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Hi ! My mongrel just starting spitting out these nice lines: The error occured while evaluating nil.accept. TELL ZED HE''S A MORON. !!!!!! UNHANDLED EXCEPTION! You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! Not sure what happened or why, but just FYI: Zed, you are a moron :-) Happy holidays! Gitte Wange

Hello, I have a set of templates creating some files for me. All data on my site is encoded using iso-8859-1. Now I want to save the text in the file using utf-8. I have tried using iconv, but whenever I have the require "iconv" statement in my model, there is some error happening in the model and the model doesn''t get loaded (not sure how to debug that). What approches to

Hi! The ruby installation on my FreeBSD-6 box have been upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.4 by accident. And now all my rails have stopped working. I can''t produce any cool debug info since I have none. running script/ server just coredumps. Running the sites through apache isn''t an option since apache won''t start (get lots of these in my log: [Thu Feb 09 10:38:19

Hi! I''m trying to use a primary key made up of two columns in my model''s table. But looking at the docs, it looks like ActiveRecord only supports using one field as primary key. Can anyone point me in a direction of this or verify that it''s not supported? Greetings, Gitte Wange

I would like to put Ruby code inside a string, between <%= %> tags, and have the code inside the tags executed when the string is displayed. Is this possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have good this cool challenge from my boss on developing a very simple cms-like system to publish articles within. The caveat is that he wants to have multi-lingual content. At first I thought RoR would be perfect for the assignment but right now I''m not so sure. My first attempt involved creating a table for each model/languagde like this: articles_en articles_dk articles_de

Hello, I''ve spent a couple of hours now searching for (what I thought) was pretty straightforward. I''m using mongrel together with RoR and need to execute a .rb file located in my public folder (cgi style). But mongrel just can''t do that out-of-the-box - or am I missing something? I really don''t get how I''m supposed to configure mongrel for this

For a project I''m working on I''m hoping to be able to have both discussion and announce-only e-mail lists. Does anybody have any recommendations about good existing mailing list apps that could be integrated with a rails app? Does anybody have any experience using ActionMailer as the basis for a mass mailer? Does it perform well enough to make it feasible? Thanks! -- Dan

I''m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout, so what i''m doing is ... class SomeController < ApplicationController layout "simple", :only=> :some_action ...... end and the "simple" layout is applied to all the actions, can someone please give me a hint?

I am a total RoR virgin, and took my first steps this weekend into the Ruby world. A lot of sites I create need to be as SEO friendly as possible, particularly for google. Before I delve any further, can anyone tell me how friendly the dynamic URLs or if there is the usual rewrite mod for rugby? Thanks Mike -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I am trying to install a package (bioconductor) but every time I try to install it I get this message: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") Warning in install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos = a["BioCsoft", "URL"]) : 'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.0/library"' is not writable Error in

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is there a way to replace unkown action error with a pretty 404 page ? I set the ErrorDocument 404 in .htaccess, however when someong goes to http://www.mysite.com/bogus i would like it to show a 404 error instead of just "Uknown action". Is this possible with a rescue or something? adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''ve noticed that it is possible to pass javascript unaltered through the sanitize function using CSS. For example: sanitize( "<style type=''text/css''>body{background-image:url(''javascript:window.alert(1)'') }</style>" ) IE will execute the javascript. Firefox will not. I haven''t tried it with any other browsers.

Hi All, I have been using Ruby and Rails for only a few short days and I am loving it so far. I have a couple of questions relating to a specific project I am working. 1. I am wondering about sessions expiring after a set period of in activity and what would be the easiest way to set it up. 2. I would like to be able to users on the system. Each of these users has a login of there own. Each

Hiall, Is it possible to organize my model files below app/models into subfolders? E.g. I would like to put admin related models into their own subfolder. This kind of structuring works for controllers and views (scaffolding creates the right subfolder-model mappings), but app/models always stays flat. I''d really like to be able to group my code into logical, well packages :-) Yes, I

Hi, I need to allow login based on the phone number. During the signup they can give the number in any format with spaces, slash or (). But for storing in database and then during login to compare I just want the 10 digit number. How can I remove the special char from phone number before storing to db ? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do I pass parameters from one controller to another during redirect_to command? I want to pass both model and non-model objects. The solution I use is via session, but I rather pass it as parameters to the redirect_to Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It seems the wiki-spam bot has been at work again. There are numerous hidden links toward the top of the page that might be better gardened out right away, if you know what I mean ;-| -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I am really sorry for this probably quite simple question. I am new to R, and I am running a pipeline that has already been made. All I have to do is give the paths for different folders, where the pipeline can find the files with my data. But every time I try to run the pipeline it returns with the message, that it cannot find the file. And I really don't know why. I have found the path