[Rails] acts_as_commentable validations

2011-04-18 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I recently started back up with Rails and things are going well up until now. I've set up acts_as_commentable in my Post model and it's working great. Problem is users are able to create a blank comment. I've added the following validations in the comment.rb file generated by

[Rails] Re: acts_as_commentable validations

2011-04-18 Thread Tony Tony
Colin Law wrote in post #993612: On 18 April 2011 18:22, Tony Tony li...@ruby-forum.com wrote: The show view form for the comment is the following: However I am getting the following error only when validation fails (if a normal length comment is created the site works): [code] Template

[Rails] Rails does not display form error message on a custom method

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I've created a custom method called checkout in my app. I create an order (which is done my adding products to my cart), assign it to my client, and then I head to my checkout screen where I confirm the items and enter their customer order number and complete the order (submit).

[Rails] Re: Rails does not display form error message on a custom me

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Tony
Tony Tony wrote: Any idea how I can display the specific error messages? Thank you in advance! -Tony Solved thanks to Salil over in stackoverflow(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2638215/rails-does-not-display-error-messages-on-a-form-in-a-custom-method). Change redirect_to to render

[Rails] Rails validations app specific problems

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I have a unique workflow where it's making the use of validations difficult. My app is for internal use in my company and I have a funky implementation (inspired by the e-commerce Railscasts episodes) of a cart. I have products which when I add to cart creates an order with a state of

[Rails] Rails form partial help - nested resource

2010-04-01 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I apologize for the funky subject of this post. I have a partial I created while recreating a railscasts example (nested resources part 2 - http://railscasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2) and I've come to a halt. What I want to do is force a question to be asked if this is

[Rails] Re: Rails form partial help - nested resource

2010-04-01 Thread Tony Tony
babu nair wrote: Hi Tony, Hope ur using Jquery Add the class to the remove link and add the following line of code div class=fields %= f.error_messages % p %= f.text_field :content % % unless f.object.new_record? % %= link_to_remove_fields remove, f,:class=remove %

[Rails] Single Table Inheritance and .class problem

2010-03-31 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm trying to do a condition in my application.html.erb where if a user is based off of a STI it has a special section in the navigation. The following code correctly prints out the user type (either User or Client) [code] %= current_user.class if logged_in? % [/code] However, when

[Rails] Re: Single Table Inheritance and .class problem

2010-03-31 Thread Tony Tony
Tony Tony wrote: %= content_tag(:li, link_to (Products, productss_path)) if current_user.class == Client % Oops - typo in the above code: products_path not productss_path Any help is appreciated! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you

[Rails] Re: Single Table Inheritance and .class problem

2010-03-31 Thread Tony Tony
Michael Pavling wrote: .class doesn't return a string, it returns a class... %= content_tag(:li, link_to (Products, productss_path)) if current_user.class == Client % but you might be better using is_a?(base_class) - depends what the intention of your code is: %= content_tag(:li,

[Rails] Re: Re: Single Table Inheritance and .class problem

2010-03-31 Thread Tony Tony
Michael Pavling wrote: On 31 March 2010 15:36, Tony Tony li...@ruby-forum.com wrote: is there a place where I can learn this kind of thing simple thing? 'Fraid you've just gotta read the docs and remember as much as you can - and be suspicious! If something doesn't work then make sure all

[Rails] Re: Re: Re: Single Table Inheritance and .class problem

2010-03-31 Thread Tony Tony
Not sure if the best part was identical answers or identical answer times! This forum kicks butt for putting up and helping us newbies out. Thank you guys. -Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on

[Rails] Default pricing and custom client pricing

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I have a personal project I'm planning and I came to a small hurdle. I want to have an item with a price that will be the default for all clients/users. However, in my business I have some clients that are grandfathered in to some special pricing. In the case of these grandfathered in

[Rails] Re: Default pricing and custom client pricing

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Tony
Anybody have ideas, thoughts or suggestions? -Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

[Rails] Re: Default pricing and custom client pricing

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Tony
Craig White wrote: I would have a table called pricing and have a column that had the customer_id and thus you might have 2 (or more) prices for an item but only one for a specific customer or default to the one that is not tied to a specific customer. Hi Craig! I don't think this would

[Rails] Re: Re: Default pricing and custom client pricing

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Tony
Craig White wrote: yes, you misunderstood... sorry if I wasn't clear enough. Something like this, definitely not tested and perhaps you can get it down to a single query. Class Pricing has_one :customer belongs_to :item id price customer_id def self.item_price(item, customer) if

[Rails] Re: Getting the last record for an each loop?

