similar to: Plugin dependencies/migration/versioning support?

I posted a message a while ago about a problem with the Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails. I think the problem is a recent change to the plugin which requires rails 1.1 -- respond_to. The plugin was updated just a few days ago... Which made me wonder about versioning and dependencies of plugins. Is there a mechanism of versioning plugins? Is there a way to discover dependencies? Thanks,

I have a plugin that I am working on that will as part of its distribution contain a controller. I would like to be able to add a route for it in the plugin''s init.rb so that when the plugin is loaded, the route will automatically be registered without having to force the user to edit routes.rb or even make a rake task to do it for them. I saw the following code in one of the SVN

I sort of asked this the other day but with no replies. I''m new to rails btw. Question: Is there a preferred way to create migrations ? What I''ve noticed is if I create a model first , it sets up the skelton of the migration. If I create a migration file and then do the model it attempt to create a migration file and not overide the one already in place. It seems to make sense

I''ve posted a lengthy description of an authorization plugin for Rails on my blog: http://www.billkatz.com/authorization It describes a proposed DSL for authorization, a pattern for use that describes conventions, and a reference implementation that lets you test the some of the ideas. I hope that some subset of Rails programmers gravitate toward a common DSL for authorization, which

I read in various places that although migrations aren''t transactional, all you need to do is wrap you migration method in "ActiveRecord:: Base.connection.transaction do" to make the self.up or self.down transactional. In my experience (Rails + PostgreSQL), this doesn''t work very well. If my migration hits an exception, any tables that were touched remain modified.

One of the nice things about migrations is that you can selectively roll your changes back and forward. But, sometimes it doesn''t work as expected. In my current project I rolled back to VERSION=0. Then applied on migration at a time and rolled it back to make sure that I had coded everything correctly. Tthe first 3 went well. But, when I attempted to apply VERSION=4. Rake attempted

Hello, I''m just taking a look at migrations, seems like a fantastic way to maintain the database. I am wonder if there is a way to maintain what I''ll call "reference data" along with the migrations. A lot of times in apps your have tables that have pretty static data, often used to generate select lists. Is there a way to insert the reference data into these tables

Hey all, I''ve run into an interesting scenario that I think some of you might have some suggestions on. I am currently working on a RoR project and we are making full use of the migrations. We are also using a subversion repository for our source control. Now, the problem.... We are both making migrations and checking them into SVN. So, if in our checkout we have migrations up to 10 and

I am trying to start my first project after going though the Depot application in prog prog''s book. For some reason one of my migrations keeps bombing. I just try to setup a couple tables with some default information and even with changing the name of the second table and other minor tweaks it just does not work. I am connected to the db, the first table does get filled out. Any help

I have an application that uses the Sentry plug-in. I am using Sentry on my Users model for encrypting passwords. It works fine inside the application, but whenever I call User.create in my migration (in order to set-up a default user) I get the following error when I run the migrations: rake aborted! undefined method `symmetrically_encrypts'' for User:Class Has anyone experienced this

I''m getting complaints from one of my customers that characters in their text are getting mangled. This happens when they paste data into my textboxes in rails from MS word in particluar. Quotes are turning into question marks, etc. Anyone have a fix / workaround for this? -- seth at subimage interactive http://www.subimage.com/sublog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

hi all started using migration , gr8 stuff but how can i maintain old data , or import it alongwith schema with same easiness, as in migration we only import schema ? thanks rohit --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''ve spent the last several months learning RoR and building my first app. I''ve not used migrations yet and honestly don''t understand them much, and have not had my app under version control. I''ve decided it''s time (I know, some will say way past time ;-) ) to put the app under version control. I''ll be using Subversion and have begun working

HI all, I''ve got a migration that creates a few new tables and populates a bunch of data into those tables from existing models. It works great. As expected. Tables are created. Relationships are made. Everything comes out fine as far as the data goes. But for some reason the migration task ends with this error: rake aborted! negative argument I''ve liberally sprinkled my

My migrations were working fine until today. I dropped and re-created the database.But, when I go to apply my migrations, rake migrate aborts with this error. You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.first Any idea what might be wrong? The migrations look right. It''s talking to the

Is there away to have parts of a migration file only work with a specific database. For example I am inserting some data into a table with: execute "INSERT INTO demo_lists(position, name, updated_at, created_at) VALUES (1, 1, ''scott'', CURDATE(), CURDATE());" Of course the curdate() function may only be available on mysql. So can we some how determine which

The new chapter in Agile Web Development with Rails talks about using migrations to load data from fixtures. This is a great idea, I''ve wanted to do this. This allows you a good way to create sample data that you can use during development, testing or demoing of an application. My question is how do you keep it separated from the real data? For example, say you have a User and Account

Anyone here able to generate the DDL SQL for performing migrations w/ out actually modifying the DB schema? As part of our process, we''d like to be able to write the migrations and produce the DDL and then have our data services folks verify and make changes according to naming conventions, etc. Aside from grabbing the SQL migration log following a "live" migration - I

Hi All I am trying to understand if I can use migrations to migrate data under the following conditions 1. Across 2 different databases (Oracle/DB2) with same schemas. 2. Across 2 different databases (Oracle/DB2) with different schemas. I am trying to avoid writing DBI/OCI8 scripts. Can somone please shed some light if this is even possible? thanks -daya -------------- next part

Hi I''d like to have a varchar primary key named id instead of the default int id. Does anyone knows how to specify this from migrations ? Should I also specify something in the model class ? thanks! Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060312/797bca4b/attachment.html