This is the expected behavior. I think David explains this the best himself, so here is a quote from Ruby, S., Thomas, D. & Hansson, D.H., 2009. Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition Third Edition., Pragmatic Bookshelf (p.330). When you use a finder driven by primary keys, you’re looking for a particular record. You … Read more
From the Heroku docs: This means that your app is attempting to connect to the database as part of rake assets:precompile. Because the config vars are not present in the environment, we use a placeholder DATABASE_URL to satisfy Rails. To resolve this issue, ensure that the following line appears in your config/application.rb: # config/application.rb config.assets.initialize_on_precompile … Read more
Rails core team decided to have consistency by enabling rails command to support everything that rake does. For example in Rails 5 commands like db:migrate, db:setup, db:test etc which are part of rake command in Rails 4 are now being supported by rails command. However you can still choose to use rake to run those … Read more
Rails deliberately delegates equality checks to the identity column. If you want to know if two AR objects contain the same stuff, compare the result of calling #attributes on both.
There’s no built-in ActiveRecord validator for DateTimes, but you can easily add this sort of capability to an ActiveRecord model, without using a plugin, with something like this: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base validate :happened_at_is_valid_datetime def happened_at_is_valid_datetime errors.add(:happened_at, ‘must be a valid datetime’) if ((DateTime.parse(happened_at) rescue ArgumentError) == ArgumentError) end end
Integration/Request Specs (inheriting from ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest): host! ‘my.awesome.host’ See the docs, section 5.1 Helpers Available for Integration Tests. alternatively, configure it globally for request specs at spec_helper.rb level: RSpec.configure do |config| config.before(:each, type: :request) do host! ‘my.awesome.host’ end end Controller Specs (inheriting from ActionController::TestCase) @request.host=”my.awesome.host” See the docs, section 4.4 Instance Variables Available. Feature Specs (through … Read more
Here’s a list of concepts and things that may help you: config.time_zone doesn’t set “Server Time”, that is controlled by your operating system usually. Rails always stores your dates in UTC in the database (unless you change a different setting). Time.now returns the localtime for your computer in your timezone and it also includes the … Read more
You should be able to handle all that within the routes.rb file. Wrap all your current routes in scope; for instance. scope “/context_root” do resources :controller resources :another_controller match ‘welcome/’, :to => “welcome#index” root :to => “welcome#index” end You can then verify your routing via the rake routes they should show your routes accordingly, including … Read more
config.assets.precompile = [‘*.js’, ‘*.css’] That will compile any JavaScript or CSS in your asset path, regardless of directory depth. Found via this answer.
This is related to ImageMagick. The command_path option needs to point to the location where identify is installed. From the command line, you can determine this with which identify. $ which identify /some/path/to/identify Afterwards, set command_path to that path (in config/environments/development.rb): Paperclip.options[:command_path] = “/some/path/to”