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Simple question. Is it possible to generate a link like <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" >google</a> with the link_to function ? Thanks

Hello all, I remember and have lost a link to the blog on hints about 37s modularization of basecamp, backpack, etc. Anyone remeber this and can remind me of the link? Thanks ! -- ------------------------------ Forget the icing. Bake the cake! - the epicentered developer ------------------------------ Peter Fitzgibbons -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Hi All, I am new to both Ruby and Rails, so please be patient with me. I am currently working on a view for a controller and I have used the following excerpt: <td><%= link_to_image "b_edit", :action => ''edit'', :id => part_prefix %></td> The image is being displayed and the link is working. However, the formatting of image rendered

I am just diving into Rails and I am a bit puzzled by the link_to function. am writing an app to display my photographs in categories. My application layout has a sidebar to show a menu with categories from the categories table in the database (like in taken from the tutorials), to be shown on every page. I managed to get a global @menu_categories object that keeps track of all the categories

I have a very simple form that looks allows an input for an error code and then give the show page from the scaffolding if the error code is in the database and a notification on the list page, again from the scaffolding if not. Here''s the form: find.rhtml <h1>Find error</h1> <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search''%> <p><label

Hi All: I''m writing my 1st Rails app and I can''t seem to find the answer on the web or in the book. I''m making a table, and I want to be able to expand a filename. The code is basically as as follows below. In the last <td> entry, I want to call an action and pass in the test_results_path, which I will go and read a file and munge the data for a separate

Hi everybody, is it possible to override standard RoR table nomination/pluralization to include a suffix? I have some tables with usr_ prefix but i would use "real" table name in model naming. For example i have table usr_accesslogs; in normal use i should create a model called UsrAccesslog instead Accesslog. Is it possible to do this?? Thanx Davide

I am trying to do something right from Agile Web Dev with Rails book and it does not work. I must be missing something obvious. I have a one-to-many relationship: class Draft < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :endorsees end class Endorsees < ActiveRecord:: Base belongs_to :draft end >From my reading, methinks I should be able to say: d = Draft.new d.endorsees << Endorsee.new

Just going through ''agile web development with rails'' 2nd ed. I accidentally created an empty migration source file with the wrong name, ruby script/generate migration add_test_date and then straight after that created the one I wanted to use ruby script/generate migration add_test_data and populated the second one - when I ran rake db:migrate a few times it did not seem

Hi all, can you recommend me which web server config to use for developing rails on windows machine. I tried webrick, which is good but it''s annoying because console window is in taskbar for every site running and it have to be started manually. Apache with CGI is to slow and using FastCGI on the other side brings me lot of problems, like randomly not working RoR sites. Any help is

Hi, I am very very new to both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I have been given a task to create a web application, which is able to edit individual entries in a key-value file. In other works, I would need to create an application which can parse a key-value file. Could someone guide me where I should start in a case like that? I was able to access and edit database table entries using Rails, but I

Hi, this is hopefully an easy one, but I''ve gone through the api and searched past forum entries, and am drawing a blank. I have a model that with acts_as_ferret mixed in to it, which is working fine. But I want users to be able to set a ''private'' attribute on the model, and when it''s set to true, create and update methods would skip indexing. So, how can I

I bought the second edition of the ruby on rails, it seems to work fine now, did some adjustments to the code. But now I get a second error and I want to learn to understand to fix them myself. So here is the error. ArgumentError in StoreController#add_to_cart wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/cart.rb:15:in `initialize'' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/cart.rb:15:in

In one of my view , I have an image the user need to click to close a <div>selections</div> added by an Ajax call. if I use : <img src ="/images/icon_closeitem.gif", size="16*16", border="0",alt="Close Selection", title="Close", onclick="<%= remote_function(:url => { :controller => ''property'',

I am just going through the book and I come across a problem with the code in the app/models: validates_format_of :image_url, :with => %r{^http:.+\.(gif|jpg|png)$}i, :message => "must be a URL for a GIF, JPG, or PNG image" It seems to moan when it''s empty even though I removed :image_url from validates_presence_of. How should I make it optional?

I went throught the "agile web developemnt with rails" and Now I''m trying to ''enhance'' the code with some extra options. When I go to admin/shipping I want to include some data from the products table in with the order info listed. I can''t seem to get this to work. in my partial form I''m trying to add this: <td

I tried adding a FULLTEXT search index to a table of mine in MySQL, only to discover that the InnoDB table format doesn''t seem to support this feature. Switching to the MyISAM table type seemed to work, but I seem to have some recollection that ActiveRecord transactions aren''t fully atomic on MyISAM tables. Is this true or am I just remembering wrong? If so, does anyone have

Hey, I''ve gotten file_column to upload a file, drop it in the dynamic directory, but I can''t display the image, the directories repeat themselves: My model: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base file_column :image_url In my view: <%= image_tag url_for_file_column(''person'', ''image_url'') %> HTML generated is this: <img

ok, let me show you my "products" fixtures file: ram: id: 1 title: RAM description: ECC RAM Registered, 512MB image_url: images/test.jpg price: 29.95 date_available: 2005-01-25 00:00:00 busted_arsehole: id: 2 title: Busted Arsehole description: I have an arsehole, it is-e busted image_url: images/test.jpg price: 999.95

Happy new year! Hieraki 2.0.0 is released. You can download Hieraki2 from rubyforge.org as tgz or zip (http://rubyforge.org/projects/hieraki). Hieraki2 has a new wiki engine that ships with more than a dozen new features: * everything-is-a-wiki-page (TM) * all pages are under version control * access control list * stay in full control of the tree structure by cut and pasting