graphs with rails
[nuby on rails article on gruff)[http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff]
Archive for April, 2008
Autocomplete in rails 2.0
The way to do autocomplete in rails 2.0 is to use a plugin. The text_field_with_auto_complete feature is deprecated.
Do script/plugin install auto_complete
It?s also here
The plugin seemed to have some issues (as in it DID NOT work). This guy had a good fix which I copy and pasted over the standard file in my lib folder of plugin, and here?s where I linked off from. The issue seemed to be related to the protect_from_forgery key.
Rescue - how to supress a nil NoMethodError
This is pretty easy, but I always seem to forget (see comment):
<%= @post.author.name rescue "no author" -%>
How to include a lib file in your environment.rb
Give the file a name in the lib folder and then in the environment.rb file do a: require ?libfilename?
simple, huh?
Full text searching in rails
Use acts_as_ferret
- Here?s a good tutorial
- Another one
- and how to paginate the results with will_paginate
- actually this is a little more improved
I had serious trouble with adding conditions to acts_as_ferret in order to query only for a certain user_id. You have to do the following with the little {}
@records = Record.find_by_contents params[:search], {}, {:conditions => ["user_id = ?", current_user]}
And to run it on a production server - go here
Pagination in Rails 2.0
Rails 2.0 pagination - it?s best to go ahead and use the will_paginate plugin
this is the most up to date - April 4th, 2008. He moved it to a git repository or his github
You can also combine it with a simple search form - see Ryan?s episode 37 though this won?t be too hot for most things. You need full text search. For that possibly use acts_as_ferret
Rails 2.0 link_to_remote, RESTful routes link_to_remote
To get link_to_remote to work on rails 2.0 / RESTful routes, you need to add :method => :get to link_to_remote. For example
<%= link_to_remote "e",
:url => edit_record_path(record), :update => 'test', :method => :get %>
Rails 2.0 link_to_remote, RESTful routes link_to_remote
To get link_to_remote to work on rails 2.0 / RESTful routes, you need to add :method => :get to link_to_remote. For example
<%= link_to_remote "e",
:url => edit_record_path(record), :update => 'test', :method => :get %>
Lightbox with rails - use redbox
- good tutorial on using redbox
- also see my RESTful link_to_remoate solution for help on using redbox with RESTful routes
How to do date, datefields, datetime like 30boxes
The following are some links to do natural language date selection with rails. I recommend going ahead and using chronic, but take a look at Ryan Bates solution for good measure.
semi-solution - date-time-text-field-helpers