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In one of my migration files I have the following: =========== def self.up User.create :name => ''John Kopanas'', :email => ''john@kopanas.com'', :password => ''test'' end =========== When I run it I get the following error: =========== undefined method `create'' for

Are there any best practices for implementing a back/cancel/return button... even when the page you want to return people too is 2 pages back (when people submit form and then want to return)? Thanks :-) Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering

Been a while since I programmed in Ruby and Rails and some of the basic concepts I just loose so quickly. This one I can''t find any examples of. I want to pass two pieces of information in my URL. The :id plus I want to pass my user_id. How do I pass it using the link_to? Stupid question I know... but I can''t find the answer. John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

I am trying to use acts_as_versioned and acts_as_taggable (plugin) on the exact same model. Has anyone successfuly done this? I think what I need to do is make model_versions acts_as_taggable instead of my main model. Anyone have any other suggestions or any suggestions how to do this? Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

Hi there, I just bought the Rails Recipes and PDF preview of the book. So far it''s excellent. I decided to try Chapter 8 of the book regarding tagging. I''ve done migrations before, and I feel comfortable with them, however this error stumps me. -------------------------------------------------- antrover:~/RubyProjects/rlog dhoefler$ ruby script/generate migration

If I wanted to override the error_messages_for method where within the rails structure would I put it? Which file? Thanks :-) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

Does ruby 1.8.2 of ruby work with edge rails or do I need to upgrade? John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string

Does it make sense that if I type cap show_tasks it works but when I type rake show_tasks I get: rake aborted! Don''t know how to build task ''show_tasks'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1287:in `[]'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:300:in `[]''

Just wondering if any one has been able to come up with a solution to access Hotmail / Gmail / Yahoo address books via their ROR app? Thanks for any tips/guidance you can provide. Frank --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it''s free and works with Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

I created a method to do additional validation on my model. How can I have that run whenever a model is being saved? (For now I don''t want to extend AR.) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info -

I want to create a random string of length n that is made up of characters and integers. Is there a function in rails or ruby that allows me to do this? Thank you my friend :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net

Looking for a quality alternative... if there is one :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

When I create a task within capistrano.rb I can call it using rake. When I create a task and put it in deploy.rb I can call it. Neither with or without the remote: namespace. Anyone have any insight into why it does not work? John Kopanas

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

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

Man, I can''t wait to get my hands on the capistrano book when it comes out :-). I have the following task in capistrano.rake (any task in deploy.rb just does not want to be called) ========= desc "Restarts the lighttpd server" task :restart_server do run "/users/home/jkopanas/bin/lighttpdctrl restart" end ========= When I run rake restart_server I get the

Earlier I forgot to add updated_at and created_at columns for my HABTM relationship so I created a migration to add them. In the migration I also want to go back and set the value of the created_at and updated_at columns for the previous rows. What is the best way to do that? Initially I thought I was being smart and decided to put an UPDATE SQL query in a find_by_sql statement and

I know it might seem like I am repeating myself but I can''t seem to find the solution to my problem. I am trying to run edge rails using "rake freeze_edge" and every time I do that my application stops to work. I get an error on every page. I get a "uninitialized constant modelname" error where modelname is the object being created for that view Has

What do you do when the ftp login username is different then the svn username? Every time I try to deploy it gets stuck right here: [kopanas.com] executing command ** [out :: kopanas.com] Authentication realm: <http://kopanas.com:80> kopanas.com ** [out :: kopanas.com] Password for ''jkopanas'': ** [out :: kopanas.com] subversion is asking for a password ** [out ::