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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 I''m having a problem with a little code here, hopefully it''s easy to see what''s happening: <% @lectures.each do |lecture| %> <%= lecture.location%><br /> <%= text_field ''lecture'', ''location'' %> <% end %> The output I get is the text of the ''location'' rendering

I have in my view the following: <% 0.upto(@num_performances) do |idx| -%> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''city'', :index => idx, %> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''venue'', :index => idx, %> <% end -%> and in my controller I have: @performance = [Performance.new("city" =>

Hello, I have a problem with the paperclip, I put on my GemFile gem "paperclip", "~> 2.6.0" I create a migrate class FileUpload < ActiveRecord::Migration def up change_table :projects do |t| t.has_attached_file :image end end def down drop_attached_file :projects, :image end end on my model I put class Project < ActiveRecord::Base

Restricting size of an uploaded file, is how is that possible? If I do not want a user to upload a file larger than X bytes, can it easily be done? If I also would like restrict the types of files that can be uploaded, how may I do so? Thank you, Sharkie

All, Thanks for any help in advance. I have what I think is a very straightforward partial template and I can''t figure out why a text_field call within it doesn''t work. Here is my calling template: lists.rhtml <div id="target_lists"> <%= render(:partial => "target_lists", :collection => @target_lists) %> </div> In the partial

Hi! I''ve got list of project on the main page and some content. If user clicks on one of the project i use ajax to update div with content with project data. I''m displaying only one project at a time. In index action i just collect all projects: @projects = Project.find(:all, :order => "date DESC") In show action i render project partial: render :partial =>

I''m playing around with Markaby and I decided to write a little blog app. I''m running into issues with forms however. If I use form_for the output of the form gets swallowed. For example: form_for :article, @article do |f| f.text_field :title f.check_box :published f.text_area :description f.text_field :pub_date f.text_area :content end gets rendered as an empty form

hello, i would like to display a collection of records on one page (e.g. an author record with all his/her books). a record contains a text_area (e.g. a description of the book) and a date_select (e.g. when the book was published). <% for @book in @author.books %> <%= text_area ''book[]'', ''note'' %> <%= datetime_select

Hi! I''ve got a list of project on the main page and if one of them is selected i render a partial using ajax with data of selected project. How to create links to next/previous project using pagination? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

There must be a better way to write this code: @project_pages, @projects= paginate :project, :per_page => 10, :conditions => ["account_id = ?", account] ?! If only I could pass the sub-collection account = ... @projects = account.project to paginate, instead of letting it extract it with a find :all + sql conditions Alain. -- Posted via

Hi, being relativly new to RoR, I''m having a problem which I found described in this forum and somewhere else - but with no solution. I know, that it may be bad to mix table and form tags, but the first solution of an in place editing within a table looked nice: Version using form_for: <tr> <%form_for :time_record, :url => { :action => "add_time_record" } do

I have following tables with following models: users(id, role_id) *has_many :entries* categories(id, category_name) *has_many :entries* entries(id, category_id, user_id) *belongs_to :user, belongs_to :category, has_one :storage* storages(id, title, content, entry_id)* belongs_to :entry*, *has_one :vote* votes(id, count, storage_id) *belongs_to :storage* Now,

I''m working with a similar model in Episode 73, (my scenario is editing multiple pictures for a product using attachment_fu). And I''m getting an error when I try the technique suggested: ./views/admin/_form.rhtml <% for picture in product.pictures %> <% fields_for "product[picture_attributes][]", picture do | picture_form| %> Title: <%=

How to make that the typed code on ruby in text_area it was carried out in @params ["name"]?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I have a question about this method in my User model: # Returns true for the (saved) user called "admin" def is_the_administrator true if save and name == "admin" end The method returns true if the user''s name is admin. However, I only want to return true if the state of the object is "saved", so I call the save method first. I''m

Hi all, I would like to write some custom helpers like the ones available as form helpers text_field, text_area and the like. My first try was this: custom_helper(obj, meth) ''some_string'' + obj.send(meth) + ''some_other_string'' end Object and method are being passed as symbols like this: custom_helper(:person, :name) and Ruby rightfully complains that

Hey all, Using date_select in a form, how can I make the Year field a text_field instead of a select? It looks like it will take more than a simple modification of the date_select method. Thanks in advance. Cam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Over the past few months, I''ve developed an administrative console for databases in the process of solving other problems. At the moment, the state of development is: * Going to /admin_panel/model will bring you to a list of items in the model: * Supports acts_as_list via drag/drop sorting * Supports "activated" via an activated/deactivated button * Supports basic

hi, overhere users go nuts if they have to enter the date in iso format, so i have to make my applications in such a way that not only dates are displayed in the "dd-mm-yyy" format but also can be entered in that way. somewhere i found this code to put in the environment script: ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.update( :default => ''%d/%m/%Y