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I have this in my controller... @tech_standards = TechStandard.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM tech_standards WHERE subpoint <> 0") Everything is fine except when I look at my view I still get supoints that are 0. When I run this query in my query browser I don''t. View: <select name="resource[tech_standard]" id="tech_standard">

I have a form. Everything submits into the database if I don''t have any validation rules. When I put these rules: validates_uniqueness_of :title, :message => "already exists in database" validates_presence_of :title I get this error (which seems weird because I am not validating against that): You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You

This is simple (I am sure) but how do you get the id of the inserted element after the element has been save? I thought it was something like this: @product = Product.new(params[:product] if @product.save add_image(product.id, params["image"]) flash[:notice] = ''Product was successfully created.'' redirect_to :action => ''list_products'' end

I am having issues with a many-to-many table. The table relates resources to standards, but in my resources table has one-to-many relationships so those also appear in my many-to-many table. I am trying to insert into the table via: @resource.core_contents << CoreContent.find(params[:core_content_ids]) But I get this error: Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry

I am using the ACL System that is described on the Rails wiki and I have a quick question. I want to set the "role" as a session variable so that I can display certain navigation schemes and I was doing it like this: @session[:user][:role] = @user.roles When I print out this variable I get: #<Role:0x3262d80> How can I turn this into a readable value? I tried .to_i

I am getting this error. ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in Resources#create Focus expected, got String I have a select menu named resource[focus]. My focus (belongs_to :resources) table has a one-to-many relationship with the resources (has_one :focus) table (A resource will have only one focus but one focus will have many resources). I assume this error means that the focus is

How do you clean up your app folder to place onto the server? I want to get rid of all the .svn stuff. Seth Buntin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060317/cc81d9f7/attachment.html

So what is "best practice" using scaffolding and then manipulating it to work for you or starting from scratch? Thanks. Seth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060213/0f16d567/attachment.html

I have some code that calls a partial to display one or more blocks within a div tag. I want to have a close button (or cancel link) that will fade that block but leave the others. Here is the code: LINK: <%= link_to_remote "Add Miscellaneous Link", :url => { :action => :add_iyc_link } %> add_iyc_link.rjs: page.insert_html :bottom, ''links'', :partial

I ran the gem installer and it seemed to work, but i believe i''m still using an older version. How can i tell what version I''m really using? Thansk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060310/435006b0/attachment.html

What is the code I include in one of my files so that my log files are easier to read? I am using Windows. Thanks. Seth -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Running latest rails, etc on windows xp. I can''t use "rake migrate" to migrate to latest version. I NEED to specify, i.e. "rake migrate VERSION=11" for things to work consistently. plain ''ol "rake migrate" never makes it to the latest version. no errors, she just stops short of the latest version. hasn''t been a problem until now --

I have this: <%= @tech_standard.category + " " + @tech_standard.point + "." + @tech_standard.subpoint %> I get this error: cannot convert Fixnum into String point and subpoint are number. How do I concatenate those values? Seth Buntin Web Resources Coordinator Kentucky Academy of Technology Education Murray State University --------------

I have everything working and I am really excited about learning Ruby and Rails. But whenever I access my different defs in my controller it takes ~ 5 seconds before they are returned. I am working locally so I don''t know what the issue is. System Details: Windows XP Apache 2.0.55 Ruby 1.8.2 Rails 1.0 Seth Buntin Web Resources Coordinator Kentucky Academy of Technology

This code: <p> <label for="resource_type">Type</label><br/> <%= select(:resource, :type, %w{ Web Data }, { :include_blank => true }) %> </p> Produces this error: TypeError in Resources#new Showing app/views/resources/_form.rhtml where line #6 raised: wrong argument type String (expected Module) Extracted source (around line

Would I use a helper for this situation? I have a layout that is used over two controllers (admin and login). Each controller has their own navigation. Can I do something like this? <%= getNavigation("admin") %> or <%= getNavigation("login") %> And return the navigation list depending on the string sent? Seth Buntin -------------- next part

What would be the best way to do this? I have a list and I want one item to be underlined (depending on the action that I am on). Do I?: Have a bunch of if statements: if :controller => ''admin'', :action => ''list'' <li id="current">Pages</li> else <li>Pages</li> end What do you think? Is there a

Is there a trick to validating select menus? I have this rule: validates_presence_of :title, :type :title is a text box and validates correctly but :type doesn''t: <p> <label for="resource_type">Type</label><br/> <select name="resource[type]" id="resource_type"> <option value=""

Is there a way to access (from JavaScript preferably) the form array of the information sent when errors are display? I want to be able to find out what values were selected on the form before errors. Seth Buntin Web Resources Coordinator Kentucky Academy of Technology Education Murray State University On March 1, 2006, Murray State University will begin moving all of its telephone

And then I should be ready to roll with my project.. I have some fine tuning of the looks to do after, but funtionality first! This is probably a rails question.. but I''m not sure where to sign up for the rails questions email group? (I guess I turned this into a 2 question email). I''ll ask here and then if someone will send me the url of where I go to sign up for the rails