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Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

Hi, I have an app - a first cut ROR - so it''s a bit of a mess. I''m now trying to clean it up. The app relies on a heap of look-up tables that are, by and large, static. I''m wondering where and how to initialise these collections once - so that I don''t have to keep hitting the database every time I start a new action. Can I initialise the collections at the

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

...ost of the times contains SQL code. like in this example from Rails Cookbook: Employee.find :all, :conditions => [''hire_date > ? AND first_name = ?'', ''1992'', ''Andrew''] does anyone have an opinion on this? * complete post at: http://www.chadfowler.com/2009/4/1/20-rails-development-no-no-s -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

...=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-1790926-8876657?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) if you prefer. Thanks to DHH, the Rails Core team, and the many many contributors for helping to make Rails Recipes something I''m very proud of. See (some of) you at RailsConf next week! Thanks! -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/ (Rails Recipes) http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mjwti/ (My Job Went to India, and All I Got Was This Lousy Book) http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over four million gems served!)

...proposal form is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/create/e_sess/ You can read more about OSCON here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ OSCON is a _lot_ of fun. Especially these days with Ruby''s increased visibility. Hope to see you there! -- Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/ (Rails Recipes - In Beta!) http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mjwti/ (My Job Went to India, and All I Got Was This Lousy Book) http://rubycentral.org http://rubygarden.org http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over one million gems served!)

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and

hi, is it possible that gettext don''t work with rjs templates? i''ve just tried this simple example blog_controller.rb : class BlogController < ApplicationController def index end def dosomething end end index.rhtml : <html> <head> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> </head> <body> <div id="test">Some text to change

Can someone please give me a hand here? I have just built a brand new RHEL 4 server for my company and I am trying to get rails up and running on it. I have ruby 1.8.2 installed fine. And the gem install process went fine as well. But when I try to do the gem install raisl under the root user this is what I getL: [root@yhrws root]# gem instal rails Config file /root/.gemrc does not exist

Hello all, Thank you in advance for your help with this. I am trying to implement the user authentication method from Ruby Recipes which calls for the use of SHA 2. Here is the code for the password: def password=(pass) salt = [Array.new(6){rand(256).chr}.join].pack("m").chomp self.password_salt, self.password_hash = salt, Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(pass + salt) end I open

I''m looking for ideas on how you would implement a controller/view in Rails that needs to show the progress of a possibly 2-3 minute operation. For example the user wants to generate 100 reports that will take about 3 minutes. I would like to have a page that would indicate that the operation is taking place as well as showing progress as to how far along. With basic CGI you could

Hi there, I just bought the Rails Recipes and PDF preview of the book. So far it''s excellent. I decided to try Chapter 8 of the book regarding tagging. I''ve done migrations before, and I feel comfortable with them, however this error stumps me. -------------------------------------------------- antrover:~/RubyProjects/rlog dhoefler$ ruby script/generate migration

I made the mistake of trying to upgrade to 1.8.4 from 1.8.2 and had intended to upgrade to rails 1.1. I have now completely borked my ruby gems installation. After installing ruby I get the following error when trying to execute gem: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__'': no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError) from

In our app we''ve a number of singleton ruby classes that cache static data in hashes, things like string values, system config params, etc). In a webbrick environment this works ok, but we find in production we have a problem because we have 4 caches, one for each mongrel instance. This also isn''t a BIG problem, but our cache.reload() methods are kinda useless now, because we

Capistrano is a utility for executing tasks in parallel across multiple remote hosts. It was formerly known as SwitchTower. Installation: gem install capistrano Manual: http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/17 Version 1.1 introduces a few changes: * Renamed! Due to the trademark infringement debacle of last week, we had to change the name. Moving forward it will be known as