Stray questions

Rails
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Hi,

I’ve been googling and going through the forum, and I can’t find the
answers so some stray questions.

A) If I have a render :partial is there a way to get rid of the trailing
newline? <%- and -%> don’t work. Is the
an essential part of the
partial?

B) People say that the mysql tables get kinda messy sometimes and that
they
need to be reinitialized every once in a while. Frankly, that kind of
talk scares me. But what are the steps for reinitializing?

I have a problem where I added the has_many and belongs_to lines fairly
late in the game, and I am worried that somehow the scaffolding isn’t
paying attention to them. I have an object that has_many As and
has_many Bs. It gives me no problem with the As, but when it tries to
find the Bs, give an error.

The error says:

uninitialized constant SpreadType::Abstractleg

I don’t have any irritating pluralization or nothin.

I am running on Debian Linux.

  1. I also get a scary error when I try to install the ruby-gems
    debugging package. Should I just switch OSes? What is the VERY BEST OS
    for doing ruby work?
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See inline - I’ll do my best to answer.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Peter K. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

I’ve been googling and going through the forum, and I can’t find the
answers so some stray questions.

A) If I have a render :partial is there a way to get rid of the trailing
newline? <%- and -%> don’t work. Is the
an essential part of the
partial?

trainling newline? like in your source code? or when you look at the
page?

B) People say that the mysql tables get kinda messy sometimes and that
they
need to be reinitialized every once in a while. Frankly, that kind of
talk scares me. But what are the steps for reinitializing?

I have no idea. Hasn’t really been a problem here. Sounds like FUD.
However
you don’t have to use MySQL.
You can use PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS Sql Server, whatever works best for
you.

I have a problem where I added the has_many and belongs_to lines fairly
late in the game, and I am worried that somehow the scaffolding isn’t
paying attention to them.

Scaffolding doesn’t care about associations, and it’s really not meant
to be
anything but a learning tool.

I have an object that has_many As and
has_many Bs. It gives me no problem with the As, but when it tries to
find the Bs, give an error.

The error says:

uninitialized constant SpreadType::Abstractleg

I don’t have any irritating pluralization or nothin.

Show your code - both models with names and associations, and also your
database table names and field names for both.

Generally, if project has_many :tasks, and task belongs_to :project,
then
the tasks table would have a project_id column. The belongs_to
declaration
goes in the model whose table contains the foreign key.

I am running on Debian Linux.

  1. I also get a scary error when I try to install the ruby-gems
    debugging package. Should I just switch OSes? What is the VERY BEST OS
    for doing ruby work?

Debian is a fine OS, but I don’t know how you installed things. Its
packages
for Ruby might be out of date. Ubuntu is a good distro for development.
I’ve
used Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac, and I prefer the Mac OS for Rails
development. Not going to get into the reasons because I don’t want to
start
a holy war. But given that your installation has recent versions of Ruby
(ruby -v should report 1.8.4 or higher, preferably something in 1.8.6 or
so)
then you should be fine.

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And here is the index file

<% for spread_type in SpreadType.find_spread_names%>
<%= spread_type.name %>

<%

# this loop works

for customer_subscription in spread_type.customer_subscriptions
   %>  <%= customer_subscription.customer_id %>
   <%
end

this loop does not work

for ghostleg in spread_type.ghostlegs

end

%>



<% end %>
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trainling newline? like in your source code? or when you look at the
page?

On the page. I guess what I am trying to do is have an update in a
division using a partial, with multiple divisions on the same line.

render :update do |page|
    page[:test].replace_html :partial => 'pretty'
    page[:test2].replace_html :partial => 'reptiles'
      end

A friend of mine who is a mid-level rails developer thinks it might be
impossible to avoid the breaks.

Show your code - both models with names and associations, and also your
database table names and field names for both.

Here is the parent

class SpreadType < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :spreads
has_many :customer_subscriptions
has_many :ghostlegs
has_many :abstractlegs

def index

end
def self.find_spread_names

find (:all)

end
end

Here is the child that works:

class CustomerSubscription < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :customer
belongs_to :underlying
belongs_to :spread_type
end

Here is the child that doesn’t work

class Ghostlegs < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :spread_type
end

Here is the creation code for the child that doesn’t work:

class CreateGhostlegs < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :ghostlegs do |t|
t.decimal :daystoexpire
t.decimal :distancefromunderlying
t.decimal :abstractratio
t.integer :corp
t.integer :spread_type_id

  t.timestamps
end

end

def self.down
drop_table :ghostlegs
end
end

And here is the migration code for the parent

class CreateSpreadTypes < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :spread_types do |t|
t.string :name

  t.timestamps
end

end

def self.down
drop_table :spread_types
end
end

So maybe the underscore in the table name is what’s confusing things?
Or is that just FUD logic? Why does it work for one and not the other?
Shouldn’t it just generate the queries?

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On Oct 14, 10:51 pm, Peter K. [email protected]
wrote:

class SpreadType < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :spreads
has_many :customer_subscriptions
has_many :ghostlegs
has_many :abstractlegs

[snip]

class Ghostlegs < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :spread_type
end

has_many :ghostlegs will be looking for a class class Ghostleg in
ghostleg.rb (similarly for abstractlegs)

Fred

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Peter K.
[email protected] wrote:

On the page. I guess what I am trying to do is have an update in a
division using a partial, with multiple divisions on the same line.

If you’re talking about a

tag, it’s a block-level element. If you
want multiple divs side-by-side, you’ll need to use the appropriate
CSS to position them that way.

A friend of mine who is a mid-level rails developer thinks it might be
impossible to avoid the breaks.

Rails does wonderful stuff, but it doesn’t absolve web developers
from the need to know HTML and CSS.

FWIW,

Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

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Thank you fred: That was it.

I had created it with the plural, and then was treating it as though I
had created it with the singular.

If you’re ever in Chicago, I’ll buy you lunch.

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And thanks for the reality check, Hassan & Brian.

This really is a very helpful forum. Thanks…