Tag Archives: rails

Using rails and respond_to to include nested data

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Jimmi Westerberg

I want to display data from a nested table in my XML output using respond_to. I browsed the docs a bit and it seems :include is the way to go. However I had some problems getting this to work properly.

I have two models (customer and user) that are linked together. When I fetch the data for a single user, I want my xml output to include the customer data.

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Rails plugin development using WebMock

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jimmi Westerberg

I had a few problems getting WebMock working with my rails 3 setup.

When I used webmock in my rails 3 app, the tests ran and all was nice.
But when I wanted to create a plugin using the exact same code as I just tested inside my rails app, I went into some problems.

To start, I created a new plugin using

rails generate plugin myclient

The files were generated and all seemed fine.

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Using form_tag and collection_select with Rails3

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

After being away from rails for a while, i’m coming back en version 3 to check it all out again.

I had a problem with how to create a simple select, using the FormHelper.

I had two models, a user and a customer. They are defined as follows:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :customer
end

class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :users
end
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Using link_to in rails with :confirm and :method

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Every time i’m going to use the link_to method in rails, I always seem to get a lot of errors. The documentation states: link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = nil) link_to(options = {}, html_options = nil) do # name end …

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Use Rails’ form_tag with care

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Jimmi Westerberg

Today at work I was fiddling with some forms in an admin interface. When I had to make an update form, the data didn’t hit the correct controller action.

If you ever get the message ActionController::MethodNotAllowed, then you’ve created your form wrong!

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