[Rails] Re: IDE

2012-10-03 Thread Agoofin
I think Aptana is the best from what I've seen. Good git integration and built it command console. On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:33:30 PM UTC-4, Avi wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the best IDE for ROR with JRuby, > Currently I am using Aptana Studio. I am trying to use Rubymine. > Which IDE woul

[Rails] Re: How can I copy records from one table to another?

2012-08-13 Thread Agoofin
How many records are you talking about? For a few records, once in a while, you could do it in Ruby - Google using ActiveRecord outside of Rails for some more info. Why do you have deleted tables? You might consider adding a field like "Active" and filter the non active records On Monday, Augu

[Rails] Re: is there any Time function to gat a duration from string ?

2011-07-10 Thread AGoofin
You could convert the string to a time object and pick out the specific parts you want. This might come in handy if you want to store the time in the database at some point. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Time.html On Jul 10, 11:47 am, Erwin wrote: > I tried : > output = "00:00:03.10" > > ou

[Rails] Re: Carrierwave Is Not Loading RMagick

2011-06-12 Thread Agoofin
Rails on Windows is a painful process isn't it? I had some dealings with rmagick which were mitigated by using Paperclip. I did find this though - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5811388/imagemagick-core-rl-magick-dll-not-found-or-how-to-install-rmagick-on-window Hope this helps If you have

[Rails] Re: Display picture on the screen

2011-06-12 Thread Agoofin
Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, or a picture of that wheel, take a look at Paperclip or Carrierwave. Both are plugins that make storing and displaying pictures simple. I would recommend as well to use a file system storage solution depending on the scale of the project On Jun 12, 10:51 

[Rails] Re: Basic database question

2011-06-11 Thread Agoofin
There are some good books about beginning Rails development - even some of those geared toward Rails 2 will give you a basic understanding of the model view controller theory which is Rails. Don't be afraid to try things as well, you'll learn a lot more this way. On Jun 9, 3:06 am, Sta Canovist

[Rails] Re: How to display picture on rails

2011-06-11 Thread Agoofin
Here's how I display images with paperclip: <% if items.picture.url(:medium) =~ /missing.png/ %> <%= link_to image_tag( items.picture.url,:size => '300x300', :border=> 0), items.picture.url, :target => '_blank' %> <% else %> <%= link_to image_tag( items.picture.url(:medium), :border=> 0

[Rails] Re: find a string in a file

2011-06-05 Thread AGoofin
Should be able to do something like to separate the tasks: u = open( "myfile" ) while line = u.gets if line.include?( "taske :" ) anArray = line.split(' ') puts anArray[1] if anArray.length > 0 end end You could even combine the split function with

[Rails] Re: My web developer has abandoned me with a Rails site. NEED HELP ASAP

2011-05-10 Thread Agoofin
Take a look at some of the tutorials around the internet for Ruby and Rails to get an idea of what the framework is first. You say the app has been started, if you have a local copy of the files - back them up and then browse the code. I agree with the other posters as to wanting more information

[Rails] Re: Is a way to output 'puts' or 'print'

2011-01-18 Thread Agoofin
You could log the output you wish to display. I think this would be the best way if using a remote site. But, if it's a local process and of limited use printing to the console is ok. I wrote a rails program to track my local IP address as it would change at random intervals and have the process p

[Rails] Re: editors available for designing for ror..

2010-11-28 Thread Agoofin
I've used NetBeans on Linux and Windows and was happy with it. Aptana is very good for RoR dev with GIT integration On the horizon is Redcar an IDE written in Ruby that lists TextMate as a major inspiration. On Nov 26, 5:58 am, Emanuel wrote: > can anybody tell me wat are the editors available

[Rails] Re: to change ruby187 code on rails 235 to ruby192 on rails3

2010-10-13 Thread Agoofin
You may want to consider rebuilding your app under Rails 3 as there is quite a bit of difference. I upgraded a project from Rails 2.3 to 3.0 and it was difficult. There are several guides out there though for upgrading. On Oct 11, 10:51 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Premanshu Mishra wrote: >

[Rails] Re: Implementing a News Feed / Activity Feed on Several Models - Recommendations?

