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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

Hi all, happily coding along, but it seems a belongs_to record is not saved. # Create some stuff def create_project @contact = Contact.new @project = Project.new(@params[''project'']) @project_contact = ProjectContact.new(@params[''collect'']) @project.project_contact = @project_contact contact =

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 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 all, Im working on a copy contact info into project method. Nosing aroundwith IRB I see a hex value. Named Contact:0x40ca01cc #<Contact:0x40ca01cc @attributes={"name"=>"GP-net", "id"=>"7", "lastname"=>"Petersen", "firstname"=>"Gerard"}> Why is it there like that and not in a human readable

Hi all, I''m happily using "HowToReuseEditViewsForNewViews" found at: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToReuseEditViewsForNewViews There''s this comment there saying you only need the tag "<%= auto_form %>" when using the code below. Can somebody tell me if that will work when extending it with model_name (some how)? I have several new_*

Hi all, Does anybody know how to include a partial (next to @content_for_layout) in a layout file? I''m looking for a something like @partial_for_include => ''filename'' in my layout files. So a linked .rhtml file gets picked up from within a layout file. All my layout files (4 at the moment) have a <div class="navright"> tag, so one change in the

Can I map 2 tables into one class? Is there any pattern, e.g. using ActiveRecord aggregation? Thanks Szczepan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060103/fa2aed7c/attachment.html

Hi all, Is there no way to easily resolve this. It can''t be that I''m the first that wants this, and it wouldn''t be RoR if it''s not possible. On the mysql prompt with the select description from todos .. linefeeds are show, so they are there. This is the actual contents with a linefeed after the ":" "Project contacts: delete table, point

Hi all, Are there any helpers or so for listview routines that suppres the three above mentioned columns? I''m currently exploring something like the code below. But it feels like I''m doing Rails'' work. # just for test purposes <div id="debug"> <% for col in Product.columns.map %> <%= col.name %> - <%= col.type %><br/> <%

Hello out there! Nooby question: What''s the "Rails" way to work with tables of relatively static lookup data? Objectively (I''m thinking); I don''t want to hit the DB each time, so for each lookup table, initialize a globally available hash with lable/value pairs... Am I on the right track? How would you do this kind of thing in Rails? Thanks! --

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

Hello all! I have a list of people on a page, and some of this people have pictures of them stored on the web server. So I have an image tag like this on my page: <%= image_tag "/images/people/" + person.pers_id.to_s + ".jpg" %> But not all have a picture, so if the file for pers_id=1899 does not exist, i would like to display a custom image for that guy. How can I do

Hi all, I''ve got these company (has) contacts relational tables. I want to make sure a company can''t be deleted when it still has contacts. (because I can now, which results in nil like errors when listing the contacts ... obviously) Are there any helpers to do so, is Rails aware of this? Or do I need to put in a condition before destroying the company record in question

I went throught the "agile web developemnt with rails" and Now I''m trying to ''enhance'' the code with some extra options. When I go to admin/shipping I want to include some data from the products table in with the order info listed. I can''t seem to get this to work. in my partial form I''m trying to add this: <td

Making tables in templates is pretty easy, except for one minor problem. They tend to be fairly ugly. If you have a model with three attributes, it''s very easy to create an html table that looks like this.. Col1 Col2 Col3 A B D A B E A C F A C G Which becomes difficult to read when you have a lot of repeated data. What I would really like to generate

Hi All, Is it necessary to always have a controller per model? Rephrased: Would you end up jumping through hoops in the future if you have a controller called Customer in which you add methods to create new companies as well as new contacts? Thanx Regards, Gerard. -- "Who cares if it doesn''t do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS

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

Hi all, Installed the login_engine which is working. But I''m confused as to how I tell Rails to use the "/app/views/layout" rhtml files, when partials from the login_engine are used from "/vendor/plugins/login_engine/app/views/user". Do I copy login.rhtml to /app/view/mgmt? (mgmt is a controller name in my app) Along the same line: I also have a nil error on the

Hi Working through the tut material in teh PP book (agile dev with rails) on a laptop running winxp. Creating the "admin" application, things generally work great. Except: at teh end of chapter 6, when we update teh css to improve the look of the page - I copy the new scaffold.css into my working directory, but webrick keeps serving the old css, even after a restart. Very odd. The