2009-11-12 Thread Tony Tony
Conrad Taylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Conrad Taylor conra...@gmail.com wrote: The code is this... hr/ !-- THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO NOT DISPLAY ON TH LAST RECORD -- % for task in tasks % ... % tag :hr unless task == tasks.last % The above should be %= tag

[Rails] Dreamhost launch issues. What gems are used in my rails app?

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Tony
Hi guys, I made a quick app for a family member to be deployed on Dreamhost (low budget). It's my first time deploying on DH so I'm not familiar with the restrictions. I'm having an issue where I've been able to get git on both systems and used capistrano to deploy the app. However migrations

[Rails] Re: Dreamhost launch issues. What gems are used in my rails

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Tony
Heinz Strunk wrote: Have you tried to run rake gems:install on the server to install all required gems? Yea tried that - there was nothing to install. I think I just figured out what's partly wrong. I had to install rails 2.3.3 on DH. Now I'm getting a different error. Thanks! --

[Rails] Re: Dreamhost launch issues. What gems are used in my rails

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Tony
Colin Law wrote: 2009/9/23 Tony Tony rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net: database for production (same schema) and the site still fails to load. page just in case, Any help is appreciated!!: no such file to load -- application (MissingSourceFile) 2 133  in `require_dependency' /usr/lib/ruby

[Rails] Re: Dreamhost launch issues. What gems are used in my rails

2009-09-23 Thread Tony Tony
The Ultimation wrote: for migrations, have you tried running rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production ? That may or may not work. As far as the plugins go, you shouldnt need gems to make them work, or if you did you would only get an error when trying to use them. I believe paperclip does

[Rails] Error when output has a period (.) in the name

2009-08-18 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, Hopefully this is easy for you guys. I'm trying to output a list of usernames and everything has been working well. However, when I added a user with a period in their username it generates this error. If I rename the user to Tom_Dixon it works fine, but Tom.Dixon fails. Any clue how to

[Rails] paperclip model fails while when updating with no attachment

2009-08-07 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I have paperclip running in my rails environment. I setup a new model just for paperclip called Assets so that I could upload multiple files per item (even though I'm only using 1 attachment per item at the moment). Everything works except for the following: Updating an item record with

[Rails] Re: paperclip model fails while when updating with no attach

2009-08-07 Thread Tony Tony
Ooops... I copied the older file's create_or_update_assets! method Just replace product(s) with item(s). Sorry about that! -Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Rails] Re: paperclip model fails while when updating with no attach

2009-08-07 Thread Tony Tony
Solved! Replace this... def create_or_update_assets! # return if there are no asset_attributes return true if asset_attributes.nil? || asset_attributes.empty? # pull the attributes from the instance variable asset_attributes.each do |attributes_hash|

[Rails] Re: Logging out with Rake:Auth:Basic

2009-08-07 Thread Tony Tony
Thanks for the reply Matt! I did something like this... I'd like to know what you and others think of it as far as security goes. While it's not a bank or anything, I'd like my app to be as hacker proof as possible. Any suggestions to make it more secure are welcome! Many thanks guys! --

[Rails] Re: Logging out with Rake:Auth:Basic

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Tony
Ahh... there go my hopes for a simple and secure login/logout system! Many thanks for the useful information before I started ripping my hair out! Any suggestions on another easy to implement login/logout system? I don't require user signups. I just want to hardcode maybe 2 or 3 usernames

[Rails] Logging out with Rake:Auth:Basic

2009-08-05 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm writting a small app that requires basic authentication in Sinatra. I followed the advice of the official Sinatra faq (http://www.sinatrarb.com/faq.html#auth) and have implemented this code with success: [code] require 'rubygems' require 'sinatra' helpers do def protected!

[Rails] Re: Logging out with Rake:Auth:Basic

2009-08-05 Thread Tony Tony
Just realized I posted this to the rails forum instead of the ruby forum. Sorry! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group. To post to this

[Rails] Re: Making a user created in a complex (nested) form an admi

2009-03-11 Thread Tony Tony
Tony Tony wrote: My idea of how this *should* work is this: def create @school = School.new(params[:school]) @school.faculties.admin = true ... end Okay, I got it to work. However I'd love to hear from you guys if this is the proper way to go about doing

[Rails] Making a user created in a complex (nested) form an admin.

