each element contained in my serialized attribute. How would I construct the text_tag? My model name is ''questions''. The serialized attribute is "answers" So I might have: <% form tag %> <% text_tag ''question'',

Hi folks, I have following in my view : =================== <div class="foo"> <%= select ''theme'', "id", Theme.find_all.collect {|t| [ t.name, t.id ] }, { :prompt => ''Select a theme'' } %> </div> <%= observe_field( :theme_id, :update => :my_style, :url => { :action => :themelookup, :id => @space,},

Dears, [Rails 1.0.0] I''m working with a legacy schema, and around my 20+ models i''ve used some AR constructs. They are based on a finder_sql doing some dirty sql and using #{id} from the ''pivot'' model for extracting data in other tables. like : class Division < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "legacy_division" set_primary_key

I really need your help guys... I spent 6 hours on this simple update command today that should work. It works fine in my other controller, but doesn''t work in this one for some reason. Here is my controller code for the list view, and then the update command: ====== def edit @user = User.find(params[:id]) end def update @user = User.find(params[:id]) if

Hi everyone, Newbie here. I''m trying to get a textual form element to submit in the context of a form_remote_tag block and having little success. Oddly (or perhaps not), using regular old form_tag in its place does cause the elements to be submitted. Here''s the relevant partial ERb code: <%= form_remote_tag( { :url => { :action => :out, :id => pending_task } } )

Hello, I am having some difficulties with ActiveRecord. What I want to do is to get a collection of SubjectGroups for using with option_groups_from_collection_for_select My Code: ======================================== class Subject < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :users belongs_to :subject_group end class SubjectGroup < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :subjects end

Hi, I''ve got a live_search field in a partial that is on several different pages. On all pages, except 1, it works fine. On the page it doesn''t work on, it seems it never executes it action. Here''s my observe_field code inside the partial: <h1><label for="searchtext">Live Search:</label></h1> <%= text_field_tag :searchtext

Hello ! I''m trying to implement something similar to the "multiple updates" section of the Web2.0 chapter of the Agile book. I implemented my version, and nothing is happening. No javascript errors, my logs look fine, page is rendered fine... just no Effect.Highlight. Here is the code: views/causes/cause_home/index.rhtml =============== <%= form_remote_tag(:complete =>

sorry for the noob question: how do i reference an association''s properties in a form helper? e.g. if i wanted to build a select list to choose a user''s address''s state (user.address.state), how would i hook that to the "method" of collection_select collection_select :user, ???, States.find(:all)

when the user click on "Search" I would like it to point to http://curentpage/?filter=searchtext (the filtering code is already written) it would look like this: <%= start_form_tag(url_for_options = {<something>}) %> <%=text_field (<my_filter>) %> <%= submit_tag(value = "Search")%> any idea how to do this? thanx in advance

How do I validate that a model object''s attribute is a valid foreign key? The problem is, I can''t check if the attribute is a valid foreign key if the attribute doesn''t even exist. For example, every employee must be in a department. In the following code, if an employee''s department_id is not present then Department.find_by_id(department_id) might cause

Is there a trick to validating select menus? I have this rule: validates_presence_of :title, :type :title is a text box and validates correctly but :type doesn''t: <p> <label for="resource_type">Type</label><br/> <select name="resource[type]" id="resource_type"> <option value=""

I have a model with a belongs_to association. The first model is called Thing and the associated model is User. I''m attempting to assign the user to the thing. To accomplish this I used a before_save method, like this: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :created_by, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "created_by_user_id" def before_create

Is there a way to update attributes in a HABTM join table? Right now I am deleting the join and then recreating it with new attributes. I have a table "categories" and another table "items". They are both HABTM with the join table "categories_items" between them. If an item is joined to a category once, no problem, we create the join. But if an item is

Does anyone know how to do the following? I have 3 different AR classes that all map to the same table. The only difference between this AR classes is that they should only return record that match a certain condition. For example, Foo should only return records from table ''list'' that follow the condition ftype="foo", where as Bar, on the other hand, should only

Hi, I have a link that says: <%= link_to_remote("Data", :update => ''pie_graph_div'', :url => { :action => :show_pie_graph, :mode => ''nums'' }) %> which calls *show_pie_graph*: Controller: def show_pie_graph render :layout => false @mode = params[:mode] end View: <img src="/surveys/make_pie_graph/<%=@mode%>"

I''m trying to use the form_remote_tag for the first time.. Here is my code: <%= form_remote_tag(:url => { :action => ''add'' } ) %> <td size=''100''><%= text_field_tag ''name'' %></td> <td size=''200''><%= text_field_tag ''email'' %></td> <td