[Rails] local installation of ruby and of rails?

I'm fairly new to Ruby (around 6 months) and to RoR (about two or three weeks of practical experience). However, for an important programming project, I'm (for economical reasons) stuck serving my app on a hosted web server which uses Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.10. But I want to be using Ruby 1.9 and

[Rails] count of records meeting condition

Forgive this question, but I'm new to rails, and my SQL is rather rusty. I have a line like so to get all records for a particular time period: @recordings_for_period = Recording.find(:all, :order => "date_of_event DESC", :conditions => ["date_of_event >= ? AND date_of_event < ?", start_date, end_

[Rails] Re: First Test Failures: Anything Obvious?

Terry Michaels wrote: > Terry Michaels wrote: >> # cat app/models/recording.rb >> class Recording < ActiveRecord::Base >> validate :title, :speaker, :date_of_event, :file, :presence => true >> validate :title, :file, :uniqueness => true >> end >

[Rails] Re: First Test Failures: Anything Obvious?

Terry Michaels wrote: > # cat app/models/recording.rb > class Recording < ActiveRecord::Base > validate :title, :speaker, :date_of_event, :file, :presence => true > validate :title, :file, :uniqueness => true > end Wait, double checked the book... the method is su

[Rails] Re: First Test Failures: Anything Obvious?

Colin Law wrote: > On 17 August 2010 06:31, Gintautas Šimkus wrote: >> Try to save the object first and then check for validity. > > I don't think that is right, for a start it will not save if it is > invalid. > > Colin The point of the unit test is make sure the object /is/ invalid. That is

[Rails] First Test Failures: Anything Obvious?

Still following my rails book (more like, adapting to my project as I go). My first attempt at a unit test failed. Adapting the example in the book, I came up with this: require 'test_helper' class RecordingTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase test "record attributes must not be empty" do recordi