Comments for Wind-Up Thoughts http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:17:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Comment on China, Day 9 – Xi’an by Arlene Gover http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/07/02/china-day-9-xian/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Arlene Gover Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:17:59 +0000 #comment-104 Fantastic. I've been on a big noodle craze lately, I have no idea why - I just got a crazy craving for noodles!! Is that even possible? I've already tried nearly half of all the <a href="http://www.noodlerecipes.net/noodle/nutritious-noodles-recipes/" rel="nofollow">noodle recipe</A> here ! Crazy huh. I should probably stop soon, I dont think eating noodles every day isnt so healthy for me... Fantastic. I’ve been on a big noodle craze lately, I have no idea why – I just got a crazy craving for noodles!! Is that even possible? I’ve already tried nearly half of all the noodle recipe here ! Crazy huh. I should probably stop soon, I dont think eating noodles every day isnt so healthy for me…

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]]> Comment on Using xml with the resource_controller plugin by billz http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/02/23/using-xml-with-the-resource_controller-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-67 billz Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:48:06 +0000 #comment-67 Good question. I remember it striking me as odd that I had to do that at all. r_c has recently been updated from version 0.2 to 0.5, so the new version may have xml defaults built it. I'll check it out and update this post if that's the case. Good question. I remember it striking me as odd that I had to do that at all. r_c has recently been updated from version 0.2 to 0.5, so the new version may have xml defaults built it. I’ll check it out and update this post if that’s the case.

]]> Comment on Using xml with the resource_controller plugin by Jesper Rønn-Jensen http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/02/23/using-xml-with-the-resource_controller-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Jesper Rønn-Jensen Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:42:57 +0000 #comment-66 Interesting. How to make this more DRY for reuse in other controllers? I wondered how to put this out in a separate module that could be included. Do you have any idea of how i could do this? Interesting.
How to make this more DRY for reuse in other controllers?

I wondered how to put this out in a separate module that could be included. Do you have any idea of how i could do this?

]]> Comment on Making ActiveResource find work with your controller by BillZ http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/02/23/making-activeresource-find-work-with-your-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-20 BillZ Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:19:07 +0000 #comment-20 Martijn, I didn't realize that method is actually part of a third party plugin I'm using called "Resource Controller". I use it to help with associations in my model. In this case, I used end_of_association_chain because I wanted my find to happen after the associations are done. According to James Golick, "All fetching must be done on top of the method end_of_association_chain, or else parent resources (including polymorphic ones) won't function correctly." The comment from his code about that particular method is: # If there is a parent, returns the relevant association proxy. Otherwise returns model. Source: <a href="http://jamesgolick.com/resource_controller/rdoc/classes/ResourceController/Helpers.html" rel="nofollow">http://jamesgolick.com/resource_controller/rdoc/classes/ResourceController/Helpers.html</a> Finally, as for the value of a parameter being passed as a string. Good point. I haven't looked at this code in a while. I must have thought Rails was ok with that. (I hope to verify soon and figure out more of why I thought that would work.) If there is no other obvious way to send an array value, a very quick and very dirty fix for you could be to send a string with a delimiter (assuming you can guarantee that delimiter is never in any of your values) and then split on it to create an array. Good luck and thanks for the feedback. Martijn,
I didn’t realize that method is actually part of a third party plugin I’m using called “Resource Controller”. I use it to help with associations in my model. In this case, I used end_of_association_chain because I wanted my find to happen after the associations are done.

According to James Golick, “All fetching must be done on top of the method end_of_association_chain, or else parent resources (including polymorphic ones) won’t function correctly.”

The comment from his code about that particular method is:
# If there is a parent, returns the relevant association proxy. Otherwise returns model.

Source: http://jamesgolick.com/resource_controller/rdoc/classes/ResourceController/Helpers.html

Finally, as for the value of a parameter being passed as a string. Good point. I haven’t looked at this code in a while. I must have thought Rails was ok with that. (I hope to verify soon and figure out more of why I thought that would work.)

If there is no other obvious way to send an array value, a very quick and very dirty fix for you could be to send a string with a delimiter (assuming you can guarantee that delimiter is never in any of your values) and then split on it to create an array.

Good luck and thanks for the feedback.

]]> Comment on Making ActiveResource find work with your controller by Martijn http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/02/23/making-activeresource-find-work-with-your-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Martijn Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:10:04 +0000 #comment-19 Wait... this code doesn't work with an array. A value, passed as a parameter, is always a String. Wait… this code doesn’t work with an array. A value, passed as a parameter, is always a String.

]]> Comment on Making ActiveResource find work with your controller by Martijn http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/02/23/making-activeresource-find-work-with-your-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Martijn Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:35:33 +0000 #comment-18 This is exactly what I needed. It should be implemented in Rails. I don't know why it isn't yet. Bu what does end_of_association_chain mean? This is exactly what I needed. It should be implemented in Rails. I don’t know why it isn’t yet.

Bu what does end_of_association_chain mean?

]]> Comment on Amway Traffic by billyz http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2007/10/02/amway-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-17 billyz Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:51:08 +0000 #comment-17 hey nate, i'll have to write more then. ;) hey nate, i’ll have to write more then. ;)

]]> Comment on CA DMV by billyz http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/03/25/ca-dmv/comment-page-1/#comment-16 billyz Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:43:42 +0000 #comment-16 just got back from china. expect to see more soon. just got back from china. expect to see more soon.

]]> Comment on CA DMV by http://1979semifinalist.wordpress.com http://www.billzajac.com/wordpress/articles/2008/03/25/ca-dmv/comment-page-1/#comment-15 http://1979semifinalist.wordpress.com Wed, 21 May 2008 09:35:04 +0000 #comment-15 Honestly, this is the EXACT same thing that happened to me, from the multiple calls about the "piece of paper kept with license", down to scheduling the appointment and all the rest. If it happened to both of us, imagine how many people it must jhave happened to. All of us wandering around shaking our heads wondering how such a screwed up system manages to survive. On another note, glad to see you're back and blogging. I checked some of the older posts, and of course I'm a moron when it comes to IT type talk, so I might as well have been trying to read greek...but I'm still glad you're posting...even if I can't understand it all. :) Kelly Honestly, this is the EXACT same thing that happened to me, from the multiple calls about the “piece of paper kept with license”, down to scheduling the appointment and all the rest. If it happened to both of us, imagine how many people it must jhave happened to. All of us wandering around shaking our heads wondering how such a screwed up system manages to survive.

On another note, glad to see you’re back and blogging. I checked some of the older posts, and of course I’m a moron when it comes to IT type talk, so I might as well have been trying to read greek…but I’m still glad you’re posting…even if I can’t understand it all. :)

Kelly

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