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In a servlet J2EE application, there is an init style method that gets called after that servlet is loaded. Is there something similar within a rails controller context. I am looking for something where I can load and setup a particular object. Also, what about with sessions as well. I would like to call some library when a user session begins and possibly kill that object when the

I want to update my application which was generated with rails 1.0.0 to the new version. My question. I have already updated the ruby gems library and things seem to work. Do I really need to update the actual code. Can I update the code? For example, I noticed that prototype is a lot newer version. I would like to update that. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode)

Is there a way to use the same code accross multiple layouts. Normally, I am associating a layout with a particular controller? Is there a cleaner way. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com http://www.newspiritcompany.com/newforums also checkout alpha version of botverse: http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/universe_home

I have a library that is basically used on the command-line. I am trying to fit it in for my rails application. So far it works, but I was worried about how rails does caching or anything else. Basically, is this an ok approach. So far, I put the library in RAILS_APP/lib/bot.rb And ''bot.rb'' contains a class ''VM''. I have a controller: BotController..

I am working with ruby(activerecord) and want to save a ''hash'' of URLs such that a key is the URL and the value points to a count of how many times it occurs after processing a csv file my question; all I know of is right now is to attempt to save, get a unique error and then when handling the exception increment the hash value (really a column in a table) Is this bad? Or

This is another simple rails application. I am just putting them out there; doesn''t really add to any of the other depot applications out there, just another. From type ''rails XXXX'' it probably was a hour or so to setup and design the layout and what-not. http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/helper_numbers_idea/

with this post; with a query with multiple tables, I am trying to return results that are null in one table; I am trying to do something like this; class NumbersFeedLink < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :numbers_sent_feed_link end class NumbersSentFeedLink < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :numbers_feed_link end sent = NumbersFeedLink.find(:all, :order => [

Did rails due this to the final output of my document. I had a div that had a style: <div style="color: #FFF; background-color: #537677l; "> fsfs </div> This was the final output? <div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> fsfs </div> -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

Well, I wanted to mention my early rails application(in the event I stop working on it). At present it is a link blog, you post a link and now we have a listing of links from different users. Ideally, it has been a week or two. On rails in general, it is really nice, you want to add an action or update a model, you just do it as opposed to wrapping something in 10 layers of XML. The

Whenever I log-off of windows xp. I dont lose my mapped drive connection but I get an error message stating an invalid password. I enter the exact same password for the reconnect but it wont stay. It is not a problem just strange that I have to enter my password everytime even though I set it through the mapped drive settings. Anyone seen this before? -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode)

I am getting an error when trying to install rails on dapper. It looks like it partially installed something. Mainly the issue seems to be with ''gems''? I am using: ruby-1.8.4 gems 0.8.11 Is this bad? bbrown@england:~/rubygems-0.8.11$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ''rails'' Local gem file not found: rails*.gem

Has anyone had any experience with RedCloth for rails. It is a textile system. I haven''t spot checked the code and was wondering if it caused any lockups or other issues. http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/ -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse: http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/universe_home

I am not the Ruby aficionado yet, if I have created_on ...timestamp. What is a ruby way of getting the hours/minutes/seconds ago. is there some class that has this implemented. For example: Posted on 3/28/2006 Show a time with: posted: 1 day ago ... something along those lines. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

I am having an issue of deciding where I should put the business code for example the more complex code coming off the controller. Right now, I am just thinking to put it in the ''lib'' directory and the do something along these lines: require_dependency "system_process" class SystemMessageController < ApplicationController include SystemProcess ... ... Where

This isnt totally a rails question; I am using ActiveRecord for storing some simple values into a database. My problem; I keep gettign MySQL Errors. On the Win32 machine it was off and on. Now on the linux machine (ubuntu) I can'' t connect at all. I have all the password settings correct. My only thought, I am working with Threads and thought that might cause the issue, but I