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nevermind…i screwed up something…
great plugin btw..

Hi Bill,

Just want to report a bug,
When I try to delete topic as admin, I get

NoMethodError (undefined method `update_posts_count’ for #):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:205:in `method_missing’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb:11:in `__send__’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb:11:in `to_proc’
/vendor/plugins/savage_beast/app/models/topic.rb:85:in `each’
/vendor/plugins/savage_beast/app/models/topic.rb:85:in `update_forum_counter_cache’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:307:in `send’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:307:in `callback’

Hi,
Thanks for this plugin.
I am integrating beast into an existing site.
When I perform /forums, I get the following error

undefined method fond_ordered for …

My trace on the server shows me that engine is not able to loacate forums_controller, forums_helper

I am able to see the forum/new page but run into problems when I try to create a new pose.

Is my error due to some missing configuration to load beast plugin corrrectly.

Thanks,
-Ram

“undefined method fond_ordered for …”
should read
“undefined method find_ordered for …”

I see that this method is defined in the SB plugin.

We are using the will_paginate gem on a project that has Savage Beast installed. (This has recently been updated from a plugin to a gem.)

On 04/07/08, the developer changed the “page_count” method name to “total_pages” that is hanging off the model. Savage Beast uses “page_count” which was “giving me a undefined method page_count” error in quite a few places. I had to do a find/replace to change these all to total_pages and all appears to be working now.

Hi,
I looking for oryginal Savage Beast for rails 1.x, but http://nnovation.ca/blog/ seems to be not runing.
Can i download it from somewhere?
Krzysiek

hi bill,
I think the problem is that it’s trying to update the post count of all the user in that topic, but the User model doesn’t have that function update_posts_count anymore. I don’t need savage beast to track user post count, so I simply commented out that line

#@voices.each &:update_posts_count if @voices

and it works perfectly now

I also was experiencing the oddness of seeing Dutch languge activerecord errors… it was because of an incomplete removal of the GetText gem translations previously being done by savage_beast. Nothing to do with Gibberish plugin, as a previous response had claimed.

Commenting these two lines out from the init.rb makes everything good again:
# require ‘gettext/rails’
# GetText.locale = “nl” # Change this to your preference language

Thanks for working on getting savage_beast up to speed on Rails 2.0!

Hi,
where should i set value of variables users_path and forums_paht, any maybe other?
thank you in advance
Krzysiek

Is there a Google Groups available for this plugin? It would act better as a place for support.

My question is, how do I delete a forum once created?

I see the controller function is there, but it doesn’t seem to be linked from anywhere in views.

Hi do you have a solution to prevent simple users from creating forums or editing/deleting other user’s posts?
Thanks.

move from google groups to github? can spur more open developers to join in

We just spent some time making savage beast compatible with Rails 2.1. Since we couldn’t find any information out there while we were sorting through the errors, I’ll post our fixes here in case anyone else encounters similar issues.

1. All the named routes in savage_beast started throwing exceptions. We found that an update to RESTful routing started to automatically prefix nested resources. SB doesn’t follow this convention. To fix, we had to pass an extra “:name_prefix => nil” to our nested routes in SB’s routes.rb, like so:

map.resources :forums do |forum|
forum.resources :topics, :name_prefix => nil
forum.resources :topics do |topic|
topic.resources :posts, :name_prefix => nil
topic.resource :monitorship, :controller => :monitorships, :name_prefix => nil
end
end

2. We’ve been using the will_paginate gem and of course, this also caused incompatibilities with SB, which was depending on an older version of will_paginate. To fix, we had to change all instances of @post_pages or @topic_pages to @posts and @topics, respectively. Also, the method page_count had to be replaced with the new total_pages. Lastly, the method “pagination_links” had to be changed to “will_paginate”, with the appropriate collection as the param.

3. Voices. I love the “voices” feature of SB, but that also stopped working. Two easy changes here: in the views, just change @voices to @topic.voices. When SB needs to update the forum counter cache, it tries to call a method “update_posts_count” on a “voice”. For us, that’s a user, so I added this to our user.rb:

def update_posts_count
self.posts_count = Post.find(:all, :conditions => {:user_id => self.id}).size
self.save
end

4. Finally, we ran into a strange 502 Bad Gateway issue when deployed into our nginx/mongrel environment. It only happened with IE when creating a new post. Turns out the Post#create redirect passes an :anchor param, which generates an HTML anchor (#) symbol in the URL. This was causing problems with nginx in IE only. The simple fix was to simply remove the :anchor param, since all it was doing was scrolling the user to the new post.

