[Rails] Re: asset pipeline related error

2015-12-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
maybe I should not use a minified js file in the pipeline. I switched to a non minified version .. so far no errors but sometimes it's been intermittent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[Rails] asset pipeline related error

2015-12-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I have this js file decimal.min.js which I put in the asset pipeline javascript directory. Whether I require it in the application.js manifest or not, I still get the error below. This is on windows in development mode .. Any ideas or suggestions ? I find it slightly baffling .. The js file it

[Rails] Re: How fast a PHP Developer can learn Ruby on Rails

2015-12-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I think rails is great, but it's probably more complicated than PHP .. I think Rails is also perhaps better as far as back end development. If alot of what you do is mostly front end, I am not sure if you would get that far into the rails stack. Since Rails is more complex, if you learn some

[Rails] monkey patch using capybara

2015-12-10 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am using capybara minitest on windows using selenium driver .. webkit driver would require me to install QT so I am avoiding that I am trying to simulate things like http error on an ajax request. I have this test in my feature as shown below. I have a library that I include in my real cont

[Rails] Re: one liner with rescue is good style ?

2015-11-06 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I have been doing alot of contract work lately. I feel like I want to play with some of these one liners as at interviews I sometimes get asked such things but also I want to be flexible to the coding standards of any company I may work at. -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: [Rails] one liner with rescue is good style ?

2015-11-05 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
instead of this: def rqstate self.quote_request.status rescue "unsubmitted" end I'm going for this, though maybe there is a good one liner I overlooked ? def rqstate ret_res = "unsubmitted" ret_res = quote_request.status || ret_res if quote_request ret_res end -- You received

Re: [Rails] one liner with rescue is good style ?

2015-11-05 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I know you can define actions as a block inside of rescue but that wasn't what I meant -- 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+u

Re: [Rails] one liner with rescue is good style ?

2015-11-05 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
rqstate is as follows, if there is not a quote request or the status field is null then we could assume that the request was never submitted to the backend api. This was actually the first time I tried this approach but I am not sure I will keep it this way def rqstate self.quote_request.st

[Rails] one liner with rescue is good style ?

2015-11-05 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I was reading some ruby one liners. The rescue style seems to make it easy to write short pieces of code, but it feels like I am forcing an error and then just ignoring it in some cases. I guess I am an older programmer and was never encouraged to write this sort of code, but do most people fee

[Rails] How to improve code efficiency of my example

2015-09-11 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
# I was just at a job interview and was asked to write a function that did a frequency of various words from a string. # I wrote something out on the board similar to my freq() method below. When I got home I coded this example up as # an exercise # # I was then asked how could I improve the eff

[Rails] using mongodb with ActiveRecord or other ?

2013-10-17 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
We recently looked at mongoDB a bit. I was discussing using mongoDB with active record but was told that maybe there are other or better options. Can someone comment on that ? Also, someone suggested storing a ruby array directly inside of a record where I would have opted for the array to

[Rails] getting selenium working with jruby/sinatra/cucumber/webrat on windows

2013-10-09 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am trying to run cucumber/webrat with Sinatra on Jruby 1.7.3 (1.9.3) on Windows. It seems to work ok, but when I try to add selenium to webrat. I get the error shown below. It seems like it thinks it is in a linux environment or something as the error happens when it tries to start selenium s

[Rails] websockets versus ajax polling ?

2013-10-07 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I recall I did a small project a couple of years ago with websockets/faye plugin. It was a little complex, but I was wondering if many people use websockets in stead of what seems like the more typical ajax polling and is it very easy to implement in sinatra ? -- You received this message b

[Rails] notaion: Hash[*array_variable.flatten]

2013-09-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Can someone explain what the "*" operator inside the hash is doing here or what that notation is referred to in this context ? thanks irb(main):006:0* mail_config => {"server_setings"=>{"address"=>"smpt-int.ex1.com", "port"=>25}} irb(main):019:0> Hash[*mail_config['server_setings'].m

[Rails] Re: Not sure about event machine workings

2012-03-29 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Your post has been very helpful, I tried something like what you posted, but it didn't quite make sense to me. If you look at what I have currently below, I have to have this sleep(30) at the bottom which is not optimal. a join on the thread doesn't work. I also tried run_block() instead of run

[Rails] Not sure about event machine workings

2012-03-29 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I found this example of using faye for a chatroom type app as I am trying to get a feel for push servers: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/how-to-use-faye-as-a-real-time-push-server-in-rails/ I got some of that to work, although multiuser from the same browser doesn't exactly make sense. I

