I can't seem to set up a custom URL. All the RESTful routes work fine, but I can't figure out how to simply add /:unique_url to the existing routes, which I create in the model (a simple 4 character random string) and will serve as the "permalink" of sorts.
Routes.rb
resources :treks
match ':unique_url' => 'treks#mobile'
Controller
.
.
def mobile
#trek = trek.find(params[:id])
end
Is this because I'm trying to define a custom action on an existing resource? Can I not create custom methods on the same controller as one with a resource?
By the way, when I change routes.rb to match 'treks/:id/:unique_url' => treks#mobile it works fine, but I just want the url to simply be /:unique_url
Update It seems like find_by_[parameter] is the way to go...
I've been playing in console and I can't seem to get any methods to come forward...I can run Trek.last.fullname for example, but cannot run #trek = Trek.last...and then call...#trek.lastname for example. Any clues why? I think this is my issue.
So is there a field on Trek which stores its unique url? If so you should be doing something like this:
#trek = Trek.find_by_url(params[:unique_url])
trek.find_by_unique_url( params[:unique_url] ) # should do the trick
#pruett no, the find_by_XXX methods are generated on-the-fly via Ruby's method_missing call! So instead of XXX you can use any of the attributes which you defined in a model.
You can even go as far as listing multiple attributes, such as:
find_by_name_and_unique_url( the_name, the_unigue_url)
Check these pages:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html
http://m.onkey.org/active-record-query-interface
if you get a undefined method ... for nil:NilClass , it means that the object you are trying to call that method on does not exist, e.g. is nil.
You probably just missed to put an if-statement before that line to make sure the object is non-nil
Hmm. I usually would do something like this:
map.connect "/:unique_url", :controller => "treks", :action => "mobile"
Then in that controller the ID isn't going to be applicable.. you'd need to change it to something like this:
def mobile
#trek = trek.find_by_unique_url(params[:unique_url])
end
(that's if unique_url is the column to search under)
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I have this configuration in the controller in Padrino
MyProject::App.controllers do
get '/' do
handlebars :index
end
get :file, :with => :tokenId do
tokenId = params[:tokenId]
[extra logic]
end
end
GET / works.
GET /file/abc doesn't.
GET /file/:tokenId works!
It looks like :token is not recognized as a parameter placeholder in the route definition.
I've tried
get "/file/:tokenId"
too but with no luck.
I can't find any information on any similar issue, anybody can help? Happy to add more information if needed.
Okay so I am unsure why the change made a difference but camelCase is generally considered poor syntax for variables in ruby.(Padrino may be calling a method such as underscore on your variable i.e.
"tokenID".underscore.to_sym
#=>:token_id
Using underscored_variables instead. (e.g. :tokenID becomes :token_id. This structure also allows for interacting with databases in a nicer way as well since your columns will have names such as token_id not tokenID.
There are uses for camelCasing in ruby and rails such as class naming and generators but trying keep all local and instance variables in lowercase underscore format.
I don't do much work in padrino so I am not 100% sure why this change helped but I am glad I could help.
I am using Sinatra and I want to use something like a referrer code in my urls that will somewhat control access and identify the provenance of a given URL.
/secret-code/rest/of/path
should be rejected if "secret-code" is not in a predetermined list.
I want to use route conditions
set(:valid_tag) { |tag| condition { tag === 'abcd' } }
get '/:tag', :valid_tag => params[:tag] do
'Hello world!'
end
but params is not in scope. Do I need to dispatch in the block? What is the best way to handle multiple routes without having to duplicate the tag checking logic in each one?
/secret/route1/
/secret/route1/blah
/secret/route2/
Is there a way to chain handlers? Can I do
get /:tag/*
# check :tag
redirect_to_handler(params[:splat])
By the sounds of things it looks like you're trying to make use of Sinatra's named parameters. Params is only in scope within the block:
get '/:secret_code/*' do
redirect_to_handler unless secret_codes.include? params[:secret_code]
end
The code above assumes you have a collection of 'secret_codes' that you're going to check with the secret_code from the URL.
(Answering my own question)
Sinatra matches the lexically first rule and you can pass onto the next matching rule using 'pass'. So something like this works as long as it is the first rule that would match.
get '/:tag/*' do
halt_if_bad_tag params[:tag]
pass
end
get '/:tag/route1' do
'hello world'
end
If I render html I get html to the browser which works great. However, how can I get a route's response (the html) when being called in a module or class.
I need to do this because I'm sending documents to DocRaptor and rather than store the markup/html in a db column I would like to instead store record IDs and create the markup when the job executes.
A possible solution is using Ruby's HTTP library, Httparty or wget or something and open up the route and use the response.body. Before doing so I thought I'd ask around.
Thanks!
