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My apologies if this is the wrong place for this but...it should be really simple. When I use a Generator in Radrails, nothing happens. I (believe) I have properly set the path to Ruby and still nothing. And, it doesn''t seem there is an error log to further diagnose what is happening. I am using 0.5.3 on Windows. Am I missing something obvious? As a P.S., is anyone particularly fond of

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Has anyone tried to install/deploy the REST on Rails example from XML.com? (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/02/rest-on-rails.html) Being fairly new to Rails, I don''t think I am putting the right pieces in the right places and could use some advice. The primary file associated with the install I have saved in the "lib" directory but my Controller doesn''t seem able

Has anyone out there ever created a Rails application to create new Rails applications (with or without a database/persistent storage)?? Basically I am thinking of a Rails application that could create and then edit the files associated with a new Rails application and possibly provide the ability to edit controllers, views, etc. Is there anything out there for doing this? -Mark

I would like to be able to produce both HTML and XML-based views as I create my Rails application (models and controllers) - meaning creating/tweaking XML-based templates to augment the default (HTML) view templates. Is there an easy way to do this? To take this one step further, I would like Rails to differentiate between my two types of clients. Assuming I can auto-generate the HTML and XML

Newbie question but here goes: Isn''t rake supposed to automatically search the lib/tasks subdirectory for Rake files/tasks? I have a task called "do_this.rake" in file foo.rake in lib/tasks/rails - how do I invoke it from the command line in the root directory of my Rails application? Presuming I have a file called "Rakefile" in the root directory of my Rails

I am new to Rails so hopefully not asking stupid questions, but I would appreciate any help on the following: What is the easiest (least hassle) way for my Rails application to accept XML input? I know that I can use WSDL, but is there any default or easily modified way to simply do an HTTP POST of the parameters I want to pass in? Also, I have tried coding a client to do an HTTP POST of what