Monthly Archives: October 2008

ruby on rails – has and belongs to many view plugin

October 16, 2008

So I’ll never have to write another has_and_belongs_to_many view again, here’s a plugin that dynamically makes 2 <ul> lists which you drag and drop both ways to manage the association. http://svn.ahabman.com/public/many_to_many_view/ From the readme: Assumming you have an @project var and you want to associate people with it. <div id="m2m_container"> <%= render :partial => "shared/m2m", :locals => { :thing => @project, :association [...]

You can’t use class variables in rails.

October 15, 2008

You can’t use class variables in rails. Unless you’d like to develop in production mode (specifically with config.cache_classes = true). In development mode all classes are reloaded on each request, which clears all class variables. I had the perfect place to use them – while running a mass synchronization, and needing to store the timestamp (I [...]