similar to: ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper.text_field

Hi ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper methods (e.g. #text_field, #check_box...) take object_name as an argument. From this argument they infer a name that is supposed to contains the reference to the relevant object. I can''t see why the FormHelper methods were designed that way. Compared to simply passing them a reference, the current way seems too complicated and an invitation to problems

I had posted earlier about ''silent failure of a controller'', what seemed to be an intractable problem where I was getting failure of a particular action in a controller while others worked. What was irritating was that there were no useful messages. Nothing to the browser, nothing in logs, and even the breakpoints wouldn''t hit. Finally by a process of elemination I found

Hi, Is there a way of validating input inside the controller? or an equivalent to ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods.validates_presence_of ? Cheers, -- Colin

Hello, Is it possible to fill the textarea content when using the text_area function ? Why there is 2 , + or - similar class : FormHelper and FormTagHelper ?

Hello, I don''t understand how formhelper works (In a Framework point of view) ... For example if I use the chek_box formhelper 1/ check_box("puppy", "gooddog", {}, "yes", "no") will call @puppy.gooddog BUT, how it is possible since the check_box has only a string parameters not instance object ? 2/ if you create your own helper which generate

What is the best way to override some of the FormHelper default options? Right now I''m adding this to the beginning of my environment.rb: ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_TEXT_AREA_OPTIONS = { "cols" => 80, "rows" => 5 } Is that the way it''s supposed to be done? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message

Hi, I want to access a view helper from a controller. (Of course, you all want to know why??? -- See below.) To be specific, I want to access methods such as ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper -- form_tag and text_field_tag from either a controller or from a new class (in models? or lib?). If I create the new class then that class''s methods need to also be able to access the

Hi I have been following a thread here.. http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/new?forum_id=3 but it did raise some new curiosities that I hope someone can help address here :) In particular it is with Duane''s super secret hack that works for multiple child objects > There''s a super-secret and mostly undocumented way of doing this > that''s kind of handy, actually.

I''m rendering a partial using a collection: <%=render(:partial=> ''record'', :collection => @records)%> Inside the partial, I''m attempting to create a new form for each row, generating elements like the following example: <%= text_field "record", "name" %> However, though my objects are fully populated, these form tags

When I look at the docs, password_field seems to take 3 arguments. So when I ''play around" with things and I attempt to pass three arguments to password_field ... I get an error saying that it only takes two parameters ("3 for 2") I am totally lost. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

I am wondering why is in creating text fields with form_helper used value_before_type_cast instead of attribute value for field value? I set rails enviroment so date fields are in european format (dd.mm.yyyy) and would like to have same format in forms, but because of value_before_type_cast is called, form fields are filled with ''yyyy-mm-dd'' or timestamp integer, etc.

Hi all, I would like to write some custom helpers like the ones available as form helpers text_field, text_area and the like. My first try was this: custom_helper(obj, meth) ''some_string'' + obj.send(meth) + ''some_other_string'' end Object and method are being passed as symbols like this: custom_helper(:person, :name) and Ruby rightfully complains that

I stumbled on the fact that text_area_tag does not HTML escape its content by default. For example: text_area_tag "body", "</textarea><script>alert(''xss'');<script>" If you try that, you''ll see that the content is inserted literally. Considering the fact that the tag helpers all encode their attribute values by default, does this

hello PPL, I''ve seen now that the _form.rhtml generated by script/scaffold is populated by <%= text_field ''model'', ''field'' %> without _tag! but only text_field_tag is to be found in the 1.1.2 documentation.. (like in the rest of Module ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper there is _tag) I''ve tried to use <%= select instead of

hi there, I want every form in the site to add a hidden_field, basically I want them to always submit the I18n.locale, I''ve tried to alias form_tag_html method of ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper like this: # in #{MY_APP_ROOT}/lib/action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper.rb module ActionView::Helpers::FormTagHelper def form_tag_html_with_locale(html_options) form =

Thank you to everybody that has helped me since I signed up. I''m flying along thanks to you. I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag": I''ve been trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name" attribute for my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do

Hello I have a view for user registration but when i try to view this page i get this error: undefined method `stringify_keys'' for "username":String Here''s my registration.rhtml: <% form_tag :controller => :user, :action => :register do %> <fieldset> <label for="username">Username>/label><br/><%= text_field_tag

i''m missing something here. how would I code this outside the application to be shared with other Camping apps? module Blog::Controllers module AuthenticationHelper def self.included(base) class << base define_method :authenticate do |*a| a.each do |meth| if method_defined?(meth.to_s)

Here is a piece of code fitting a model to a (part) of a dataset, just for illustration. I can extract the random interaction and the residual variance in group meth==1 using VarCorr, but how do I get the other residual variance? Is there any way to get the other variances in numerical form directly - it seems a litte contraintuitive to use "as.numeric" when extracting estimates,

Hi. Can anyone help with this? In a view, I have a text_field_tag( :mytextfield ). I would like to pass the current value of that text_field_tag to a periodically_call_remote - something like periodically_call_remote( :url => { :action => :do_it, :thetextval => :mytextfield.value } ) - Any idea how can I pass and/or access the value of the text_field_tag in my do_it controller?