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...Say, adding a method to ActiveRecord::Base or something along those lines. I''ve read that those classes go in /lib, but my application doesn''t seem to see the changes I''ve made. Obviously I''m missing something... Any suggestions would be appreciated! -Brasten

Hello I have been trying a number of security/login generators recently. My favourite so far is the Acts_as_authenticated. I like the fact that it is only billed as a starting point and doesn''t try to do everything. I would like to add security roles to it, so that some of my controller actions can only be used by an admin role. Has anybody implemented this using

How would I go about referencing the graphs that Scruffy generates within my Rails app? http://ibrasten.com/articles/2006/08/14/scruffy-0-2-0 Jim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...ffy images on rails views. I find out how to go the easy and obvious way: Export image to a file and then bind the exported file on the view template. But I wonder if I cannot get scruffy images directly on my rails pages without exporting it to disk first. My approach with a simple example from Brastens page: I created this method in my views helper class: def generate_img() graph = Scruffy::Graph.new graph.title = "Comparative Agent Performance" graph.value_formatter = Scruffy::Formatters::Percentage.new(:precision => 0) graph.add :stacked do |stacked| stack...

My first computer was a Mac (SE30) but it was also my last so I am not without appreciation of Apples wonderful aptitude for design. Without starting a flame-fest why do so many ruby and rails developers use a Mac ? It seems to be a commonality within the ruby and RoR community. Especially laptops. The first ruby users group meeting I attended was about 50% Macs (or so it seemed to me - I