[Rails] Re: Re: Re: Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-14 Thread Johnny Stewart
Colin Law wrote in post #1184608: > > Possibly an even better solution to the OPs problem would be to use > roles for different user types and not even have the complexity of > STI. It depends how much role specific data and behaviour there is. > My advice would be to start with just roles and

[Rails] Re: Re: Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-13 Thread Johnny Stewart
Colin Law wrote in post #1184606: > On 13 July 2016 at 16:14, Johnny Stewart <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >>>> So, you don't need to keep all the chef or athlete data in the user >> only has to handle registrations etc. I don't think there is any need to >> hold d

[Rails] Re: Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-13 Thread Johnny Stewart
Colin Law wrote in post #1184575: > On 11 July 2016 at 19:41, Johnny Stewart <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> in a table like ChefInfo >> >> then if user1 is a chef, he would have all the user info + type Chef and >> he would have an entry in the chef table &g

[Rails] Re: Re: User Points System

2016-07-13 Thread Johnny Stewart
Greg Navis wrote in post #1184584: > Yes, gems often make things more complicated than necessary. Regarding > `spent` - if I earned 10 points and want to spend 2 how would you model > this? I'm not sure whether that's possible in your app but it's a thing > to > keep in mind. Good point - I will

[Rails] Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-13 Thread Johnny Stewart
> Thanks for your response. > But isn't this a polymorphic association?. I'am trying to do exactly > that with a polymorphic association, that is, create the user table with > all the common information, and with meta_type:string (that saves the > type of user) and meta_id:integer (that saves the

[Rails] Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-11 Thread Johnny Stewart
No tutorial that I know of.. You have the same information for all user types, namely just the important information for users. So - you keep password, username, first name, last name, email address etc in the User table. Stuff like sport, training ground, weight, height, body-fat etc would go

[Rails] Re: User Points System

2016-07-10 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi Greg, yeah - I think I have abandoned using a gem for this and will roll my own. I've had more of a look into it now and it doesn't look like as big a job as I had imagined.. I think it will be easier to put a "spent" boolean on the point model though, rather than create negative point

[Rails] Re: Won't display current_user.appointment

2016-07-07 Thread Johnny Stewart
Ruth Stephenson wrote in post #1184508: > Unfortunately, I have already tried that. When I click on the link it > does nothing. It stays on whatever page i'm on but won't do > anything.It's very strange > > Johnny Stewart wrote in post #1184507: >> Ruth Stephenson wrote in pos

[Rails] Re: Won't display current_user.appointment

2016-07-07 Thread Johnny Stewart
Ruth Stephenson wrote in post #1184504: > ERROR: > SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: appointments.appointment_date: This is telling you that there is no appointment_date column in your appointments table. replace appointment_date with whatever you have named the appointment date column in

[Rails] User Points System

2016-07-06 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi, I am currently writing an ROR application which I am looking to add user points to. I've been looking at Merit for this, but I don't know if it is going to be right for what I am looking to get out of it. The points are the main thing, but I may use the badges and rating features in the

[Rails] Re: Multiple user types. Polymorphism Devise

2016-07-01 Thread Johnny Stewart
I don't think you need to use polymorphism for this. I'd use STI for users and just keep the very basics in the user table(profile name, email address, type etc). Then have something like chef_info and athlete_info tables which contain the rest of the differing information for each user type.

[Rails] javascript in html file

2016-07-01 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi, I have 2 views on which I am running some javascript for a rating: from first view: $(document).on('turbolinks:load', function() { $('.star-rating').raty({ path: '/assets/', readOnly: true, score: function() { return $(this).attr('data-score'); }

[Rails] Re: Changing primary key

2016-05-19 Thread Johnny Stewart
OK, next problem.. When I create a comment (from a form on the status page) the params hash contains a parameter called: status_entity_id What I want is just: entity_id Processing by CommentsController#create as JS Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "comment"=>{"content"=>"testing123"},

[Rails] Re: Changing primary key

2016-05-19 Thread Johnny Stewart
Thanks Nanaya, looks like that will do the trick! Johnny -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, sen

[Rails] Re: Changing primary key

2016-05-19 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi Fred, @comments is a collection of comments on a status Johnny -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fro

[Rails] Re: Changing primary key

2016-05-19 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hmmm.. OK, I have put this in place: class Comment < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :user belongs_to :published_entity, foreign_key: "entity_id" but rails is still trying to use status_id.. (I have a class PublishedEntity which status inherits from) class Status < PublishedEntity

[Rails] Changing primary key

2016-05-19 Thread Johnny Stewart
I have changed the primary key on a table “statuses” to now be entity_id In my status model I have: self.primary_key = 'entity_id' when I try to render a collection of comments associated with a status like so: <%= render @comments %> I get this error: PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR: column

[Rails] Polymorphic associations for comments or no?

