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HTML and Ruby templates used in ruby-on-rails.
Action View is the View part of mvc for ruby-on-rails, and is a part of the Ruby-On-Rails Action Pack.
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Passing block to label helper in rails3
I want to create label tag with some nested elements. I am using label helper and trying to pass inner html as block but generated HTML doesn't look as I expected.
ERB:
Span element
<%= label("object", "method") do %>
Inner…
mzaj
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Discrepancy when capturing Rails view block
I have an ERB view with two blocks:
<%= test_h1 do %>
<%= 'test1' %>
<% end -%>
<%= test_h2 do %>
<%= 'test2' %>
<% end -%>
where test_h1 and test_h2 are similar helpers, but one is defined in a helper file, while another via helper_method in…
Alexander Azarov
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Rails distance_of_time_in_words returns "en, about_x_hours"
I'm having a weird problem, hoping someone knows what the issue is...
Using distance_of_time_in_words (and consequently time_ago_in_words) is not returning the actual time distance. Instead it is returning things like "en, about_x_hours" or "en,…
Steven Ou
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Rails: link_to with block and GET params?
How can I achieve query string and URL parameters in a link_to block declaration? Right now, I have this, which works:
<%= link_to 'Edit', :edit, :type => 'book', :id => book %>
The above works, and…
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How do I delegate to a model's to_builder method from a JBuilder view?
Let's say I have a Person class and a Gang class
class Person
belongs_to :gang
attr_accessible :name, :secret
def to_builder
Jbuilder.new do |app|
person.id id
person.name name
end
end
end
class Gang
has_many :people
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Chris Aitchison
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One controller, different views for normal users and admins
in my application, I have a "User" model. Each user can have multiple (email) addresses which are defined in the model "Address":
Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :addresses
def is_authorized(op)
# returns true or false
end
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cite
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Rails validation and 'fieldWithErrors' wrapping select tags
Is it normal behaviour to not get the
wrapped arround select tags that have validation errors? I personally see no reason why the select tags should be treated differently than other form tags (input, textarea).
I do…
andi
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Rails 3 not loading HAML handler
I'm having some problems with Rails 3 and HAML in my application: for some reason Rails appears not to be loading the handler for dealing with haml files. Every action gives an error message similar to this one:
Template is missing
Missing template…
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ActionView::TemplateError (Missing template) In ruby on rails
I am running a RoR application (rails 2.3.8, ruby 1.8.7), the application runs fine on my local machine. but on production the logs show the following error:
ActionView::TemplateError (Missing template folder/_file_name.erb in view path app/views)…
wael34218
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Generating unique HTML ids in Rails when using a repeated partial that has form_for
I have a view on my current project which does something like the following(in haml):
-@horses.each do |horse|
= render :partial => 'main/votingbox', :locals => {:horse => horse}
The in the _votingbox.html.haml file I have the…
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How do I use lookup_context to make this view as DRY as possible?
For starters, this is the view I am trying to replicate:
This is the HTML from that layout (from the SAT portion anyway, you can extrapolate the rest):
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