similar to: Adding to model (newbie)

Just checking. I''m new in town, and somewhat new to Ruby on Rails. -- joshua

I have a table with first_name and last_name, and wan''t to populate a drop-down with the id and the person''s name consisting of the first and last names concatenated together. Can''t figure out how to tell options_from_collection_for_select to do that. Any ideas? I basically need to do something like: <%= options_from_collection_for_select @media_creators,

I''m trying to create a form where a collection is created, using the example from the Rails 0.9.5 weblog posting: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/01/26/rails-095-a-world-of- fixes-and-tweaks/ I''m having a bit of trouble. The controller currently looks like this: class StudentController < ApplicationController def new render_text @params.inspect

Hi, A real dumb one :~/ How do you concatenate a first_name, last_name as the text method for OFCFS? Damned if I can do it without error. Is it in the original select for the collection? Eric.

Hey all, I''m using a simple search function. It''s working great except for foreign keys. I have one table pets (id,name,owner_id) and another table people(id,name) owner_id being a foreign key of pet pointing to people name. here it is on the pet controller: @paginator, @pets= paginate(:pets, :conditions =>["name OR owner_id like

I have the text_field_with_auto_complete woking on my user DB using last_name. so looking for ''ivanoff'' works great, but I can''t find ''john''. Plus I like to have ''last_name, first_name'' show up in the dropdown. what I can''t figure out is how to concat first_name and last_name to make a name and use that to look it. working

I''m getting this error message since i moved alot of the database logic to the model. wrong number of bind variables (0 for 2) in: first_name = ? AND last_name = ? def self.authenticate(first_name, last_name, password) user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''first_name = ? AND last_name = ?'']) if user.blank? Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(password +

wrong number of bind variables (0 for 2) in: first_name = ? AND last_name = ? I''m not sure why I"m getting this error ? def self.authenticate(first_name, last_name, password) user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''first_name = ? AND last_name = ?'']) if user.blank? Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(password + user.password_salt) != user.password_hash

I have a number of models that use an aggregation to combine First Name, Middle Initial and Last Name and they have been working fine. I am looking to clean this up, DRY it if possible. I have things like this in application.rb class Clwholename attr_reader :first_name, :middle_initial, :last_name def initialize(first_name, middle_initial, last_name) @first_name = first_name

Hello, I need to write a function that will return a link only if the current user is the owner. Here is my code... 1. application_helper.rb 2. 3. def link_to_if_owned(owner_id, anchor_text, where_to_go) 4. if current_user.id == owner_id # current user is owner 5. "#{link_to anchor_text, where_to_go}" 6. else 7. anchor 8. end 9. end And

I am trying to use Ferret for searching for users based on first and last name. In my index, I am adding the first_name, last_name, and a full_name which is basically "#{first_name} #{last_name}". I am searching the index using something like the following query: INDEX.search_each(%Q/first_name:#{query}* OR last_name:#{query}* OR full_name:#{query}*/) do |doc, score| The problem I am

The following code shows a list of the users, with username being each person''s initials (mine would be DM). &lt;%= options_from_collection_for_select @users,"id","username" %&gt; However, I''d like to have the display of the SELECT box be "DM - Dylan Markow" instead of "DM." Is this possible using

Hi! I faced some issue while using it for dynamic attrs indexing/search. Maybe I made something wrong. Here is test method. Everything works just fine until last line http://pastie.caboo.se/66274 . Tested on both stable and trunk of aaf and ferret 0.11.4. the short version of code below: Contact.acts_as_ferret :fields => [ :first_name ] assert

I''m using Rails Recipes to create a login form but instead of username and password, my setup is firstname, lastname, password. I seemed to be gramatically challenged and not sure how to set up the parameter list. Can anyone offer up a suggestion. The book shows the method starting like: if request.post? user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''username = ?'' ,

I have a Person model with attributes first_name and last_name. I want to implement autocomplete search that looks that the entire name. Hence I have a method: def full_name self.first_name + " " + self.last_name end Is it possible for me to query on full_name and have rails match the first_name and last_name fields? I currently receive this error when I try, because full_name

Is there documentation somewhere on how RoR handles pluralization? I''m finding it head-scratching/table-thumping. I''m playing with converting an old PHP app to RoR. I used to have a table called "status_code" which was referenced by column "status". I converted the "status" column to "status_id" and the table to "statuses",

I am running Rails on my Mac, installed from fink/gems. I get this error when I try to re/start Apache: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc: access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: read not allowed If I chmod the /tmp/fcgi_ipc directory, apache starts and everything''s fine. Why is fcgi_ipc in my /tmp directory? Can anyone guess why the chmod''ing doesn''t seem to

I''m trying to implement a basic name search on a People table with separate first_name and last_name columns. I am using the will_paginate plugin and have the following search method in the model: def self.search(search, page) paginate :page => page, :conditions => ["lower(last_name) like ? or lower(first_name) like ?",

Hello there, Im currently taking a Senior Design Course at my college. We are developing an online document editor prototype with Rails. I am not well-versed in Rails. As a matter of fact, we chose it for the project in order to learn it. The problem we have is the following: We have a User model (id, username, password, email) and we have a Document model (id, name, content, owner_id). A

Trying to use Eric''s help and Amy Hoy''s page of playing with auto_complete and decided that the script/console is the place to rapidly test. I have this feeling that CONCAT isn''t working for postgresql... c = find_by_sql(SELECT * FROM clients WHERE CONCAT (first_name,middle_initial,last_name) = "johnadams") ^ (irb):61: