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How would one server out to excel a html table with the mime/content type application/vnd.ms-excel ? In PHP it would be something like ?php header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); ------ But how do I do this in rails? Cheers Glenn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to get the Date in formation YYYY-MM-DD for the start of the current year But I cannot think how to do it... This generates a name error .rhtml view. <%= at_beginning_of_year.Time.now %> -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...using the --prefix option to specify their home directory. This seems to work OK up to a point, but when running make, it seems to expect to be able to install IDL into /usr/local/, and if you are unable to do this, you seem to have to abort make. Any ideas as to how I can work round this? Steve Cadman. -- Steve Cadman Computer Officer / System Administrator Department of Statistical Science University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT tel 020 7679 1866 (extension 41866 internally)

I have one table that stores data related to math problems, and another table that stores users'' answers to those problems. To make this very simple, we''ll say that the math table has two numbers that get subtracted, and the answers table has a field that can either be "pos" or "neg" math _____ 2 5 8 3 Okay so if we do the math, we know that the

Hi, I am a rails and ruby nuby :-) How do you pass data between different controllers and views? I have a page ( a quote) that I am editing url ....quote/edit/6 6 id the current id. I then go to a catalog (url....catalog) to add an item to my quote (I do this via a line_item file that the quote reads) I now want to go back to the quote. I have tried this <%= link_to ''Back to

I have a batch job that will call script/runner, I would like in this call to create html formated email and save it to the database. This is easy enough in a controller with yournewhost.email = render_to_string :action => "email_newhost_ready", :layout => false But render_to_string is only available in controller action pack, is there a easy way to render_to_string in a Model? Or

I want to validate the uniqueness of a field if the field has a value. Is there anyway to do it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m pretty much done with a project I''ve been developing to learn Rails, http://www.happycarpools.com . If you could take a look, that''d be awesome! Feedback would be even more awesome! Probably the coolest thing about making this has been seeing how Rails does *so much* and hardly has any superfluous parts, if any. There are so many features that I initially

What have I missed I have a .rhtml with the sandard form parameters <%= image_submit_tag("excel.gif", :alt => "Download List to Excel", :border => 0, :name => ''render_action'', :value => ''excel'' ) %> Which genenerates I believe a valid html fragment for a submit button. <input alt="Download List to Excel"

I want when the user clicks on a button on the browser "Perform monthly billing run" the controller to lanch a sql DML statment to be called (in the model?) than runs something like "insert into billing (item, qnt, total_cost, billing_run_timestamp select item, qnt, item*cost as total_cost, timestamp from services where service_end_date is null" How can I run a DML

This is so frustrating. Is RoR that easy to learn or is it hype or is it just me? I wonder how many newbies like me are surfing the docs trying to get a clue of the basics. Every tutorial I find is much the same, and seems to skip the fundmental parts. How should you understand the Ruby API http://api.rubyonrails.org/? What is < ActionController::Base? Can''t I set a cookie under

I wish to have 2 submit buttons one which does a normal sumbit and the other that does a submit but also passes the parameters such as "render_action" . This doesnt work <%= start_form_tag :action => ''list'' %> <%= image_submit_tag("find.gif", :alt => "Find and Display", :border => 0) %> <%= link_to

I want to have a link_to (<a>) that when the mouse rolls over it (hover) a little if possible semitranspartent "box" (maybe 80px*80px) is displayed with some help/further information included. Is it possible to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I put -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

As I wrote in http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/69600 A) I created a .rhtml <%= image_submit_tag("excel.gif", :alt => "Download List to Excel", :border => 0, :name => ''render_action'', :value => ''excel'' ) %> B) This rendered the valid html <input alt="Download List to Excel" border="0"