[Rails] Re: Using Nokogiri to insert a tag into existing text

I tried Node.inner_html= to no avail, setting it to the string that resulted if I interpolated the where I wanted it. Not sure why it didn't work, but the replace/after works, so I went with that. Thanks for the help. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this mess

[Rails] Re: Using Nokogiri to insert a tag into existing text

This works: #Surround all of the text (NOT attribute value) merge fields with tags for ease of manipulation later doc = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(html) nodes = doc.xpath("//text()[contains(.,'MERGE')]") nodes.each do |node| text = node.text.dup if md = text.match(/.{2}MERGE(\d+).{2}/) start_

[Rails] Re: Using Nokogiri to insert a tag into existing text

This doesn't work - when I write this back out to a file the is escaped. Perhaps I should have mentioned that I needed to re-serialize the resulting HTML. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Ra

[Rails] Re: Using Nokogiri to insert a tag into existing text

Thanks Walter, ended up with this: doc = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(File.new(merge_path)) nodes = doc.xpath("//text()[contains(.,'MERGE')]") nodes.each do |node| text = node.text if md = text.match(/.{2}MERGE(\d+).{2}/) start_index = text.index(md[0]) start_span_tag = "" end_index = star

[Rails] Using Nokogiri to insert a tag into existing text

All, I'm using Nokogiri to handle the following problem: I have a piece of HTML, and for certain text nodes, I need to insert tags into the text of these nodes at a certain place. What I am doing is finding the place where I want to insert the , let's say index X of the text node's text, and do

[Rails] Re: Trouble inserting large objects into memcached

Ha ha - now it is an option! But only for the last two years so I don't feel stupid for doing what I did. >From the memcached man page on OS X: " -I Override the default size of each slab page. Default is 1mb. Default is 1m, minimum is 1k, max is 128m. Adjusting this value c

[Rails] Re: Getting currency unit for a given locale

Answer: I18n.translate('number.currency.format.unit', :locale => '') W -- 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. T

[Rails] Getting currency unit for a given locale

How do I interrogate a given locale for it's currency unit? Obviously, I can parse my own Yaml translation files, but I'm assuming that there is a simpler way to do it via a direct call to I18n, perhaps? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message becaus

[Rails] Suppressing the authenticity_token div in form_for output

Is there any way to suppress the generation of the authenticity_token div by passing an option to form for? I'm generating a form that I will allow others to use outside of the current session. I've already put in the appropriate skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token in the controller for

[Rails] Foreign currency exchange rate Web services

PI, but am willing to do SOAP if I must. Any feedback would be of interest. Many thanks, Wes Gamble -- 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 em

[Rails] Recommendations for Google Checkout integration

All, I need to be able to integrate with Google checkout. Does anyone have advice for which gem/plugin would be most appropriate to use to integrate with it? Many thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Rails] Userstamp plugin doesn't load in "test" environment - y not?

I'm working on an app. with the userstamp plugin in it (from 2 - 3 years back). In the init.rb file, there's this: ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, ActiveRecord::Userstamp) unless RAILS_ENV == 'test' This causes certain tests to fail since created_by is a required attribute. Does anyone know

[Rails] Need version 2.1.0 of SQL Server adapter for Rails

Is there any place that I can get versions of the SQL Server adapter for Rails that are <= 2.1.0? I've looked at http://github.com/rails-sqlserver and the oldest version there appears to be 2.2. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~

[Rails] Re: Rails adds send! method to Object?

I'm using Rails 2.1.2 at the moment. So I need to reliably call a private method dynamically, and I don't want to have to change how I do it when I move to Rails 2.3.2 nor Ruby 1.9. Should I use Object#send or something else? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-

[Rails] Rails adds send! method to Object?

All, It appears that Rails adds the send! method to Object, via the output below. gandalf-2:royaltyzone weyus$ irb >> Object.methods.include?("send!") => false >> exit gandalf-2:royaltyzone weyus$ script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.2) >> Object.methods.include?("send!") =>

[Rails] Surveying SMS gateway APIs for use with Rails

All, I understand that there are a few plugins/gems which are available that allow relatively straightforward integration with various SMS gateway providers. I'm looking for recommendations from people on preferred SMS gateway APIs - why do you like them? Also curious about any scalability issu

[Rails] Re: Rails apps. with Microsoft Access as a back end?

