Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework optimized for programmer happiness and maintaining sustainable productivity. Many things are defined by convention, freeing you from having to re-invent things to stay productive.
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Initializing a new user
I have a method in my rails project that initializes a new user by copying some properties of another. The method should also retain entered parameters if saving the new user is rejected. Rubocop ...
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Empty product model
I don't think I am using MVC concept in Ruby on Rails properly. Model accesses db, controller works on logic and view displays information/data. But in my below code, My Model code is empty. Can ...
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User search controller
I am using the ruby sunspot gem to create a search users function on my site.
It works fine and the users controller for the index page where there is a search form is this
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Reduce 'Assignment Branch Condition Size'
I have a method in my Ruby code that sets the default name for my model. Rubocop complains that Assignment Branch Condition Size is too high, 21.24/15. How can I improve this?
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Rspec - testing basic functionality - redundant testing?
Being pretty new to testing, I was wondering how many of these tests make sense.
restaurants_controller_spec.rb
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Parsing lines and processing elements
The method process_open_elements decides the fate of process_block elements or runs directly. How can this be refactored to be ...
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Fetching photos and tweets related to selected publications
1) Postgresql
2) User has_many :reports
3) Report belongs_to :user
3) Report belongs_to :publication
4) Publication has_many :reports
4) Publication scope :photos, -> ...
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Controller actions permisson specs
I'm just starting with rails and testing, and not sure what's good way to dry code like this.
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N+1 query on Ruby on Rails
I have a has_many through relationship between my cities and travels that looks like this:
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Sports statistics controller
Is there too much logic in this controller (should I migrate them to the model)? How else can it be refactored?
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Create a list of actors based on their movies [closed]
I want to optimize this code for speed. I think there is more faster way.
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Return the opposite of two known strings given one
This is probably silly, but I feel like there should be a much more elegant way to do this simple thing. I have two known strings, whichever one is passed in in the parameter I want to return the ...
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Computing overall averages in my web application
I'm a senior Comp. Sci. major working on a senior design project for our faculty. The name of this project is "Gradebook", and it is responsible for allowing instructors to record grades for students ...
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Probability ordering by seller's tariff
I have an instance method (update_priority); it calculates the position of an element, depending on the tariff of its seller.
If the seller is of a level3 tariff, ...
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Find free username based on schema
Hopefully this is not too complicated. I have this code that will generate a username based on the pre-configured schema the admin types in. The fields they can use are:
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Testing a simple guard clause in isolation
I’m using decorator objects in a Rails app so that I don’t have to do nil? checks in views. Everything is working nicely and it’s easy to test, but I’m suspicious ...
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Similar methods to update today's sales, revenue, and profit
Please help me to refactor. I have two models, conversion & statistic.
Methods ...
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Rails integration testing: Should we use strings or named routes in http requests?
When integration testing Rails applications HTTP request helpers can take a string or a named route as the first argument.
I find myself writing:
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Rails models for Users, Offers, Comments, Documents, and Reviews
I want to simplify my Rails models, current looks like this:
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Rails configuration variants for production / development environments
How can duplication be removed from this?
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Strategy to reduce duplicate code in many similar modules
The Situation
I have created some code in the form of modules that each represent a medical questionnaire (I'm calling them Catalogs). Each different questionnaire ...
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Simple DRY Rails - check if a model belongs to a user
I can clearly see I'm repeating myself, but I don't know how to refractor this without making it really ugly. What I have:
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Product matcher refactoring regarding scopes and arrays
I know I have seen this before and I can't remember how to fix it or find where I saw how to fix it:
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The block should return the user's current_active_role
def current_active_role
user_roles.each do |r|
if r.is_active_role
return r
end
end
return nil
end
The block above returns ...
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Joining models to get records
Is there a better way to refactor the join and fetch the required attributes or is there any better option here?
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Reading a file in chunks
I currently have the following class that takes a custom file object as an argument and makes a copy of the file locally.
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Displaying shows with videos
My method takes a long time to respond, so I'd like to make this method more efficient. I'd also like this method made with joins.
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Convert string array to object with true/false flags
Currently a filter parameter of a GET request is used to designate items' categories that will be requested from database and displayed.
The parameter contains ...
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3 features for 1 model = 3 migrations?
I have a model Users that each instance have 3 features. It was alright until I wanted to tell if this instance can do the 1st feature, the 3rd or all.
I did a migration
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Controller action to process orders and payments
I'm trying to reduce the if statements and simplify this create action.
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Tell, Don't Ask when dealing with displaying model attributes or a null replacement
I have the following model:
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Triggering the execution of a job at the end of a timed campaign
I have a task that checks for campaigns that are supposed to be finished by checking the end_at date. If finished, then set the status of the campaign to finished, ...
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DRY-ing up some rspec
I have an rspec spec test that has two sets of the same tests (from 24 Pull Requests). I thought I'd refactor the spec whilst I fixed something else.
Normally I just do a basic ...
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Rendering a selection box for 50 states
I was creating a Rails form where users have to enter their state. I ended up creating a select tag which is really, really ugly.
I'd like to think there's a better way of writing this.
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Reservation validation
I got a Reservation model that has reservation_start and reservation_end.
Then I have the ...
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Reduce memory use for a property geolocator
I have to run a script against 40 million objects in my database:
I wrote the script and I want 10 instance of it so I process my objects faster.
The goal is to find all the neighborhood for each ...
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Avoiding Duplicates in a Ruby on Rails Factory Girl Factory with Fake
I have a Factory Girl factory that needs to generate a unique name using Faker. Unfortunately, Factory Girl generates duplicates relatively frequently, which causes intermittent test errors. I ...
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Feeder for returning an array of items rated by users
Feeder is in charge of returning an array of items rated by users (feed). If there is a watching user (...
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Clean up Rails routes.rb constraints
I'm trying to think of a better way to write these routes in my routes.rb file:
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Getting s3 objects with Rails
I have been using aws-sdk gem with Rails, for uploading and downloading objects. I believe it's working fine.
Demo code:
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Add existing models to a relation using nested attributes
I needed to add existing models to a has-many relation using nested attributes so I overwrote thumbnails_attributes=:
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Directions to refactor class for GPS track points
The story started here (Parsing GPS Data) and continued here (Class for median filter)
I've done a lot work and faced new questions.
In short - I made:
Classes for parsers. TrackParser and ...
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Building query for search engine
I'm writing a basic search engine for my website.
It works but I'm really unhappy with the code. I know it can't be improved but I'm lacking some experiences here.
In my params from my search I get:
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