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Hey, I have been progressively learning more and more rails each day (from both a current project, reading the agile book, and this list). Does anybody think it would be beneficial to have kind of like a rails "Best Practices" page that lists some of the better ways of handling certain functions of rails (that are common in most apps) that are both more elegant, and efficient. For

Fellow Railers, Is there anything, anywhere, that I can read that discusses overall RoR app design? I have the Agile RoR book, which is great for learning the details of RoR, but unfortunately doesn''t cover the overall issue of creating a large, complex RoR app. My staff and I are still in the process of getting up to speed on Ruby and RoR, but we also need to begin thinking about

I have several TIME columns in a PostgreSQL table that I am trying to store times of day in. These columns allow NULL values since there may some records where there is no time to store. My problem is that Rails is inserting a default value into these fields (the result of calling Time.new) regardless of the value that is passed from a form. I am generating select tags with possible time

I have a crude hack to allow auto_complete to work with indexed text fields. I needed it for a timecard entry form with an arbtirary number of records which can be added/changed/delete willy-nilly by users. One of the fields is a perfect candidate for autocomplete since it references a database object with a large number of choices and long descriptions. Using a select list is extremely ugly in

...9;edit'' end end def destroy Part.find(params[:id]).destroy redirect_to :action => ''list'' end end -- "Her faults were those of her race and sex; her virtues were her own. Farewell, and if for ever - " -- "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I am using the standard login controller that ships with RoR to authenticate users in my application. In my app, Users belong to Clients, Clients have Projects that users are assigned to (stored in a stakeholder table with user_id and project_id columns) , then each project has a bunch of folders and assets (file uploads). So currently I have urls that look like /project/show/12 etc. I want

In web applications that have user generated content, it is clearly necessary to provide some ability to ''escape'' user generated text to avoid SQL injection, XSS, and other nasty attacks. The existing dogma on this point seems to favor escaping text as it comes out of the database, rather than doing it on the way in. I''m not sure that I understand the logic behind

I just put this up on the wiki, and thought I''d share in case it''s useful to anyone else. This is handy if you don?t want to wrap your input elements inside a div when an error occurs, but instead want to add some sort of CSS style to fields with errors: ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance| msg = instance.error_message error_style =

Hello- I have a database with entries that are segmented by customers. I would like to be able to store / delete / restore a particular customer''s information. I will need to rebuild the rows on restore and also rebuild the associations for the different tables. For example, customer { id name } companies { id customer_id (belongs_to) name } contacts { id

I''m fairly new to Ruby & Rails and I come from a stricly M$ background. I''m trying to move into the world of open source, but I don''t have a good roadmap. I''m starting to develop a Rails-based product and I want to have the option to distribute it to non-hosted customers. So I''ve said all that to say this... I want to learn how to setup linux and