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Hi there, I''ve been working on this for awhile and have finally decided to ask for a little guidance.I have a slight problem trying to save a selection. I have two models: A "Posting" has_many "Categories", and a "Category" belongs_to one "Posting". With that said, in the posting model I have "has_many :categories" and within the

Hi everyone, I''m trying to convert a string passed on the command-line into an ActiveRecord class, so I can do something like this. a="SomeClass" a.find(:all) where class SomeClass < ActiveRecord::Base end This appears to work (better ways would be appreciated): a="SomeClass" b=eval a b.find(:all) However I would like to make sure

Hi there, I have a User model and a Profile model. A user has_one profile, and a profile belongs_to a user. The profile model contains a user_id column as the foreign key. The problem comes in when I want a user to register. In the user_controller I have a method that creates the user. I also want the profile model to be filled in with the appropriate user_id foreign key (I don''t care

Hi, Does anyone else have any problems with Safari and in place editor fields? I''m specifically talking about trying to save a null value in a text box. In Firefox/IE/Camino/etc... saving a null value from an in place editor works how it''s supposed to. If the value is null, then ''click to edit'' is displayed. However with Safari when a null value is saved,

Hi there, I''ve been digging around trying to find some information (mostly examples) on how one would handle a progress bar upload using BackgrounDRb and File Column. I did read http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/ and Ezra''s blog of course, but I still have a few questions. I made a simple upload form (as a test) that is submitted to the "upload_song" action. def

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

Hello there, I have something odd happening to my image tags when displaying an image. Here''s what my ''<img src>'' tags are looking like: <img alt="2-thumb" src="/images/public/uploaded_images/2-thumb.jpg?" /> Notice the question mark at the end of the string. I have no idea where this coming from. Here are the important parts of my

Hi there, I have a question on what would be the best way to save a HABTM model. A posting habtm categories, and a category habtm postings. class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :postings end class Posting < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :categories end In my blog_controller, where the actual posting is saved, is where I think I''m

Hi there, I''m having a bit of an issue with my before_filter. I know that the filters put in the application.rb controller are global for all the controllers. In my application filter I''d like to allow access to the RSS feed method in a ''member'' controller and skip the login checks that the before_filters are currently performing. In my application my filters

Hi there, I''ve been trying to paginate over a list of members that all share a tag in common using the acts_as_taggable plugin. The regular way of paginating over a collection doesn''t seem to work with acts_as_taggable. Here''s what my method looks like that takes in a tag name, finds all the members that share the tag and then displays all the members. Nothing too fancy

Hello, I''m having a problem utilizing the find_all method with a value from a form. I keep getting the following error: Mysql::Error: #42S22Unknown column ''category_id11'' in ''where clause'': SELECT * FROM items WHERE (category_id11) The controller seems to be getting the correct data, but my key and value seem to be mashed together(it''s

Hi all, I''ve been trying to install GraphicsMagick with RMagic. I''ve tried ImageMagick with RMagic as well. I''ve tried the installations using Darwin Ports, Gems and from source. Nothing seems to work properly. My specs: ruby --version ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.5.0] rails --version Rails 1.1.0 convert -version Version: ImageMagick 6.1.8 04/05/06 Q16

Hello, What''s the best way to handle formating of a text_area? I have a text_area in my rails app where people can leave comments and I''d like to automatically convert the line breaks into <br /> tags, or just simply wrap a whole paragraph in <p></p> tags. I''m currently doing the following in my comments controller to insert line breaks when the user

I havent had found anything in the documentation about voice activation levels. Does i can change a variable to change the accuracy for activations? If not does the speex lib already implement a function for read out the sound level of a frame? Thanks for the advance. Lis (Louis Hoefler) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Forgive the term global if that''s not applicable in rails (i come from a php background) I have a browse controller with a couple of different methods def method1 @properties = Property.find_all #other stuff for that method end def method2 @properties = Property.find_all #other stuff for that method end def method3 @properties = Property.find_all #other stuff for that method end I

How does one properly get find_all to grab the data from the DB table ordered by a specific column? For example: @anglers = Angler.find_all This code gets all the angler records and they are sorted in order of the id field which is of course set as a primary key in the DB (mysql). I''d really like to pull the data from the DB sorted in the order of another field, for example

Hi there, I''m having some difficulties finding some decent info on getting Switchtower to function for my needs. I''ve read most of the Switchtower doc on http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/97, however it''s not answering some potent questions I have. 1. The doc mentions, as an example, using an SVN repos at http://svn.switchtower.com/flipper/trunk What if I

I need to check if a parameter is set so that I can build some information for my application, but No matter how I format my if statement in the file " Application.rb" it return the following error. You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.[] Here is the line if params[:day] So we

I have a method that I want to accept args like the "find" method does and I need to pass those args along to a find call. # in controller action: @projects = Project.find_allowed(session[:user], :order => "name") # start of the model method: def self.find_allowed(owner, *args) projects = self.find_all(args) ... No matter how I try to pass those args along I get

I have the following statement cl = ChatEvent.find_all("ev_type <> #{t} and chat_id = #{@params [:chat_id]} order by created_at") which produces the following error: #42000You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''order by created_at)'' at line 1: SELECT * FROM