Rails on the Run - All Comments

Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by uplate

2009-08-14T21:51:18Z

I really appreciate this tutorial. I hadn't heard of amCharts before but now I am planning to use it in a project. Any thoughts though on how to prevent the double call to the database. I am new to the RESTful approach so I apologize if this seems like a basic question.

Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by DON FAZE

2009-07-21T08:32:19Z

i love this chart

Comment on 'Ajax Pagination in less than 5 minutes' by SingleShot

2009-06-27T04:39:03Z

OK. I have answered my own question. Matt had mentioned that you can use "Event.addBehavior.reload();" instead of "Event.addBehavior.reassignAfterAjax = true;". Perhaps I am misunderstood his advice. Anyway, I had taken the advice and used reload(), which results in the behavior I described above. Changing it to "Event.addBehavior.reassignAfterAjax = true;" fixed that. Thanks for the write up!

Comment on 'Ajax Pagination in less than 5 minutes' by SingleShot

2009-06-25T05:56:47Z

I have the same problem as Ken. Every other pagination click works great, but also every other pagination click refreshes the entire page. This is true whether my willpaginate tags are in or outside my partial, whether I use respondto...format.js or I use RJS to replace html, etc. I am at a loss. Any suggestions?

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2009-04-23T19:05:37Z

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Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by daniel lopes

2009-03-26T19:13:05Z

Hello Matt, thanks good article.

But flash or flex charts have a problem for one aproach. How we can do filters in our xml data source using a form? Some times we need filter the records by date or category but we need to pass a simple url to swfobject as data_file , how can we pass this params to this url that generate the xml?

Get method will result in really ugly thing if you have a lot of params and I don't think session is good for this kind of problem.

Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by larry

2009-03-23T15:45:42Z

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Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by jack

2009-01-10T00:34:30Z

Is it possible to use amCharts to call an action via ajax? For example, when the user click on a slice of a pie graph, I need to send that data to an action and find(:all) models that the slice represnts.

I don't think this is an unusual thing to do, has any body done this with amCharts? Or with any other graphing tool for that matter?

Comment on 'Rails and Merb core team working together' by grosser

2008-12-24T13:25:32Z

Great news! More developers with the same platform = more plugins/help/docs = more productivity :)

Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by Thomas Kilb

2008-09-25T07:32:16Z

Matt, please consider that your query is called twice. This can be time consuming

Comment on 'Sexy charts in less than 5 minutes' by Jonathon Hill

2008-09-19T13:48:48Z

Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing me to amCharts!! I've built one app with OpenFlashCharts 1.0, and on my current project I need better graphs. I was struggling with OFC 2.0 beta, but this is exactly what I need.

Comment on 'About Metaprogramming speed' by Eike Herzbach

2008-09-14T20:05:43Z

Some of your examples have 364.25 days per year, which is wrong.

Comment on 'db fixtures replacement solution step by step' by grosser

2008-09-12T18:32:20Z

a great deal of these tests can be simplified to something like

assertinvalidattributes User, :login=>['',nil,'admin'], :email=>['',nil,'aa'] etc

http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/testing-validation-the-dry-way/

especially the == "less than xx and more than yy" test semm very brittle to me, add one character and boom.. not very maintainable

Comment on 'db fixtures replacement solution step by step' by Bryan Ray

2008-09-12T14:46:04Z

Thanks for the write up, Matt.

I typically used the object_daddy plugin in Rails and wasn't sure anything like this was out there for Merb.

I'll be playing with factory_girl and dm-sweatshop this weekend.

Comment on 'db fixtures replacement solution step by step' by Matt Aimonetti

2008-09-07T19:30:13Z

@nicolas good question! So you have 2 alternatives quite popular in the Merb world:

merb-fixtures and dm-sweatshop while both options are pretty good they are not framework/ORM agnostic.

Also merb-fixtures doesn't auto save fixtures like when you do Factory(:client) instead of Factory.build(:client) and the declaration of associations is dodgy IMHO. (plus it has a limited API, no support for seques etc...)

dm-sweatshop is better than merb-fixtures but only works with DM at the moment. (it used to be ORM agnostic) It has a great API and offers most of the sexiness from factory_girl.