[Rails] Developers Wanted

2010-12-09 Thread Joshua Martin
Greetings Rubyists! I'm seeking developers for an Open Source, Ruby on Rails, Business Management System (Customer Relations, Document Management, Accounting, etc.) that I've been developing for the last year or so. The groundwork has been laid and it's already a fairly functional application, but

Re: [Rails] Re: CanCan issue when being very specific

2010-12-02 Thread Joshua Martin
According to the wiki.. https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki/Checking-Abilities I think you may need to change the object that can? is evaluating from the @user variable to the class User like so: <% if can? :create, User %> <%= link_to 'New User', new_user_path %> <% end %> On Thu, Dec 2, 20

Re: [Rails] CanCan issue when being very specific

2010-12-02 Thread Joshua Martin
What message are you getting? On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Leonel *.* wrote: > So I got CanCan and Devise working well. I have two types of users: > Admins and Nonadmins. Admins can edit all of Nonadmins profiles. > > The problem is, every user (either Admin or Nonadmin) belongs to an > Accou

Re: [Rails] Techlive - IT War Room in The Cloud

2010-10-15 Thread Joshua Martin
This is a pretty cool system.. I wonder if it would be possible to integrate with Bug/Issues from other other systems.. Maybe, make an API that would let me connect my own Bug Tracking system to this system? Some really cool ideas here (not necessarily original, but that doesn't matter.. you don't

Re: [Rails] How do I convert this active record query to a rails 3 query

2010-10-08 Thread Joshua Martin
I recommend watching this Railscast ( http://railscasts.com/episodes/202-active-record-queries-in-rails-3).. It helped me get a handle on AR 3's new query concept. On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Christian Fazzini < christian.fazz...@gmail.com> wrote: > The following SQL: > > select * from media

[Rails] Helpers in Lib Modules

2010-09-23 Thread Joshua Martin
Anyone know how to successfully use ActionView helpers (link_to, contacts_path, contact_path(contact)) in a module included in the /lib directory? Every time i attempt this by including the helper (include ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper, etc) i get a Stack Trace too Deep error. -- __

Re: [Rails] Re: how do i open virtual rails with vdi file extension?

2010-07-22 Thread Joshua Martin
Ware player? > > On Jul 22, 6:43 pm, Joshua Martin wrote: > > This is a VMWare image... You need the free VMWare Player... > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Rich d wrote: > > > i just downloaded virtual rails1.1.vdi I need to know what softwa

Re: [Rails] how do i open virtual rails with vdi file extension?

2010-07-22 Thread Joshua Martin
This is a VMWare image... You need the free VMWare Player... On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Rich d wrote: > i just downloaded virtual rails1.1.vdi I need to know what software > or zip extracter do I need to open it...it took me nearly five hours > to download this program gz!!! > > --

Re: [Rails] Rails on BSD

2010-07-08 Thread Joshua Martin
You might also try using TorqueBox (JRuby) on BSD... On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Mrbass21 wrote: > I had this problem too. After searching all day I found a solution. > > On BSD you need to have a converter installed. > > /usr/ports/converters/ruby-iconv/ > > sudo make install clean > > Ho

Re: [Rails] Re: Covert HTML to PDF

2010-06-18 Thread Joshua Martin
Did you first install the wkhtmltopdf utility? it's not installed automatically as part of the plugin because it's platform-specific... http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Rails Learner wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I am using wicked_pdf plugin and having a hard

Re: [Rails] Covert HTML to PDF

2010-06-17 Thread Joshua Martin
I was also going to suggest wkthml2pdf... but in the easy to use form of a plugin called wicked_pdf... See this tutorial.. http://snikt.net/index.php/2010/03/03/generating-pdfs-from-ruby-on-rails On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Ivan Nastyukhin wrote: > hi > look to wkhtml2pdf > > Ivan Nastyu

[Rails] Re: Get System Variable

2010-05-24 Thread Joshua Martin
For anyone still interested, I found that I can use ENV['JBOSS_HOME'] on JRuby; haven't checked if it works on C Ruby, but I would guess it does. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Joshua Martin wrote: > Does anyone know how I can get a system variable like JAVA_HOME or > J

[Rails] Get System Variable

2010-05-24 Thread Joshua Martin
Does anyone know how I can get a system variable like JAVA_HOME or JBOSS_HOME from within Rails/Ruby? -- _ Joshua S. Martin -- 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] Plugin Architecture

2010-05-19 Thread Joshua Martin
Does anyone have any suggestions about building a plugin architecture for a Rails application? This would be different from the Rails plugin architecture; this would be plugins for my Rails application in particular (i.e. like Firefox extensions, or OpenOffice extensions) --

Re: [Rails] Re: Rails Database Configuration

2010-05-18 Thread Joshua Martin
uestion is, how would I make an SQL or CSV export (within Rails) of only certain data in the database (the key here being only certain data) ? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Joshua Martin wrote: > > I'm building an application in which I'd

[Rails] Rails Database Configuration

2010-05-18 Thread Joshua Martin
I'm building an application in which I'd like groups of users to have their own dedicated MySQL/SQLite database for the application. How can I configure Rails so that ActiveRecord uses that group's dedicated database from the start? -- _ Joshua S. Martin -- You

