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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

Hi all, I''m searching for a method to dynamically build a form. ( false/true field in the DB should automatically be a droplist) If you use "_form.rhtml" it works easy, with only this code in your partial, but uses the extra file, and doesn''t feel profi and flexible. <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create_product'' %> <%= render

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/> <%

Hi all, I''ve got this code which is alway the same. In a list it displays a show, edit and destroy icon behind each record. <% for todo in @todos %> <tr valign="top" class="ListLine<%= cycle("0","1") %>"> <td><%=h todo.prio %></td> <td><%=h todo.title %></td> <td><%=

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

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

Hi all, I''m (well was) running rails on debian. After the update to rails 1.1.0 newly created aps run great. But trying to start webrick for an old one makes me cry (see below). Any docs on how to ''migrate'' existing apps to the up and up? Thanx n Grtz Gerard. => Booting WEBrick...

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, 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, 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 all, what would be the easiest way to browse the by ''rake appdoc'' generated html files from within your application? Grtz Gerard -- "Who cares if it doesn''t do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..." My $Grtz =~ Gerard; ~ :wq!

Hi all, I''m about to go wild on my new application under Rails. I''ve got a hosting company and want to build a complete administration app. Are there any pitfals to avoid, when for instance in the future I want a seperate account (or group) for managing contact details etc, and a seperate acount (or group) for managing prices. I do not have clear yet what I want seperated

Hi all, The link contains a stingy article on AJAX and other somewhat browser dependant stuff. http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID=184332&messageID=1963135&id=2926438 Being a webdev myself and also a diehard perfectionist, I could relate to some of it. Let me state that the article does NOT represent my opinion, nor is it to fire up a discussion!! It

Hi all, Building my hosting administration application, I wonder If somebody can give me some feedback about the following. When a customer wants a hosting package, I want to create a new project (what''s in a name?). To which I copy contact info, (sub)products like mailbox, hostname webspace. etc. And I want to log my hours into a project as well. I came up with the following

All (and kevin), After flying high for a while on Rails things, I''m down to the nitty gritty of Ruby stuff. Messing with vars and printing them out on a web page. I found the controller_path in the API docs; However when putting this in a controller: @test1 = controller_class_name @test2 = controller_name @test3 = controller_path And this in a partial: Test1 <%= @test1

Hi all, Been digging to a lot of ruby docs to understand more of what Rails is exactly doing. Can somebody tel me what the difference in use is between the "@params" and "params". (I know the first is a instance variable and the second is a ''normal'' variable. What does this mean in pratical terms? @contact =

Hi all, Can I increase logging so that all vars, form id''s, hashes and what not are visible on a form submit? I know there''s IRB, but I don''t know what I''m looking for, so not what to dig up from the console either. Among other thing info related to AR, since this is something I run into: Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry ''0'' for key 1:

undefined local variable or method `controller_path'' Do I need to install anything explicit? For the nosies, I''m looking for (building) a breadcrumb routine (as page independant/DRY-less as possible). Like "mods > crm > customer > add contact" Regards, Gerard -- "Who cares if it doesn''t do anything? It was made with our new