I'm running sphinx, thinking sphinx and have a basic ordering system with companies, users, order, notes, comments amongst others.
TS is running fine, searching in individual models and their nested resources is working brilliant.
What I wanted to do is have a global search form in my header (application.html.erb). The problem is where my form's posting to.
<%= form_tag companies_path, :method => 'get', :id => "companies_search" do %>
<p>
<%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>
<%= submit_tag "Search", :name => nil %>
</p>
<% end %>
Obviously this works for my companies and nested resources. If I put it in my header, any result will be returned on my company layout.
Is it possible to create a dynamic alternative to companies_path?
Or, should I create some special layout?
What does everyone else do here?
I'd create a separate action for handling global searches - or at least, separate routing back to a reusable search action, and have that action detect whether it's a global search, company search, etc.
As for the header - do you always want it global? Because that's easy enough - just use the global/generic search action for the form constantly. If you want it done dynamically, though - defaulting to the context of the models if appropriate? - I'd probably opt for a content_for block, and add the appropriate search form in each of the relevant views.
Of course, that gets messy, so a different way could be to just customise the url via a helper that looks at params[:controller] to see what the current context is. No idea how fragile this might get, though.
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I have a resource called patient_admissions that has all the RESTful routes. It is nested under another resource called patients. I want to add another method to my patient_admissions controller called discharge that updates a field in the model called :discharge_date (with Date.now) and saves that value in the table.
I would like this to work like the destroy method, in that if I have a bunch of patient_admission objects listed in a table in my index view, I could just click on the Discharge link and a confirmation box would appear, I would click 'ok' and then the value would be updated without having to first go to another view and deal with forms.
How can I do this without resorting to something like javascript? Many thanks!
In the rails guide on Routing, there's a section on adding additional restful actions:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#adding-more-restful-actions
The example there would translate to something like:
resources :patient_admissions do
member do
put 'discharge'
end
end
This will recognize /patient_admissions/1/discharge with PUT, and route to the discharge action of PatientAdmissionsController.
This will at least allow you to get the routing set up for the action.
You could do this by using the link_to or button_to helpers in conjunction with a custom member route for your controller. Here is an example:
#routes.rb
resources :patient_adminssions do
put :discharge, :on => :member
end
Notice that I used PUT to add the custom route because the record will not be deleted, just modified. So according to the REST standards, I think put is the most appropriate.
# in your view
<%= button_to "Discharge", discharge_patient_admission_path(#patient_admission), :method => :put,
:confirm => "Are you sure you want to discharge this patient?" %>
This will create a button in a hidden form that when clicked will display the confirmation message and if it is confirmed then it will send a request to your controller action where you can set the appropriate discharge date like you suggested.
I'm sure this is pretty basic, but I'm somewhat new to rails and struggling to find a solution via search.
I'm implementing a message model to enable private messaging on a forum. I have the models resource nested within a users resource.
Currently the model works, but I want to enable a user to reply to a private message directly on the message show page. I.e users/1/messages/16 instead of users/1/messages/new. Currently this is the default route for 'update' within the MessagesController. Is there anyway to make the form on this page hit the 'create' action within the controller, instead of the 'update'?
Thanks.
Sure, I would try something like this:
On your show page just add a new form.
<%= form_for :message, :url => new_user_message_path do |f| %>
...
<% end %>
You can check the routes of your application using this command:
bundle exec rake routes
I suggest you to read the rails guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
I've been starting to use simple_form in my rails application, which is quite nice. But I was not able to find a function which allows me to rename a field, without the use of i18n.
I have a radio button in my formular, which allows to choose the delivery type. Controlled by that a few fields need a different naming (but its still the same field with the same information).
(e.g. there's a delivery note which is called weight note or notification depending on the delivery type, but contains the same information).
I checked the readme, the railscast and searched a lot but didn't find a build-in way to do that. One option of course would be to create a special locales file just for that, but that feels a little over the top.
I found my answer in a different question regarding simple_form. After looking for that part in the readme, I also found it there.
<%= simple_form_for #user do |f| %>
<%= f.input :username, :label => 'Whatever name you want..' %>
<% end %>
This also overwrites the name given in the i18n file.
I'm trying to use the authlogic-connect plugin to add oauth support to my web app but I'm getting the error:
unknown attribute: oauth_provider
when UsersController#create is called. It is failing when I try to create a new user from the parameters that are being passed in:
#user = User.new(params[:user])
Sure enough, the parameters include this attribute:
Parameters:
{"utf8"=>"✓",
"authenticity_token"=>"lHX2BTFTd5xITTfY/X8A9R3vca3YaRuHFoWdqy8ZPik=",
"user"=>{"oauth_provider"=>"linkedin"},
"commit"=>"LinkIn"}
From the documentation, I assumed that this was what you are supposed to do:
Second, if you are using Oauth, you must include an input with name oauth_provider
and value twitter or whatever other provider you might want (see example apps for
dynamic example).
Any ideas on how this is supposed to work? All of the example forms are in yaml - which I don't know - and I'm trying to create this from using embedded ruby code. Here's the form that I'm using:
<!-- authlogic-connect hack -->
<%= form_for #user do |f| %>
<%= f.radio_button(:oauth_provider, "linkedin") %>
<%= f.label(:oauth_provider_linkedin, "Link In Fool") %>
<%= f.submit :value => "LinkIn" %>
<% end %>
As Dimitry pointed out, the best answer to this question is to use devise + omniauth instead of trying to get authlogic to work. Authlogic simply doesn't support rails3. I spent at least a week trying to get authlogic to work the way I wanted and I never solved the problem. I then spent a few hours getting devise + omniauth to do exactly what I want (i.e. you can create an account with LinkedIn or on the sight and you can associate them together so that you can login with LinkedIn or with email and password to the same account).
Hey,
I'm pretty new to rails and for learning effect, I try to implement my own authorization system.
Right now I'm having a Page Controller to control some static pages and nothing more, and a Session Controller where I plan to implement most of the authorization process.
My problem is, I have no clue how to get my partial to use the sessions-controller, when I add it to one of the static pages controlled by the pages controller.
It stated out with this http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/sign-in-sign-out#top but i don't want it on an extra page.
so I tried setting the routes and I got an exception "no path found for '/'" as soon as I deleted "resources :sessions" it worked fine again.
my partial looks like this:
<%= form_for(User.new) do |f| %>
<%= f.submit "Login" %>
<% end %>
there's also a div class="action" block around the submit but can't find out how to escape it
this is included into my home via
<%= render 'sessions/new' %>
Thanks for your help
edit my solution:
I added to routes.rb:
resources :sessions
Furthermore I changed form_for(#user) to
<%= form_for(:session, url => sessions_path)
so this works.
I Highly recommed that you look at the railscast http://railscasts.com/episodes/250-authentication-from-scratch , it will give you an idea how to create authentication without forgetting some important steps.
Then you can use the gem devise which is an excellent authentication gem.
Have you tried putting your functions and everything for authentication within a Session Helpers file? Then, in your Application Controller if you add "include SessionsHelper" this should give you access to all the helper functions from Session that you should need