Nested resources in Ruby on Rails are sort of neat, but they are a pain to implement. What’s more, I have to ask myself, why bother? If a resource has a unique identifier id, then why would you need to call its parent resource to call it? The unique identifier is enough. And what resource… Continue reading

Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Ruby on Rails plugin calendar_helper is simple and easy to use. Maybe I’m just picky, but one part of it just wasn’t working right for me. Originally, it looks like this on line 96: cal << %(<caption class=”#{options[:month_name_class]}”></caption><thead><tr><th colspan=”7″>#{Date::MONTHNAMES[options[:month]]}</th></tr><tr class=”#{options[:day_name_class]}”>) It doesn’t really make sense for the month name to be in a… Continue reading

This one is harder than it seems. But, I figured out a way. The trick and breakthrough came from Teflon Ted. With a regular form, you could do this in your select statement: :onChange=>”this.form.submit();” This won’t work with a remote form, because the submission is not handled with the submit method but rather within the… Continue reading

It seems like it would take a lot of work to get the in_place_editor to work in a partial on a collection, but it does. (It took me a lot of time to figure this out, but maybe I’m just more than average dense.) The best post to-date on this is at we eat bricks.… Continue reading