2010-09-28 Thread Agoofin
Nice solution! Another possibility would be to use the before_create and delete methods. Or just have the new controller pull the latest info from your other models by looking at the updated_at field. This way you wouldn't have to have an extra step when deleting items. On Sep 28, 11:03 am, horn

[Rails] Re: I cant' use Netbenas to develop ruby

2010-09-23 Thread Agoofin
I stay on the command line for the generators and such, using Netbeans to do the other programming tasks. On Sep 23, 4:00 am, Vitaliy Yanchuk wrote: > Try to set config.action_controller.consider_all_requests_local = true for > your development environment > It will show proper Exeption messag

[Rails] Re: How to access a model method from within a view?

2010-09-19 Thread Agoofin
If this is only in the show method - one record, I assume, why not pass the height and width as instance variables in the method call which are then available in the view? On Sep 19, 10:11 am, Abder-Rahman Ali wrote: > radhames brito wrote: > > show the code where you are trying to access, ill se

[Rails] Re: Paperclip - helppppp

2010-09-13 Thread Agoofin
If you're getting the original image then you have ImageMagic setup correctly. On Windows there is a bug in the current paperclip gem where the ImageMagick arguments are surrounded by single quotes, which windows doesn't like. Take a look at the console output to see the errors, try the commands

[Rails] Re: slow rails environment load for unit tests, etc on windows

2010-09-12 Thread Agoofin
Windows will always be slow with the stock rails app. Windows will load the rails environment every time which takes about 20 secs on my vista box. I've recently looked into this after taking several minutes to debug some tests. One of the possible solutions is to use to RSpec. I'm no expert on it

[Rails] Re: Couldn't find User without an ID

2010-09-12 Thread Agoofin
You might take a look at your routes for future reference. Specifically, take a look at RESTful routing where rails does most of the work for you. The home path you setup could easily be the index path for your base controller. On Sep 12, 4:05 pm, Anders_P wrote: > Thanks radhames! > > I finally

[Rails] Re: Unable to get RAILS 3 recognize the Ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04

2010-09-12 Thread Agoofin
You might install rvm as well. I've fund it to be very helpful being able to have multiple - isolated - ruby and rails versions. One of the best features is to have a per project gem setup. I had problems with ruby on Kubuntu without rvm, now it is smooth sailing On Sep 12, 11:37 am, Brian Prior

[Rails] Re: Cumulative Sum with will_paginate and activerecord

2010-09-11 Thread Agoofin
Or include a separate variable with the sum you want to include in addition to the will_paginate variable. @figures = Figures.paginate... @figure_sum = Figures.sum(... On Sep 11, 1:13 pm, radhames brito wrote: > add a hidden field with    []  in them it will make the params create an > array and

[Rails] Re: nested routes question

2010-09-07 Thread Agoofin
What is the difference between persons and contests as far as scores are concerned? Looks to be a polymorphic relationship based on the context of your post. Person to Scores and Scores to Contest. I agree with radhames, though in lower case. I've found that you need only be concerned with one lev

[Rails] Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-24 Thread Agoofin
Netbeans works well, if you're concerned about the bloat/response simply turn some of the features off. I've used Rails for a few years and a basic editor just seems so, well basic. Netbeans isn't perfect, I don't use it to run the server or do the tests but for the simple pleasure of jumping betwe

[Rails] Re: How to development Database for testing

2010-08-17 Thread Agoofin
Take a look at some Rails testing resources - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html - take a look at the fixtures part. I can't think of a reason not to have a separate testing database or to try and run tests on the dev db, unless you are trying to re-invent the wheel and make your own tes

[Rails] Re: What Advice Would You Give A Rails Newbie?

