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I am trying to do a similar thing for some spares that I am trying to manage... My spare.rb file is as under class Spare < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :class_name => ''department'', :foreign_key => ''department_id'' belongs_to :subequipment, class_name => ''subequipment'', :foreign_key =>

At present, I use an update like this to set the user''s last login time: authenticated_user.update_attribute(:last_login, Time.now) However, this calls the following, updating all fields: UPDATE users SET `last_login` = ''2006-05-02 13:27:41'', `hashed_password` = .... Is there any way I can tell ActionRecord to only update the one field? I don''t really want

Hello, I am relativley new to Ruby on Rails and am still in the process of enjoying the features it offers. I wanted to know if theres workflow support in rails. Can some one give me pointers if its possible. Thanks Naveen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060305/43c9abc3/attachment.html

Forgive my ignorance ya''ll. I''m trying to extract a username from a table using the user id. I''ve tried: @authenticated_user = User.find(:first, :select => "login", :conditions => "id = ''1''") AND: @authenticated_user = User.find_by_sql("select login from users where id=''1''") within an action that

Hi, i used the rick olson''s restful_authentication plugin rails 1.2.6 i wanted to check for authenticated user so i wrote this in my application.rb # Filters before_filter :authenticate # Sets @authenticated_user if the user provides valid # credentials. May be used to deny access or customise the view def authenticate @authenticated_user = nil

I have a database with a couple of tables. One table called spares has foreign keys in another called equipment. When I create a new record, it is added to the spares table however the list action does not show all the columns in the table. It only shows those columns that are not foreign keys. I am using the default action generated by scaffold for list. Why is that so? Do i need to re-write my

Hi, I''m trying to get the UserEngine running. I have installed the LoginEngine, added the essential lines to environment.rb / application.rb and application_helper.rb. Worked fine. Then I did the same with the UserEngine and when trying to set up the db: rake engine_migrate ENGINE=user I get: Migrating engine ''user_engine'' rake aborted! stack level too deep But...

My application needs to know if a user is an administrator, for security and aesthetic reasons. At the moment, I store true/false in the session by doing the following at login: session[:user_is_admin] = authenticated_user.is_admin? Is this OK to do? Or should I really be doing the following every time: User.find(session[:user_id]).is_admin? (user_id is always in the session too) Is there

I have an array @dpt_ids ex : @dpt_ids = ["43", "48", "49", "50", "51"] I try to insert it into my sql query to be used in a ''find_by_sql'' query = "SELECT * , #{kms} AS km FROM cities" query << " WHERE department_id IN ( #{dpt_ids} ) " but this transform my array into a unique string :

Any ideas what would cause the following exception (using the login engine): -------------------------------------- Full executation backtrace: -------------------------------------- [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1697:in `execute_callstack_for_multiparameter_attributes'' [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1677:in

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

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

My authentication (signup/login) is up and running in my app, now I need to implement an authorisation system. Its not going to be a complex one. One admin (me) and then normal members and premium members. Any tutorials or tips on a simple way to get this running? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Okay, I download login generator and I used it on my new app but, it''s not working correctly. If the user logins on the same session as he created he will login if it isn''t the same session it fails. What''s going on? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i''ve figured out how to use the next and previous links with the paginator class but now i''m trying to figure out how to display all the page numbers in between. looking through the rails api, i found paginator.each() but i''m not sure how to use it, or if that''s even what i am looking for. also, is there a way to limit the amount of pages like some sites

Hi to this Group! I am new to Ruby! I am facing problrm s to find the database functions. I want the source of sites for predifiend functions for handling the database. I develpong the shoping cart application, In that i am facing problems to delete the perticuller item form cart . I got idea to delete the total cart information using sesiions I want to delete the perticuller item form

The conf.d files are not included. I have added !include conf.d/*.conf to director.conf and reloaded the dovecot and director services. conf.d/10-logging also has the following lines: log_path = /dovecot.log info_log_path = $log_path debug_log_path = $log_path The /dovecot.log file still shows empty. Nothing is being logged to that file. Thanks & Regards, Naveen On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at

Hi everyone, I have a Department model that has_many people. How do I go about finding all departments with more than 0 people? Department.find(:all, :conditions => Department.people.size > 0) That, of course, doesn''t work, but it was as close as I could come. Thanks! Sean

Hi everybody, I am new to rails. I get the following error when run the rake engine:migrate for the engine login_engine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbalaji:~/projects/test/vendor/plugins/login_engine gopalbalaji$ rake engine_migrate ENGINE=log --trace (in /Users/gopalbalaji/Projects/test) ** Invoke engine_migrate (first_time) ** Invoke

Hi, We have some 100 Servers (includes both Intel and PPC based systems). Is there any way to easly install OS (different flavours of Linux) on these systems ? We do not have control over the DHCP Server settings so is there any way to do this with out touching the DHCP Server ? We have static IPs for all the systems. Regards, Naveen