Acts_as_list with has_and_belongs_to_many

Rails
1

Hi,
I found the problem below on the Rails wiki and have the very same
problem.
Can anyone suggest a solution that does not involve an extra object like
on
the wiki?
Thanks,
Peter
From: Peak Obsession
I’m looking for a Howto that would explain how to use
ActsAsListhttp://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ActsAsListwhere
you have something like the following:

Book

  • id
  • name

Category

  • id
  • name

books_categories

  • book_id
  • category_id
  • position

The position in the books_categories table is relative to the category.
Thus, under one category book A might be in position 4, while in another
category it might be in position 1.

2

Ok, I’ve searched everywhere trying to figure this one out… Mechanize
(installed from gems) is trying to reference a function that it can’t
find.

I’m using:

  • Mechanize (install gem mechanize)
  • the newest Ruby / Rails versions.

I’m getting this error:
undefined method `add_header’ for #<Net::HTTP::Post POST>

I know that mechanize is doing something with some files from Ruby 1.9
and
has a file that says this:

required due to the missing get_fields method in Ruby 1.8.2

$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.join(File.dirname(FILE), “mechanize”,
“net-overrides”)
and that it has this file:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.3.1/lib/mechanize/net-override
s/net/http.rb

So, for some reason it would appear that mechanize can’t see the
over-ridden
function???

It had the same problem with the “get_fields” function (which is in the
same
place, and is a thing the mechanize developer added since Ruby 1.8
doesn’t
have the response.get_fields function), but I got around that by adding
a
function:
def get_fields2(response,key)
return nil unless response.header[key.downcase]
response.header[key.downcase].dup
end
to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.3.1/lib/mechanize.rb
and
then changing the references to “response.get_fields(…)” to
“get_fields2(response,…)” … But that approach doesn’t work for the
add_header function.

Thanks for any help!
-Greg

Greg E.
Chief Technical Officer
Eyetools, Inc.
(916) 792-4538
[email protected]
http://www.eyetools.com

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Subject: [Rails] acts_as_list with has_and_belongs_to_many

Hi,

I found the problem below on the Rails wiki and have the very same
problem. Can anyone suggest a solution that does not involve an extra
object
like on the wiki?

Thanks,
Peter

From: Peak Obsession

I’m looking for a Howto that would explain how to use ActsAsList where
you
have something like the following:
Book

  • id
  • name

Category

  • id
  • name

books_categories

  • book_id
  • category_id
  • position
    The position in the books_categories table is relative to the category.
    Thus, under one category book A might be in position 4, while in another
    category it might be in position 1.
3

Reading the Rails source for acts_as_list and the ActiveRecord base.rb,
part
of the problem seems to be that acts_as_list doesn’t now about model
associations. Also it appears that sql update statements made with rails
update_all cannot have multiple tables. Is all of this true?

Couldn’t we have something like the following with the conventional join
table being included automatically?

Class Book < ActiveRecord::Base

has_and_belongs_to_many :categories

acts_as_list :include => :category,
:scope => :category_id

end

Thanks,
Peter

4

Peter M. <petermichaux@…> writes:

Hi,

I found the problem below on the Rails wiki and have the very same problem.
Can anyone suggest a solution that does not involve an extra object like
on the
wiki?

Thanks,
Peter

From: Peak Obsession

I’m looking for a Howto that would explain how to use ActsAsList where you
have something like the following:

Hi,

I just struggled through this myself, and came up with a temporary, but
relatively simple solution:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseActsAsListWithHasAndBelongsToMany

I’m fairly new to rails and ruby, though not DBs & Web programming, so
feel free
to refine the technique where it could be made more elegant!