Monthly Archives: April 2011

allowing double render in rails3

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I migrated the actionwebservice gem to rails3. Inside actionwebservice (server-side) there is the option to test your SOAP interface. What this does, under the cover, is first handle the SOAP-request (and render the result), and then wrap those results inside a HTML-view. Very nice. To circumvent the double render exception in rails2 you had to [...]

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rails3 and rspec2: dynamically testing routes

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During the migration of a huge application from rails2 to rails3 I encountered a seriously baflling error. In almost every controller spec, i got the the following error: This got me puzzling. If i ran a single controller-spec it worked, running the whole bunch failed (using rake spec or rspec spec/controllers/**/*_spec.rb). So I posted a [...]

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Porting an existing rails 2 site to rails 3

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I have created a few rails 3 sites, but i have never before ported an existing rails2 application to rails3. I will describe the problems i encountered. First off there were some very good resources (step-by-step descriptions) to guide me through it: the rails_upgrade plugin The asciicast (readable) upgrading to rails3 part 1 and part [...]

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