2016-05-16 Thread Johnny Stewart
When looking at comments which will be made on different types (say post, picture, article) I see a lot of advice towards using polymorphic associations for this. Ryan Bates has a good railscast on it: http://railscasts.com/episodes/154-polymorphic-association-revised However, I'm not sure I see

[Rails] Re: Is there any tool available for image upload resizing / view based image style rendering?

2016-05-16 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi there, I'd take a look at attache: https://github.com/choonkeat/attache-rails https://github.com/choonkeat/attache regards, Johnny -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk&q

[Rails] Re: Dropdown choices

2016-05-08 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi Nanaya, I saw that, but couldn't work out why the other answers made things so complicated - I thought maybe I was not getting something important that the extra model and db table allows. I hadn't considered Enum - looking into it now.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You

[Rails] Re: Dropdown choices

2016-05-08 Thread Johnny Stewart
Hi Ryan, yes that's about it - the choices I want to have will not be created by user input (I don't think they are in the SO example either - I think the OP only wants to allow the three choices he specified, which is why I couldn't work out why the answers seemed to overcomplicate things so

[Rails] Dropdown choices

2016-05-08 Thread Johnny Stewart
I have a model where I want a few specific choices for a dropdown to set a variable, very much like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14113057/how-to... I'm trying to work out why all the answers to this question involve creating a new model and db table just for the three choices

[Rails] Dropdown choices

2016-05-08 Thread Johnny Stewart
I have a model where I want a few specific choices for a dropdown to set a variable, very much like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14113057/how-to-have-a-drop-down-select-field-in-a-rails-form I'm trying to work out why all the answers to this question involve creating a new model and

[Rails] Re: Adding an "Edited at:"

2016-05-04 Thread Johnny Stewart
Thanks Colin, solid advice, I'll just use the comparison and take it from there... Johnny -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop

[Rails] Adding an "Edited at:"

2016-05-03 Thread Johnny Stewart
to the table and update it after edit? Or am I as well to just compare created_at and updated_at? Or is there some mechanism I can use that makes more sense than either of these? Johnny -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Rails] Ajax editing of comments

2016-04-28 Thread Johnny Stewart
I have a rails 5 project and have followed this tutorial to implement commenting: http://railscasts.com/episodes/154-polymorphic-association-revised Comments are listed below the instance that they are associated with, I have creating and deleting comments working with ajax, but I can't work out

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-23 Thread Johnny Stewart
OK, thanks Colin, I will most likely go that route then, I dare say it will save pain later on should I want to do anything more complex with this as well, J. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-23 Thread Johnny Stewart
Yes - I see that, it was late, got albums and images the wrong way round there.. I've been learning for a few months now, so I've seen and completed that tutorial and a few others. Its an excellent resource especially considering its free! I'm going to do a bit of reading up on associations

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
OK, thanks for the pointers - I'll get through a bit of reading on this tomorrow and see if I can't make enough sense of it to get something working.. Thanks again, J. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
hmmm... OK - I was thinking: User has_many Albums User has_many Images through Albums Image belongs_to User Image belongs_to Album Album has_one user Album has_many images am I overcomplicating things here? I have to say I'm not sure what the advantages/disadvantages to the setup above

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
Interesting, do you mean this sort of thing: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html would you do that like- has many through? I'll take a look at that.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
OK, I see what you mean, however, I'd like each user to have their own categories only and they would likely only have 5 - 10 max for the most part, as they would only be able to put each photo in one category so the album analogy would work. So in that sense they are not really tags like a

[Rails] Re: Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
I've nothing specifically against it, but as I say I think just adding a hash to the user model and then filtering on the entries therein seems like it would be a lot more light weight no? Is there some specific advantage I'd get by using acts_as_taggable_on? -- Posted via

[Rails] Tagging pictures

2016-03-22 Thread Johnny Stewart
I'm working on an app which has an image upload facility for users, I want users to be able to create 'albums' for their pictures. The way I'm thinking about implementing this is to have a hash in the user model for each user which they can add categories to and will then be available as a

[Rails] Re: Routing Error uninitialized constant TowcompaniesController

2016-02-27 Thread Johnny Hu
The snake case in your controller file name should be fine. What tutorial are you using by the way? Is it online? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

[Rails] Re: Routing Error uninitialized constant TowcompaniesController

2016-02-27 Thread Johnny Hu
Secondarily, did you have a web server running already? If so, maybe try restarting it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[Rails] Re: Routing Error uninitialized constant TowcompaniesController

2016-02-27 Thread Johnny Hu
This might not affect anything but can you see if the error happens if you remove "resources :towcompanies", or reorder so the line with the root is first? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group

[Rails] Re: Routing Error uninitialized constant TowcompaniesController

2016-02-27 Thread Johnny Hu
Can you post the contents from the controller in question? On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 10:37:32 AM UTC-8, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > Did that, still get the same error. > > > Walter Davis wrote in post #1181701: > > Sorry, autocorrect fail. The thing missing in yours was the to: key,

[Rails] Rails with Foundation

2016-02-19 Thread Johnny Hu
Can you provide the code from the views page in question? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

[Rails] Re: Why does the the cookie_string have two entries for my site?

