Well after trying to access a ruby class constant for the zillionth time with Class.CONSTNAME.
( Which btw. very nicely gives the error “Undefined Method Class.CONSTNAME”…)
I’ve decided to write this note on my blog…
Remember:
print Class::InnerClass::CONSTANT print Class::InnerClass.method_name
* kick * to my own butt..
A very nice method to convert a Ruby array to Javascript.
print { 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => [ 1, 2, 3 ] }.to_json
outputs: { key1: 'value1', key1: [ 1, 2, 3 ] }
Last day of my Holiday :(
Trying to write a unit test for my Rails application, I constantly got the error message below:
NameError: undefined local variable or method `fixture_path' for #<LessonTest:0x9a611f8>
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb:452:in `method_missing'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:593:in `load_fixtures'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:538:in `setup_with_fixtures'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb:575:in `setup'
Very strange: the Unit Test I’ve written was generated and exactly the same as shown in the example in the “Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition” book.
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
class LessonTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
def test_truth
assert true
end
end
Well I found a solution, but I still haven’t found the reason WHY this is happening. You can see this is as a temporary hack.
In your: “/test/test_helper.rb” add the following method:
def fixture_path
File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/fixtures/"
end
Currently I’m busy developing a Rails Application. I’m busy developing some general classes that aren’t part of a model/controller or view. I placing these classes in the ‘lib’ directory.
Things are fine … well not quite …
The problem while developing is the libraries aren’t reloaded on each request. This is very frustrating when you are trying to write a library.
Some things I found (but don’t seam to work):
Rest the application in the console. Well the application reset, but not the libraries.
$ ./script.console Loading development environment... >> Dispatcher.reset_application!
I assume the libraries directory is loaded in the ruby booting class loader. ( I’m still thinking Java ). So when Webrick starts these libs are loaded.
The models and controllers etc. are loaded by the rails class loader.
Somehow I need to reload the library in the rails class loader space…. Doesn somebody have a solution!?
Perhaps I should find another directory…
I will keep you informed if I find a solutions.
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1 august 2007: Well found a solution for the problem, I even wonder if it really was a problem….. (shame on me)
If I place the class “MyOwnClass” in the file “lib/my_own_class.rb” without including the source file. (This isn’t required, because Rails automatically includes it) it seems to be refreshed every time I do a request…
Nice.. !
Currently I’m working on an application for a client. It’s build in Ruby on Rails. After using ActiveScaffold for the startup I’ve decided to remove this plugin and write my own Ajax table.
I found a nice article / sample about this subject: http://dev.nozav.org/rails_ajax_table.html
The article is nice for a single table, but I need multiple tables, so I need to wrap some stuff in helpers. But that shouldn’t be a problem.