2010-08-09 Thread Agoofin
I found a couple of good books, Simply Rails 2 by Lenz is my favorite. Of course it's for Rails 2. You may have to wait for a while for the new crop of Rails 3 books to come out. Or try to update the examples to work in Rails 3. Judging by your questions about template engines and user management,

[Rails] Re: Paperclip Trouble - Not Writing to the Database

2010-08-09 Thread Agoofin
I didn't see the avatar_file_size, avatar_content_type, and avatar_created_at fields in your form. I don't know if these are required though as they should be created when you submit a file_field. You can store the images in the database if you want to, but most would recommend you don't. Have yo

[Rails] Re: Paperclip Trouble - Not Writing to the Database

2010-08-08 Thread Agoofin
I noticed in your form that you didnt specify any of the support fields that paperclip uses -avatar_file_name for example - if these aren't in the params hash they won't be saved in the db. In a recent project I added all the fields to the form, but you could add them as hidden. Paperclip doesn't

[Rails] Re: Is there anything else I can use besides rails?

2010-08-08 Thread Agoofin
On the off chance you meant using Rails elsewhere - I have used ActiveRecord outside Rails for some database programming. On Aug 7, 4:33 pm, Tony Mr wrote: > Can ruby be on anything else besides rails? > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are sub

[Rails] Re: Development Environment (Beginners Question)?

2010-08-02 Thread Agoofin
I use Windows Vista for a lot of my RoR development as it's convenient for me with my current setup even though I run an Ubuntu box as well. Not everything works in windows, as you might expect, but 95% of it does. This is with a regular ruby install, no instant rails- which is out of date. You w

[Rails] Re: Trying to pick a model setup without ridiculous routes

2010-07-24 Thread Agoofin
Finally - a subject near and dear to my heart - beer! One thing to remember about nested resources is its best to nest one level at a time. Otherwise you get very complicated url's. Depending on how you set the relations, you could have beer as a nested resource of brewery and then set a separate

[Rails] Re: Rails equivalent of Delphi SetRange()

2010-07-12 Thread Agoofin
I use Delphi (Lazarus) at work and I constantly miss ruby features :) I can only echo Marnen's remarks about Rails, Delphi does some weird things and I've found that doing it the "Rails" way is usually simpler and much more efficient. As far as the bookings, you should do a bottom up review by st

[Rails] Re: Rails equivalent of Delphi SetRange()

2010-07-11 Thread Agoofin
> > And then in the controller: > > > @inactive = Item.inactive > > This looks like it will still fire off a query which is what I want to > avoid. The query would only fire (once) prior to rendering the view. For example, if you set the variable in the index action of the controller the query w

[Rails] Re: Scaffold with no data ?

2010-07-11 Thread Agoofin
Did you rake db:migrate? On Jul 11, 7:31 am, DrSney wrote: > Hello, please help me with one little error that I have here. I have > created database structure, than generated scaffold for it (script/ > generate scaffold Artist). But when I try to use it, all i have is > this (db contains t record

[Rails] Re: Rails equivalent of Delphi SetRange()

2010-07-11 Thread Agoofin
There are a few ways to do this. One would be using a named_scope in Rails 2 or just plain scope in Rails 3 class Bookings < ActiveRecord::Base named_scope :discount, :conditions => { :discount > .5 } I like to model class methods for pulling specific information from the database def self.

[Rails] Re: Gentoo for Rails?

2010-07-08 Thread Agoofin
I had a much easier time installing rails on gentoo then ubuntu. Of course on gentoo you have a lot more control over what's installed with the price of knowing what to install. Any distro will do though. I'd suggest looking into rvm as well. On Jul 7, 2:58 pm, Sal wrote: > I'm curious to know

[Rails] Re: Is this book dated?

2010-07-07 Thread Agoofin
Every book is likely to contain some errors, most will have forums where you can ask questions of the subject material as well. Netbeans has everything I need. The side panes which show the project structure and page elements which make not only navigating, but understanding, the project easier. T

[Rails] Re: Is this book dated?