Roy Pardee wrote: > Never tried it. I think the lack of an adapter is what kills this. I'd > be curious to hear whether the sqlserver adapter in ODBC mode could be > fooled into hitting msaccess w/the right connect string... Good point. Might be that the connect string setup would have to be

[Rails] Rails apps. with Microsoft Access as a back end?

Curious as to whether anyone out there has set up Rails as a front end to a M$ Access DB? I have done it with SQL Server, and have used ODBC to do it, so I know that this is certainly possible. I'm interested in gotchas, and good advice. I'm not interested in hearing questions about why someone

[Rails] Re: Generating M$ Word documents from RoR apps?

I am humoring a client, but I am advising strongly against it. The desired behavior is the ability to edit a document after it is generated via a Web form. I am pushing for making the Web form flexible enough to handle generating whatever they want into a read-only PDF. But I feel like I ne

[Rails] Generating M$ Word documents from RoR apps?

All, Anyone done any work generating Word documents/Word templates from a Rails app.? I'm sure that there is a way to do this without too much trouble in a JRuby world, so wondering about that approach as well. Any advice is welcome. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~-

[Rails] Re: How can I disable the memcache client in ActiveSupport

SOLUTION: I forced my custom version to be loaded by using a more explicit 'require' statement and this overrode the built-in memcache client. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscrib

[Rails] How can I disable the memcache client in ActiveSupport

Since Rails 2.1, the memcache-client gem has been bundled with ActiveSupport. I have an app. which has a customized version of the memcache-client code, and I would like to disable the built-in memached-client. How can I go about doing that? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/

[Rails] Embedded HTML validation in a RoR app?

Anyone ever done HTML validation of an arbitrary piece of HTML within their RoR app.? Any gems/plugins that would work? Would Hpricot do the trick? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[Rails] Re: ails based shopping cart/e-commerce engines/starter apps.

er, Rails based :). -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com To u

[Rails] ails based shopping cart/e-commerce engines/starter apps.

area. I'm not looking for anything fancy, just something that would give me a head start and is worth using (meaning I get more value from taking advantage of it than customizing it). Thanks, Wes Gamble -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~-

[Rails] activerecord-sqlserver-adapter-2.2.19 bug: text col limits

All, Rails 2.1.0 AR SQL Server Adapter 2.2.19 I use the AR session store in my application. When I upgraded to the latest version of the SQL Server Adapter, my app. stopped working because supposedly my session data wouldn't fit into the "data" TEXT column in my sessions table. This block of c

[Rails] Re: Running in non-dev envs. with script/runner shebang setup

Duh. RAILS_ENV=production lib/import_physicians.rb works fine. W -- 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

[Rails] Re: Running in non-dev envs. with script/runner shebang setup

That's correct, but I can't get it to work when the script/runner command is _in a file_, like so: import_physicians.rb: #!/usr/bin/env ./script/runner -e production If I run import_physicians.rb, this doesn't work. W -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~--

[Rails] Running in non-dev envs. with script/runner shebang setup

All, I have a script that runs script/runner via the shebang mechanism at the top o the file, like so: #!/usr/bin/env ./script/runner This works fine in development, how would I get it to run in non-development environments? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---

[Rails] Re: Does respond_to play nicely with render :update?

If I do this, it works: page.replace_html('search_results', render(:partial => 'search_results')) Notice that originally, I was passing just the hash key/value pair, but now I am passing a render call. According to the API docs: "options_for_render may be either a string of HTML to insert, o

[Rails] Re: Does respond_to play nicely with render :update?

Bradly Feeley wrote: > I think I remember an issue that when using custom formats you need to > give the full path the the partial like :partial => 'posts/ > search_results'. > > Bradly Feeley > > > On Apr 18, 6:01�pm, Wes Gamble That doesn't s

[Rails] Does respond_to play nicely with render :update?

I have a custom format that I'm using called 'desktop'. I have an action which is called via AJAX, and I'd like to update a div in my page with a partial. The request comes in with params[:format] == 'desktop', and my partial is named _search_results.desktop.erb However, when I do this in my ac

[Rails] Re: Running tests against a non-test environment

>> > check the top of your app's test_helper.rb. > > Fred Nicely done, sir. Many thanks. W -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.

