“How can I make follow_redirect go to a URL?”
When using a follow_redirect to a URL instead of a hash, the test fails with a string conversion exception. No solutions were forthcoming.
Standup fun-stuff edition!
“Sometimes
find(:first, :order => 'id DESC')returns the records in the wrong order!”
Rails 2.0.2. Roughly 1 out of every 15 times, the first id is not the first one returned. Very very strange.
Update 07/11/2008: A fix has been committed for the :named_scope_-column-collision issue.
belongs_to association declared on an ActiveRecord class, but the table does not have a foreign key for that relationship. Within a session, everything appears normal. The child object will still be saved, the parent object can even be reloaded. But by the next session, the child object is in the database, but cannot be retrieved.named_scope, adding a :joins option will “mix-in” all of the attributes from that join table into your retrieved object, potentially overwriting any colliding attributes (including id … ouch!). There was consensus that this was a valuable feature, when used “properly”. Adding :select option can avoid this, or use :include.<%= javascript_include_tag 'named_routes', 'xxx', :cache => true %> the named_routes.js file usually has not been generated, and application crashes at startup. Solution: we created a rake task to generate the named_routes.js file and run that as part of our deploy process.“Why did my JS
respond_toblock suddenly start rendering the HTML template instead of the RJS template?”
Rails 2.0.2; controller, action, respond_to block all work as expected. Just wrong file gets rendered. They fixed the problem by adding an explicit call to render but this should not be necessary. Suggestion is to move from the template.rhtml naming scheme to template.mime-type.render-engine scheme and see if it is fixed.
“When monit kills our Mongrels, our in-progress transactions are committed, not rolled-back!”
This is with Rails 1.99. Has anyone heard of this?
“Does anyone have suggestions for debugging Safari-specific JavaScript problems?”
Suggestion: download the nightly build of Safari/WebKit, which has a real JavaScript debugging tool.
“After switching from Selenium RC Fu to Polonium, our Selenium tests run extremely slow.”
The affect is similar to Selenium’s slow-mode.