Craig Ambrose: Comments

Redbox doesn’t work for me....

dario — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:58:50 GMT

Redbox doesn’t work for me. Even the simplest “link_to_redbox”.

My configuration is: rails 2.1.0
redbox svn version 15

The problem is redbox_spinner.gif appears and stays forever. Here is a screenshot: http://i25.tinypic.com/16izbxi.jpg

Thanks.
Dario

Posted to: Redbox Release 2

Did anyone ever figure out...

James Smith — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:18:54 GMT

Did anyone ever figure out how to do Error validation in a redbox w/ a form? Such as updating the flash w/ the errors?

Posted to: Redbox - A rails compatible lightbox

Oops, it messed up my...

Johnny Rodgers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:09:20 GMT

Oops, it messed up my example select helper. Here it is again:

<%= select ‘user’, ‘gender’, { ”” => ””, “Male” => “M”, “Female” => “F” }, {}, { :class => “redbox_select” } %>

Hope that works!

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RE: Andrea, cfnm, and Craig...

Johnny Rodgers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:07:11 GMT

RE: Andrea, cfnm, and Craig (hiding select elements)

For anyone else wanting to use select form elements in their Redbox, there’s a simple workaround that I’ve been using.

First, assign your select inputs a class of ‘redbox_select’:

"", "Male" =&gt; "M", "Female" =&gt; "F" }, {}, { :class =&gt; "redbox_select" } %&gt;

Then, make the following change in redbox.js :
// in hideSelectBoxes() function
// BEFORE:
for (i = 0; i != selects.length; i++) {
selects[i].style.visibility = “hidden”;
}
// AFTER:
for (i = 0; i != selects.length; i++) {
if (!selects[i].hasClassName(‘redbox_select’)) {
selects[i].style.visibility = “hidden”;
}
}

This simple checks if the select that the function is attempting to hide has the ‘redbox_select’ class, and if so, skips it.

Hope someone finds this useful. Thanks for a handy plugin, Craig. The one thing I’ve been wishing for in Redbox is a link_to_function_redbox helper that would accept an RJS block.

Posted to: Redbox - A rails compatible lightbox

Other late-comers to this page...

Simon B. — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:47:14 GMT

Other late-comers to this page (like me :) could benefit of looking up Brynary and some newer posts on unit vs. story or behaviour driven development.

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Hi,i have used the redbox...

Ravi vardhan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:15:47 GMT

Hi,

i have used the redbox in my rails app.its working fine
But i didn't get lightbox middle of the page.i am getting left side and upper of the page.

how to solve this please help me.

my os :ubuntu
browser :firefox
rails 1.2.3

Posted to: Redbox Release 2

Good day sir.I just want...

Gerald — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:55:50 GMT

Good day sir.

I just want to ask if this article of your’s are also applicable to those websites that does not use rails?

Thank you and Regards,

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When I run ruby script/plugin...

bleh — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:54:42 GMT

When I run ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ambroseplugins/redbox

Then it pulls down all the files into vendor/plugins/redbox (Exported revision 15), but then it says:

Plugin not found: [“svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ambroseplugins/redbox”]

I tried cd’ing into that directory to run “rake update_scripts” and I get the following output:

rake aborted!
private method `copy’ called for File:Class
/home/bleh/rails/foo/vendor/plugins/redbox/Rakefile:28
(See full trace by running task with—trace)

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Hello,I have on my page...

Joel — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:51:13 GMT

Hello,

I have on my page a list of promotion items with a “Details” link to a
popup window ( using redbox ) that gives more precise details about
the promotion item. However I would like to add next and previous
buttons on my popup Window so that the user does not need to close the
current one and click on another promotion details link.

Is this possible ? I thought about a solution that would close the
actual window and load another one corresponding to the next promotion
item details. But I think we can just load the details through ajax
but I don’t know how to exactly do this using.

Regards,

Joel

Posted to: Redbox Release 2

Original script had quite a...

