For the longest time, I didn’t understand the full power of the various #find methods in Rails. I probably still don’t, but my understanding of them has certainly expanded. I used to use plain #find for everything. If I wanted … Continue reading
I wanted a #login method in test_helper that would allow me to easily login from any of my functional tests. However, the #post method won’t allow you to set a different controller than the one in the @controller instance variable … Continue reading
Given a table object, it returns the related string object; e.g. SubAttribute => ‘sub-attribute’. Useful if you want to make a list of all your tables with perhaps their fields listed out to the side. Ruby def stringify_table( table, replace_char … Continue reading
I frequently have a collection of values that I want to match in an ActiveRecord query, but it would be nice if I could let ActiveRecord handle checking the data and escaping it properly. So, I wrote this method to … Continue reading
So you’ve got some Rails application and you need to store information from the users across their interactions with the app. Here’s a simple, straightforward way to do that. In your controller: if params[:option] @option = session[:option] = params[:option] elsif … Continue reading