2010-07-06 Thread Agoofin
I really liked "Simply Rails 2" by Patrick Lenz. It's the only rails book where I went through all the code examples. As far as an IDE goes - I like Netbeans. You can code with a simple editor but nothing beats the view Netbeans gives you. On Jul 6, 4:11 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Angel

[Rails] Re: Good Linux Distro for Rails 3?

2010-07-03 Thread Agoofin
Ubuntu works well, but I would use rvm with rails - very good experience with me using it/ On Jul 1, 4:36 pm, Nick Hird wrote: > This may be the wrong place for this question but i am not sure where to go. > > What is a good linux distro to get started with rails 3? I have given up on > ubuntu an

[Rails] Re: rake db:create failing

2010-06-29 Thread Agoofin
I've had an issue with the sqlite driver. What version are you using? Looking at the RubyForge site, they've released version 1.3.0 of sqlite3-ruby on June 6th - upgrading this might help On Jun 28, 3:49 pm, Joe wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First of all, I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. > > Trying

[Rails] Re: Ajax/Prototype/Scriptaculous

2010-06-22 Thread Agoofin
Perhaps you can add a link_to_remote, either in the section or surrounding it, to add an extra option then update the select list. The Rails Cookbook has a section on using ajax to add DOM Elements to a page And there is this :http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/ Helpers/PrototypeHelper

[Rails] Re: Deploy: Developing on Windows Deploying on Linux hosting

2010-06-22 Thread Agoofin
Ar is correct - Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org/ is one such path and is free for personal use. You might checkout Capistrano - http://www.capify.org/index.php/Tutorials And depending on what you're deploying you might be interested in Heroku - http://heroku.com/ On Jun 22, 8:46 am, Ar C

[Rails] Re: Model Namespace?

2010-06-22 Thread Agoofin
You could add a status field to your higher level models - for example, add 'status' to User as an integer and then store your status:descriptions in a common status table. So you store an integer referring to the status in your User model and if you need to display the description, query the statu

[Rails] Re: Web server

2010-06-22 Thread Agoofin
The web server simply looks at the information you submit ( a page for example) and routes it to the proper destination in rails. With me it's frequently error pages though. Rails comes with a web server named webrick which works nicely enough for learning about Rails. Mongrel is a separate, highe

[Rails] Re: Silly little link_to question

2010-06-22 Thread Agoofin
What do you have in your by_company method? looks like you had in your find statement - params[:id] and it should have been params[:company_id] You might take a look at generating a class method in your model file: def self.by_company( anId ) find(:all, :conditions => ["company_id = ?", anId]

[Rails] Re: Controllers, what? why?

2010-06-21 Thread Agoofin
I'm writing an application to track calibrated assets. If I were to have one controller it would have to be able to update(delete, create, read) the items,vendors, issues...etc. It would be huge and certainly unwieldy, not to mention very difficult to do in the Rails framework. The Items controlle

[Rails] Re: Make just one restful action singular

2010-06-20 Thread Agoofin
Can't you declare the resource in the singular form? http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Resources.html#M000308 On Jun 20, 3:12 pm, Rory McKinley wrote: > On 20/06/2010 20:59, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > > Wrong.  If that were so, map.resource wouldn't exist. > > > > I think

[Rails] Re: Why do rails calls a method when I'm calling a property?

2010-06-20 Thread Agoofin
Look at your link_to in the index.html, it should contain the id for the story you want to show. Also, check to make sure that you have the to_param method in your model, story.db and that it's correct. The author implements a complicated beautification of the urls which is a waste in the course o

[Rails] Re: Problem with testing rails applications..

