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Several years ago, before PHP introduced their built-in pfpro functions, I rolled my own crappy interface, which of course delegated to the commandline payflow client. I could certainly do the same in Ruby today. Thinking back on it, I realized at the time, and realize again now, that delegating this functionality to a commandline app is a security risk unless you''re the *only* user on

I am trying to run some functional (or are they unit?) tests on my application_helper.rb. So far, I''ve not had any success in being able to call the methods defined in application_helper.rb. Here is my app/test/functional/helpers.rb require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require File.dirname(__FILE__) +

I am going to start a project from scratch with MySQL. Is it a good idea to go ahead with MySQL 5? Is there any gotcha with that version as of today? -- fxn "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can''t agree on when it''s necessary to compromise." -- Larry Wall in comp.lang.perl

Is there any reason to avoid using postgresql for small web apps? That is, is it''s overhead so large that the lighter MySQL will work substantially better for small apps on small machines? Or are they very similar in performance and configuration? I''ve used MySQL but postgresql has its appeals and I''m wondering if I need to keep MySQL around at all. On the other

Are there any articles anywhere that look at how to properly handle credit card information, the things you need to do to properly store CC info, etc? Joe

Hi all. I have never implemented online payment and it''s the only thing that keeps me from accepting a project for a UK based client. (I must reply quickly!) While I can afford spending an extra week - or 2 - to learn/try/tune the payment system, I must be sure to succeed before I accept the contract. If you''ve already been through that path, any hints, links and/or

Reviews Wanted. I''ve read the tables of contents and haven''t yet made up my mind. Is one book clearly better than the other? Is one clearly full of bugs? Is one so much further ahead that there is no choice? Are they both so incomplete that I should just wait and only cook real food? Do trains still have dining cars? Warren Fred -------------- next part -------------- An

The agile book says "You can inspect variables, set values, add other breakpoints, and generally have a good time". This is very sweet and totally useless. For example, I want to see the session variable, the cookies variable and so on. These names are unknown. I think I guess that the things that are available depend on where you put the breakpoint() call. I''ve tried a

Every page of my DEPOT on Postgresql rails app now gets an error from postgres-pr about some wild left-join SQL that has nothing to do with my tables: SQL (0.000000) NameError: undefined local variable or method `errors'' for #<PostgresPR::Connection:0x3b200c0>: SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod), d.adsrc, a.attnotnull FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN

The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ''Private Registration'' where they keep your email and other personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did? Warren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Greetings I have a very simple question that I have not been able to solve by reading the manual. When I produce a stripchart with two straight columns of dots representing individual observations, one representing one group of subjects and the other representing another, the columns wind up at the far left and far right sides of the plot, and I'd like them to be closer together, about as far

Here''s a link to the Verisign scripts we used... We customized ours a bit but this will get you going. Graciously provided by Jon at Slantwise Design and posted with permission (http://www.slantwisedesign.com), these may make it into some other format someday (gem? Plug in?). Anyway, of course, no warranty with this code, use at your own risk and really no support - you''ll have

I''m new to rails and have a question that seems simple but that I cannot resolve. Is there a way to find the id of the currently logged in user? Thanks, JP -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

The Agile book seems to say I should specify this as follows, probably in the environments.rb: ActionController::CgiRequest::DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS[:database_manager] = CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore BUT the environments.rb file would have me Un-Comment this: config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store Anyway, I''ve tried both, and in both cases it

I can''t decide between a2hosting.com, successfulhosting.com, site5.com (which offers 11gb of disk space for $8.77/month -- I''ll never use it), planetargon.com (which offers 1 gb for $11/month), or railsplayground.com (which offers a gigabyte practically for free). Any experiences you''d like to share? Only a2 and planetargon list their gems on their web sites. All of

I have a weird problem with creating a new record when using PostgreSQL. From inside script/console ... >> entity = Entity.new >> entity.first_name = "Foo" >> entity.last_name = "bar" >> entity.save Throws an exception due to the following SQL error: duplicate key violates unique constraint. The application was working fine before and suddenly

I''ve been working with rails for a while now. Rails is the second web framework I''ve tried. It blows the doors off catalyst (perl''s best framework). I even just wrote my first plugin (broomstick). Ruby''s ability to meta-program blew me away with it''s ease of use. I''ve been so impressed with the helpers that rails uses to make a lot of

I tried to put formatted text out to the browser when it was inside a textarea and got to look at markup. This might just be an HTML question. Is there a construct that will let me bound the size of text display with rows and cols like <textarea> but also let me html-format the internal text? I suppose I could hack up a table to use percentages. Maybe there is a CSS solution where I

Cannot pretend: > ruby script\generate --pretend controller entryform index Couldn''t find ''--pretend'' generator I just wanted to see what files it would generate... Warren Fred

rake migrate bug with datetime: > rake db_schema_dump produced a bad schema.rb that isn''t valid ruby, it has an invalid default, unless ruby takes bare words: t.column "date_available", :datetime, :default => Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 Arabic Standard Time 2006, :null => false I don''t think the Baghdad time zone should matter. ruby 1.8.4, rails 1.1.2,