2014-08-22 Thread Johnny
is the new. Do you know of any way to check the path associated with a cookie string? On Friday, August 22, 2014 10:00:12 AM UTC-4, Frederick Cheung wrote: On Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:37:27 PM UTC+1, Johnny wrote: No, every request is to 'www.mydomain.com'. Thanks. Can you

[Rails] Re: Why does the the cookie_string have two entries for my site?

2014-08-21 Thread Johnny
No, every request is to 'www.mydomain.com'. Thanks. On Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:52:04 AM UTC-4, Frederick Cheung wrote: On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:57:57 PM UTC+1, Johnny wrote: I'm having an issue with my Rails 3.2.19 app. If someone is idle on our site for 20 minutes and they had

[Rails] Why does the the cookie_string have two entries for my site?

2014-08-20 Thread Johnny
I'm having an issue with my Rails 3.2.19 app. If someone is idle on our site for 20 minutes and they had items in their cart, then on their next request, we clear their cart, redirect them to the homepage and display a message telling them that their session expired. Roughly this is what

Re: [Rails] Rails Guide:For belongs_to associations, has_many inverse associations are ignored. not clear?

2014-05-30 Thread johnny
The example included says... class Customer ActiveRecord::Base has_many :orders, inverse_of: :customer end class Order ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :customer, inverse_of: :orders end --- Later on, the guid mentions... There are a few limitations to inverse_of support: - They do

[Rails] Looking for help on contributing to Rails

2013-04-06 Thread Johnny
I'm looking for some advice on contributing to Rails (and other large projects). I will provide a specific scenario. Here is a pull request https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/3329 that was merged a year ago. In the past month, three people have commented that this introduces another issue

[Rails] CSRF questions

2012-08-20 Thread Johnny
Running ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.8. I feel like I'm not fully understanding how CSRF works. I have `protect_from_forgery` in my ApplicationController. So, now should all non-GET requests require an authentication token? Specifically, I have a `destroy`method that doesn't seem to care if a

[Rails] Is this a bug in Rack?

2011-07-12 Thread johnny
I'm trying to post multipart content (a file and some strings) to a Sinatra server on localhost using a java client. It seems the server doesn't like the POST message. The stack trace is: ERROR NoMethodError:

[Rails] Why no meta charset=utf-8 / in application.html.erb?

2010-07-29 Thread johnny
I'm reading Dive into html5 and in http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#encoding , it says every page should contain meta charset=utf-8 /, otherwise it's subject to security vulnerabilities (http:// code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/ArticleUtf7). I don't see meta charset=utf-8 / being generated

[Rails] website down?

2010-02-25 Thread Johnny Patruno
Hi, I know it could be an annoying question for skilled developers but we have a major issue... this website ( http://www.swissdnabank.com ) worked fine til this afternoon, then suddenly appeared this error page... what could have happened? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You

[Rails] Redirect www to non-www

2010-01-20 Thread Johnny Shi
How to redirect www to non-www? e.g redirect www.example.com to example.com Thanks Johnny -- 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] binarylogic-searchlogic ~ 2.0 binarylogic-authlogic mbleigh-subdomain_fu

2010-01-17 Thread Johnny Shi
, unexpected keyword_end, expecting $end /var/www/project/005/Rakefile:9:in `require' (See full trace by running task with --trace) Deeply appreciate any help. Regards Johnny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group. To post

[Rails] set Time.zone to current user time zone

2010-01-10 Thread Johnny Shi
I want to set the Time.zone to the user's current time zone, I don't want to store the timezone in user profile like many other solutions. How to do that? Thanks -- 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: set Time.zone to current user time zone

2010-01-10 Thread Johnny Shi
. []'s Rodrigo Dellacqua On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Johnny Shi johnny.t@gmail.com wrote: I want to set the Time.zone to the user's current time zone, I don't want to store the timezone in user profile like many other solutions. How to do that? Thanks -- You received

[Rails] time_zone_select

2010-01-10 Thread Johnny Shi
How does time_zone_select works? I have: %= form.datetime_select :datetime, :default = Time.now % all datetime are in UTC in the database, here is two questions: 1. how do I add the option for user to select time zone? how to user time_zone_select? 2. what is the proper way to handle that in

[Rails] Seeking best practise advise

2010-01-05 Thread Johnny Shi
controller, to determine whether the category belong to an account or a project, i use if param['project_id'], again is this the proper way to do it? Appreciate any help, Regards, johnny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk group

[Rails] possible to set gems path?

2009-01-31 Thread johnny
(checking gem p4ruby-1.0.7 for P4) /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/p4ruby-1.0.7/lib/P4.rb Should I set an env var? If so, which and where? -Johnny --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on Rails: Talk

[Rails] rails gui?

2008-10-20 Thread johnny
I like the ease of use that ruby on rails provides. But before I switch over completely from ASP.NET, I would like to know what sort of gui's are available for rubyonrails. I like the asp.net webparts. With webparts, I can divide the website into zones and then put modules into those zones.