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I am trying to calculate the number of days between 2 dates using Time.now - object.date where object.date is a date pulled from a database. I want to display the age of the entry in the database in days. I keep getting an error about not being able to convert a date into a float. What am I doing wrong. If I use object.date - object.date it seems to work but the answer is useless (0). I

Howdy folks, As I was putting together a rough form for a rails app, I got to thinking how much smoother (in my siytuation) a little calendar widget would be than the default date picker selects. Does anyone know if such a thing exists ? I suspect it would have to be somewhat designed with rails in mind to populate the right kind of post params for convenient use at the controller end.

Hi, I''ve implemented the login code from the Agile rails book and it works perfectly in local development but as soon as I put it into production it wont accept usernames/passwords. It just goes straight back to login page. Any ideas? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I tried to use ''rake db_schema_dump'' from old MySQL database and then use ''rake db_schema_import'' to rebuild the database in PostgreSQL. The issue here is that only some of tables can be imported successfully. For example, in the dumped schema.rb: create_table "profiles", :force => true do |t| t.column "ticker", :string, :limit

Dears, Got a controller witch do a send_data for displaying a chart. like : send_data(g.to_blob, :filename => "any.png", :type => ''image/png'', :disposition=> ''inline'') I actually do a <img src="http://myhost:3000/stats/make_graph" /> Is there any way more clean to do that ? At minima don''t hardcode the beginning

I have several Rails (version 1.0) apps I''m working on on a Win XP box using Webrick that were working fine before I left for the holidays. I came back, started up and they all get the same syntax and compile errors: compile error ./script/../config/../app/views/time/list.rhtml:4: Invalid char `\212'' in expression repeated over and over. Refreshing the page gives thes same

Hi all, The Rails book talks about running Rails under Apache, but is there a (relatively) easy way to deploy it to either Tomcat or JBoss? Is the CGI servlet the only option? Thanks, Ken -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc. <http://www.kousenit.com> http://www.kousenit.com <mailto:ken.kousen@kousenit.com> ken.kousen@kousenit.com

Hello Folks, This release of Mongrel should make the win32 folks go crazy. Thanks to Luis Lavena it supports a full service system for installing any Rails app as a service. This lets you start your rails apps from either the command line or the Service console. Stopping is still a bit problematic but we hope to have that solved in the next release. You win32 folks should probably send Luis