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I have a little helper that lets me add legacy fields to models where they have common prefixes, suffixes, or something else weird. Here is the method signature: def legacy_fields(options = {}, *attributes) ..... end options is a hash containing things like :prefix => "post_" - and attributes is a list of attribute names. This gets mixed into the class with extend, so I call

I''ve got an acts_as_tree structure which I want to be able to represent in the URL, with one field identified as the url component. In other words, if I''ve got this: def self.up create_table :nodes do |t| t.column :parent_id, :integer t.column :tag, :string end end and class Node < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree end and what I want the urls to be is something

After successfully getting my "productized" sites into production, I decided it was time to get the development environment working (i.e. through "script/server --site=foo"). However, when I go to run a site under Webrick, I get two major errors: (0) Routes don''t seem to work properly, specifically the root-level route gets ignored. Instead,

The following was posted on my blog at http://blog.inquirylabs.com. A friend of mine recently expressed interest in this code snippet, so I thought I''d send it out to anyone else who''s interested. This module makes it a lot easier to ''require'' javascript and cascading stylesheet dependencies inside your views or controllers. By

Hi everyone, I am writing a helper function that takes a parameter and block and wraps some HTML around it. e.g. def box_with_caption(caption, &block) data = capture(&block) buffer = render_partial("helpers/box_caption", :caption => caption) buffer << render_partial("helpers/box_data", :data => data) buffer end however, when I attempt the following,

I was thinking about having instance variable stored and fetched from session container automatically before calling an action and after the action is finished. Using methodology of accessors it would look like: class MyController < ActionController::Base persistent_attr :person def alfa person = ''John Smith'' # render as usual view alfa.rhtml with anchor

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_CTX_new:: library has no ciphers This error is thrown whenever I use anything that uses Net::HTTP. OS X Tiger, ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.1] What could it mean? Joshua Sierles

Originally posted at http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/02/11/textmate- backtracer-10/ == Announcing Version 1.0 == The backtracer has been around for a while now, and seems to have done its job well enough to deserve a 1.0 mark. == What Is It? == Whenever a Rails exception occurs, it spits out a backtrace full of filenames and line numbers. I?ve often thought, ?Wouldn?t it be nice if I

The 1.0 version of our bundle is now available for download, along with a 10 minute demonstration of it in use. See http:// syncpeople.com/downloads. == What is syncPEOPLE on Rails? == syncPEOPLE on Rails is a bundle of snippets, macros and commands for TextMate that make Rails development on the Mac even easier. Generate scaffolds, migrations, models and controllers from inside the

Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that includes a Family News section, and an Address Book. Currently, there is no documentation on installing the Rails application itself (hence the 0.9 version number). Once installed, Family Connection guides the family website administrator through a simple two-page setup process. The web application restricts access

I''m writing a ''Mailman'' model that catches emails sent to my application (kind of like backpack, I think). The trouble is that I''d like to save image attachments in the same was that file_column saves them--in fact, I''d really like to use a simple assignment like photo.image = attachment to save the image in its proper place. However,

All, So I got passed my initial hurdles with merb 0.4. And all seems to work very nicely. Thank you all for your help ! One thing though, why should I have to bounce the merb server when I change my controller or associated classes ? Am I missing something ? I am having flash back to my java days where I now have to reflect on what changed and bounce the server accordingly...

Hi, I was wondering how to get url_for to work inside ActionMailer. I did research on the web but I can''t seem to find something that fits what I need. In my application, each user can specify their custom domain to access their. I have an ActionMailer that sends them notifications of changes that occur. In there, I have a breadcrumbs helper method, which generages something like:

Howdy Gang, in a major controller that has many methods using the same lookup tables for option choices and such, what is the life expectancy of the list instances. Is it useful to set these up in the controller initialize method - or is that utterly dumb? Cheers, Eric

I was talking to a friend of mine who''s developing PHP on trax and we came up with a solution to the ruby session file problem. I''m not sure if this idea has come up before, so I wanted to run it by everyone before making any code contributations and/or talking to the Rails core about it. It seems to me that the current situation we''re in with regard to

Hello Railers, At the beginning of this year, I announced Family Connection, an open source, free, and easy-to-use family website built using our darling web app framework, Ruby on Rails. Now it?s available as a hosted, very easy-to-set-up web app called Family Anywhere! It has the same Family News and Address Book features as the original, plus a new Photo Album that lets you browse

I''ve recently made a first release of what I''m calling "bundled_resource" which is a plugin that makes our lives *much* easier when we need to use javascripts, stylesheets and images in conjunction with one another to deliver a special effect or tool on the client (browser) side. If you missed the release, read about it on my blog at

Hi all. I am trying to populate a dropdown based on two values. def self.clientref( reference ) @bugclientrefs = self.find_all(["bug_id = ?", reference]).collect {|b| [ b.client_id.strip << " - " << b.client_ref.strip ]} end This works fine. However this returns the reference to the client. I want the full name using this function. class Bugclient <

Random question: I''ve written a method for the String class that turns an arbitrary line of text in to an identifier, e.g.: "My, what a beautiful day!" => "my_what_a_beautiful_day" "(anb*#NF(AMNV" => "anb_NF_AMNV" We''ve got all these great names already like underscore, classify, titleize and things like that. I''d

Here?s a small plugin that may be useful for documenting your database. Based on Dave Thomas?s AnnotateModels plugin, this plugin goes one step further and allows you to store comments on each column in the database (MySQL only). Full write-up at: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/04/27/ columncomments-rails-plugin Subversion at: svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/