There’s also a guide to use Smilies in Rails using BBCodeizer.
RedCloth doesn’t come with support for smilies, so i’ve added it for one of my projects.
You need to extend the RedCloth class. You could do this by creating a file in your /lib directory, which you have to include in your environment.rb. Here an example [...]
Filed under: Development, English, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.1, Ruby, Ruby On Rails on Juli 2nd, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Rails doesn’t seem to like dots and other special chars in its routes.
If you want to use URLs like http://www.domain.com/post/1/just_a_test.. logically the following route seems to be sensible:
map.connect ‘/post/:id/:title’, :controller => ‘forum’, :action => ’show_post’
But rails won’t like the dots. Use a route like the following to allow a URL with special characters to be [...]
Filed under: English, Rails 1.2, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.1, Ruby, Ruby On Rails on Juli 2nd, 2008 | 6 Comments »
If you want to provide a username and password for a HTTP Basic Authentication in one of your functional tests, simply use the following:
def test_should_get_index
@request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = “Basic ” + Base64::encode64(“username:password”)
get :index
assert_response :success
assert_not_nil assigns(:articles)
end
Keywords: rails test, functionals, authorization, basic http authentication, how to test
Filed under: English, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.1, Ruby, Ruby 1.8, Ruby On Rails on Juni 23rd, 2008 | 6 Comments »
If you need to show a 404 error page from your controller without using an exception, this could help:
render :file => “#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/404.html”, :status => 404 and return
Filed under: English, Ruby, Ruby On Rails on Juni 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve tried to use the new authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic function of Rails 2 to include a simple authentication for some special pages in an application. But Apache kept refusing authorization, even if the authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic-block was set to be always true.
To fix this, add or change this in your public/.htaccess (if using FastCGI):
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [E=X-HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},QSA,L]
Keywords: rails2 rails [...]
Filed under: English, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.1, Ruby, Ruby On Rails on Juni 12th, 2008 | No Comments »