2009-03-10 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm using a nested form (http://railscasts.com/episodes/73-complex-forms-part-1) to set up a school + faculty user in a single form. Everything works great following the above screencast. However, I've come to a temporary halt when trying to make the first user (the same user that's

[Rails] Re: Can map.root to point to a static html file in public d

2009-03-06 Thread Tony Tony
Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tony Tony rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I'm trying to get map.root to point to a static html file in the public directory. I can't just have index.html since I'm doing subdomains and any index.html file in there will be used

[Rails] Re: Can map.root to point to a static html file in public d

2009-03-06 Thread Tony Tony
Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Tony Tony rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: What I want is to have my subdomain root (ex. user.app.com) to point to the user login page (which I currently have working) and the domain root (ex. app.com) to have a typical welcome

[Rails] Re: Can map.root to point to a static html file in public d

2009-03-06 Thread Tony Tony
Conrad Taylor wrote: In short, the standard way of providing the root page of a web site is to use an index.[php|html|htm|...] but feel free to use one of the methods above to achieve your result. Good luck, -Conrad FANTASTIC! Thanks a lot for the detailed post. -Tony -- Posted

[Rails] Can map.root to point to a static html file in public dir?

2009-03-05 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm trying to get map.root to point to a static html file in the public directory. I can't just have index.html since I'm doing subdomains and any index.html file in there will be used as the actual page displayed. Basically I can point to my subdomain roots just fine, but I need to

[Rails] Re: restful_authentication with two models suggestion/help

2009-03-04 Thread Tony Tony
Matt Jones wrote: On Mar 3, 9:26�pm, Tony Tony rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: bit with security. If moving these tables into one is the best way to go about this, any hints on how to tell teachers apart from students? For example, having a Teacher page and a Student page

[Rails] restful_authentication with two models suggestion/help

2009-03-03 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm working on trying to create a login system via subdomains for a teacher/students. I have two models at the moment. teacher.rb and student.rb. The fields in both tables are almost identical. Now I've come add restful_authentication and I realize this could be a pain with two tables.

[Rails] Re: restful_authentication with two models suggestion/help

2009-03-03 Thread Tony Tony
Hey guys, Hate to be annoying about this, but is unifying these two tables the best way to go about this? Obviously students will have completely different levels of access to the site than teachers. Students will be able to log in and pay fees, view grades, print homework, etc. Teachers

[Rails] Stupid Question - Need to get a field from table...

2009-02-27 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm ashamed to ask this but I can't figure it out. Lately my brain gets more burned out by the minute. Basically I'm trying to have a shirt have up to 2 colors. I currently have this working. When I edit a shirt, I can select the primary and secondary color of a shirt. But when I want to

[Rails] Re: Stupid Question - Need to get a field from table...

2009-02-27 Thread Tony Tony
Ideally something like this would be great: %=h @shirt.approved_colors.color_id.name % Any ideas? I don't know why my brain is shot today. Hate it. -Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[Rails] Re: Stupid Question - Need to get a field from table...

2009-02-27 Thread Tony Tony
Thanks for the replies! Craigs solution worked like a charm. First time I use foreign_key. I have a feeling that while this worked, the way it works (specifically having to specify foreign_key) is incorrect or rather defaults rails conventions. Is this the case? If so what can or should I

[Rails] Re: Stupid Question - Need to get a field from table...

2009-02-27 Thread Tony Tony
Craig Demyanovich wrote: Using the :foreign_key option isn't incorrect. It's there if you need to circumvent the Rails defaults for any reason. If you didn't want to use the :foreign_key option, you could use a migration to rename the color_id and color2_id columns in your shirts table to

[Rails] Re: How do I make an API for my rails app?

2009-02-03 Thread Tony Tony
Thanks for the replies Mukund, Julian, and Comopasta! @Mukund - I consider it to be a wonderful app ;-) I see this app being similar and no more complicated than twitterific or tweetie on the iphone. I'm thinking a SOAP/REST interface is what I will need. Also, the increased visibility of the

[Rails] Re: How do I make an API for my rails app?

2009-02-03 Thread Tony Tony
I've done some quick searches on REST API as SOAP isn't recommended by the rails community. Came up with this site: http://hinchcliffe.org/archive/2008/01/10/16613.aspx I'll take a more in depth look later on. If anyone else has something to contribute, feel free! -Tony -- Posted via

[Rails] Re: How do I make an API for my rails app?

2009-02-03 Thread Tony Tony
Billee D. wrote: Hopefully I am not misunderstanding your intent here, so please excuse me if I am missing something. Hi Billee and thank you for the help! So far I have all of that pretty much learned. My question (and maybe I'm misunderstanding this greatly) is how to make an API for

[Rails] How do I make an API for my rails app?