[Rails] Running tests against a non-test environment

I am certain that running: rake test RAILS_ENV= should work, assuming that I have a correct DB setup in config/database.yml. But this is not happening. It looks like rake test always is using the "test" DB no matter what. If I type rake test RAILS_ENV=crap or RAILS_ENV=crap; rake test my

[Rails] Migrating from homegrown auth. to RESTful Authentication

I'm trying to port an existing, home grown authentication system to use RESTful Authentication (and then RoleRequirement on top of that). I am concerned about how best to handle the existing user data in my users table so that legacy (pre-RESTful Auth users) can log in. I already have an existin

[Rails] Re: Ordering of messages in error_messages_for

Fred, I already have a custom version of error_messages_for, so yeah, that's cool. Thx. for the quick response. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby

[Rails] Ordering of messages in error_messages_for

Is there any way to control the ordering of the error messages in the output of error_messages_for()? I want to make the error messages match the order of the form elements in my form, and although the validates_presence_of directive has these attributes in that order, they still show up in seemi

[Rails] Re: Identifying Rails versions related to deprecation warnin

Rob, Sadly, my impression is that the state of this world has not much improved since I wrote this post so long ago. I am resigned to doing upgrades on my Rails apps. more or less one point release at a time since there doesn't appear to be any more reliable way to get deprecation information

[Rails] Re: Option on select form helper to customize "Select" text?

Fred, Thanks for the info. I neglected to mention that this is on Rails 1.2.6 (please no one "helpfully suggest" that I upgrade - thanks ;]), so these options are not available. It's fine - I won't die. One further question, if you use a "unified" helper like date_select in the current v. o

[Rails] Re: Option on select form helper to customize "Select" text?

Rick, Thanks, but not what I'm looking for. Wes -- 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 rubyonrai

[Rails] Option on select form helper to customize "Select" text?

All, Is there any built-in way in the "select" form helper to display something other than "Select" in the :include_blank option? Specifically, for a date helper, would like to show "Month", "Day", "Year" respectively for those options in 3 selects. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-for

[Rails] Re: Installing Rails 1.2.6 gem doesn't pull dependencies

Jeff Cohen wrote: > > What version of RubyGems are you using to do the install? If it's > before 1.2.1 (I think), you need to add the --include-dependencies > switch to the gem install command. > > Jeff > switchingtorails.com 1.3.1 That's kind of why I'm asking. I know that 1.3.1 is supposed

[Rails] Installing Rails 1.2.6 gem doesn't pull dependencies

I recently had a need to install the Rails 1.2.6 gem (for support reasons). When I did it, the dependencies were not installed automatically, so I had to find and get the correct versions of actinomailer, actionpack, etc. Anybody seen this behavior before and have any insight into that? Wes --

[Rails] Re: Removing an association on an AR model via monkey patching

The has_many part of the Invoice class is actually provided by a plugin. And inside of that plugin, a set_table_name was being done to point to the offensive table. I got this to work by making the inclusion of that plugin dependent on the setting of RAILS_ENV. Which isn't pretty, but works.

[Rails] Re: Removing an association on an AR model via monkey patching

Frederick Cheung wrote: > On 16 Jan 2009, at 20:44, Wes Gamble wrote: > >> When the Invoice class is loaded, all of its class level association >> directives are executed. When it hits the one that doesn't have a >> backing table, it fails. > > So it'

[Rails] Re: Removing an association on an AR model via monkey patching

When I call Invoice.find_all_by_im_invoice_state("Paid").each the Invoice class is loaded. When the Invoice class is loaded, all of its class level association directives are executed. When it hits the one that doesn't have a backing table, it fails. So I need to be able to modify the Invoic

[Rails] Re: Removing an association on an AR model via monkey patching

Here's my real problem: I am trying to load a fixture into a database which acts as a secondary DB to my application. The fixture file uses Erb to generate appropriate fixtures based on something like this: <% Invoice.find_all_by_im_invoice_state("Paid").each do |inv| %> ...generate a bunch

