Comments on: Bort - A Base Rails Application

By: Bob Calco

Bob Calco — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:06:22 +0000

OK I figured out what my problem was. I’m using a non-standard database adapter on win32… Sam Smoot’s mssqlclient. I have been massaging it to work on Rails 2.2 with some success but I occasionally find some odd stuff going on. In this case, it’s prepending default strings with “N”. In SQL Server you usually write something like N’somestring’. Apparently it’s concatenating the N and the string. So for example, the ‘name’ attribute of user, which defaults to ”, is “N”. I can fix this. Changing the user.state to “passive” (instead of Npassive) and then calling user.register! an user.activate! did the trick.

- Bob

By: Bob Calco

Bob Calco — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:45:16 +0000

I’m running into a problem during the migration when user.register! is called… deep in the bowels of aasm.rb, the call on line 118 to aasm_state_object_for_state(aasm_current_state) is returning nil, so rake db:migrate fails when it tries to call nil.call_action(:enter, self).

I took the creation of the admin role and initial admin user out of the migration (or rather, commented it out). After I successfully ran the migration without those steps, I manually reproduced them in the console.

I was able to create the admin role and the user, and add the admin role to the user. But calls to both user.register! and user.activate! yield the following error:

MethodError: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.call_action
from /vendor/gems/rubyist-aasm-2.0.2/lib/aasm.rb:118:in ‘aasm_fire_event’
from /vendor/gems/rubyist-aasm-2.0.2/lib/aasm.rb:56:in ‘register!’
from (irb):8

(substitute ‘register!’ with ‘activate!’ when I call user.activate! in above trace.)

I am running Rails 2.2.2, not 2.2.0.

- Bob

By: Jim Neath

Jim Neath — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:05:29 +0000

Thanks Adam, I’ll get that fix committed. :)

By: Adam Salter

Adam Salter — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:45:14 +0000

I was able to fix the error `rake aborted! no such file to load — spec/rake/spectask` by changing line 7 of lib/tasks/rspec.task to:

rspec_base = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + ‘/../../vendor/gems/rspec-1.1.11/lib’)

By: Adam Salter

Adam Salter — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:32:30 +0000

I’m getting the same error as Douglas above. OSX 10.5, Rails 2.2

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:37:05 +0000

When I run `rake db:migrate` I get the following error…
`rake aborted! no such file to load — spec/rake/spectask`. What gives? I am on Windows XP, Rails 2.2.

By: Philip Rhoades

Philip Rhoades — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:31:13 +0000

Don’t worry - I worked this out . .

Thanks,

Phil.

By: Philip Rhoades

Philip Rhoades — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:09:01 +0000

srb,

Thanks - I did work that out eventually . .

Next question relating to authentication - for a library app (books, CDs, DVDs) I want to use the Rails dir:

pricom.com.au/library

and I have started using Passenger (mod_rails) - I had to hard code “library” into paths in layout files so “authors”, “books” etc can be found (eg /library/books) because RailsBaseURI doesn’t seem to work past the base name. Anyway, activation emails are being sent out without the “library” eg with a URL of:

http://pricom.com.au/activate/b4cd0. . .

Where do I hard code “library” to fix the URL?

Thanks,

Phil.

By: srb

srb — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:48:02 +0000

Phillip,

Why are you copying this line?
skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token, :only => :create

You probably want this instead:
before_filter :login_required

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:16:16 +0000

Bort is really handy, but I feel that with the introduction of open ID support you may have gone a little too far in one direction. None of my projects ever use open id, for a variety of reasons. Hopefully you won’t get caught up in adding too many more features at the base, as the last thing a cool time-saving project like this needs is feature bloat. Either way, thanks for making this!