David Krmpotic — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:20:32 GMT

Original script had quite a few problems for me… I made it work (great):

http://pastie.caboo.se/199267

require ‘find’

namespace :db do

desc "Backup the database to a file. Options: DIR=base_dir RAILS_ENV=production MAX=20"

task :backup =&gt; [:environment] do
  datestamp = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")    
  base_path = ENV["DIR"] || "db" 
  backup_base = File.join(base_path, 'backup')
  backup_folder = File.join(backup_base, datestamp)
  backup_file = File.join(backup_folder, "#{RAILS_ENV}_dump.sql.gz")   
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(backup_folder)
  db_config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV]
  pass = ''
  pass = '-p' + db_config['password'] if db_config['password']
  sh "mysqldump -u #{db_config['username']} #{pass} #{db_config['database']} -Q —add-drop-table -O add-locks=FALSE -O lock-tables=FALSE | gzip -c &gt; #{backup_file}"     
  dir = Dir.new(backup_base)
  all_backups = dir.entries[2..-1].sort.reverse
  puts "Created backup: #{backup_file}" 
  max_backups = (ENV["MAX"] || 20).to_i
  puts max_backups
  unwanted_backups = all_backups[max_backups..-1] || []
  for unwanted_backup in unwanted_backups
    FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(backup_base, unwanted_backup))
    puts "deleted #{unwanted_backup}" 
  end
  puts "Deleted #{unwanted_backups.length} backups, #{all_backups.length - unwanted_backups.length} backups available" 
end

end

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Just an update to the...

Colin — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:38:43 GMT

Just an update to the issue I mentioned above. Having some more time yesterday I returned to the slow loading background. Turns out it was a css class that the designer used, the css class was for a flash area and it was called “alert”.

Removed that and all was fine. Can now roll it out :)

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Hello,just wanted to know if...

jsoor — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:40:33 GMT

Hello,

just wanted to know if by now, the plugin works well on internet explorer.

And another question not completely related to redbox : does anyone know a plugin for firefox or something to install on mac os to be able to test web sites and apps on ie on mac.

Thanks a lot
;-)

Joel

Posted to: Redbox - A rails compatible lightbox

If I set glade to...

Atlanta Realtor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:29 GMT

If I set glade to be sinewstrengthvague than the position of the redBox popup classical education, then cursor is ok. If I gradually push the lowest point of the containing div until it reaches the input box

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As per the advice of...

Billy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:42:41 GMT

As per the advice of others on here, the plugin javascript source file is broken. You will need to fetch the JS file directly from Craig’s demo site at http://www.craigambrose.com/javascripts/redbox.js

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I was having the Element.setTop...

Ann Ames — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:06:05 GMT

I was having the Element.setTop problem too. I was curious to see why the demos on this site worked when I couldn’t get the downloaded code to work in my own app. I looked at the demos in Firebug and discovered it’s not the same redbox.js…and the demo code doesn’t include calls to Element.setTop. I copied the contents from redbox.js out of firebug and into my local file, and I no longer have the error. Since there is no version information in redbox.js, I can’t tell which is the newer code…but the version on the demo site certainly seems to work, so I’m going with that for now.

Posted to: Redbox Release 2

Maruis, in response to your...

Craig Ambrose — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:18:51 GMT

Maruis, in response to your question, lets assume nesting as follows:

map.resources :groups do |group|
group.resources :users
end

A link with hash notation to the user edit action would look like this:

link_to ‘Edit User’, :controller => ‘users’, :action => ‘edit’, :id => @user, :group_id => ’@group

The order of parameters in that hash is of course not important. I like to always start with controller and then action, but any combination of further params is fine providing you’re consistant.

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Thanks Geoff, I should have...

Craig Ambrose — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:08:38 GMT

Thanks Geoff, I should have covered that.

It’s certainly quite true that you don’t want to go around willy nilly refactoring routes after a site has gone into production. The time when I find myself doing it the most is during the development of the site. In an agile process, the client often seems to change their mind a lot while the site is being built (as they should), and also I find that I change my mind about the structure of resources and wish to move things around between controllers.

Posted to: I sold my cow and all I got were these url helpers

The argument for refactoring URLs...

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:10:55 GMT

The argument for refactoring URLs has never made sense to me. Do you really want to break all the links to your site from search engines and other sites?

I use the redirect routing plugin and some integration tests to cover my arse in that department.

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I’ve also had experience with...

Maruis Marais — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:25:30 GMT

I’ve also had experience with this issue. It is a bit of a pain to refactor your views when you change the nesting of two of your resources.

That brings me to my question.

How would you explicitly handle nested resources using the hash notation?

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Ah, I found it …...

Peter Vandenabeele — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:59:43 GMT

Ah, I found it … I used this alias in config/database.yml

development: backup_production
backup_production:
adapter: mysql
...

and as a result this function:

ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV]

did not return the expected hash of database connection parameters, but only the name of the alias (“backup_production”).

If change my config/database.yml to

development:
adapter: mysql
...

it works as expected. Could this be a problem in the way the aliasing in the database.yml file is interpreted ?

Thanks,

Peter

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