Assuming the staging environment, as your example points to. You’ll want to load the console by prepending the RAILS_ENV environment variable to the rails console command. RAILS_ENV=staging rails console That should get you in. Once you’re in, you can just access the ENV variable directly. 2.2.2 (main):0 > ENV And that will dump out the … Read more
UPDATE: I highly recommend reading How DHH Organizes His Rails Controllers which pretty much explains it much better than my original answer. I think the question would be more suitable if you’d put it another way: Why do we need model (AR in this case) for every controller? And the answer of course is, you … Read more
Edge rails is the Rails master branch. It means everything up to the very newest commit.
You can try something like this: (Factory.build :code).attributes.symbolize_keys Check this: http://groups.google.com/group/factory_girl/browse_thread/thread/a95071d66d97987e)
You can assign a named route to a static file by passing any non-empty string as :controller and the path to the file as the :action for the route: Application.routes.draw do root :controller => ‘static’, :action => “https://stackoverflow.com/” # or # root :controller => ‘static’, :action => ‘/public/index.html’ end # elsewhere redirect_to root_path # redirect … Read more
You should be able to simply require it directly in recent versions of Ruby. # optional, also allows you to specify version gem ‘chronic’, ‘~>0.6’ # just require and use it require ‘chronic’ puts Chronic::VERSION # yields “0.6.7” for me If you are still on Ruby 1.8 (which does not require RubyGems by default), you … Read more
The ‘Record’ form of redirect_to uses the second argument only for the response status. You’ll have to use another form of redirect_to, like the ‘String’ form. e.g.: redirect_to thing_path(@thing, :foo => params[:foo]) which will work for nested params[:foo] params like you mentioned. Or, as Drew commented below, you can use polymorphic_url (or _path): redirect_to polymorphic_path(@thing, … Read more
Looks like you are looking for ordinalize: The Ruby on Rails framework is chock full of interesting little nuggets. Ordinalize is a number extension that returns the corresponding ordinal number as a string. For instance, 1.ordinalize returns “1st” and 22.ordinalize return “22nd”. Example: place = 3 puts “You are currently in #{place.ordinalize} place.” Result: You … Read more
The problem is that Devise is unable to map routes from the test back to the original controller. That means that while your app actually works fine if you open it in the browser, your controller tests will still fail. The solution is to add the devise mapping to the request before each test like … Read more
Once the relation has been loaded, you can use regular array methods. find is actually a very interesting method here – if block is specified, it will be delegated to the relation target: @blogs.find {|b| b.id == 1}