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Comment on Task Parameters in Rake 0.8.0 by ...

... — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:29:36 +0000

correction: last example must be

task :invoke, :command, :needs => :prerequisite do |task, args|
# …
end

Comment on Greedy Update by zerock

zerock — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:40:14 +0000

I use this all the time. Thanks!!

Comment on Greedy Update by Gonzie

Gonzie — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:33:59 +0000

HOT P*SS this is just what i’ve been looking for

don’t like reader notifier running all the time as i don’t it’s functions other than the pass through for google reader and i don’t like it taking up a menubar space or memory either

the javascript from google was an option but didn’t like the clutter on my bookmark bar and wouldn’t work if i disabled the rss icon in the safari address bar

for god sake man why isn’t this on macupdate! change the name and get it up there now!

Comment on Foxy Fixtures for 1.2.x by steve

steve — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:36:59 +0000

So you don’t buy the habtm is dead, long live hm:t?

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll do it! And thanks for the improvement to the fixtures.

Comment on Foxy Fixtures for 1.2.x by John

John — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:18:04 +0000

Assuming a category has_many :people, :through => :signups, I’d definitely have a signups.yml. I’d stick with HABTM until I was certain that I really needed a join model, though. :)

Comment on Foxy Fixtures for 1.2.x by steve

steve — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:09:33 +0000

Here are the (abbreviated) class definitions. What I’m grappling with is whether I need to create a signups.yml. The semantics are that a person can signup for several categories and a category can have many people signed up. The two questions are: 1) Whether I need the signups.yml fixture; 2) How it is constructed. This is kind of a HABTM problem, but hm:t might work a bit better if I need to make notes about a particular signup.

Thanks,

Steve

class Category :signups
end

class Signup < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :person
belongs_to :category
end

class Person :signups
end

The fixtures might be:

# Categories.yml
pro_open:
name: Pro Open
price: 125
description: $15000, Prize Purse
more_info: This is the big event come and get it.
You too can be a pro
division: pro

amateur_open:
name: Amateur Open
price: 40
description: No prize purse
more_info: This is an amateur event, you bozo.
division: amateur

amateur_teeny_wahinis:
name: Teeny Wahinis
price: 20
description: 9 years old
more_info: I can’t believe they can even stand up!
division: amateur

# people.yml
sue:
first_name: sue
last_name: surfer
email: sue@gooddomain.com
street_address: 123 main street
city: encinitas
state_or_province: ca
zip_or_postal_code: 92000
phone: 222-333-4444
school: sdsu
date_of_birth: 02/18/1988
category: amateur_open

jill:
first_name: jill
last_name: shortboarder
email: jill@gooddomain.com
street_address: 123 first street
city: la jolla
state_or_province: ca
zip_or_postal_code: 92029
phone: 333-444-5555
school: ucsd
date_of_birth: 02/18/1990
category: pro_open

Comment on Foxy Fixtures for 1.2.x by John

John — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:54:27 +0000

Steve, do you have an example you can link? I generally think of has_many :through declarations as just sugar, so I’d be working with the target association in the fixtures.

Comment on Foxy Fixtures for 1.2.x by steve

steve — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:50:30 +0000

I love the rathole … I mean Foxy Fixtures. But I’ll be darned if I can figure out how to make them work with has_many :through associations.

Any tips?