2010-06-20 Thread Agoofin
Seems others are having this issue on Windows as well. Try here for some direction: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/bd7ec8e1dab4ff17 Hope this helps On Jun 20, 2:11 pm, Joe wrote: > When trying "gem install sqlite3-ruby"; it spits out "no definition > for libv

[Rails] Re: gitignore

2010-06-20 Thread Agoofin
I like the IDE approach overall. Netbeans has some nice autocomplete features that really help in writing the code, but then again a simple editor can work well too. For the gitignore, just add a pattern of which files you don't want included either in the root directory or in the specific directo

[Rails] Re: RoutingError

2010-06-16 Thread Agoofin
What do you have in your routes.rb file to setup the custom route? http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html On Jun 15, 11:27 am, Aashish Kiran wrote: > hi, can anyone help me. i want to create an url to invoke  create action > of a controller. routes.rb has the routes. But i am getting error a

[Rails] Re: form_remote_tag running only once

2010-06-13 Thread AGoofin
ssibility that having the same method and div name might have caused the confusion. Then adding a "render :nothing => true" to the search_remote method cleaned out the div. In the future, I think I'll add a separate search page. On Jun 12, 10:52 pm, Frederick Cheung wrote: &g

[Rails] form_remote_tag running only once

2010-06-12 Thread AGoofin
I'm trying to add a simple search to an index page of my project. It takes a term, does a 'like' query and populates a common partial which is displayed with javascript in the div 'search_remote'. It runs fine, once. If you run multiple queries without hiding the div, it works fine. If you close t

[Rails] Re: Would you recommend some books about Ruby on Rails?

2010-05-23 Thread AGoofin
The best book on learning Rails that I have ever read is "Simply Rails 2" published by Sitepoint (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/? historicredirect=rails1 ). It is laid out in a very good way and it's the only book where I went through all the examples. Later on I would recommend "The Rails

[Rails] Re: remote_function return No action responded error

2010-05-23 Thread AGoofin
Do you have the js includes in the application layout? Happened to me a few times when playing with several projects. On May 23, 3:09 am, nirosh wrote: > here i given my codes when i execute this remote_function rails give > me this error > > ActionController::UnknownAction (No action responded

[Rails] Re: <%= %> Interpolation question

2010-02-27 Thread AGoofin
<%= bar.to_s %> On Feb 27, 11:30 am, Dudebot wrote: > OK, here's what I have in app/views/molds/show.html.erb: > > <%= @mold.body.gsub( "\n", "" ) %> > > The controller finds @patient, and @patient.id = 2 > > If @mold.body = "The patients id is <%= @patient.id %>" > > Then the view displays > > T

[Rails] Re: possible to set flash within link_to?

2009-11-11 Thread AGoofin
Maybe with some Javascript - link_to_remote? You could also look into a rjs template which can modify a part of the page - an element, maybe one named "flashing text"... Simply Rails 2 by Patrick Lenz is a very good book which is where I got the above info. On Nov 10, 8:06 pm, Arif Bandali wrot

[Rails] Re: *** PLEASE HELP!! *** NoMethodError in AvatarController#upload

2009-11-01 Thread AGoofin
No need to reinvent the wheel with file uploads, I've used PaperClip to handle uploaded images and files with little trouble. It's very easy to configure as to where the information gets stored - in the database or out. On Oct 31, 8:47 am, RubyonRails_newbie wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I'm tryin

[Rails] Re: What's your favorite thing about Rails?

2009-11-01 Thread AGoofin
I wouldn't limit your question to seasoned developers :) While I wouldn't consider myself seasoned - I've written a few apps for local use and am getting ready to publish an open source RoR app, I don't even know how little I know. Rails makes life easier by it's basic core principles - Convent

[Rails] Re: is there a ruby on rails framework/app that would be a good starting point for these requirements???

