similar to: If statement based on a action

Hi Folks! I''m new in the forum and i have a doubt. The button back function with the Ajax on Rails? tks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have table called ''listings.'' There are a certain combination of properties which make a listing viewable (e.g., it is confirmed, has been authorized, hasn''t expired, etc.). Each listing has one and only one category. I want to be able to do things like Listing.find_viewable(...) and Category.find(...).viewable_listings, but I see no way to do this

I need to know what controller and action the user is currently in to do various things in my layouts/application.rhtml file. Isn''t there is a better way than: <% if params[:controller] == "whatever" && params[:action] == "whatever" %>some html<% end %> I know in the controllers you can just use controller_name, but that is not provided

I am breaking ground on a new project and one of the issues I expect to encouter is the ability of users to define their own columns. For example, one of the features of this application will be the ability to store information about people''s skills and then search for and schedule them based on this information. Since every organization''s needs are different, it would be ideal

I am designing an application to run a fishing tournament I am hosting. Each fish entered will be given a point total based on the length of the fish and the species of fish. Each species has a point multiplier. For Example Trout have a multiplier of 10 so a 20 inch Trout would have a score of 200. My conundrum is in where and when do I calculate the points. The options I have come up

Hi All, I wonder how I can get rails to update just one field when I do Myfile.save. Right now this happens when I do a Myfile.save: UPDATE myfiles SET `folder_id` = 0, `filesize` = 1, `data` = ''2f7573722f6c6f63616c2f6d ... f7061636b65743d33324d'', `user_id` = 0, `date_modified` = ''2006-01-11T23:33:57+0100'', `filename` = ''mysqlscripts.sql''

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

Can someone give me a working example of current_page?(), because I''ve been trying to get this to work for a while now. I''ve been trying this: if current_page?(".*") @test = "asd" end but get a "undefined method `current_page?''" when I put it in my controller or application.rb. If I put it in my application_helper.rb, the page renders

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

The portion of the log linked below is two requests directly out of the log file for the same action. The first request was from me putting the address in the browser directly (but can be duplicated by linking to the url anywhere in the app). When I reload the browser on this url, I get a strange error. To the user, the action appears to load fine, but I''m getting a 500 error in the log

Hi, Im having trouble figuring out how to query my database in ruby and i''m hoping someone can help me out. I''d like to find all my departments that match a permalink passed from the url. The department must also match a particular category, also passed through the url. I have written the following code. But unfortunatley I get an error "wrong number of arguments (2 for

Hi, An absolute newbie to RoR, I''m currently going through a few of the excellent tutorials that are available on the subject. One of these includes running a script for creating a mySQL table. In the command prompt (XP), I try mysql depot_development <db/create.sql but get the following error: ''mysql'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, Rather new to RoR, so I''m not sure about the terminology and such :-/ . My question is: how could I know the model which is associated to a controller? For example: - controller class is TestController, which is a subclass of ApplicationController - associated model class is Test How could I write some code in a method of ApplicationController to dermine the current

Don''t know if anyone else has experienced this but I''m having a problem with the access_denied method in Ezra''s ACL access control plugin. It''s working fine (in conjunction with acts_as_authenticated) until it comes across a user it denies access to, in which case it throws the following error: NoMethodError in Admin#index protected method

Hiall, I want to make an image_tag from within a controller in order to be able to present a link (with a status image) in a view. Here is my controller method (in file webca_controller.rb, hence WebcaController) def untouched_status_image_tag image_tag("open", { :alt => "Offen", :title => "Offen", :size => "12x12", :class =>

Hi I have this list page that has some rjs templates updating parts of it including a table of results. i''m trying to put pagination on the table. thing is lots of different actions update the table and they have their own paginators. anyway i have this code at the bottom which worked for another page <%= pagination_links_each(@offer_pages,:window_size =>4) do |n|

Hi. I swear I found this in the group archives, but now I cannot find this in the group or elsewhere online! In a view I would like to get the current controller name and action that was used to get here. For example, I have a template that I''m using from two different controllers (and four different actions in each controller), such as :controller => "my_view", :action

Hi all, I''m in the process of creating rspecs for my helpers. One of the helpers in app/helpers/application_helper.rb looks like this: def page_name @page_name || "Define @page_name in #{controller.controller_name}::#{controller.action_name}" end The rspec is simply: it "should something" do page_name end

Hi there, If I have an application.rhtml template what''s the best way to set the contents of title element in the html -> head area of the template to something set in the view for action in a controller. I want to just have one template which renders the basic layout for all pages and I''ve been scratching my head over this one for a couple of hours now. Any help