Reload of lib content

Rails
1

Hi,

It seems like the content of my lib folder no longer is reloaded
automatically. I need to restart the WEBrick server after a file has
been modified. Someone know how to prevent caching in this directory?
I’m running rails 0.14.3.2969

Thanks, regards and peace!

2

I believe only classes decended from Rails classes (such as
ActiveRecord::Base) reload automagically. I don’t know if there is a
way to make other classes reload, I’d love to know too.

Jacob

3

I have a many to many relationship for two tables (topics and groups)
and a
join table for the two tables (groups_topics)

I have code working where I can access all the topics for a group by
group.topic, which returns an array of topic instances. This works
fine.

The problem is that there might be 1000s of topics valid for a
particular
group. One use case I have is I just want to see if one specific topic
is
valid for a group. Using the above, I’d have to iterate the array to
find
this out. It seems like there should be a faster way where I can
leverage a
condition (“topic_name=blah”) instead of returning/iterating a huge
result
set.

I saw a blurb in the agile rails book on this subject, but it didn’t
give
enough detail for me to understand…

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
phil

4

I believe that’s what require_dependency ‘foo’ does. It reloads the
required file on each request but only in development mode.

-Ezra

On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Jacob Quinn S. wrote:

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5

how do you differentiate between a non-valid group and a valid group?

6

Thanks Erra for the response. I have asked this exact question a while
back but got no answers…

7

There is another table for users… So I find the correct User instance
and
then use “user.group” to get the correct instance of Group

I’ve read that one approach is to create a model for the join table
groups_topics. but I have no clue how to proceed from there.

Any help on this stuff would be greatly appreciated!

phil

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris H.
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Rails] active record question

how do you differentiate between a non-valid group and a valid group?

On 11/29/05, Phil S. [email protected] wrote:

I have a many to many relationship for two tables (topics and groups)
and a
join table for the two tables (groups_topics)

I have code working where I can access all the topics for a group by
group.topic, which returns an array of topic instances. This works
fine.

The problem is that there might be 1000s of topics valid for a
particular
group. One use case I have is I just want to see if one specific topic
is
valid for a group. Using the above, I’d have to iterate the array to
find
this out. It seems like there should be a faster way where I can
leverage a
condition (“topic_name=blah”) instead of returning/iterating a huge
result
set.

I saw a blurb in the agile rails book on this subject, but it didn’t
give
enough detail for me to understand…

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
phil

8

i suppose you could even do

group = Group.find(1)
topic = group.topics.find(1234)

documentation doesn’t specify what is returned from find so it could be
a
RecordNotFound exception or nil if the record does not exist.

9

ah, i misread…

given an arbitrary topic, you want to see if its associated with a
group…

easy.

arbitrary_topic = Topic.find(1234)
group = Group.find(1, :include => :topics)

find out if arbitrary topic is associated with group

if group.topics.include?(arbitrary_topic)

found the topic in the group

else

did not find topic in group

end

10

that’s because find() for a habtm only works on the id column, as in my
example.

what you probably want is

topic = group.topics.detect { |t| t.symbol == “LM” }

11

On 11/30/05, Phil S. [email protected] wrote:

valid for a group. Using the above, I’d have to iterate the array to find
this out. It seems like there should be a faster way where I can leverage
a
condition (“topic_name=blah”) instead of returning/iterating a huge result
set.

You could try: topic.groups.find(group_id)
Or, you could try: group.topics.find(topic_id)

Both examples assume that you have has_and_belongs_to_many setup
correctly.

Iteration to check on a relation is completely nonsensical. If the
method you need is not available, you still have the complete,
expressive power of SQL at your disposal.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

I’m not sure if this is the right direction for you, but I hope it
helps,

  • Rowan
12

This is helping…getting further.

I tried this:

group.topic.find(:first, :conditions=>[ “symbol=?”, “LM”])

and get:

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn’t find Topic with ID in (‘—
:first’,'— \n:conditions: \n - "symbol=?"\n - L

M’)

    from

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.11.1/lib/active_record/associa
tions/has_and_belongs_to_many_a

ssociation.rb:77:in `find’

    from (irb):112

    from :0

“symbol” is a column in the “Topics” table

Not sure why though???

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris H.
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Rails] active record question

i suppose you could even do

group = Group.find(1)
topic = group.topics.find(1234)

documentation doesn’t specify what is returned from find so it could be
a
RecordNotFound exception or nil if the record does not exist.

On 11/30/05, Chris H. <[email protected] > wrote:

ah, i misread…

given an arbitrary topic, you want to see if its associated with a
group…

easy.

arbitrary_topic = Topic.find(1234)
group = Group.find(1, :include => :topics)

find out if arbitrary topic is associated with group

if group.topics.include?(arbitrary_topic)

found the topic in the group

else

did not find topic in group

end

On 11/29/05, Phil S. < [email protected]
mailto:[email protected] > wrote:

I have a many to many relationship for two tables (topics and groups)
and a
join table for the two tables (groups_topics)

I have code working where I can access all the topics for a group by
group.topic, which returns an array of topic instances. This works
fine.

The problem is that there might be 1000s of topics valid for a
particular
group. One use case I have is I just want to see if one specific topic
is
valid for a group. Using the above, I’d have to iterate the array to
find
this out. It seems like there should be a faster way where I can
leverage a
condition (“topic_name=blah”) instead of returning/iterating a huge
result
set.

I saw a blurb in the agile rails book on this subject, but it didn’t
give
enough detail for me to understand…

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
phil