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Hi all, Slightly OT, but is there any way to run command-line programs through Ruby? I have a rails web application that performs some database work. After a certain action is performed, the rails app should then call a java program that performs additional work to our mainframe. This is under Win 2003 Server. Any ideas? Thanks, Jin Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

Maybe I''m missing the point? Lets take for example albums of pictures. If I have a scaffold for each, and I''m showing an album, what if I want to list all of the pictures that are in the album? Surely, I''d want to call the List action in the picture controller. render_component would do this perfectly. But we''re told not to use render_component. So

I know this shouldn''t be in the view but to test the code it is. Anyway if I do just session[user] I get back the user id (the id from the user table) which is good. However this code does not work. <% a = session[:user] %> <% uname = User.find(:first, :conditions => id = a) %> <%= @uname %> TIA Stuart