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I need to process some text files quickly. I''ve not been able to find the answer in the archive. The Ruby Standard Library site times out. Can someone tell me where to find info on how to: 1. Get a list of filenames in a directory. 2. How to open a file. 3. How to read it a line at a time. -- Thanks in advance for the help, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

I read somewhere that the correct naming of bridge tables is in alpha order. For example. I have two tables: houses, and colors. If I want to create a bridge table to associate colors with houses, I would name the table: colors_houses The associations work fine. But, if I have a table named: track_houses. Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model associaton errors.

Recently discovered Markaby. Before I use it on a production system, I''d like to know if it is still being maintained? According to the change log, the last change was in February of 2006. Does this mean that the project has been abandoned? Or, at version 0.3 it was considered production stable and complete? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Installed Fedora5. Installed Ruby 1.8.4. Installed rubygems. Installed rails. Created test app to verify that ruby and rails were working. When I attempted to install mongrel via: sudo gem install mongrel I get this error: Install required dependency daemons? [Yn] y Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn] y Building native extensions. This could take a while... can''t find

Does anyone have any experience getting ODBC to work? I could really use some help here. I''m having trouble accessing a db2 database via odbc using rails. It''s an external database, that I import data from. I have placed the connection code in my model : unless connected? establish_connection( :adapter => "odbc", :dsn => "<dsn

I''ve decided to take the plunge and go with Gentoo for my rails development and test box. I figure the easy of maintenance is worth the setup hassles. Anyway, I''m followin the instructions on the Gentoo web site. I''ve selected the ..''i686'' 2.6 kernel for my 700mhz amd processor, and choosen stage3 install option from CD. I''m now at the the

I have many pages to generate quickly. They are based off of the scaffold generator, but I want to convert the rhtml files to Markaby, and change some formatting. Without having to do a lot of repetitive hand editing. Is there a simple way to overwrite/extend part of the scaffold generator? Do I need to write my own from scratch? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no

Ruby script/console takes 30-secs to start on the Windows 2003 servers in our shop. Has anyone found a way to speed that up? ( I know Linux is much faster, but that''s not an option, in this case). -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Is there a way to get rid of the divs around an error field. These divs are causing me headaches. Any suggestions :-)? John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

I''ve noticed that it is common practise in forms to use: <label for="tablename","columnname"> ...Some column name</label> Why is the above construct better than just writting it this way? <label> Some column name</label> If there is not compelling reason, I''d prefer to use the second example and save on typing. -- Best Regards,

When I run ./script/plugin discover to register new plugin sites I get stopped at this point with the following error. ... http://svn.northpub.com/plugins/ http://rhnh.svnrepository.com/svn/public/rails/plugins/ (eval):3:in `each'': undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/plugin.rb:658:in

Hi. I want to display some related information in two columns. Originally I wanted to use frames and googling led me to http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/037972.html which suggest divs instead. I modified my code to this: <body> <div style=''width: 300px; overflow: scroll''> <%= render :partial => "col1" %> </div>

I have controller that processes data in one table and puts results in another. Now that its'' working, I would like to be able to run it from the command line ( read: windows batch file). How can this be done? It will be installed on a Windows box with InstantRails1.0, (if that matters). I will be doing more processes like this, so this is a good opportunity to get it right. -- Best

Hi there, I am a newbie and interested in learning Ruby on Rails. I see there are 2 books out there: Ruby for Rails Ruby techniques for Rails developers David A. Black and Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, and Thomas Fuchs Which one should I get? "Agile Web Development with Rails"

Hi I am a newbie to samba after taking over from a previous administrator. I have upgraded to the version that ships with SuSE linux 8.0 and copied over the old smb.config and smbpasswd files. I can see the shares from a remote SWAT connection and also using the interactive method via a DOS window, but cannot get the shares to be seen via Network Neighbourhood. I am thinking that this may be

We''ve finally finished up work on our application and are now beginning our beta. The site (SMS+mobile blogging+event planning+LBS+photos) is built using 100% Ruby on Rails. Many thanks to all the people who answered questions over the months on this list. Our experience with Rails was overwhelmingly positive! We''d love to hear any feedback you might have:

I know this is off topic, But, my boss has tasked me with finding a better ftp client than the one in Windows XP. Is there a Ruby client that can recover dropped connections, ( a resume feature)? Would be nice if it could handle secure/ encrypted transmissions as well? Failing that, can anyone recommend a good scriptable ftp client for the Windows plaftorm? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work,

What''s the best way to handle a find that doesn''t find anything? For example. Model Foo @result = Foo.find(:first, :condition => "some condtion string").name if the condition is not met Foo.find stops the application with ''unexpected nil''. What is the best way to gracefully trap this error and return something meaningfull to the calling

Here''s my problem. I have an ''Item'' model with a date column called "inserted_on" formatted as "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:t". I want to find all records that were inserted more than 30 days ago. How would I say that using the Item.find ( :all .....) method? I don''t fully understand the syntax. I tried @result = Item.find( :all, :conditions =>

Please take a look at: http://www.lovelybooks.de/library/index.html?resetTabs=1&resetList=1 Can someone give me a hint how to display the divs (?) when moving the mousepointer over the images? Thanx --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this