[Rails] Removing an association on an AR model via monkey patching

How can I remove an association from an AR model with a monkey patch? Assume: class Foo < AR::Base has_many :bars end It's a long story, but in one particular data loading (not running the app. context), I'd like to remove the has_many association to :bars. Can I do that? Thanks, Wes -- Po

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

Supraja wrote: > Dear Wes, > > I saw that you had posted on "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows > issue. I noticed you said you probably wouldn't pursue it, but I was > wondering if you had any success since then? > No, still haven't resolved it. Hoping that the next release of the mysql ge

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

I remember now why I was trying to get this to work. Because the built-in support for MySQL has been pulled out of Rails 2.2, I was just trying to anticipate any 2.2 projects that I needed to run/handle on Windows. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~--

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

>a reinstall or major upgrade of OSX will trash /usr/local. Good tip! Thanks. -- 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: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

My main OS is Mac OS X. Actually, getting the MySQL gem to install on Mac OS X was no mean fit given the 32/64 bit issues with the version of Ruby that ships with OS X. But I did get that working the other day. I'm comfortable compiling stuff on OS X. This exercise was to set up my Windows X

[Rails] Retitled: Best way to customize tags in Rails

All, (sorry, I mis-titled this post as "Best way to add custom onclick handler to select options" and posted it before I could fix the title). I want to make an individual in a act as an in-place edit field. I get how the in_place_editor works, and it appears if I simply place a tag "around"

[Rails] Best way to add custom onclick handler to select options

All, I want to make an individual in a act as an in-place edit field. I get how the in_place_editor works, and it appears if I simply place a tag "around" the of interest, and then mark this tag as the edit-in-place target, I should be good. The trick is how do I easily decorate the tag wit

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

Rick wrote: I'm under the assumption that the mysql gem for Windows is precompiled, like all of the other gems for Windows (generally speaking), so there isn't really a compilation step. Here's the output from the --verbose run. I notice that it can't find the H:\>gem install mysql --verbos

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

Rick wrote: > > ruby ./test.rb -- localhost test test testDB > I get this when I run test.rb: C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32\ext>ruby test.rb -- local host test test testDB Loaded suite test Started .FE..C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/test/unit/assertions.rb:497: [BUG] Segmenta

[Rails] Re: Getting at DBI connection via ActiveRecord connection

Upon further inspection, I see that AR doesn't depend on DBI. I wonder why not... As it turns out, I'm in a JRuby environment, so I can just do prepared statements via that method. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

[Rails] Getting at DBI connection via ActiveRecord connection

I have a standalone batch program that is going to move data between two databases. I am taking advantage of the AR connection semantics in database.yml to get connections to these two DBs. But I want to do all of my DB access at the DBI/DBD level for performance reasons. I am having trouble ge

[Rails] Re: "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

Rick wrote: > Hi Wes, > > Did you see anything in the ext directory? > > Rick > > > On Nov 25, 10:30�am, Wes Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes. I see the following files: extconf.rb mysql.c.in mysql.c.in.patch mysql.so test.rb Wes -- Posted

[Rails] "mysql" 2.7.3 gem install for Windows appears incomplete

When I install the 2.7.3 "mysql" gem on Windows XP (trying to prepare for the requirement to use the mysql gem in Rails 2.2.2) by using: gem install mysql I get a mysql-2.7.3-x86-mswin32 directory under gems, but underneath that, only a docs directory, an ext directory, and README, Rakefile and

[Rails] Testing and fixture management against two databases

I have some models in my app. that connect to a different database than the rest of my app. How do I set things up so that when I run my tests, I can associate the appropriate fixtures with the appropriate database. For example, I'll want most of the fixtures to get loaded into the "test" databa

[Rails] Querying date format for DB via ActiveRecord?

