For a blog model I'm saving an RSS field as text under Blog.rss, problem is, some of this is rather long and each one prints when I'm working in the rails console, ie: Blog.last(10).
Is there a way to hide output unless I call someblog.rss specifically?
I had a similar problem and received some solutions in another forum, which were:
Use select to get just the columns you need
If you have a very long column (I had JSON data structure from a webhook cluttering the console), consider whether you really need it, and if you don't , don't store it in the table
Or, consider storing it in an associated table
if you need the whole object but just want to change how it's represented in console/log output, you can redefine inspect
yourobject.as_json(except: :unwanted_column)
Also
You could look into: https://github.com/awesome-print/awesome_print
Hey guys this has been tripping me up quite a bit. So here is the general problem:
I am writing an application that requires users to enter their Summoner Names from league of legends. I do a pretty simple data scrape of a match and enter the data into my database. Unfortunately I am having some errors registering users with "special characters".
For this example I will use one problem user: RIÇK
As you can see RICK != RIÇK. So when I do the data scrub from the site I get the correct value which I push onto an array for later use.
Once I need the player names I pull from the array as follows: (player_names is the array)
#temp_player = User.find_by_username(player_names[i].to_s)
The problem is the users with any special characters are not being pulled. Should I not be using find_by? Is to_s changing my original values? I am really quite lost on what to do and would greatly appreciate any help / advice.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
I would like to thank Brian Kung for the link to the following: joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html It does a great job giving the bare minimum a programmer truly needs to understand.
For my particular issue I had used a HTML scraper to get the contents but which kept HTML entries throughout. When using these with my SQL lookups it was obvious that things were not being found. In order to fix this I used the HTMLEntities Gem to decode the text as follows (as soon as I put the into the array originally):
requires 'RubyGems' #without this cannot include htmlentries as a gem
requires 'HTMLEntries'
coder = HTMLEntries.new
line = '<'
player_names.push(coder.decode(line))
The Takeaway
When working with text and if running into errors I would strongly recommend tracing the strings you are working with to the origin and truly understanding what encoding is being used in each process. By doing this you can easily find where things are going wrong.
I've got a JSON hash of hashes returned by a website API that I want to parse and display based on a specific key's value within the internal hashes.
I can think of solutions that would achieve this, but they would take a number of lines of code and don't seem efficient. Surely there must be a way to natively in Rails, given the focus on convention over configuration. I've googled around a bit, but found nothing that covers this issue.
Sample Response from API:
[{"banner":"01197271","birthday":"1991-01-11","committee_id":1,"created_at":"2012-08-08T01:56:02-05:00","email":"me#example.com","first_name":"Dan","graduation_date":"May 2013","hometown":"San Antonio","hours_enrolled":15,"id":2,"image":{"url":null,"thumb":{"url":null},"large":{"url":null}},"invitation_accepted_at":null,"invitation_limit":null,"invitation_sent_at":null,"invitation_token":null,"invited_by_id":null,"invited_by_type":null,"last_name":"Tester","local_apt":"","local_city":"San Antonio","local_state":"Texas","local_street":"One UTSA Circle","local_zip":"78249","major":"Computer Science","permanent_apt":"","permanent_city":"","permanent_state":"","permanent_street":"One UTSA Circle","permanent_zip":"","phone":"5558813284","same_address":true,"tour_trained":false,"updated_at":"2012-08-17T03:35:26-05:00","utsa_id":"uoi431"},
{"banner":"","birthday":"1990-10-25","committee_id":null,"created_at":"2012-08-03T16:19:23-05:00","email":"you#example.com","first_name":"Test","graduation_date":null,"hometown":null,"hours_enrolled":null,"id":1,"image":{"url":null,"thumb":{"url":null},"large":{"url":null}},"invitation_accepted_at":null,"invitation_limit":null,"invitation_sent_at":null,"invitation_token":null,"invited_by_id":null,"invited_by_type":null,"last_name":"User","local_apt":"","local_city":"","local_state":"","local_street":"","local_zip":"","major":null,"permanent_apt":"","permanent_city":"","permanent_state":"","permanent_street":"","permanent_zip":"","phone":"","same_address":false,"tour_trained":false,"updated_at":"2012-08-15T10:05:54-05:00","utsa_id":""}]
Potential solution would be to go through each internal hash, determining value of relevant key value, then store, based on where the key value places it compared to already tested hashes. When complete, return.
Ok so if you have objects that are set up to parse this information, those objects can build themselves based off the parameters of your hash. So you could do something like this
object = MyObject.create(your_hash_parameters)
Where your_hash_parameters are the parameters that you presented in your example.
I'm not sure what would happen if there were more paramaters than your object knew what to do with, if it would still build itself or not. If that is the case, you could use the delete_if method to exclude attributes that are unwanted.
One more note, if this isn't something that you want saved to your database, and its only to display temporary information. I would set up a model with attr_accessors that represent the attributes that you are displaying.
As told in comment, I'd create an ActiveResource object and add relevant methods to it.
I ask this because I have a form with a radio button set to nil :
= f.radio_button :estimate_type, nil
I have debugger right at the beginning of my method call :
def create
debugger
When I hit the debugger, I check out my params, and they say the value is on not nil.
Enter Insanity wolf. Somehow this is getting converted on click. And I've scoured the entire app looking for possibly a leaky javascript file, or anything closely resembling the word 'on'. I've checked all my bases. Defaults in schema.rb, jquery click events, model validations, you name it. Nothing with the word "on" anywhere.
So the real question is, is there a way I can throw a debugger in a place in which if I were to click submit, the debugger would appear before the model validation, and then hopefully where the params are still what they are in the form. And then I can follow it down the trail and see where it goes wrong.
It doesn't have anything to do with your JavaScript. This is something that I've experienced before as well, but I'm not sure why it converts nil to 'on'. I do know that passing in :nil as a symbol returns a null string, as well as just simply passing in false.
A better approach to trying to solve your problem may be to put the debugger in the validation callback itself.
Nothing to do with rails - you could verify this by using your browser's network inspector to see that the browser is actually sending the parameter value "on".
By trying to set the value to nil (which doesn't really make sense - parameter values are always strings) you're suppressing the value attribute entirely from the generated HTML.
The standard says that in this case the default value for the input shall be "on" and so that is what your browser submits.
I have a difficult situation.
I let the the user create a form through a Rich Text Editor and then I save this.
So for example, I save this literally into my DB:
http://pastebin.com/DNdeetJp (how can you post HTML here? It gets interpreted, so now I use pastebin...)
On another page I wrap this in a form_tag and it gets presented as it should be.
What I want to do is save this as a template and save the answers as a hashmap to my DB.
This works well, but the problem is I want to recreate what checkbox/radiobutton/... is selected when the user goes back to the page. So I want to fill the form with the answers from the hashmap.
Is there a way to use a 'dummy' model or something else to accomplish this?
Thanks!
Since you're pasting in raw HTML which is not properly configured as a template, it is more difficult to enable the proper options based on whatever might be stored in your DB.
The reliable approach to making this work is to use Hpricot or Nokogiri to manipulate the bit of HTML you have and substitute values accordingly. This isn't too hard so long as you can define the elements in that form using a proper selector. For example, create a div with a unique id and operate on all input elements within it, comparing the name attribute with your properties. There may even be a library for this somewhere.
The second approach is to use JavaScript to enable the options in much the same fashion. This seems like a bit of a hack since the form itself will not have a proper default state.