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Hi: I have a table called clients and each client has many lists (a has_many and belongs_to has been created in the class. What I need to do is get a count of the rows in each list for each client. I was hoping I could do something like client.lists.count but it does not seem to work. Any suggestions? bruce

Hi: Some French fellow posted a notice yesterday about a book that had come out. It''s called "Ruby on Rails" and is apparently by DHH & David Thomas. Is this a scam? If not, does anyone know where I can buy this book in English? I''ve searched the usual places but can''t turn anything up. Bruce

Hi: Would it be fair to say (or completely out to lunch) that a local variable is local to a method and an instance variable is local to an object. Thus an instance variable is a sort of limited global variable or super-powered local variable. Its scope is larger than a local but smaller than a global. Or that it is a global within a limited domain (the object). or is it a whole lot

Hi: I love Locomotive and use it exclusively for my rails projects. I''d like to install GRUFF and give it a try (a graph image creation package). I know I can do sudo gem install gruff from the command line for normal ruby and rails. How do I make gems available to Locomotive? bruce

I create a hash using this line of code @x = Account.find(:all) I then want to go through each element in turn and add a key value pair to the end of it. I thought this would work, but it does not. @x.each do |a| a.merge({"balance"=>50} I used merge because I thought ''a'' would be a hash (how do you find out the type of an object?) I then guess it was

Hi: I have lines in a table I wish to stripe BUT, every now and then there is another type of line, a section header line. I''d like to be able to start the line after a section heading always as one of the two classes the cycle helper is cycling between. Is it possible? If so, how? bruce PS. I realise I could do this with ''odd_or_even'' or the %2 method (mod

I notice that I begin each project with a standard css file which is the one produced by scaffolding PLUS some other stuff. I could cut and paste a copy from an old project but I thought it would be "cooler" amongst other things (like more efficient) to just have the scaffold.css file be created for me. Is it possible? Is it safe(ish), What would I have to do? Thanks in

I see an abbreviation in the menu called lia but how do I make it work. I have tried a fascinatingly large number of possibilities without success. I have searched the help file and googled the issue. bruce

Hi: I am using a collection_select to select which client''s records I want. Everything works properly EXCEPT the list box reverts to its initial value rather than holding onto the client whose records I am now viewing. ?

Is it possible? It is mentioned in AWDWR but I cannot find that option in the MySQL documentation. I can dump the whole db or just the structure, but I''d like to be able to dump just the contents. bruce

Hi all, On the rails list I''ve seen that it''s hard to integrate Rails with Apache (especially apache2), that it''s hard to change the default port (3000), and that Apache runs Rails stuff slowly. Is it reasonable to run Rails stuff on Webrick while simultaneously running other stuff on Apache? How does one simultaneously run two rails applications on Webrick, when

I am reposting this because not only am I VERY interested in the answer but because I think it would also be useful to many, many people. We kind of have a house-style here, so it would be nice if the generated scaffold.css would accommodate that. My questions are? Is it possible? Is it safe? How? bruce

Hello, I just installed radrails and it will not run the webbrick because a version is already running on my mac. I do not know how to shut down the mac version. Thanks Regards, Frank Rocco farocco-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org

I added :accesskey=>"D" to the html options hash of my link_to tag but nothing happened. Should I keep trying or is this not an option yet? bruce

I''d like to take some advice and write a generator to change the scaffold.css. How do I do that? I looked on the wiki and googled it but have not found anything yet. Any help would be much appreciated. bruce

Does anyone have an idea of the rates being charged by Rails developers (or salaries for FTEs)? I''m curious to see whether rates will become comparable to those paid to more experienced Java/.NET developer types, or if rates will be lowered by the free/open source mentality, and the possible perception that Rails makes Web development "easy." Sometimes rates are more

I''d like to propsoe that the RubyOnRails mailing list forks into three lists. PROBLEM: * The list is getting swamped with traffic, making it hard to use and even harder to follow. * Many, many messages get lost, with no reply. * Due to the overwhelming traffic, it''s hard for beginners to get the help that they need, since their messages get lost in the shuffle, and

Hi: Sad question, I know. I saw it somewhere but can''t rediscover it. I have a collection_select and want to add a prompt so the dropdown displays "select one" How is that done? thanks. bruce

OK. Things started working as I would expect. Ignore my last question please.

For those who don''t know, you have to save the document so it is of a certain kind first eg. rhtml then the lia snippet is activated by simply typing lia and then hitting the tab key. bruce