Is there a way to query the DB connection behind an AR::Base object for the date string format expected by the DB? I'm trying to use quoted_date, however, this returns a formatted timestamp and the column in question is simply a date. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--

[Rails] Re: Cross-database joins on has_many associations

Some answers... In my particular case, I may not even need to worry about the has_many relationship from A to B. If all I need to take advantage of is the fact that B belongs_to A, _and_ I'm sure that my keys are all consistent, then simply doing belongs_to :a, :foreign_key => 'appropriate

[Rails] Cross-database joins on has_many associations

All, I'm looking at possibly having to define a has_many relationship across two databases (possibly even two databases on different servers). To be clear, I mean model A lives in database X and it's related to model B that lives in database Y. A has_many B's. It appears that if I want to do t

[Rails] Re: Symbol.to_proc is way slower than invoking methods directly

Enrico Thierbach wrote: > Besides, I found a hack that would decrease the runtime overhead of > using Symbol#to_proc, which is to cache the Proc object inside the > symbol: > > class Symbol > def to_proc > @to_proc ||= Proc.new { |*args| args.shift.__send__(self, *args) } > end > end >

[Rails] Is InstantRails still a viable way to start with Rails?

All, Have a friend who is starting out on Windows with Rails using Instant Rails but he's having problems. Anybody have any good/bad experience with it so I can help set his expectations? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[Rails] Re: Disabling observe_form AJAX request on submit button click?

Hijacking the click handler by adding this: :onclick => 'this.form.submit(); return false' to the submit_tag() call for the submit button seems to work well. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

[Rails] Disabling observe_form AJAX request on submit button click?

All, I have a form that is using observe_form to periodically check for modifications to the form and submit an AJAX request. It works really well. However, by watching Firebug output, I notice that the AJAX request always fires when I click the submit button, and even when nothing has changed

[Rails] Taking advantage of template generation from within a model?

All, I have a controller action/view pair that successfully generates a PDF using Prawnto. I like the idea of the view specifying the details of the PDF generation in a view file (x.pdf.prawn). However, I would like to be able to generate a PDF and instead of rendering it to a view, just genera

[Rails] Best practice for common functional tests?

All, I'm working on an ActiveScaffold based application, and in the interest of getting more functional test coverage, I'd like to verify things about AS-generated screens in the context of multiple controllers. In order to share these tests, I've created methods in test_helper.rb, and simply in

[Rails] Re: Confusion about HTTP header content during functional tests

I saw that you can just manipulate the session data to handle this, and that is simpler. But of course, I'm stubborn and I preferred the idea of actually "doing" the login as part of the functional test. I have worked around it, and here's the code that does it: def login(user = 'blah', passw

[Rails] Re: Confusion about HTTP header content during functional tests

Frederick Cheung wrote: > On 3 Oct 2008, at 16:29, Wes Gamble wrote: > >> 3) Why is the Location header on the response showing to be what it >> would be right after a login? >> > > Does your login method actually do a request? that would explain > everything. @

[Rails] Confusion about HTTP header content during functional tests

I'm seeing some header output from various HTTP requests and responses that doesn't make sense to me. I have a couple of functional tests that appear to work ok. In the course of writing them, I went ahead and created a couple of methods to dump the request and response headers to help me debug

[Rails] Re: Simple testing question: Handling login in functional te

I also found this approach which is interesting because it actually forces a test of the login process each time. http://alexbrie.net/1526/functional-tests-with-login-in-rails/ Thanks for the responses. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~-

[Rails] Simple testing question: Handling login in functional tests

When writing functional (e.g. controller unit) tests, I'm running into a simple problem that I'm sure is very easy to fix, but I'm not sure of the correct approach. If I request a resource in my test case, via something like "get :get_template" (where :get_template is an action on my controller),

[Rails] Setting view path in a plugin to include plugin views

I have a plugin that I'm trying to use but it keeps looking in another plugin's path for the view files. I get this error: "ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template blah.rhtml in view path other_plugin_view_dir:my_app/app/views)" I don't know much about setting up view paths in plugins, bu

[Rails] Re: Is Rails 2.1 "protect_from_forgery" == csrf_killer plugin?

Yeah, I just verified that. Sorry, I should have tested it first. -- 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

[Rails] Re: Is Rails 2.1 "protect_from_forgery" == csrf_killer plugin?

Thanks, Frederick. Follow - up: Is there anything that precludes using protect_from_forgery with a DB session store? Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R

[Rails] Is Rails 2.1 "protect_from_forgery" == csrf_killer plugin?

Just would like to verify: Is protect_from_forgery (in Rails 2.1) == the csrf_killer plugin from Rick Olson? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ru