February 2010

Feb

Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel inconsistency; “super called outside of method”

I discovered an interesting difference between two patch levels of the same Ruby (1.8.7) def index respond_to do |format| format.html { super # call the index method of the superclass } end end This does not produce an error in Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 72 (the one that happens to ship with Snow...

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Jason

Feb

I want my @current_user in my model: A Lesson in Abstraction

This method was adapted from this blog post. So, you are creating a thing (record) or maybe you are updating it. You've added created_by and updated_by fields to your model, and you've made these integers with the intention of them both being foreign keys to the...

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Jason

Feb

How do I get the HTTP referrer?

The referrer is the URL the user came from. (It gets passed as part of the headers to the new request). You can get it out of rails this way: request.env['HTTP_REFERER'] Or the shorter version: request.referrer It seems that no one noticed that "referer" is actually not a word...

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Public, Private, Protected

Quick demonstration of public, private, and protected methods.

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