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I''m trying to dynamically create an instance of an object at runtime, from a String. I have a method that returns one of a number of Strings ("Car", "Motorcycle", "Bicycle"), and when I receive the String, I then want to instantiate one of those objects. Seems like there should be a way to do it in Ruby, but maybe I''ve been up too long --

Hello, I have a few models -- book, cd, dvd -- for which I''d like to have an abstract base superclass to hold some common stuff. That abstract class, I was thinking, would inherit from ActiveRecord. Didn''t work, though, and looking around, I found this: <http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoMakeAbstractModel>

I''m curious -- how many of us came to Rails from other branches of the OO world -- Java, C# -- and how many of us came from the design or non-OO scripting worlds? Reason I ask is that I''m finding Rails a blast and very productive, but I think one reason is that I already cut my teeth on MVC and ORM during two years of writing apps with J2EE/Struts/Hibernate. And in Javaland, it

I have a link-to that I wish to look somewhat like this: link_to "link here", new_object_path, :method => :post, :confirm => ''Press OK'', #url options :class => "css_class", :id => "css_id" #html options In any case I can either get the url_for options to work or the html options to work, but

I attached a rails helper implementation of the fb_table described here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Styles I included testing and comments. I hope you find it useful. Curiously, it''s really a small extension of FBML. Richard -------------- next part -------------- Index: test/rails_integration_test.rb

Hello, I want to display a effect.slidedown in a table. I have a table called contactnotes. <table> <%@contactnotes.each do |contact|%> <tr> <td><%= link_to(@person.first_name, "#", html_options={:onclick => "Effect.SlideDown(''show_details_of_contact_note''); return false;"})%></td> </tr> ... <tr> <div

Hello all. I am trying to add a title to a link_to_remote created AJAX link. What I want to create is: <a href="#" title="VALUE-HERE" onclick="new Ajax.Updater(''content'', ''/area/show/28/40'', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true}); return false;">Area Name</a> However I cannot seem to get it to work, the API says

i''m using Ferret 0.9.0 with acts_as_ferret (the one from svn.jkraemer.net), and i''m getting duplicate results, as described in this thread: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ferret-talk/2005-December/000048.html is there a way to configure the indexes created by acts_as_ferret to use :key => :id, as described in that thread? i''ve poked around in the code, and had

Hello, After reading and reading the documentation, I can''t append some javascript function into a select. It''s not possible ? documentation: ------------------------------------------------------------- select(object, method, choices, options = {}, html_options = {}) some code: ------------------------------------------------------------- return select(:id, :year, [

I''m trying to get link_to_remote to assign a CSS class to the link it generates. My code is as follows: <%= link_to_remote "Show Full Info", :update => "fullcontact" + reparray.last.to_s, :url => "/cm/full_contact/" + reparray.last.to_s, :classname => "contactlink" %> Which produces this HTML: <a href="#"

Hi, all I''m trying call link_to from another helper but got this error: undefined method `link_to'' for module `UserHelper'' how can I get access to helper from another helper? this is my users_helper.rb: module UsersHelper alias ink_to_original link_to alias link_to link_to_permission def link_to_permission(name, options = {}, html_options = nil,

Hi, I have a bunch of link_to''s in my code that are simple Back buttons that should basically just go to the previous request. Is there a way of doing this without specifying the action to execute? The problem is, sometimes I may render the same view through separate actions so I wouldn''t know which action to go back to. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

Hi Everyone I am a new user of Ruby and Rails, and would like some help with the following problem. I have created a navbar with a styled unordered list and I would like to apply class="current" to the tab for the current page. Currently I am using a large, cumbersome and ugly if..then block, rendering the class="current" into the html and link_tos with current_page?. I am

I think the link_to helper method is quite confusing with its arguments order: link_to body, url link_to "Click me", @person Why is it thay way round? I want to make a "link to [the] person", so I would expect the order to be: link_to @person, "Click me" It reads much more natural. You don''t "link to [the] body", you "link to

Hi, I''m having a bit of a struggle with link_to_remote. Everything works exactly as I want it, but the problem is that I want to add another attribute to the <a>-tag, namely class="". Long story short, I want specific links to look differently from others, but all of them being link_to_function. Normally, I''d do this with adding a class="foo" to

Hi I just want to annouce a new release of my Prototype Window Class with a new website with full documentation and new samples (I hope it''s easier to understand now :)). http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/ Thanks again to all of you guys for your help. Seb PS Dj T, have you finished your Rails plugin?

i want my html output to look like this: <a href="/path/to/page/" rel="tag">link text</a> how do i tell the link_to method that i need: rel="tag"? thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

In both url_for and link_to, the :only_path param can be used to determine whether the link url used is complete with hostname and path, or just has the path (a kind of relative url). However, in url_for it defaults to false (urls with hostnames), and in link_to it defaults to true ( urls without hostnames, just paths). Is there any reason for this discrepency? To me, it violates the principle

Hi, this is hopefully an easy one, but I''ve gone through the api and searched past forum entries, and am drawing a blank. I have a model that with acts_as_ferret mixed in to it, which is working fine. But I want users to be able to set a ''private'' attribute on the model, and when it''s set to true, create and update methods would skip indexing. So, how can I

Hi, I''m currently learning Ruby on Rails using "Agile Web Development with Rails." I am using RadRails as my development environment. Everything has been going along well, until the end of chapter 7. Just before the end of the chapter, we set up our store pages so that they can be styled with the depot.css stylesheet. This is where I run into my problem. The stylesheet