2009-02-02 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm currently close to releasing my first rails app. Many thanks to the countless people that have helped me with my questions on this forum. Couldn't have done it without you. So being close to release I started thinking of neat things I could do, like making an iphone app. I haven't

[Rails] Re: Dynamically generate a field option from dropdown select

2009-01-24 Thread Tony Tony
Chris Bartlett wrote: I've just been doing something similar. This works, but might not be as Railsy as it could be: h3Number of Tickets?/h3 %= select :tickets, :quantity, {1 = 1, 2 = 2}, {:prompt = 'Select quantity...'}, {:onchange = if(this.options [this.selectedIndex].value=='2')

[Rails] Re: Dynamically generate a field option from dropdown selec

2009-01-23 Thread Tony Tony
Patrick Doyle wrote: Ultimately, I was able to learn enough from reading those to learn that (in your case) I would want to put a blank div tag in my layout where I would want the name of guest stuff to appear, and to populate the name of guest stuff only when quantity == 2. I hope

[Rails] Dynamically generate a field option from dropdown selection

2009-01-22 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, I'm having a hard time trying to find a good tutorial on how to generate a field (with ajax) from a dropdown selection. For example: I have an app where you can select up to two tickets per person. Only if the user selects '2' from the dropdown menu should a field pop up/generate below

[Rails] Re: images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and

2008-11-04 Thread Tony Tony
Jean-Marc (M2i3.com) wrote: Hi Tony, Look into Ryan Bates Railscasts... there is one talking about Capistrano (and his tricks when dealing with images and other site specific data). http://railscasts.com/episodes/133-capistrano-tasks Jean-Marc http://m2i3.com/blog/jean-marc Hi

[Rails] Re: images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and

2008-11-03 Thread Tony Tony
Freddy Andersen wrote: Hi Tony... the rm line is only there for the release_path directory which either will have the symlink OR an empty directory that was checked-out from git. If the developers wants a few test images in git for testing you can do that but need to remove that when it is

[Rails] Re: images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and

2008-11-03 Thread Tony Tony
Tim McIntyre wrote: But #{release_path}/public/images/users will still be symlinked to #{shared_path}/users #{release_path}/public/images/users and the r option will remove all files in that directory so I would just remove the r option and you should be OK. No??? Maybe this makes some

[Rails] Re: images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and

2008-11-02 Thread Tony Tony
Tim McIntyre wrote: I'd watch out for the rm -rf #{release_path}/public/images/users line. I think that would remove all your images. Hi Tim, Thanks for the tip. I've been busy so I haven't tried to do this just yet but I'm sure it would remove the images. The idea is to move the

[Rails] images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and git

2008-11-01 Thread Tony Tony
Hi guys, So I finally got around to setting up a staging server (ubuntu + apache + passenger) and after some headaches got Capistrano (using git as the scm) to deploy the app to my staging server using a basic deploy.rb file. Everything seems to be working well, any changes I commit and deploy

[Rails] Re: images folder concern when deploying with Capistrano and

2008-11-01 Thread Tony Tony
Hi Tim Freddy, Thanks for the prompt and insightful replies. I'm glad I got it clear that this IS how Capistrano is supposed to work and that I shouldn't try to fight it much. I wouldn't have even imagined I should have to symlink to get this to work. I'll give it a try and come back if I

[Rails] Re: Boolean database + Site Design/Architecture Question

2008-10-23 Thread Tony Tony
I hate to bump and annoy, but can anyone offer a suggestion on my last reply? Thanks! -Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group. To

[Rails] Re: Boolean database + Site Design/Architecture Question

2008-10-21 Thread Tony Tony
Roy Pardee wrote: I would go with a single 'status' field. Thanks Roy, I appreciate the reply. I guess I could just do a... [code] if @child.status == 'lost' ... [/code] I did like the elegance of boolean for things like: [code] if @child.is_lost? ... [/code] Any other suggestions or

[Rails] Re: Boolean database + Site Design/Architecture Question

2008-10-21 Thread Tony Tony
Roy Pardee wrote: Well, you can still have those is_whatever? methods--just write them on the model your own self: Touché. Can't believe I didn't think about that! Thank you!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[Rails] Trying to replace some .find calls with better code

2008-10-14 Thread Tony Tony
Hi all, This forum has been very helpful in the past so I figured I'd try and ask for some help on some (yet again) rather newbie stuff again. I currently have the following DB Schema (Two Tables Listed here): Users Table(user has_many children) --- id login ... Children Table