#helpers

Oct 2013 · 1 min read

How To Write Your Own Time Comparison Function in Ruby Like time_ago_in_words Without Rails

Oct 2010 · 1 min read

Rails Select Tag and Onchange Event Calling a Remote Function with Default Option Selected

Here is a little code snippet that will fire off a request to update\client\path when you change the select field. This stands alone, rather than being apart of a larger form. The Client::CATEGORY...

Aug 2010 · 1 min read

Collection Select Helper and OnChange Event in Rails

Given a collection of Active Record objects, you may use the collection\select helper method to produce a select form field. You need to pass in a number of arguments to the helper function. 1)...

Apr 2010 · 1 min read

Yield a Block within Rails Helper Method with Multiple Content_tags Using Concat

To clean up some repetitive html coding in views, pass a block of text to a helper function which will wrap it for you the same way, each and every time. For example, I have a 'help' link which...

Mar 2010 · 1 min read · 2 comments

Rails Helper to Remove Leading Zero in 12 Hour Time Format

I can't find a strftime() format that will output the hour without the leading zero. For instance 6:20 will be instead 06:20. This just looks a little sloppy. I created a datetime.rb intializer...

Oct 2009 · 1 min read

Date and Time Helpers in Rails

Just for reference http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.htmlM001695

Jul 2009 · 1 min read

Make Rails Lib Module Methods Available to Views

If you create a module in the lib/ directory of your Rails application you won't have access to those methods in your views. If you don't want to put those methods in a helper file, you need to add...

Apr 2009 · 2 min read

Rails Prototype JS and TinyMCE Autosave

TinyMCE is a nice little WYSIWYG for text processing online. It uses iFrames and Javascript callbacks to manipulate textarea form fields. Using it with Rails can be somewhat problematic if you want...