2009-09-20 Thread AGoofin
Sounds like a cms app for which there was a recent post on the list for. > Radiant is probably the best known. AdvaCMS looks quite promising, but > seems a bit immature at the moment. There's also BrowserCMS One that I like is Wagn: http://www.wagn.org/wagn/Introduction It has a unique card li

[Rails] Re: Really stuck on nested resources

2009-09-20 Thread AGoofin
One other way to think about this - you shouldn't need to nest resources more then one level deep. You only deal with children in relation to parents and dogs in relation to children. Separate relationships which can be handled transparently. Plus the links you have to generate get a lot more con

[Rails] Re: how toi incorporate google map in a rails application

2009-09-05 Thread AGoofin
Hmm... that last replay was so helpful I'll really have to try There is a plugin available - http://ym4r.rubyforge.org/ym4r_gm-doc/ which seems to be coming along nicely. I haven't used it yet so ymmv. Lot of other ways to do this as well - Google search is your friend too :) On Sep 5, 1:05

[Rails] Re: JRuby vs Ruby: why would you ever use ruby?

2009-08-30 Thread AGoofin
I would worry about changes to the Java language that would affect JRuby. Ruby implementation is never going to be a big concern of the Java devs, nor should it be. On Aug 16, 1:45 am, AlwaysCharging wrote: > Why would anyone use ruby over Jruby?  I'm admittedly a noob about all > this stuff, bu

[Rails] Re: REPL in a browser.

2009-08-29 Thread AGoofin
If just want to process some basic commands in a web environment you could create a form which simply re-displays itself. Setup a class variable (or simply use the flash notification) to hold the result of whatever you want to do and instead of redirecting to show or index, redirect to new. Then

[Rails] Re: How to "sanitize" a link?

2009-06-30 Thread AGoofin
Take a look at: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html and then look at what you're trying to provide. Is it really worth the risk? A compromise might be http://redcloth.org/ a Textile to Ruby module On Jun 29, 5:59 pm, Xdmx Xdmx wrote: > Hi, i wan't to permit users to send their own con

[Rails] Re: Complicated polymorphic relation

2009-06-30 Thread AGoofin
First, try not to worry so much about how the tables are set up, you can create a view to the data to suit your needs. What you need to be concerned about is how to make the information easy to use and to not repeat yourself. As to modeling the data - It seems that the User table would be the cen

[Rails] Re: How to get value from view?

2009-06-08 Thread AGoofin
It seems like the two controllers could be combined. Validating the card and choosing a subscription type would be part of the same order, so you could add the subscription types to the credit card controller as an instance variable. On Jun 8, 5:05 am, Vikas Gholap wrote: > Hello all, > > I ha

[Rails] Re: How do i model this in Rails? (put down java equivalent design)

2009-06-07 Thread AGoofin
Does seem to be a bit of repetition in your description but it seems straightforward. You have a Module which has an Entity_type column Each Module has many Chapters where Chapters has a column named module_id. Each Chapter has many Activities with similar foreign key constraints or You have on

[Rails] Re: GeoLocation for any Cell Phone with GPS

2009-06-07 Thread AGoofin
A quick Google search turned up a few possibilities: (ruby geolocation) http://earthcode.com/blog/2007/02/geokit_map_plugin.html There are a few ways though to take a lat/long and transpose them to a map or do other fun things with them. Try looking at Google maps as well. On Jun 6, 1:47 pm, f

[Rails] Re: can't get a simple partial to work !...@#!$!!

2009-05-10 Thread AGoofin
first place. If you want the code to work, replace 'test' in the index view with '@array' On May 10, 1:35 am, 7stud -- wrote: > AGoofin wrote: > > When you render a partial you automagically get an object with the > > same name available in the partial &g

[Rails] Re: can't get a simple partial to work !...@#!$!!

2009-05-09 Thread AGoofin
When you render a partial you automagically get an object with the same name available in the partial For example, render :partial => 'foo' passes the instance variable named @foo to the partial where I can then say: for f in @foo. In your first post you iterate over 'test' but that variable is

[Rails] Re: referential integrity

2009-04-13 Thread AGoofin
Your Team has many members and should be noted: class Team < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :members end This is assuming that you have a column in your member table named team_id. I think this is what you were asking about with the foreign keys. As a somewhat noob to Rails myself I found a fe