-- Update --
Here's something like what I ended up going with:
Quick tip - in case anyone does this and need their helper methods you need to extend AV with ApplicationHelper:
Here's something like what I ended up doing:
av = ActionView::Base.new()
av.view_paths = ActionController::Base.view_paths
av.extend ApplicationHelper #or any other helpers your template may need
body = av.render(:template => "orders/receipt.html.erb",:locals => {:order => order})
Link:
http://www.rigelgroupllc.com/blog/2011/09/22/render-rails3-views-outside-of-your-controllers/
check this question out, it contains the code probably want in an answer:
Rails 3 > Rendering views in rake task
So I'm a bit of a Rails n00b, so I'll apologize if this is really simple. When I access my server from another computer, I get this message:
No route matches [GET] "/"
And if I try to go to my subpages (Well, currently I only have one), I get something along these lines:
Unknown action
The action 'index' could not be found for AwebpageController
But here's the catch: this only happens sometimes. The rest of the time, the standard RoR homepage loads, and going to wwww.mydomain.com/awebpage serves up the page fine.
My Routes.rb looks like this:
Wobsite::Application.routes.draw do
resources :awebpage
end
And awebpage_controller.rb looks like this:
class AwebpageController < ApplicationController
end
And yes, index.html.erb for Awebpage does exist. It's all so simple that I don't understand what's going wrong. Oh, and my webserver is Thin (Not sure if that matters). Thanks in advance for any help!
You might want to add this to the top of your routes file to set the default controller and page for your site (i.e. http://www.mysite.com/):
root :to => "AwebpageController#index"
To remove the default Ruby on Rails webpage you'll also want to delete the index.html file in your /public/ directory.
Also, although not required, in your controller you're missing the function definition for index.
class AwebpageController < ApplicationController
def index
end
end
Normally you'd do application logic and serve up a view in this function; however if you do nothing RoR automatically loads the view associated with the page (index.html.erb).
If after all this you're still having a problem perhaps explicitly add index to the AwebpageController in your routes file; perhaps rails is only mapping www.mysite.com/Awebpage/ to Awebpage/index and not www.mysite.com/Awebpage/index.
I'm automating a site that has a page with a list of options selected by a radio button. When selecting one of the radios, a text field and a select list are presented.
I created a file (test_contracting.rb) that is the one through which I execute the test (ruby test_contracting.rb) and some other classes to represent my page.
On my class ContractPage, I have the following element declaration:
checkbox(:option_sub_domain, :id => "option_sub_domain")
text_field(:domain, :id => "domain_text")
select_list(:tld, :id => "domain_tld")
I've created in the ContractPage a method that sets the configuration of the domain like this:
def configure_domain(config={})
check_option_sub_domain
domain = config[:domain]
tld = config[:tld]
end
When I call the method configure_domain from the test_contracting.rb, it selects the radio button, but it doesn't fill the field with the values. The params are getting into the method correctly. I've checked it using "puts". Even if I change the params to a general string like "bla" it doesnt work. The annoying point is that if on test_contracting.rb I call the exact same components, it works.
my_page_instance = ContractPage.new(browser)
my_page_instance.domain = "bla"
my_page_instance.tld = ".com"
What I found to work was to in the configure_domain method, implement the following:
domain_element.value = config[:domain]
tld_element.send_keys config[:locaweb_domain]
Then it worked.
The documentation for the PageObjects module that I'm using as reference can be found here: http://rubydoc.info/github/cheezy/page-object/master/PageObject/Accessors#select_list-instance_method
Do you guys have any explation on why the method auto generated by the pageobject to set the value of the object didnt work in this scope/context ?
By the way, a friend tried the same thing with Java and it failed as well.
In ruby all equals methods (methods that end with the = sign) need to have a receiver. Let me show you some code that will demonstrate why. Here is the code that sets a local variable to a value:
domain = "blah"
and here is the code that calls the domain= method:
domain = "blah"
In order for ruby to know that you are calling a method instead of setting a local variable you need to add a receiver. Simply change your method above to this and it will work:
def configure_domain(config={})
check_option_sub_domain
self.domain = config[:domain]
self.tld = config[:tld]
end
I'm pretty new to this world of Selenium and page objects but maybe one of my very recent discoveries might help you.
I found that that assignment methods for the select_list fields only worked for me once I started using "self" in front. This is what I have used to access it within my page object code. e.g., self.my_select_list="my select list value"
Another note - The send_keys workaround you mention is clever and might do the trick for a number of uses, but in my case the select list values are variable and may have several options starting with the same letter.
I hope something in here is useful to you.
UPDATE (Jan 3/12)
On diving further into the actual Ruby code for the page object I discovered that the select_list set is also using send_keys, so in actuality I still have the same limitation here as the one I noted using the send_keys workaround directly. sigh So much to learn, so little time!