One recurring problem when doing Ruby on Rails development is a nested model form. Nested Model Form: a single form that contains multiple, nested models. For example a project with its tasks. A nested model form will allow you to create or edit, in 1 form, the project and each of its tasks. With the [...]
When testing your helpers, you might want to test if your call to image_tag generates the correct output. Unfortunately, in Rails, for caching purposes, the asset tag is added which makes testing it somewhat unreliable. Luckily there is an easy way around that. If you define the environment variable RAILS_ASSET_ID, that is used instead of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the process of converting a rails 2.3.* plugin to a rails 3 gem, i bumped into the problem of converting the migrations too. There was some documentation in the rails-guides, but it did not quite do what i wanted. I also found out that in the next version of rails (3.1) there will be [...]
I am developing several rails projects. Some are still rails 2.3.9, and some are rails3. But using those at the same time, on the same machine can cause some trouble. I use bundles for all my projects, so the gem dependencies are managed. But still, somehow, when running my tests, i get into trouble. If [...]
I had troubles to get rcov working with the latest rspec2 release (since beta23 and now 2.0.0.rc). I got the same error every time: But luckily, somebody found the problem and it is extremely easy to fix. Just add -Ispec to your rcov task. The rake spec:rcov does not work for me (as it needs [...]
I have two rails applications that communicate together. In the first application i have the following method in my controller: which, if go to the url in my browser, nicely shows my the JSON. Seems ok. However, if i call this through jQuery, from my second application, using the following: then the right url is [...]
I was having troubles with autotest, and not really finding a good solution. But i noticed that inside rspec2 they were using watchr. Watchr is a very generic gem that will allow you to watch a set of files and take action when something changes. That sounds great, but maybe a bit too general :) [...]
