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Alright, I''ve been programming with Rails for a little while now, and I really like what I see. I made a simple application for our clients that need to be able to view their personal and contact information, the ports they''re buying through our ISP, and communicate back and forth with us. The thing is - the application is pretty messy because I have been hired as a new

I need to create a news posting system without the use of a database. I''m going to create a file for each news post and have the view post each file in a specific directory as HTML. The newspost will contain: 1. A title. 2. A date. 3. The body. In the text file, I want line 1 to be the title, line 2 to be the date, and everything from line 3 on down to the be the body. What method

Hi everyone, David R. here; I''m new to this mailing list but I''ve been incredibly wrapped up in Ruby on Rails for the last two or three months. I''ve built a fully functional web application and we''re about to roll it out to our customers. However, my supervisor would like to add just one more feature to it: listing the number of online users for a particular

Okay, here''s something I''ve been racking my brain over for about an hour, and I can''t seem to piece it together. I have a form text area that the user will be typing some instructions into. The instructions, when submitted, are sent through a grinder method (composed of a small nest of gsubs) in my controller that rips them up and turns all the line breaks into HTML

I have a form where the user will type in some text in a text area. When this form gets submitted, all of the info gets pushed into a MySQL table. The text area in question can have HTML and special formatting. I want to create a preview div for this. I can use observe_field to preview the formatting as they type, but I''d rather have it set so that they can click a "Preview"

I''m using a MySQL server and the user my rails app is logging in as is root; root has all permissions. My destroy code is default scaffolding: def destroy Customer.find(params[:id]).destroy redirect_to :action => ''list'' end Why is <%= link_to ''Destroy'', :action => ''destroy'', :id => @customer %> not

I''m trying to get link_to_remote to assign a CSS class to the link it generates. My code is as follows: <%= link_to_remote "Show Full Info", :update => "fullcontact" + reparray.last.to_s, :url => "/cm/full_contact/" + reparray.last.to_s, :classname => "contactlink" %> Which produces this HTML: <a href="#"