[Rails] Re: loading a large form in pieces via AJAX

2011-10-31 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Thanks for the ideas .. some of my records are very flexible with joins,such that I can't be sure how may fields their are in the form or what field types there are. I figured I could guess that I wouldn't have more than 100 fields and I could generally have an idea how many fields there was

[Rails] puzzled by polymorphic related error

2011-07-14 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Here is what my schema and models look like currently and the error I get is below .. create_table "attributes", :force => true do |t| t.string "field_name" t.integer "reliability" t.integer "attribute_record_id" t.string "attribute_record_type" end create_table "parsed_s

[Rails] Re: s3 browser says my account is not valid ..

2011-06-02 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I tried the ruby aws gem. If I can get a key and secret key from amazon, I would assume my account is valid ? - unless it has not refreshed through the system. I get the error below. I assume the "+' and "/i" at the beggining and end of the secret key are part of the key ? If I can use this ge

[Rails] Re: cheaper rails hosting ?

2011-05-24 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
What about the database ? How does amazon s3 fit into the picture ? -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to r

[Rails] Re: interview questions on REST

2011-05-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
So I had done some things in the past with map.resources in the routes, but I never really fully understood all of it, especially when there was more than one level with children such as: map.resources :bookmarks, :has_many => [:comments] I had kind of rushed through some examples and I sho

[Rails] Re: interview questions on REST

2011-05-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Thanks, I have been through that wikipedia dry and theoretical stuff a bit before. Some of it is useful, but I can't always seem to draw out what are the main points that I should care the most about and what is assumed such as client/server is obviously an assumption, but if I don't give a full

[Rails] interview questions on REST

2011-05-16 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I sometimes get asked about what is REST in an interview. I feel like I have a sense of what it is, yet the answer seems somewhat theoretical. When I built a website that supported sub domains for rock bands, I felt I got some sense of what it was, yet I was not sure exactly how to define it in

[Rails] Re: local stack dump capability would be nice ..

2010-05-20 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
hey, thanks On May 20, 11:57 am, Frederick Cheung wrote: > On May 20, 4:13 pm, "wbsurf...@yahoo.com" wrote: > > >  If there was a way to limit parts of a ruby stack trace to just my > > code rather than the whole rails library and gems that would be an > > i

[Rails] local stack dump capability would be nice ..

2010-05-20 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
If there was a way to limit parts of a ruby stack trace to just my code rather than the whole rails library and gems that would be an interesting feature .. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send ema

[Rails] Re: puzzled by Mutex lock call ..

2010-04-23 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I basically have a job manager that runs with script/runner and is independent of the webserver. It allows DRB connections, TCP connections, and has a scheduling loop. Inside the scheduling loop is where the error sometimes happens which doesn't seem related to anything I did. I haven't worked

[Rails] Re: puzzled by Mutex lock call ..

2010-04-23 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I basically have a job manager that runs with script/runner and is independent of the webserver. It allows DRB connections, TCP connections, and has a scheduling loop. Inside the scheduling loop is where the error sometimes happens which doesn't seem related to anything I did. I haven't worked

[Rails] rendering layouts/views from plugins

2009-06-01 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am wondering if there is an easy way to render layouts and views from the plugin directory, as well as javascript and css ? I know I could have a rake task copy them from the plugins to where they would normally go, but they may change from time to time within the application and then need t

[Rails] confused on how rails 2.3.2 renders templates

2009-05-28 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am migrating to rails 2.3.2 What I found confusing is that in some cases when I have a template named: "something.html.erb" it is looking for "something.erb", but in other cases "something.html.erb" works fine. I looked at a couple of cases and did not see any obvious reason why that seemed

[Rails] backgroundrb launched 8 workers via cron which I did not understand

2009-05-13 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I have a worker my_tree worker as shown in my backgroundrb.yml file below. I played around with the trigger_args setting which I had it calling update_main_tree() every 1 minute. This opens a tree structure in my db that I set and rebuilds it. After it seemed to be working ok, I then set the tree

[Rails] how to search all fields for a string in SQL ?

2009-04-30 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Using SQL or activerecord I am not sure how to search all fields for a specific value ? I know how to do this by just writing ruby code. To do it in SQL or an activerecord find w/condition, I don't know how. I actually am supposed to combine an find w/ condition and a search all fields for a value

[Rails] explorer like tree view in rails ?

