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Does anyone know how to use a gem without installing it to the rails installation? For example, I can download the Money gem package from http://dist.leetsoft.com/ but if I don''t have the ability to install a gem at my hosting provider, how can I use the gem in my app? Cheers, Dan

Hopefully an easy one, how do I merge two or more SQL query results? Example: result1 = find_by_sql(x) result2 = find_by_sql(y) What is the best way to merge result1 and result2? I want to be able to reference the objects as if they were obtained via one query. Cheers, Dan

Has anyone been able to make direct API calls to PayPal in currencies other than USD? I get an error message "The currency code submitted is not supported. Check the currency code and try again." I''m using the PayPal plugin for Rails. I can successfully transact in USD, but not AUD (Australian Dollars). Cheers, Dan

Hopefully someone can help with a bit of lighttpd configuration for my production rails app in Mac OS X. I have an application which will be accessed by many different domains and IP addresses. Examples: http://crm.local/ http://localhost/ http://192.168.0.49/ http://65.256.120.90/ (fake, but you get the idea, an external Internet facing IP address) http://crm.mydomain.net/

I''ve just completed my first Ruby on Rails project, an online store for electronic gadgets including digital cameras, MP3 players and PDAs. It''s for Australian shoppers only, but everyone can take a look and browse through! http://www.gogogadget.com.au All feedback, comments, etc are welcome. Cheers, Dan

Hi all, I''ll do my best to explain this... I have the possibility to have two customer types in my system: 1. A "mailing list" type: new records are saved when user enters email address in the mailing list subscription form. 2. A "full" type: new records are saved when the user buys something and provides all their billing/shipping details, etc. Model: -

I''m pinging the list to see if anyone is working on an open-source e-commerce engine based on Rails yet - something like OSCommerice I guess. Anyone? Is there interest out there for such a thing? I have such a product which has been extracted from real world code. It currently runs 3 production rails sites in various shapes and forms, implemented as a rails engine. Basic feature list: -

Hi, I''ve started reading some Java books. Gasp! What makes website development with Java so bad? I haven''t looked at Struts but I''m reading about Hibernate. Compared to ActiveRecord, Hibernate seems like some extra typing to explicitly define the model fields, getters and setters. I know that these are things that you can do in ActiveRecord when things get complicated

If I add the following line to my customer model: errors.add(:shipping_address_postcode, "has invalid format") unless :shipping_address_postcode =~ /[0-9]*/ I get an error when trying to save a record: undefined local variable or method `errors'' for Customer:Class I got this example from the Agile book. Anyone know what I''ve missed? Thanks, Dan

I have a form which is predominantly a customer form (first name, last name, etc), if there is a form error and I render to the form from the controller the customer details are filled in correctly. The question I have is, I have some fields which are _tag fields not related to the customer model, how do I get them populated when I render back to the form on error? Cheers, Dan

Does anyone have any ideas on the best way to perform error checking and processing for a particular problem: - A customer fills in an order form with their credit card details and hits submit. The controller has to do the following work: - Try to find an existing customer matched by email - if the customer exists, update their details in the database - if the customer is new save a

Firstly, I''m still learning Ruby and rails, so there could be a very simple solution to this. I want to search across multiple tables with a "like" query eg: (SQL is probably the easiest way to describe it): select products.* from products inner join brands on products.brand_id = brands.id where products.name like ''%canon%'' or brands.name like

I''m a total rails newbie, but I''m learning fast. I have a question that I can''t seem to find an answer for: What is the best way of coding views that represent foreign key relationships? For example, while developing, I''ve created an "articles" table. I create some scaffolding code and modify it all to look nice. I then realise, I need an

Does anyone know how to override the <div class="fieldWithErrors"> behaviour when a form field is incorrect? Thanks, Dan