Errata for Advanced Rails Recipes

#31852: Hi, there's a delete of a task from inside an iterator. I don't think that's safe, you'll not get to the end of the collection there. I had a collection of two objects where the first was deleted inside the iterator. The iterator never iterated over the second object. Better to collect an array of tasks_to_be_deleted and then call tasks.delete(tasks_to_be_deleted) once outside the iterator. Also, tasks are deleted a different step and not wrapped within the same transaction as the rest of the update when the after_update is called.--Tim Harding

#31675: DynamicMetaTags has this code which fails on IE:

def meta(name, content)
%(<meta name="#{name}" content="#{content} />" )
end

should be this (end quote incorrect)

def meta(name, content)
%(<meta name="#{name}" content="#{content}" />)
end

But why not use tag helper and be more railsy :-)

def meta(name, content)
tag("meta", :name => name, :content => content)
end--Tom Harrison

#31672: Keep Forms Dry, error_handling_form_builder.rb defines array of helpers; two are removed in the line "%w(label fields_for)" -- this should also include "hidden_field"

BTW -- this was a much needed recipe for my app. Now I need to figure out how to make it work for the scaffold generated "show" views, too :-)--Tom Harrison

#32679: If you don't use the "set_no_auto_load true" option described later in the recipe, the args passed to the create method will be nil which causes a nil error to be raised. Checking args.nil? before running the args loop is recommended.--Mike Clark

#31680: In the first set of code examples on the page, a list of caching commands to execute through the console, in the last example of that section:

>> products = Product.related_products("barney")
>> ActionController::Base.cache_store.fetch("barney") { products }
=> [#<Product id: 21, ...]

The description of fetch just below this says: " When it doesn’t find your key in the cache,
it’ll run the block, save its results into the cache, and give them back
to you."

But in this case the Product#related_products method gets executed before the call to fetch which is then only passed the reference to the already loaded collection.

Should the correct way to handle this not look like:

ActionController::Base.cache_store.fetch("barney") do
Product.related_products("barney")
end

?
--Jesse Clark

#31955: This recipe doesn't work. If I type Status::PENDING on the console, I always get a NameError: uninitialized constant Status::PENDING

Maybe it's because I'm using Postgres?--Lars Fischer

#31659: I still get the "can't Fixnum into String" error when loading a page with '?browser_profile!' appended to the URL.

This was reported for the previous version as #31189 where it is marked as fixed in B1.06.

The line apparently with the problem is:

controller.response.body << printer.print("", 0)

--Chris Stephens