2009-04-17 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Hello, I am looking for recommendations on a plugin or javascript lib that support building an explorer type tree view. I am somewhat afraid that the more extensive things available are fairly complex, and we want to use something free .. I am using acts_as_tree and creating entries from fil

[Rails] authenticity problem with jrails ajax

2009-04-08 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I'm using jrails and I found when I use the authenticity_token in certain javascript calls, that the url works differently in that the paramters in the :with clause get dropped if they are in a json type syntax. Below is an example of a remote_function() call from JS that used to work fine without

[Rails] cross site scripting security

2009-03-26 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I just changed my session store to use active record because it appears session expiration and so on may be easier that way and it seems like a better option. In my base controller I have: protect_from_forgery :secret => 'hgfjh...kjhghglh' (whatever) self.allow_forgery_protection = false

[Rails] curious how params, flash etc work in rails ?

2009-03-25 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am curious how stuff like params and flash work in the controller ? Typically an instance variable is something like @params, or maybe self.params. How does rails make params appear as if it's an instance variable ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag

[Rails] observe_form doesn't seem to work from inside of a table

2009-02-11 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
If I do observe_form as below, the ajax call never occurs, but If I remove the table it works fine. This is just a test to troubleshoot as I had narrowed down my problem to this, I actually wanted a form per row of the table: <% form_tag({:controller => 'sheet_entry', :action => 'pass_input'

[Rails] is activeresource really slow for find with :conditions ?

2009-01-09 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I have a DRb process on another machine that communicates with the server. It seems like if I do a find() where I specify a :condition through Act-res it will take very long time and most finds of this sort seem like they may send over all of the records in XML. What I ended up doing for know is

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-31 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
stuff, it was a bit more complicated ... On Dec 31, 5:40 pm, "wbsurf...@yahoo.com" wrote: > Here's some other thoughts I had on macs after looking at this page > and browsing around some sections on the > bottom:http://developer.apple.com/macosx/architecture/index.ht

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-31 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
otentially help me build my resume up a bit and be interesting .. I looked at the MAC laptop that has 2 gig of memory for a round $1300 that looked interesting .. On Dec 27, 2:54 pm, Conrad Taylor wrote: > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:04 AM, "wbsurf...@yahoo.com&q

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
> ? I'm not sure what you mean: VMWare just runs as an application > under MacOS. You install other operating systems under it. So, for > instance, I'm using all my Mac apps plus I have a window open with > an OpenSolaris desktop and apps, or Ubuntu, or Windows. > I guess people also use VMWare

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
> > > I know it was mentioned textmate IDE for rails ... > > I wish that you don't purchase a Mac to only use Textmate. You should > have bigger goals for investing in a Mac or at least using it more > than to run Textmate. In short, you should evaluate your goals as > well as your budget constr

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
27, 1:57 pm, "Hassan Schroeder" wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, wbsurf...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > > > Hey, that's really interesting. I found dell laptops with ubuntu > > starting at > > $500.http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linu

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
ware involve more steps and complexity on ubuntu ? anyway, that's a good price, what advantages do you think a mac has ? I know it was mentioned textmate IDE for rails ... On Dec 27, 12:26 pm, "Hassan Schroeder" wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:10 AM, wbsurf...@yahoo.co

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
d select, which laptop I would need etc, On Dec 27, 11:40 am, "Hassan Schroeder" wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:10 AM, wbsurf...@yahoo.com > > wrote: > > Does having VMWare as an additional layer create any inefficiencies or > > problems ? > > No, i

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-27 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
lso, mouse functionality on macs is allegedly less convenient, maybe there is no right click ? On Dec 27, 12:39 am, "Conrad Taylor" wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:20 PM, wbsurf...@yahoo.com > wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the advice, > > > Can a mac read

[Rails] Re: Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-26 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
Thanks for the advice, Can a mac read an external USB drive that came from a Windows XP machine ? The mac sounds interesting. I like the idea of being able to pop open a native shell to the system and do 'ps -ef' and see what is running and be able to write a ruby script that does a fork() th

[Rails] Advice on Mac versus PC ?

2008-12-26 Thread wbsurf...@yahoo.com
I am thinking of getting a new laptop. I noticed the cheapest mac was about $1000, whereas I can get a cheap HP for about $550. The cheaper machine is kind of appealing, but the idea of a linux type system for a mac appeals to me however. I've always liked working on unix/linux at various compan