Re: [Rails] CRM system in rails

2010-05-16 Thread Joshua Martin
Funny you should ask... I'm currently working on an open source business management (CRM, document management, accounting) application built on Ruby on Rails. It's called Journey Business Management. Expecting a release within the next month or so with basic functionality. Inquire if you'd like to

Re: [Rails] from string to field name

2010-05-14 Thread Joshua Martin
What exactly are you trying to do with this? On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Viorel wrote: > I have something like this: > for xx in '01'..'09' > field_name='field'+xx > puts ModelName.field_name > end > > My problem is that ModelName has no field named field_name, it have > fields like fiel

Re: [Rails] form_for Values Are Not Visible

2010-05-14 Thread Joshua Martin
at 9:25 AM, Colin Law wrote: > On 14 May 2010 14:08, Joshua Martin wrote: > > You might need to keep that nickel Bill (: > > > > I've removed all the :size elements from the form and validated the page > > XHTML strict using W3C's validator. > > > &g

Re: [Rails] form_for Values Are Not Visible

2010-05-14 Thread Joshua Martin
ason. On a related note, I have a drop down and it's value IS set to the object's attribute. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:04 AM, clanlaw wrote: > On 14 May 2010 02:22, Joshua Martin wrote: > > I'm using this form in an edit page to update a person. For some weird > &

[Rails] form_for Values Are Not Visible

2010-05-13 Thread Joshua Martin
I'm using this form in an edit page to update a person. For some weird reason, when I view this form in the browser... The text field's value is set to the person's firstname, but it does not display in the browser. The form works perfectly on Windows (the values are visible in the browser), but n

Re: [Rails] Re: Using self. Can you newbify this for me?

2010-05-06 Thread Joshua Martin
omagically? On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Joe Smith wrote: > > Joshua Martin wrote: > >> Also, you should put return li at the end; you >> don't have to, but it just makes the code easier to read. >> > > Oddly most ruby style guides I've seen disagr

Re: [Rails] Using self. Can you newbify this for me?

2010-05-05 Thread Joshua Martin
I don't know for sure because I haven't encountered a situation where I'd need to do things like this... But I'll give it a shot - I'm open to corrections.. class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :order belongs_to :product def self.from_cart_item(cart_item) li = ne

Re: [Rails] Re: Find by Date Regardless of Time

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Martin
Ah, I see. Thanks! On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Frederick Cheung < frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 9:07 pm, Joshua Martin wrote: > > I have a datetime field in the database. How do I find records for a > > particular date regardless of the tim

[Rails] Find by Date Regardless of Time

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Martin
I have a datetime field in the database. How do I find records for a particular date regardless of the time of day? The method I'm trying does not work.. tasks.find(:all, :conditions => ["date == ?", Date.today]) -- _ Joshua S. Martin CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This

Re: [Rails] Re: New to rails - apparently need patch to use PostgreSQL

2010-04-24 Thread Joshua Martin
You're using PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, right? On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > cootcraig wrote: > > Help please. My first attempt at Rails, I'm trying to use PostgreSQL > > and I'm seeing this error. I'm also new to PostgreSQL, but the > > default encoding in PostgreSQ

Re: [Rails] LOGIN INTO YAHOO - - - RAILS

2010-04-23 Thread Joshua Martin
http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/ On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:38 PM, kevid wrote: > hi all, > > Is there a way to login to yahoo programatically from my controller? > thus the user (WITHOUT SEEING THE YAHOO LOGIN PAGE) would just be > logged into yahoo having provided username and password ?

Re: [Rails] Rails/JQuery Collection Select

2010-04-08 Thread Joshua Martin
y because jQuery is >>> Javascript running in the browser and @phone_number_categories is Ruby >>> running on the server. If you want to do all this on the client side then >>> you can save the categories into a Javascript variable that is in scope with >>> the

[Rails] Rails/JQuery Collection Select

2010-04-08 Thread Joshua Martin
I may be asking a very dumb question, but I thought it'd be worth the asking.. I'm using JQuery to dynamically create some form fields for entering phone numbers... Basically just two fields.. One for the number, and a select field so that the user can choose whether it's a Home/Work/etc. number.

Re: [Rails] Reading MS Exchange ?

2010-04-08 Thread Joshua Martin
I think you can look at Exchange Web Services in the 2010 version.. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204119.aspx Another person is in the processing of building an Exchange/Ruby library.. http://github.com/zenchild/Viewpoint On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Dani Dani wrote: > Hi, is t

[Rails] Re: Disabled Text_Field Value Not Saved

2010-03-20 Thread Joshua Martin
e the field's content, but not edit it. On Mar 20, 9:02 pm, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Martin wrote: > > The text_field should be disabled so that the user can't put it a > > random date without regard to the terms or invoice date.

[Rails] Re: Displaying an image in a Rails form_for

2010-03-20 Thread Joshua Martin
Can you not use an <%= image_tag("DownArrow.jpg") %> ? On Mar 20, 2:29 pm, RichardOnRails wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a public\images\DownArrow.jpg > and app\views\expenses\new.html.erb that want to present this image in > the following context: > >   >     <%= f.label :vendor %> >     <%= f.text_

[Rails] Disabled Text_Field Value Not Saved

2010-03-20 Thread Joshua Martin
I have a text_field that stores an invoice due date. It's value is updated by JQuery when the user specifies the terms of the invoice. So, the value would become the Invoice Date + Terms. The text_field should be disabled so that the user can't put it a random date without regard to the terms or i