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This morning I gave a talk on Rails to the NYC CTO Club. The slides for are online at http://www.io.com/~jimm/writing/rails_ctoclub/s5/index.html. Hover over the bottom right corner of the window to see the navigation controls, including the one that brings up the notes. Printing the slides works really well; the presentation includes CSS that formats the whole thing for print output. The main

When the unit test harness creates a test database from the development database, the ON DELETE CASCADE constraints I have on my foreign keys are not copied into the test database. (I can tell by looking at db/development_structure.sql.) That means the fixtures can''t load/unload from the test database properly. In other words, all my tests fail with the same error message:

Railers, I''m trying to figure out why invocations to my Web service URLs work with Rails 1.1.2 but fail both with Rails 1.1.4 (and 1.1.5) and when I apply the new 1.1.2 security patch to Rails 1.1.2. It looks like they are failing with SOAP clients but succeeding with XML-RPC clients. The URL that used to work is of the form http://localhost:3000/my_controller/ServiceName/api. When I

The rails docs are so horrible on the collection_select method. They need to show a *complete* form, and show two examples: one that calls f.collection_select(), and another that calls collection_select(), and explain the differences. Given this line: f.collection_select :topic, Topic.all, :id, :category What the !@#$!@#$ is :topic? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

Hi, I''m trying my hand at rails by working through the tutorial. I''m stuck on getting the rails app, running on webrick, to talk to mysql. I''m getting the "No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock" message that I''ve seen that others sometimes encounter. Here''s my environment: Win2k w/ cygwin installed at c:\cygwin ruby installed via

Hey, I am trying to upgrade to 1.1.5 and rails no longer finds my controllers the live outside app/controllers. I was on 1.1.2 previously and here is my setup In environment.rb config.load_paths += [File.join(File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT), "rails_shared/controllers") ] config.load_paths += [File.join(File.expand_path(RAILS_ROOT), "rails_shared/helpers") ]

Hello guys, I''m a newbie in RoR and I have a problem. My DB structure is ====================================== topics table : id(int,11) name(varchar,255) categories : id (int,11) topic_id(varchar,255) name(varchar,255) ====================================== --Models:-- class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :categories end class

I''ve whipped together this Emacs mode for editing rdoc files. It''s based off of generic-mode. I''ve set it to be active when you open README_FOR_APP or any .rdoc file. Share and enjoy. Jim -- Jim Menard, jim@io.com, jim.menard@gmail.com http://www.io.com/~jimm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rdoc-mode.el Type:

I''ve whipped together this Emacs mode for editing rdoc files. It''s based off of generic-mode. I''ve set it to be active when you open README_FOR_APP or any .rdoc file. Share and enjoy. Jim -- Jim Menard, jim@io.com, jim.menard@gmail.com http://www.io.com/~jimm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rdoc-mode.el Type:

I''m trying to get a collection_select generated Drop-down box to display two fields from a table (first name & last name); however, I am having trouble concatenating the symbols. It appears as though any code I put in the 5th argument for collection_select is processed prior to executing the collection_select method. The code executes successfully with 1 symbol in the 5th

Hi, I have built a select field that allows multiple options selected with collection_select and "multiple"=>"multiple". How do I go about receiving the values? If I use a variable name like collection[], it complains that I can''t use @collection[] as the instance variable. TIA victor

I am creating a data entry form that allows a user to fill in multiple rows and save them all at once. In my controller, I create an array of "person" objects and pass it to the page. On the page, I have a text field like so: <%= text_field "person", "name", "index" => 1 %> Note the "index" attribute, which sets the name and id

hello, supposing i have a User class that contains a Wibble class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :wibble end in my view i have <%= collection_select :user, :wibble, Wibble.find(:all), :id, :name %> when i post, i get an error like "Wibble expected, got String" how/where am I supposed to convert this posted wibble_id into a Wibble, or am I using collection_select

Hi, I have 2 models: Model 1: er, Columns: <er_id, er_name> Model 2: er_process, Columns: <er_id, er_process_name> er_id is a foreign key for Model 2. When I am creating a new er_process or editing an existing one, I have been successful to use collection_select to show the available er''s so that the user can select a particular er by its name (to populate the er_id

I want to be able to change one attribute of a link_to to be what is the current selection of the collection_select. And needless to say I can''t quite figure it out. app/views/tasks/show.html.erb Who would you like to assign this task to?<br /> <%= link_to ''Myself'', :controller => ''task_queues'', :task_id => @task.id, :action =>

Hello, I am quite a newbie to RoR, I hope you maybe able to help. I have a collection_select in a _form.rhtml: "collection_select(:assets, :model_id, @models, :id, :model_ref,options={:prompt => ''- Select a model -''})" As you see my drop down menu will show the model_ref column. 1) Is it possible to have more than one column. For example I would like to

I use the following code in my view: <%= collection_select(''datedata'', ''date'', @allDate, :id, :date) %> It''s show me the date of all entries in the database (Dropdown menu). Additional, I wrote a helper method "showDate" in the application_helper.rb! How can I use this method in the collection_select for every date entry? thanks

Hi, I am using collection_select to build a drop down list. I would like to have the current value selected. How can I do that? My current code is straight from the example in Pragmatic Programmers book [2nd ed, p480] copying here for reference. <%= @users = User.find(:all, :order => "name" ) form.collection_select(:name, @users, :id, :name) %> I went through the api docs

I have two collection_select in my list.rhtml: <%= collection_select (:region, :id, @regionall, :id, :title,html_options={:onChange => "new Ajax.Updater(''related_provinces'',''/categories/related_provinces/" + "?id=''+this[this.selectedIndex].value, {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true});"}) %><br> <%= render :partial =>

I have form and a collection_select control. I would like to update form fields (text box) when I select an item from the collection_select box. It''s like selecting template from the collection_select and the template automatically loads to text boxes. Any help? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups