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Hi, Suppose I have a resource such as http://localhost:3000/topsecret/data that requires the user to login first. What I did was make use of before_filter to check and see if the session variable is set with the logged in user''s id (similar to the example in "Agile Web Development with Rails"). However while the filtering function does work correctly in redirecting the

Hello Railslist, (I''m using RadRails 0.6.3 on Windows XP with Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1 and SQLite3) I have two tables in the database: "locations" and "customers": customers.sql --- id INT PRIMARY KEY name VARCHAR 255 address VARCHAR 255 postal_code VARCHAR 255 city VARCHAR 255 --- locations.sql --- id INT PRIMARY KEY postal_code TEXT longitude FLOAT latitude FLOAT

I have an autocomplete field with road names (looking up in a database with approx. 100,000 road names). To limit the number of roads, i want an extra input field where to put postal code. I''m currently using <%= text_field_with_auto_complete %> for the field. What is the best way in Rails to intercept the Ajax call and send the value of the postal_code field? (I guess I could do

Hi Everyone, Ran into an interesting case last night, and I was hoping that someone on the list here could give me some guidance. I''ve got a Polymorphic association for Addresses (which can belong to two different models). The catch is, one model requires a strict, precise address, and the other only requires a City, State and Postal Code. I want to use :validates_presence_of :street,

Hi, I''ve been trying to work out a model (let''s say a StudentRecord) which has a number of attributes, and the key thing I''m trying to do here is to implement it such that you can actually view modifications made over time by various users (think of it as a wikipedia style of logging). Is there some provision in rails that''d provide this functionality for

Hi, This is one problem that has gotten me stumped for quite a while. I have an Item that has_many :DeliveryMethod, and what I seek to achieve is to create a form that''d let me create an Item, as well as its DeliveryMethods in 1 single form. And so I tried something like: <%= text_field_tag ''Item[DeliveryMethod][price]'', @Item.DeliveryMethod ?

Hi, I have a question today regarding how the various form elements in _form.rhtml are named. I understand that for a database table "persons" with a column headed by "name", then in _form.rhtml it will probably be like: <p><label for="person_name">Name><br/> <%= text_field ''person'', ''name''

Hello I''ve been using Acts_as_Parnoid for a while and it has been working well but I am now having a slight issue with it. I have a company table were I would like to use validates_uniqueness_of :company_name. This validation works if a company exists in the database and has not been deleted. However, I also would like the validates_uniqueness_of to work if a company has

I''ve got User has_one Shop. Rails is not validating when I tried create_shop or build_shop, neither in the browser nor the rails console. My code: class Shop < ActiveRecord::Base attr_protected :user_id belongs_to :user validates_presence_of :name, :primary_address, :city, :country_code, :currency end class ShopsController < ApplicationController before_filter

Hi guys, I have been working on a form that would use javascript to validate the data before submitting it, and from my view.rhtml I have a statement like this: However such a statement generates a HTML tag that looks like this: <form action="/users/Login?onSubmit=validate%28%29" method="post"> Seems like Rails thinks it is a parameter instead of an option, so

Im setting up a very basic rails app and have a question about the needed migrations & associations. Basically, my app is an occasion reminder service that emails users when occasions that they select or input are coming up. Occasions will be selected from a checkbox type list or alternatively manually input by the user (name and date of the occasion). Users can have_many occassions.

i have a person object. Persons don''t need to have addresses, but if they have any address field value, they must have them all. So I have something like this: validates_presence_of :street_address, :city, :state, :postal_code unless :address_blank? address_blank? checks whether all of the address fields are blank. If I run a test like this, it works: describe "given

Hi folks, I have a question regarding validates_uniqueness_of, and similar before-filter-like events attempting to guarantee some DB state prior to modification. >From my reading of ActiveRecord, validate_uniqueness_of appears to cause a SELECT on the underlying table attempting to ensure that a record with ID(s) specified in the validates_uniqueness_of statement is not already present, prior

I''ve looked at the validates documentation and it appears that validates_uniqueness_of works on only one field at a time. So I can, for example, validate that "sam" is unique to the record set, and that "smith" is unique to the record set. My problem is that each record includes two fields, the _combination_ of which must be unique to the record set, but each of

What is the best way of checking this? I have 3 tables: groups users group_members class GroupMember < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :group belongs_to :user validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, :scope => "group_id" Then I want a method here that checks if a given user is a member of a given group. What is the right way of doing that? def

I have some code in my controller which looks like this: if request.post? and @account.save and @user.save ... end and in my Account and User models I have many :validates, like so account.rb validates_presence_of :subdomain, :on => :create validates_uniqueness_of :subdomain, :on => :create, :message => "is already being used" validates_exclusion_of

I need to modify the validates_uniqueness_of function so that it will check that the string is unique but only in its own category. For example right now I have validates_uniqueness_of :title so let''s say I have the :title "Title 1" already in the database with the :category of "1" then if i wanted to enter the :title "Title 1" in the database again BUT

Hi! I've done a merging between 2 dataframes using merge(): delme <- merge(miDUNS50peqB,Bnomscodmunicipis,by.x="POBLACION",by.y="NOMMUNI",all.x=T,sort=F) After realizing some problems in the resulting dataset, I've found that the problem was that, in some cases, there was no match between the by.x and the by.y elements, despite the fact that, apparently, such

suppose users have a favorite colour, linked to with a color_id field. suppose also they have a pet rock, which is one of many possible colors... is there a ''best practice'' in order to avoid having ''blue'' appear in the Color table 100 times. can validates_uniqueness_of be twisted into handling this case? should i be adding something to the initialize()

I apologize if this is a very simple question; I''ve searched the forums, wiki, Google, and Agile Web Development with Rails to no avail. Is there a way to put conditional validation in the model? For instance, if I want to limit items a user can add unless the user is an admin? My current code is: validates_uniqueness_of :user_id, :scope => ''event_id'',