And now we’re rolling with SB on Rails 2.1…

Bill - I don’t see anything that would break with Rails 2.0.x The :name_prefix param should just be ignored in older versions of RESTful routing. Good luck!

i get the following error when i tried to do the migration.I am using rails 2.1.Can you please provide me the steps for getting out of this problem. I am struck here.I googled but it was of no use

undefined method initialize_schema_information’ for module `ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements’

i commented the following line in migrations.rb and was able to work to some extent.But i am facing problems in will paginate plugin’s init. can you provide me a permanent solution?

def self.included(base) # :nodoc:
# base.class_eval { alias_method_chain :initialize_schema_information, :engine_additions }
end

prabha - haven’t seen that before. But if you’re having issues with the will_paginate plugin, maybe the easiest thing to do is to upgrade to the will_paginate gem (sudo gem install will_paginate), and then follow the instructions in my earlier post.

bill - I may be adventurous enough to give it a shot. But I’m working from Beijing at the moment and don’t have too much spare time. Have you also considered hosting it on github? That may open up contributions a little.

I just installed to a Rails 2.1 project. The migration was not an issue. No idea why @prabha would be having issues with that.

However, there was an issue with the “will_paginate” plugin. It was given a “stack level too deep” error when accessing the Topic view.

This issue was an issue with an old “will_paginate” and Rails 2.1.

http://err.lighthouseapp.com/projects/466/tickets/223

Updating to the latest gem and referencing the gem via the environment.rb file corrected the issue.

Unfortunately, I am now getting a “undefined method `page_count’” error.

So it turns out I commented on this “page_count” error on April 15th. I thought it looked familiar.

To correct the issue, do a global find and replace of “page_count” to “total_pages”.

@prabha: I have had the same problem today with rails 2.1, and you can solve it updating the engines plugin.
Instead of use the version in tested_plugin, download the last version.

Hey, I was wondering if anybody had a nice method or direction for overloading the posts class. I am using a blog and I want to use this for a forum plugin, but since savage beast and my blog use the posts class it causes issues. Does anybody have some suggestion?

thanks lot Diego

Hi,

I am getting the following error when am trying to svn export :

Error: REPORT request failed on ‘/svn/!svn/bc/9/trunk/vendor/plugins/savage_beast’
Error: ‘/svn/!svn/bc/9/trunk/vendor/plugins/savage_beast’ path not found

Could someone please suggest any solution or alternate way to get the plugin installed?

Thanks,

Disha.

I get a bunch of information added to my server after implementing forums using savage beast.Is there a way to cut that off? Can anybody help me?

Hey Bill - thanks for working on this plugin, ever since I first discovered Beast I’ve wanted to add it to an existing site, rather than having to create a new one…

I’m trying to use SB without Engines. You mention above that the easiest way would be to just copy the controllers/helpers/models/views into my own app, which I’ve done. Of course I immediately get some errors about no `admin?` method in forums_controller.rb The only place I see a non-model `admin?` method is in /lib/savage_east/authentication_system.rb There’s a comment at the top that says “override in your app controller” Override what? Should I copy all of those methods into application_controller.rb and then uncomment the bodies of the methods?

/lib/savage_beast/user_init.rb mentions implementing a few of the methods in my own user model (there are specific comments above `admin?` and `display_name`) and then everything below the `ClassMethods` module…if those are really class methods, should I actually copy them into the model with `self.` in front? Should I just copy everything, ignoring the `base.extend` and module definitions, of course.

Is there anything in /init.rb that I need to worry about?

Should I just shut up and use Engines like you intended?

Thanks Bill

Hi Bill,

just wanted to ask if there is an easier way to style the forums without having to explicitly state in the controller that the layout to be used should be forums.rhtml.erb? I tried overriding the file as you said(by creatign a forums.rhtml.erb file in my layouts folder) and it worked fine…for the index. when i clicked on a post, it proceeded to use the application default layout.

Also, what about shared partials? I am planning to clean up my application or forum layout by dividing the sections into partials, but when i tried making a /shared/ folder for my partials in my app/views/layout folder, savage beast still keeps looking for those shared partials in its own views/layout folder.

thanks!

my friend gave me a good suggestion for the shared partial problem: just make an empty “shared” folder in savage_beast\app\views and if you are using the engines plugin, it will “overwrite” the shared folder with what you have in your app’s shared folder.

the only remaining problem for me is that the topics controller and the post controller is loading the application.rhtml.erb instead of the forum controller. is this really the case by default?(and thus i have to override those controllers to force them to load the forums layout?) thanks again in advance!

