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Any suggestions on how this is done?

What can i do so that the input and button fill 100% of their containing cell?

Here's the error message:
User(#-617021328) expected, got String(#-608364028)

It refers to the second line in the create action here:

  def create
    @project = Project.find(params[:project_id])
    @task = @project.tasks.build(params[:task])
    @task.status = Task.status_to_i('Not Started')
    @task.creator = session[:user_id]
    respond_to do |format|
      if @task.save
        flash[:notice] = 'Task was successfully created.'
        format.html { redirect_to project_path(@project) }
        format.xml  { render :xml => @task, :status => :created, :location => @task }
      else
        format.html { render :action => "new" }
        format.xml  { render :xml => @task.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

To associate the task with users, I have two belongs_to statements. One for who creates the task, and one for who it is assigned to. Here's the model code for that association:

class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :project
  validates_presence_of :name, :description
  belongs_to :assigned_to, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => :assigned_to
  belongs_to :creator, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => :creator
  attr_accessible :name, :description, :due_date, :creator, :assigned_to

  #... other methods
end

Here's the form code, with the drop down for whom it is assigned to and so forth.

<% form_for([@project, @task]) do |f| %>
  <%= f.error_messages %>

  <p>
    <%= f.label :name %><br />
    <%= f.text_field :name %>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= f.label :description %><br />
    <%= f.text_area :description %>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= f.label :assigned_to, 'Assigned To:' %><br />
    <%= f.collection_select :assigned_to, @users, :id, :full_name_last_initial %>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= f.label :due_date %><br />
    <%= f.date_select :due_date %>
  </p>
  <% if controller.action_name == 'edit' %>
    <p>
      <%= f.label :status %><br />
      <%= f.select :status, Task.status_hash %>
    </p>
    <p>
      Creator: <br />
      <%= @task.creator.name %>
    </p>
  <% end %>
  <p>
    <%= f.submit 'Submit' %>
  </p>
<% end %>

Any ideas on what may be causing the problem? It seems like a field or parameter that is passing to it is sending that number to the build call. I can't seem to narrow it down to what might be doing that.

Database
I have a "users" and a "roles" table. The "users" table has a "role_id". The"roles" table has fields "name" and "description".

Models (added lines to files)
user.rb
belongs_to :role
role.rb
has_many :users

Issue
In the ability.rb file, how can I pull the users role to test and set up permissions?

Here's an example. It obviously does not work. But I think that you can see where I am going with it.

class Ability
  include CanCan::Ability

  def initialize(user)
    if user.role.name == 'Administrator'
      can :manage, :all
    else
      can :read, :all
    end
  end
end

Thanks a lot guys. Sorry if it is something simple and I do not understand. Like I said, I am new and do not fully understand ruby and rails yet.

I have a simple app that only requires one user to login and perform certain admin tasks.

What is the best way to set this up. I'm used to using acts_as_authenticated and Clearance in various other projects but this seems like overkill here.

Thanks

- If a user isn't logged in, but attempts to access a 'logged-in only' action, I want to redirect the user to the login page.
- If anyone besides an admin tries to access an 'admin only' action, I want to redirect the user to a 404 page.

The only example I can find is:

 class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
    rescue_from CanCan::AccessDenied do |exception|
      flash[:error] = exception.message
      redirect_to root_url
    end
  end

which is ugly. And within that rescue block, I'd have no idea what attempted action triggered it.

Any thoughts?

So how do I setup Rails 3 to use jQuery then?

It still loads all the Prototype libraries by default.

Also, as a bonus question, if I am using Prototype is there a way to get Rails to load the minified versions, and even better a single JS to cut down on http requests?

Thanks.

Each of these is a "product" but will obviously have different attributes.  I'd like to be able to add a new product (with common attributes like name, description, category, etc).  Then based the product's category, I want to be able to fill in the other attributes as needed for that category.

Option 1: Use Single Table Inheritance
I looked this up on the forum and elsewhere and saw references to Single Table Inheritance as one possible option.  But it seems like that might not be the best approach since, over time and with a large number of categories, that would lead to a huge table full of attributes.

Option 2: Use Multiple Models for Each Type of Product
I could also create models for each type of products (Camera, Phone, Book, etc) but I'd like to be able to add new categories/products from within the admin area of the site once it's live vs. having to dive into the code each time I want to add to the site.

Questions:

1. Any idea how to setup something like this in Rails or any other options I should consider? 

2. And is there another concept I'm missing that I should read up on besides Single Table Inheritance that would help point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Kenton

  uninitialized constant ApplicationController::SslRequirement

which is what I'd expect to see if the plugin wasn't installed.  There's no way I can find to list plugins installed for an app (which is weird), but I can go into app/vendor/plugins and see that there's a directory for ssl_requirement.  So it looks OK.  But just to be sure, I reinstalled it.  No change.  My app refuses to recognize the plugin.  Any idea what I could try next?

Thanks, Dan

I am a newbie. I have been playing only using 1 controller and 1 model.. Any examples out there that I can go beyond this...
I think an a deeper understanding of MVC is also required.

Any recommended readings and links????

Thanks

I am new to Ruby. I am developing an app in which an admin can add (create) employees. There are multiple admins in my application. I have created a new database table called "transactions" in which one can refer the table in the database and retrieve information on which admin added which employee. Can anyone give me any ideas on how to proceed for this?

As an example,

1)" Admin1" creates a user called "user1".
2) "Admin 2" updates existing information on "user1"
Once this has been done, in the transaction table, it should look like:

transaction_id                  user_id                                               transaction_type
1                                  id of "Admin1"                                             create
2                                   id of "Admin1"                                            update

Can anyone please guide me through this?

Thanks