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
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)
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
Add the :selected option. Example: collection_select(:post, :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial, {:selected => “whatever_value”}) Example took from: ApiDock In your case: <%= collection_select :PriceRange, “7”, PriceRange.where(‘value > 0’), :value, :name, {:selected => “whatever”} %>
Editted solution in case people don’t read the reactions: <%= form_for [:admin, @person, @image] do |f| %> Old response: I have a project with an admin namespace and People and Images resources, this is the way I build my form_for in rails3, I haven’t found a way just yet to do it cleaner… <%= form_for … Read more
This happens if you do it to any month that doesn’t have 31 days (i.e. 3 months would work just fine, but 1 month, or 6, or 8 would all make this happen). If you do Date.today – 1.month, it looks like Rails sees that 9/31/2011 isn’t a valid date, so it kicks it back … Read more
Use Enumerable#max: latest_date = [date1, date2].max
In your Gemfile: gem ‘bluecloth’ and don’t forget to run bundle install when you need to convert markdown to html, simply use: markdown = BlueCloth.new(some_text_variable).to_html You can use it in a view: <%= markdown.html_safe %>
I figured out how to set the javascript runtime. In config/boot.rb I put the following line: ENV[‘EXECJS_RUNTIME’] = ‘Node’
1) ensure you have Nginx > 1.2.x (to proper headers modifications) and compile with –with-http_gzip_static_module option 2) Enable this option gzip on (to serve back-end response with gzip header) 3) Setup assets location with gzip_static on (to serve all.css.gz, all.js.gz files directly) 4) Prevent of etag generation and last-modify calculation for assets 5) Turn on … Read more