The way autoname currently works, it increments whenever someone navigates to a form for a new card, not when the card is created.  I think it should be the latter, but I don't yet know a reason why that should be "high" priority.  Do you have one?

I was thinking of missing numbers in the series of names as a data integrity issue. Not a big deal to me. Updating the name of this ticket to be more precise.

  --John Abbe.....Wed Apr 28 16:28:59 -0700 2010

it definitely looks a little weird, and there are some behavioral drawbacks to the current way. (eg, create, back button, create again does not work) but I don't think there's a data integrity problem in the traditional sense. much happier with the new name.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Wed Apr 28 16:49:46 -0700 2010

Autonaming seems broken altogether. http://play.dwagn.org/play/customtype+*type+*autoname is "001", but http://play.dwagn.org/play/new/customtype offers to create a card with no name, which unsurprisingly results in "Wagn::Exceptions::Oops in CardController#create" and a very long error which I won't bother pasting here.

  --John Abbe.....Thu Dec 22 00:10:09 -0800 2011

you shouldn't see "name:", of course, but it's correct that the name is blank before you submit (the idea is only to assign the name when you create it). The error was actually the same one as the delete one, which is a rails 3 oddity that is making it so that cards from the cache need to be "refreshed" from the database before updating them. Quick fix. Both are coded now. Will deploy soon.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Dec 22 08:58:14 -0800 2011

btw, the first line of the message (which is the actual error) and the first line or so of a long backtrace are often the most useful parts. So something like this would be plenty for that particular issue:

error saving 001: error saving customtype+*type+*autoname: error saving customtype+*type+*autoname: can't modify frozen hash, /usr/cldstr/wagn.org/wagn/ws/gems/ruby/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb:32:in `[]='

/usr/cldstr/wagn.org/wagn/ws/gems/ruby/1.8/gems/activerecord-3.1.3/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb:32:in `write_attribute'

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Dec 22 09:06:26 -0800 2011

Thanks. Seems to work fine.

Cosmetic issue: the title bar is vertically very narrow with no text in it. How hard would it be to add a space or something so that it is the usual height?

  --John Abbe.....Thu Dec 22 17:50:26 -0800 2011

(fixed)

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Sat Dec 24 14:59:05 -0800 2011