…just found out about savage beast.

fyi, if you’re getting this error message reported by @prabha on rails 2.1:

undefined method initialize_schema_information’ for module `ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements’

you can fix this by not using the engines plugin in the tested_plugins and instead getting the latest:

cd vendor/plugins
git clone git://github.com/lazyatom/engines.git
git checkout 2.1.0

cheers,
tom

how use it in rails 2.1.0

How exactly do you do step 4. Can someone please explain how to do this as well as an example?

Thanks so much for the great work. Just got it up and running in Rails 2.1.1 and mostly just had trouble with plugins, like “page_count” method name to “total_pages” for will_paginate. Your savage_beast plugin will show up in the wild at the LegalTorrents.com website in a few days.

I’m curious if the plugin will track altered_beast. True to technoweenie’s form, beast-2.0 is not called beast-2.0, but altered_beast: http://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast/tree/master

It would be pretty cool if savage_beast was an actual fork at github of altered_beast…

Thanks again for making savage best 2.0…

*Austin Web Developer, this is one possible way to do step 4:

class AddAdminToUsers false
end
def self.down
remove_column :users, :admin
end
end
——— user.rb —————-
def display_name
if current_user.login.blank?
current_user.name
else
current_user.login
end
end

def self.currently_online
User.find(:all, :conditions => ["last_seen_at > ?", Time.now.utc-5.minutes])
end

def self.build_search_conditions(query)
query && ['LOWER(login) LIKE :q', {:q => "%#{query}%"}]
query
end

*Austin Web Developer, this is one possible way to do step 4:

**repost, the last code got munched some how…lets try again:

{{{
class AddAdminToUsers false
end
def self.down
remove_column :users, :admin
end
end
——— user.rb —————-
def display_name
if current_user.login.blank?
current_user.name
else
current_user.login
end
end

def self.currently_online
User.find(:all, :conditions => ["last_seen_at > ?", Time.now.utc-5.minutes])
end

def self.build_search_conditions(query)
query && ['LOWER(login) LIKE :q', {:q => "%#{query}%"}]
end
}}}

My bad:

1) The migration above is still being eaten cause I don’t know how to post code to wordpress. But it simply adds an example admin boolean to users.

2) I misspoke, altered_beast isn’t the official fork of beast…I just got confused as I saw technoweenie’s commits on altered_beast. I did notice though altered_beast has movement and technoweenie also has his own fork of altered_beast on github…

ok, back to adding Rick’s viking fork to savage_beast for Spam filtering: http://github.com/technoweenie/viking/tree/master/lib

so I just copied the following and placed it in my user.rb

def display_name
if current_user.login.blank?
current_user.name
else
current_user.login
end
end

def self.currently_online
User.find(:all, :conditions => [”last_seen_at > ?”, Time.now.utc-5.minutes])
end

def self.build_search_conditions(query)
query && [’LOWER(login) LIKE :q’, {:q => “%#{query}%”}]
end

is that all I need to do? I’ll keep moving forward to see if this works.

I am trying to add this to substruct and I pasted the map.from_plugin :savage_beast and I get this error:

/Users/nathan/Sites/projects/ror/1stmarine/vendor/plugins/savage_beast/init.rb:30:in `from_plugin’: undefined local variable or method `map’ for # (NameError)

Hi

I have problem with authenticated system.
I have User model and i have already added authenticated(acts_as_authenticated)plugin for my application.
included AuthenticatedSystem in my application controller.

now, I added savage beast, its working nice.
But if i clicked on Create new Forum,its goes to login page ,
another one is users_path undefined method, and current_user is nil

how to fix those problems with authenticated system.

i didn’t do any changes in savage beast application controller and my application controller
only i added 4 methods to user Model.

how to connect my application with forum.

please help me.

thanks.

Hi,
I am facing new issues with above issues
i cant give a reply for the topic.

if i click on Reply to Topic link,it is not going any where.
how to give reply for the topic?

thanks,
ravi.

I encountered problems with engines when my rails version is on freeze. Could someone enlighten me about this issue? The engines is fine though when rails is not freeze.

Is there a live sample of Savage Beast 2.0 anywhere?