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When i run a spec file i am getting the following error D:\Diwakar\spec_diwa\spec\controllers>spec sandbox_controller_spec.rb c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-0.5.15/lib/spec/api/sugar.rb:17:in `method_ missing'': undefined method `describe'' for main:Object (NoMethodError) from ./sandbox_controller_spec.rb:7 from

Here is the scenario I am trying to achieve. Basically, I want to run the action "show" from my controller, without adding the "show/id". Standard: http://www.domain.com/controllerName/show/id I would like: http://www.domain.com/controllerName/randomstring (where randomstring is a field in my model/table, that is equivalent to a GUID -> and unique). I''m confused

At times I''ve gotten the message "No Server Running" from drbspec with my rails app. The thing is, the drb server certainly is running! This happened a few times with my model specs. I''m not sure exactly what the problem was there - I believe I was loading up fixtures that didn''t exist. I was calling fixtures :singular_table_name as opposed to

Basically, I''m trying to have a table called "categories" have a many to many relationship with itself. But I also want each catagory to be able to be "copied" into another category so it is essentially a child category to more than one parent. To me the obvious way of doing this is by creating another table called category_maps (and a model called CategoryMap).

Can anyone supply me with a simple, succinct explanation of what the difference is between the "new" controller and the "create" controller that the scaffold generator produces? I run: > script/generate scaffold modelname controllername And now I need to do some work inside the controllername.rb file. For example, pulling a list from another database table to supply

hi I''m using restful_authentication and have controller specs working using users fixtures (and login_as) however i''ve been trying for hours without success to do it without fixtures, using mocks and stubs instead. anyone here done this? got code? :) thanks

Hello! I''m just starting out with Rails--and Ruby itself for that matter--and have a couple of questions regarding primary_key_prefix_type and non-integer primary keys. I see in the ActiveRecord documentation [1] that by default the primary key of a table "foo" is expected to be "id", though primary_key_prefix_type this can be changed to :table_name or

I''m trying to render a component that pulls information based on a parameter that is passed by a link_to item, but my params object is nil for the following code in the controller: records = ControllerName.find(params[:id]) but the error page also has this: Parameters: {"id"=>"7"} I''ve tried to access it (in the controller) using: variable =

I''ve stucked to such problem: I have html entities in database, after using scaffold I''ve got these chars not converted (I have strictly " and & in page source). It is what I need, but after making ./script/generate scaffold modelname controllername (recreating controller) I''ve got all special chars converted into entities like (&quot and others). How can

When I started developing my application I grouped my controllers in the followin g fashion: User::ControllerName. Now I''ve realized that the ''User'' module is a misnomer for my current controllers and I need to use the User module for something else, so I decided to change the controllers in the ''User'' module to ''Data''.

Wow, I can''t believe that after a few weeks of playing around with Rails I got stuck on something that seems like it should be really simple. How do I display a default welcome page for visitors who are not logged in and send logged in users to the appropriate controller. I am using the login_engine and the user_engine. The two methods I have seen looking at sample code are to stick a

I''m using template components to modularize an application I''m working on and am really happy with the way it''s going. Unfortunately, all my attempts at writing functional tests for them fail. Trying to duplicate my normal controller tests I have: require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require File.dirname(__FILE__) +

I''ve been using the Business::FedEx::DirectConnect perl module to track and ship packages via FedEx for awhile now. I''m wanting to convert some of this functionality over to ROR, mostly just the package tracking part. Has anyone successfully tracked a package using the Shipping API out on RubyForge? It seems like the functionality is there since it''s just another

I need to include another helper module apart from the normal two (ApplicationHelper and [controllername]Helper). The inclusion needs to be dynamic and based on external parameters (ie what helper that get included differ from request to request). Is it possible? How? /Marcus

Hey if you know any rails cheatsheet link add it inot the follwing list, lets make a long list on Rails cheatsheet.... ;) 1) 2) 3) 4) . . . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060103/a6eea2ac/attachment-0001.html

hi all i''m trying to pass a variable name right round the block and need a hand to ease my aching brain. ##in my sidebar i have <li><%= SidebarItem(''catalogue'') %></li> <li><%= SidebarItem(''provenance'') %></li> <li><%= SidebarItem(''status'') %></li> ##linked to a

Hi! I''m from Russia. It''s my first post in this forum. Execuse for my bad language, but i hope you''re help me! I try to deploy rails app on apache + fastcgi hosting. .htaccess file contents: AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]

Hey, am i to stupid to find the information about how to route to a controller in a module? Maybe module support has gone! The controller is under: app/controllers/admin/my_controller.rb The my_controller.rb file looks like this: module Admin class MyController def index render :text => ''Hello!'' end end end How does a route to all controllers under module

Hi: I am a rspec beginner. I have scratched my head for the whole afternoon, trying to figure out a way of writing render expectation in controller spec. However, I failed. It kept telling me that the ''expect_render'' was an undefined method. I have installed rspec 1.0.8 and rspec_on_rails as well. Below is the controller to be tested. Controller def index pre

Hello, I am interested in enhancing assigns in controller specs to do things like the following assigns[:key1, :key2, :key3] #=> vals for keys Is there away to "break open" this construction to overload the :[] operator? Thanks. -Chris