When Excel opens the CSV file it just assumes an “iso-8859-1” character encoding. I guess it doesn’t even know about the encoding information you send along within your HTTP reply. That’s why setting this to UTF-8 doesn’t work. So in order to export your CSV file for Excel in Rails you could do this: send_data … Read more
Well this little exercise in frustration turned out to be a good lesson in RTFM. I had set up Devise with confirmable, and when I created my layouts I neglected to insert the following lines: <p class=”notice”><%= notice %></p> <p class=”alert”><%= alert %></p> … as it clearly states to do in the getting started guide. … Read more
Did you use devise’s before action in your controller? before_action :authenticate_user!
You can setup your post to structure the data in any way as long as it is interpreted correctly on the rails end, but best practice is to have an object of ‘model-name’ with all the values. Javascript $.ajax({ url: “/sub_comments”, type: “POST”, data: {subcomment: { field: val, field2: val, etc… }}, success: function(resp){ } … Read more
To use an older version than the latest you have installed, just wrap the version number in underscores: rails _1.2.1_ myproject
It is actually quite easy, it just feels like a big deal because it is new. Basically, with the new unobtrusive javascript support, the rails ujs script exposes a set of events you can bind javascript functions to, they are: ajax:beforeSend – fired before the send occurs ajax:success – fired after the send occurs, contains … Read more
Ordering by ID is not guaranteed by default. It’s up to the database how a non-ordered query gets ordered (typically it’s unspecified). If you want your results to be ordered, you need to specify an explicit order with order, as you’ve done: Model.order(id: :asc) Note also that ordering by id should only be done if … Read more
a. Form <%= form_for :file_upload, :html => {:multipart => true} do |f| %> <%= f.file_field :my_file %> <%= f.submit “Upload” %> <% end %> b. controller def file_upload require ‘fileutils’ tmp = params[:file_upload][:my_file].tempfile file = File.join(“public”, params[:file_upload][:my_file].original_filename) FileUtils.cp tmp.path, file … # YOUR PARSING JOB FileUtils.rm file end But you can parse just tempfile, so … Read more
Create a new helper (ex. app/helpers/will_paginate_helper.rb) with the following content: module WillPaginateHelper class WillPaginateJSLinkRenderer < WillPaginate::ActionView::LinkRenderer def prepare(collection, options, template) options[:params] ||= {} options[:params][‘_’] = nil super(collection, options, template) end protected def link(text, target, attributes = {}) if target.is_a? Fixnum attributes[:rel] = rel_value(target) target = url(target) end @template.link_to(target, attributes.merge(remote: true)) do text.to_s.html_safe end end end … Read more
I was getting this error. I changed this line in my application.rb from: Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env) if defined?(Bundler) to: Bundler.require(*Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test))) if defined?(Bundler) Also, make sure the files are names something.css.sass NOT something.sass And one other thing, I had an old compass.rb file in my config directory which isn’t needed in Rails 3.2. Deleting … Read more