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Hey all, I''ve been trying to apply a slide-down (or highlight) effect to a "New card" link on my application. Because the item is *new* and I''m simply updating it at the top, I can''t know what the div id is before I make the request. link_to_remote :complete => visual_effect(:slidedown) doesn''t do what I want it to do. My current solution is:

I want a method to be accessible from everywhere in my app (it''s a Gaussian RNG) - I''ve already put them as protected methods in application.rb but that would only allow them to be accessed from controllers. I have a method in a model that needs access to this too, and I''d prefer not performing the calculations outside the model. Copying the method definition into the

All, I have code that looks like this: <%= select(''date'', ''month'', [ ["1?","1"], ["2?","2"], ["3?","3"], ["4?","4"], ["5?","5"], ["6?","6"], ["7?","7"], ["8?","8"],

I was previously doing an update via .rhtml templates creating an AJAX :evaluate_remote_response. I use UTF-8 in my pages, and my app requires that I be able to, say, put Japanese characters in. The problem is that when I switched this over to an RJS template it started eating the encoding. I now get garbage characters where before I got the correct ones. The code for the RHTML: <%=