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DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

I can''t see how to use variables so I am using console to test things out... clients table - a column named first_name My very brief console session... >> clients = Client.find_by_sql("select * from clients where first_name = FN") ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: RuntimeError: ERROR C42703 Mcolumn "fn" does not exist Fparse_expr.c L1034

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 using render to display a collection of partials, where each partial is a table row. Is it possible to zebra-stripe the table using this method i.e. alternate table rows get a different CSS class? I can''t work out how each row partial would know whether it was odd or even. In the normal scheme of things I could do: <% odd_or_even = 0 for asset in @assets

Hi I am running Mac OX tiger with the installed ruby 1.8.2, and mysql5 (I checked that it was running in preference). I tried to run the various fixes recommended in agileweb. I am stuck on page 57, script/generate scaffold... > Could you paste in your database.yml file, from the > "config" folder inside your Rails app? If you have any > passwords entered there, you should

I am struggling to understand the methodology here... I have a find.rhtml <%= start_form_tag :action => ''list2'', :first_name = client %> <%# render :partial => ''form'' %> <p><label for="client_first_name">First name</label><br/> <%= text_field ''client'', ''first_name''

Just starting out with a beginner book on jquery and the very first thing I am trying fails (has to be me) Rails 3.1 - other jquery things working including a poor example of drag & drop that is my ultimate target here but just simply trying to get every alternating row in a table to have a different css class So I''m using... app/assets/javascripts/people.js.coffee and put in...

Please can someone put me out of my misery... I am missing the point here: I have a table of albums called: dealers I have a table of images: popp_images each dealer has 6 popp_images linked by foriegn key: albumid Each dealer can login using user_engine engine I restrict viewing for each dealer to their own images by assigning each dealer their own albumid. I list their images with: in my

Trying to create stuff without resorting to scaffold command. I have a list view in my login_controller.rb file... def list_users @user_pages, @users = paginate :users, :per_page => 14 end I have a command in my list_users.rhtml file which undoubtedly calls this pagination... <% odd_or_even = 0 for user in @users odd_or_even = 1 - odd_or_even %> and instead of being presented a

Greetings! I''m trying to update a set of records from the same model on one form. The AWD book gives an example on p.356 but I guess I''m not understanding it. I can see from the error message I''m getting that the controller is receiving a hash of hashes back from the view, and that it''s got the stuff I expected (two values per record that was sent to the

Hi: I have lines in a table I wish to stripe BUT, every now and then there is another type of line, a section header line. I''d like to be able to start the line after a section heading always as one of the two classes the cycle helper is cycling between. Is it possible? If so, how? bruce PS. I realise I could do this with ''odd_or_even'' or the %2 method (mod