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Had a bit of a muck around with jQuery sliders today, just though I’d post the code I used to set a default value in case anyone else has a use for it:
//Create sliders
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".slider").slider("option", "value", 100);
});
Just sub whatever you want your default slider value to be in place of the 100. The jQuery documentation is also pretty useful if you’re chasing any more info: jQuery Slider Documentation
Cheers
Ran into a bit of a problem with jQuery today, not entirely sure what the issue was but apparently it did not like me using the .get() function. I received the following error:
//Enable toggling of sub_order display
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.expanding_header').click(function(){
$(this).find('.expanding_content').get(0).toggle('slow', function() {
});
});
});
By substituting the get function with a :first selector the error does not occur:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.expanding_header').click(function(){
$(this).find('.expanding_content:first').toggle('slow', function() {
});
});
});
Ran into another flash notice issue, my messages were not disappearing after the first view. My code was as follows:
#Create flash warning
flash[:warning] = ("This product has been replaced: " +new_product.title + "").html_safe
It turns out that all you have to do to fix this issue is the following:
flash.now[:warning] = ("This product has been replaced: " +new_product.title + "").html_safe
This blog gives a brief overview of when to use flash.now[notice] and when to use flash[:notice]. A basic rule of thumb is that if you’re using a redirect, use flash[:notice], if you’re simply rendering a view, use flash.now[:notice].
This is the validation I was using:
#Define validation validates :order_id, :user_id, :acknowledged, :completed, :presence => true
After another Google search I came across this post which shows how to validate a boolean value.
When implemented within my app, the new validation looks like this:
#Define validation
validates :order_id, :user_id, :presence => true
validates :acknowledged, :completed, :inclusion => {:in => [true, false]}
Hopefully that’ll be able to help a few of you out as well.
Well, today I was looking through the Google Analytics overview of the WhatIBroke.com and I noticed a referral I hadn’t seen before from link.smartscreen.live.com.
I did a bit of Googling and it turns out that this is actually something Microsoft uses within IE and MSN. Apparently, whenever someone clicks on a link in msn the service will check the link against a list of unsafe sites and warn the user if anything is amiss.
It just so happens that I’d sent a link to the blog to a friend on msn – so I guess everything checks out. Here’s a bit of a blurb from the FAQ on Microsoft’s Site:
SmartScreen Filter is a feature in Internet Explorer that helps detect phishing websites. SmartScreen Filter can also help protect you from downloading or installing malware (malicious software).SmartScreen Filter helps to protect you in three ways:
As you browse the web, it analyses webpages and determines if they have any characteristics that might be suspicious. If it finds suspicious webpages, SmartScreen will display a message giving you an opportunity to provide feedback and advising you to proceed with caution.
SmartScreen Filter checks the sites you visit against a dynamic list of reported phishing sites and malicious software sites. If it finds a match, SmartScreen Filter will show you a warning notifying you that the site has been blocked for your safety.
SmartScreen Filter checks files that you download from the web against a list of reported malicious software sites and programs known to be unsafe. If it finds a match, SmartScreen Filter will warn you that the download has been blocked for your safety. SmartScreen Filter also checks the files that you download against a list of files that are well known and downloaded by many Internet Explorer users. If the file that you’re downloading isn’t on that list, SmartScreen Filter will warn you.
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now – Good Luck!
After a bit of a Google I came across a post mentioning that a few people had encountered this after installing Solr. I had previously setup Sunspot, which just so happens to sit on top of Solr.
Manually starting solr fixed the problem – just using the code below:
chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ rake sunspot:solr:start
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for you for now, Good Luck!
UPDATE: I had this problem again this morning and realised that it was the models with search fields still defined that were triggering the error. Removing this code seems to have completely resolved the issue.
Another quick post, just on how to truncate a string within a view. I used the following in order to ensure that my order_item title is never longer than 100 characters:
Title: 100, :seperator => ' ...') %>
Output:
#More than 100 characters
Title: lentesque porttitor, velit vel ullamcorper pharetra, augue erat pharetra risus, quis bibendum fel…
Good Luck!
flash[:notice] = "Order created - Click here to pay for it!"
flash[:notice] = "Order created - Click here to pay for it!".html_safe
If you’re using rails 3 make sure you throw in the .html_safe or your link will be appear as plain text. Just a quick screenshot of the end result below:
Anyway, that’s all. Good Luck!
Just another one of those things that I find myself needing to do from time to time. Luckily this is all pretty straight forward (thankyou Ruby on Rails!). Assuming your partial is a form in the locations folder and that the variable you’re expecting is location all that you have to do is following:
View: users/show.html.erb
'locations/form', :locals => { :location => @user.location } %>
Partial: locations/_form.html.erb
Street:
Good luck!
This wasn’t one I had encountered before and unfortunately Google couldn’t give me anything to cheat off. Luckily, a quick review of the server log revealed the following message just before it closed the connection:
#Redirect to edit location path redirect_to '/locations/edit'
Hopefully this’ll be able to help someone else out there, Good Luck!
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