similar to: Dynamic form tags

Hi all, After working on my first rails app and having handed over some very sophisticated coding from a lot of you guys. My app does what I want it to do, but I''m no where near the end yet, and it seems that the KISS and DRY objectives already went down the drain. It could be lack of knowledge, only doing Ruby on (and) Rails for a month, but I''m stuck on the following:

i have these two really similar methods in my addressbook controller. def edit_company @company = Company.find(params[:id]) if request.post? and @company.update_attributes(params[:company]) flash[:notice] = ''Company was successfully edited.'' redirect_to :action => ''show'', :id => @company end end def edit_person

I have a model named Project which contains a name attribute, and I have a second model named Booking which has, among other things, a date and a Project. (has_many :bookings, belongs_to :project). When a user creates a new Booking, they have the option of using an existing Project or creating a new Project. As an added complexity, when choosing from existing Projects, they can either choose from

Hi all, Not completely sure what I''m doing, but I need to get data from another table based on and id. Below is some breakpointer output: irb> @params => {"project"=>{"project_description"=>"point2", "project_name"=>"break2"}, "action"=>"create_project",

Hi, How can I get start_form_tag to use GET instead of POST? I have tried... <%= start_form_tag {:action => ''search''}, {:method => ''get''} %> But it doesn''t work... compile error ./script/../config/../app/views/search/index.rhtml:35: syntax error _erbout.concat(( start_form_tag {:action => ''search''}, {:method =>

Hi all, Im slowly moving forward, but there''s something a miss. I can save some relational records to tables, but only once. For an unknown reason, the primary key (id) of the child table is not automatically increased. (I can only perform one save, (the first records id field holds the value ''0'') and during the next save it says: Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry

Hi everyone... For almost all of my objects I put a series of classic REST admin links in views. For example, for a ''user'', I have <%= link_to "Show", user_path(user) %> <%= link_to "Edit", edit_user_path(user) %> <%= link_to "Destroy", user_path(user), :confirm => "Are you sure", :method => :delete %> I am tired

Hi all, For a dropdownlist (showing "Company - FirstName Lastname'') I want to fill an object @project_contacts with "Name" from table Companies and "Firstname" and "Lastname" from table contacts. Any idea? Regards, Gerard. -- "Who cares if it doesn''t do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS

Is it possible to determine which action call the function ? In example, func_test in ApplicationController could determine which action from SiteController is calling her ? in class ApplicationController I have def func_test if ( calling from index ) return "1" end if ( calling from contact ) return "2" end end and in class SiteController def

How do I do multiple layouts for a single controller: I am aware I can do... render(:layout =>''mylayout'') for individual actions, however this becomes a multiple render problem. I tried this... layout "mylayout", :except => [:myaction, :myotheraction] layout "myotherlayout", :only => [:myaction, :myotheraction] However that doesn''t

hi I wanna call rails method from the javascript method. It should be ajax call for rails method. please help me. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe

All, In the Recipes for Rails Authentication recipe, there is a variable named action_name that''s used to represent the current action. Where does this come from? Is there a similar variable for the current controller? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there I am wondering if we can use before_filter in the form of :action OR :action what i want to do is to implement one of the actions, if the first failed, then go to the second when i use before_filter :action1 before_filter :action2 each method will run them, my case is that i want to check if one of them is true and not both any idea?

Hi, Is this possible ive got layout "loggedout_layout", :only => [:login, :logout] but I also want to do somthing like layout "loggedin_layout", :except => [:login, :logout] When the second one is introduced it seems to cancel out the first request, any suggestions how to get around this? Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I''m still dtarting with ruby on rails. And I''m trying to have a menu depending on the current controller/method. Here is what I was thinking of (please tell me if there''s a better way to do it): I have a database with menu_groups (corresponding to controllers) and menu_elements(corresponding to methods). Each menu_element belongs to one menu_group. I created a

I have a pre-existing form with one existing "SUBMIT" tag generated by <%= submit_tag %> I would like to add another <INPUT type="submit" ...> to my form. How do I successfully associate that <INPUT> tag with a different controller action than the default one specified by my <%= start_form_tag %>? Or does this approach even make sense? In RoR, is

Hi, I am having a routing problem and can''t figure out why its happing. I have added the following line in my routing.rb file. map.connect ''name/:id'', :controller => ''controller_name'', :action => ''action_name'' When I use http://domain.com/controller_name/action_name/id then it works fine on the local machine using webrick

When I run my functional tests, they throw an error with the following message: ActionView::TemplateError: Missing template /_captcha.erb in view path app/views:test/vendor/plugins/brain_buster/views/brain_busters On line #23 of app/views/contacts/_form.html.erb 20: <%= f.label :message %><br /> 21: <%= f.text_area :message %> 22:

Hello all, I''m using the following _form.rhtml layout for a number of pages, including edit record and new record (which each has it''s own definition in the controller). I''d like to display a different author form field depending on which page they are using. I''d rather keep using _form.rhtml as a layout template, instead of customizing each separate page.

In the Rails Recipes book the recipe "Keeping track of who did what" explains how to do decoupled observing of models. In my application I''d like to do a similar thing but watching the controllers. For example, when somebody hits the login method of the Security controller, I''d like to make a note of it. In this case I could observe the User model and watch for