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Is there a good plugin that does per page authentication management? For example, I want to allow users to create pages and share them with specific users, all users, or none at all on a per page basis. Benjamin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...hey had logged on via windows and samba) Something I read implied an entry in the etc/passwd file might do the trick, ie replacing the home directory path for something like: smb://server/path Does anyone know if I can do this and if so, where I can find the documentation. Many thanks James Aylward J.A.Aylward Technician RSU. Research Support Unit School of Education http://www.ex.ac.uk/education/research/

In a wiki, routes are handling web_index /:web {:controller=>"wiki", :action=>"index"} web_topic /:web/:topic {:controller=>"wiki", :action=>"view"} action /:web/:topic/:action {:controller=>"wiki"} That is the default action is "view". Two questions: 1. Can I constrain the patterns allowed for

I have Dovecot running well on my Mandriva mail hub, handing out IMAP to the household LAN. This is 1.2.15. Eventually I'll upgrade the OS and get 2.x, but this is working fine. So this question is really about the mail readers I use and how they make use of Dovecot. I have Thunderbird on my laptop and KMail2 on my desktop. Dovecot indexes. GOOD! The trouble is that the mail readers

I've been looking at Dean Allen's Redcloth, which claims to incorporate both Markdown and Textile, as implemented in Ruby by _why. While the code is clear and readable, the boundary between markdown and Textile is not. The documentation says # By default, Redcloth uses both Textile and Markdown formatting, with # Textile formatting taking precedence. If you want to turn off Markdown #

Is there any way to do macros in Markdown? Or do you have any other suggestions? I'm thinking of a few uses. One is to read back system stuff that might be global or session settings. Example Tell the user where they are coming from, time etc You are %%USERNAME%% Logged in at %%LOGINTIME%% Your browser is %%HTTP{"User-Agent"}%% You are accessing from

*Apologies if this is not the right way to ask a question, I'm a first timer posting here. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm having trouble figuring out how to use weighting with K Means Clustering. So say if my dataset is: Column 1 = x coords Column 2 = y coords Column 3 = frequency each coordinate occurs So I'm basically trying to weight the points more heavily if

What's the difference between: <em>emphasis</em> and <i>italicized</i> and <strong>strong</strong> and <b>bold</b> It seems to subtle for my browsers. The only "difference" I've been able to find is that according to the O'Reilly book <strong> and <emphasis> are semantic tags, while <b> and <i>

[TOP lINE: is there a linux program that will tell me where all the installed files went?] Hi all....great to be here... i''m pretty relentless yet very new to RoR and fairly new to Linux [went with ubuntu 7.10 for the time being - learing pure Deb and/or Slack/BDS for the future] anyhooo.. So... Coming from my highly understood XP install [frankly it feels yuk these days] i''m

I''m sketching out a error handler, something like if cando = false redirect_to( :controller => Oops, :action => ''accessdenied'', :type => ''alarm'', :message => ''no_permission_to_view'', :return_to => saved_url, ) else .... end Is this an

Yes, I know about the :if/:if_changed clause on acts_as_versioned ... content_changed or author_changed .... That''s not what I''m asking about. What I''m wondering about is something like applying the spiffy new 2.0 sanitize as a ''before_save'' -- A little inaccuracy can save tons of explanation. -- Saki

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/18/stonebraker_dbms_outdated/ <quote> Stonebraker and his group also advocate abandoning SQL because they see no need for a separate data manipulation language. Data manipulation, they said, can be performed with other tasks using languages such as Ruby. </quote> -- There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom,