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Hi, Have been pulling out my hair for the last few days wondering what I''m going to deploy my site onto. I currently have FreeBSD 4.7, Apache 1.3.3, PHP 4 and MySQL 4 running a year-old PHP site. Dated stuff I know! The new version of the site will be entirely Ruby on Rails, and I am wondering what order I should be doing things in terms of upgrades and installation. I want to be

Hi, I have Ruby 1.8.4 and have my MyISAM db and tables created via the migration files to utf8. A check with MySQL Front shows that all the tables and the db have been correctly created as I wanted them. I want the site to be in UTF8 format, and added the bit to application_controller.rb to get the correct header. All still worked fine at this stage. But I run into trouble when adding:

Hi, Being new to rails, I''d like to put something at the bottom of my global application layout so that it displays the response code that would be delivered by the webserver in a live environment. Being inexperienced, I am cautious about being SEO-friendly and would feel more comfortable knowning what codes are being sent for each page. I figure something at the bottom of the

Hi, I have a <form> page in which there are a number of dropdowns and multi-selects, each of which is populated upon the page loading by quering its own table with the most recent values. These other tables are very simple two-column set-ups - one for the ID/value and another for the verbose description. I am getting the editing/creation stuff working fine. The dropdowns work with a