I'm trying to get my first real ruby on rails app started, but I have
two basic problems. The book I'm using is pre 2.0; also I need to use a
pre-existing table whose name is not per ruby convention - eg instead of
a table called "products", it's called "tbl_products". The database I'm
running is MySql.
I've tried searching for a 2.0 standard way to create what I need for a
CRUD (Create, Remove, Update, Delete) interface to the table, but i keep
finding conflicting instructions and haven't got anything to work yet.
I know this is a really noob question, but I think that since 2.0 seems
to have introduced so many changes, it's harder to find a reliable guide
to getting started.
So, would one of you good people be able to show me (and the rest of us
noobs) the 2.0 way to create an initial CRUD MVC where the tablename is
not as per convention.
So, would one of you good people be able to show me (and the rest of us
noobs) the 2.0 way to create an initial CRUD MVC where the tablename is
not as per convention.
I assume that the name of the model in Rails is Product and that you
have a product.rb file?
Thanks for the tip. I could have sworn I tried that last night. Never
mind!
I added the above line to the model, and this time instead of throwing
up the error, the browser just spins and spins.
The products table is quite large - 250,000 ish records. So, I repeated
the above steps on a smaller table as a proof of concept. This time it
came back quite quickly with a "no route" message. I guess this is the
2.0 difference in scaffolding, so I'm happy to try loading a third-party
component for this. I'm looking at activescaffold.
I'm still concerned with the browser spinning for minutes (and nothing
appearing in the WEBrick logfile) when I try to access the products.
Does this mean that it's trying to load the entire tbl_products table
into an array someplace before trying to do the routing? If so, I am
very worried about performance.
I guess I could try deleting most of the products from the dev database
and see how i get on.
Thanks for the tip. I could have sworn I tried that last night.
Never
mind!
I added the above line to the model, and this time instead of throwing
up the error, the browser just spins and spins.
The products table is quite large - 250,000 ish records. So, I
repeated
the above steps on a smaller table as a proof of concept. This time
it
came back quite quickly with a "no route" message. I guess this is
the
2.0 difference in scaffolding, so I'm happy to try loading a third-
party
component for this. I'm looking at activescaffold.
I'm still concerned with the browser spinning for minutes (and nothing
appearing in the WEBrick logfile) when I try to access the products.
Does this mean that it's trying to load the entire tbl_products table
into an array someplace before trying to do the routing? If so, I am
very worried about performance.
It certainly shouldn't do and has never done in my experience.
Something a bit fishy is going on, but it's hard to say without seeing
anything you've done.
Before you go and delete stuff, try doing some console work. (script/
console in your app's root). If your model has been done correctly,
I'm assuming you've called it products, then you should be able to do
this: products = Product.find(:all, :limit=>5) and that should return
the first 5 records of the products table...
obviously with something as big as 250,000 you're not going to want to
load it all at one time. You are going to want to look into some sort
of pagination rather than massive loading to speed up your database.