Override method from gem package in Rails application - ruby-on-rails

I am using the package and initialise it in my rails application in config/initializers/prawn_rails.rb with include PrawnRailsForms
I am trying to override a method to increase the font size of field.upcase with the code below
include PrawnRailsForms
DocumentExtensions.module_eval do
def make_field_box(field)
stroke_bounds
bounds.add_left_padding 2
move_down 2
text field.upcase, size: 18
end
end
But the font doesn't get affected in the pdf views even I restarted the server.

You need to do the monkey pathing here.
Create a prawn-rails-forms directory in lib directory.
Create a document_extensions.rb file inside prawn-rails-forms directory.
Add below code to the document_extensions.rb
module PrawnRailsForms
module DocumentExtensions
private
def make_field_box(field)
stroke_bounds
bounds.add_left_padding 2
move_down 2
text field.upcase, size: 8
end
end
end
Restart the server.
Extended
If you find still not working after restarting the server then
Add config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) to the config/application.rb OR
Move prawn-rails-forms directory to the config/initializers
Please let me know if it works for you.

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create file in different directories with ruby

I'm new to ruby. Actually I'm trying to create an empty file "myfile.txt" in each of the following directories:
../../../../../TESTS/Test_A/myTest_A/
../../../../../TESTS/Test_B/myTest_B/
../../../../../TESTS/Test_C/myTest_C/
../../../../../TESTS/Test_D/myTest_D/
As you can see, the name of the Top directory is "TEST" and than after this, every directory have a different name but starts with "Test_", and than each "Test_*" directory contains only one directory and there my file should go in. I'm trying something like this:
require 'pathname'
def create_myFile
pn = Pathname.new('../../../../../TESTS/Test_*/**')
myFile = File.new("#{pn}/myFile.txt", "w+")
end
create_myFile
It doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Pathname does not accept wildcards. Dir#[] does:
Dir['../../../../../TESTS/Test_*/**'].each do |dir|
File.new File.join(dir, 'myFile.txt'), 'w+'
end

Cannot load such file -- /xsd threw by controller when adding a library

I'm trying to load a library from a Controller and it is throwing me this error
cannot load such file -- /xsd
It is, in fact, being loaded in the first line of the library file
require 'xsd/qname'
# {http://www.f2b.com.br/soap/wsbillingaction.xsd}F2bAcaoCobranca
# mensagem - F2bAcaoCobranca::Mensagem
# cliente - F2bAcaoCobranca::Cliente
# acao_cobranca - F2bAcaoCobranca::Acao_cobranca
class F2bAcaoCobranca
#...
end
The library's file is in the following directory:
lib
--f2b
--acao_cobranca
--wsbillingaction.rb
And my controller's action has the following lines of code
def index
require 'f2b/acao_cobranca/wsbillingaction.rb'
end
What is giving me this error? Is it some old stuff from previous versions of Ruby/Rails? How can I fix it?
wsbillingaction depend on another lib (xsd/qname), you should include it in your project or install it as a gem

Not able to create a file for writing

I am uploading txt files using carrierwave. The files are not small (80 MB - 500 MB) and I want to remove some of the lines to reduce this size (about 80% of the file size is going to be reduced).
I have created a model method in order to clear these lines:
require 'fileutils'
def clear_unnecessary_lines
old_file_path = Rails.root.join('public').to_s + log_file.to_s
new_file_path = old_file_path.sub! '.txt', '_temp.txt'
File.open(old_file_path, 'r') do |old_file|
File.open(new_file_path, 'w') do |new_file|
old_file.each_line do |line|
new_file.write(line) unless line.grep(/test/).size > 0
end
end
end
FileUtils.mv new_file_path, old_file_path
end
but I am getting error when I am trying to open the new file saying there is no such file. As I have read opening a file with the w option should create an empty file for writing. Then why I am getting such error?
Also, since log_file column is holding the path to the original file, and I am changing it, could you tell how to rename the new file with the old name? As I have checked I should specify only old and new names, not paths.
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /home/gotqn/Rails/LogFilesAnalyser/LogFilesAnalyser/public/uploads/log_file/log_file/3/log_debug_temp.txt
It is strange that If I execute the following command in rails console, it is not throwing an error and the file is created.
File.open('/home/gotqn/Rails/LogFilesAnalyser/LogFilesAnalyser/public/uploads/log_file/log_file/3/log_debug_temp.txt','w')
Ah, i see your problem now. When you do this
new_file_path = old_file_path.sub! '.txt', '_temp.txt'
you call the "self-altering" version of sub, ie sub!. This will actually change the value of old_file_path as a side effect. Then, in the next line, you try to open this file, which hasn't been created yet. Take out the exclamation mark and you should be fine.

Carrierwave & Zipfiles: Using an extracted file as a version

Something I'm not getting about the version process...
I have a zip file with a file inside, and I want to upload the file as a "version" of the zip:
Uploader:
version :specificFile do
process :extract_file
end
def extract_file
file = nil
Zip::ZipFile.open(current_path) do |zip_file|
file = zip_file.select{|f| f.name.match(/specificFile/)}.first
zip_file.extract(file, "tmp/" + file.name.gsub("/", "-")){ true }
end
File.open("tmp/" + file.name.gsub("/", "-"))
end
Usage:
=link_to "Specific File", instance.uploader.specificFile.url
Only this just nets me two copies of the zip. Clearly, there's something I'm missing about how version / process works, and I haven't been able to find documentation that actually explains the magic.
So how do I do this, and what am I missing?
This provided the "why", although it took a bit to understand:
How do you create a new file in a CarrierWave process?
To rephrase, when you go to create a version, carrierwave makes a copy of the file and then passes the process the file path. When the process exits, carrierwave will upload the contents of that path - not the file the process returns, which is what I thought was going on.
Working code:
version :specificFile do
process :extract_file
def full_filename (for_file = model.logo.file)
"SpecificFile.ext"
end
end
def extract_plist
file = nil
Zip::ZipFile.open(current_path) do |zip_file|
file = zip_file.select{|f| f.name.match(/specificFile/)}.first
zip_file.extract(file, "tmp/" + file.name.gsub("/", "-")){ true }
end
File.delete(current_path)
FileUtils.cp("tmp/" + file.name.gsub("/", "-"), current_path)
end
So, to make what I want to happen, happen, I:
Tell carrierwave to use a particular filename. I'm using a hardcoded value but you should be able to use whatever you want.
Overwrite the contents of current_path with the contents you want under the version name. In my case, I can't just overwrite the zip while I'm "in it" (I think), so I make a copy of the file I care about and overwrite the zip via File and FileUtils.
PS - It would be nice to avoid the duplication of the zip, but it doesn't look like you can tell carrierwave to skip the duplication.

Rails: where to place custom class injections?

i wrote some helper methods for my application like this
module Magick
class Draw
def qrcode(qrcode, left_corner, top_corner, right_corner, bottom_corner)
size = qrcode.modules.length
width = right_corner - left_corner
height = bottom_corner - top_corner
wset = width.to_f / size
hset = height.to_f / size
...............
Where to place such code in rails ?
A common and easy way to load those patches is to create a file inside your ./config/initializers directory (ie: rmagick.rb) and put your code in this file.
All files in this directory are loaded and executed on environment startup.
You could also create a new file with your code in the lib/ directory (ie: rmagick_draw.rb) and add this line in ./config/application.rb:
config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib)
And then require the file anywhere you need it.
You can put such files into app\classes directory. All classes from this directory are available by default in Rails3.

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