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Restful Rails PDF (Local Copy)

This is a must read for all ruby programmers who want to to RESTFUL rails

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Step 1:

• Install the plugin “script/plugin install enum-column”

Step 2:

• Define the table schema. for example
create_table :enumerations, :force => true do |t|
t.column :severity, :enum, :limit => [:low, :medium, :high, :critical],
:default => :medium
t.column :color, :enum, :limit => [:red, :blue, :green, :yellow]
...
end

Step 3:

In the model add validation
validates_columns :severity, :color

Step 4:

In the controller @e = Enumeration.new


Step 5:

In the views <%= input 'e', 'severity' >
This will create a select box with all the options

Render Call Possibilities

Form Helper Documentation

Form Tag Helper Documentation

This is a good link to understand wsse header

require 'rubygems'

gem ’soap4r’
#Require The Library
require ’soap/wsdlDriver’

#Connections
wsdl_url = ‘http://xurrency.com/api.wsdl’
proxy = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl_url).create_rpc_driver

#Call API Method and Get Exchange Rate
rate = proxy.getValue(1,’usd’,'eur’)
puts “Rate: #{rate}”

svn status | grep ?

This will show you the list of files with ? at the begining of the line saying that it does not know the status of the file – which is a hint to add the file into svn using the

svn add <filename>

It is better to add files one by one in general

• Create the Project
• cd PROJECT_DIR
• cd vendor/plugins
• git clone git://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication.git restful_authentication
• cd PROJECT_DIR
• For normal install run “./script/generate authenticated user sessions”
• Now you can edit the users_table if needed and then run rake db_migrate
• Create the Admin user
• For detailed documentation please refer to: Restful Authentication Documentation

Excellent document to understand various select options