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Hi! I got a class named EinsatzFilter which I serialized to session. Before saving to session it works afterwards I keep getting the message: "undefined method `to_s'' for #<Person:0x38c6ab8>". "Person" is a from ActiveRecord::Base inherited class. Code: class EinsatzFilter include ApplicationHelper attr_reader :personen, :monat, :projekte, :kunde

It looks like cached-model is broken again under rails 1.1. Can anyone confirm? Note that the exception below indicates it''s trying to treat CachedModel as the class name of the model, rather than using the proper class name (which is Entry in this case, and the table called entries). This is a model using Single Table Inheritance and acts_as_tree, and worked just fine under 1.0 and

Hey All, Two questions. Firstly, what is the difference between create and create! I see that create is document in the api http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002269 What is the difference between the two of these functions and where is the create! function defined. Also, What are the differences between these two calls? a) SomeModel.create!{ :property_a =>

I have a question regarding best practices around module and plugin testing for rails applications. In our application we have created several plugins that extend ActiveRecord::Base with class methods, that when invoked in a model add behavior to that model. For example ... class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base adds_some_cool_behavior adds_another_wicked_sweet_behavior end My

I have a simple question when to the synchronize method in the Mutex class. Now that backgroundrb has allow_concurrency = true there is no need to synchronize database calls in threads. The question I have is lets say I have a simple method in my worker as follows: def some_method SomeModel.find_all each do |obj| obj.some_count += 1 obj.save! end end It accesses the database, but

Hello, This is probably a silly question but looking at "api.rubyonrails.org", I can''t seem to figure out which method I should be using ... I want to execute an sql statement, like "truncate table BLAH" from within one of my rails app ... What''s the "right" way to do this? Thanks, /B -- Bruno Mattarollo <bruno.mattarollo@gmail.com>

Is there any scalable alternative to iterating all the records of a certain model? #find_all seems to load everything into memory. With 500.000 records it will be a swap storm. Pedro.

Hello, I need to access an mirrored database with one read and one write cluster. Is there a way to tell a model to use two connections? So that all updates etc go to the write database and all read from the read one? This is a fixed set up I can not use MySQL 5.x stuff and additionally i get a token on write, which can be checked on read (and wait for replication) if new data is needed. I

I have an app that requires me to define a class variable (actually an array) in a controller and then access it from within a view. It seems that the class variables aren''t working right. Here is an example of what I''m trying to do. class DisplayController < ApplicationController @@thumbnail_array = Array.new ... def some_method @@thumbnail_array = SomeModel.find_all

Hello! I have 2 table: users and buddies User: id, name, ... Buddy: id, user_id, user_buddy_id, ... So if you have 2 users 1,jack and 2,fred and fred is a buddy of jack, there is a Buddy object: id=1, user_id=1, user_buddy_id=2 I can declare only one belongs_to in Buddy and one has_many in User. And there is conflict if I had the second one (the first one is discarded) class User has_many

Can acts_as_ferret search only one of the inherit models in the hierarchy of STI models? Say you have Contents, with types articles and comments. I know that you do Contents.find_by_contents, but can you also create indexed for Comment and Articles? Thanks for you help Miguel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is it possible ?

Anyone know a pretty way to get a list of all Models? That is, a list of all classes which inherit from ActiveRecord:Base I can''t seem to figure it out! The best I''ve got is to list the /app/models directory... but, that is *dirty*. -hampton. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I wanted to group some functions which I use in some models in one place. Controllers have application.rb and views have helpers but I couldn''t find anything about models. Using the /lib directory seemed to be the only way. Alright... so I have something like this: /lib/code.rb class ActiveRecord::Base def method_a(n) ....... end def method_b(n) ........ end end

Would it make sense for rake db:migrate to support creating databases if it is not found, with blessing from user to prevent typos, or as an additional command line switch. Or am I just being too lazy? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

(Semi-newbie.) I want to ensure a user''s able to destroy only his own objects. I''ve set session info at login: session[:user_id] = user.id Now I try this in the model of my deletable objects: before_destroy :destroy_your_own def destroy_your_own raise "Can''t delete that!" unless session[:user_id] == self.user.id end which snags EVERY attempted

Hey, I have got a script that returns a long list of font family names, which I all want to store in a variable (array). I tried doing this with @f = font.family also in the for loop below but it only prints the last item when I want to display the results. require ''rubygems'' require ''RMagick'' include Magick for font in Magick.fonts puts font.family end

Hi, I am writing an active record adapter for our new database and when I run the tests I see lots of statements that could be run as prepared statements, but instead of passing me bindings AR passes me a fully specialized SQL string, not in all cases, but in many. Here is an example: SELECT addrs.* FROM addrs WHERE addrs.user_id = 153 FETCH FIRST 1 ROWS ONLY I do have this hook set up:

Hi guru''s out there, Im happilly coding my first rails app, and all goes well. I find myself manually coding in a particular field all the time (company_id), that relates the contact to a company. The total coding of this form seems somewhat much. Could somebody tell me what Rails power I''m possibly missing and stuborn as I am trying to do myself? I was wondering if the

I''m spidering historical weather data from various sources. I have a WeatherStation class that is begging for an STI implementation: a WeatherStation is associated with a specific weather service, and each weather service has its own protocol for fetching weather data, but most of the code is can be shared in the WeatherStation parent class. Ergo STI. But there are a lot of weather