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I know I can use :index => collection_counter with text_fields, but do they work with any version of select form helpers? Thanks! Ian

Hi everyone, I run MySQL in my dev environment, but Postgres in my production environment (out of necessity). I''m having trouble finding a way to write a query with a LIKE condition that is supported as case insensitive in both databases. Right now, I have this: @query = "m" # for example @people = Person.find(:all, :conditions => ["last_name LIKE ?", @query +

Ubuntu 5.10, Ruby 1.8.3. I installed rubygems, then tried rails, and get a tragic looking error at the end. Is this a problem? It looks related to rdoc. root@bonus:/usr/local/rubygems-0.8.11# gem install rails --include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ''rails'' Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''rails''

When I explain RoR to someone I don''t have a convincing argument that explains why everything is so automatic and transparent, but relationships have to be encoded by hand in models. That shows I don''t understand well that part of AR. There''s the argument that says that not all databases offer metadata about foreign keys, but the natural question then is that,

Hi folks, I''m looking for advice on how to promote RoR in my workplace. Specifically, I''d like to work out a strategy for promoting development in Rails as a new alternative to our existing technology (the usual suspects... mostly Java/Oracle, .NET, PHP, and a bit of Perl here and there). Some background: I work for a fairly large state environmental agency as a web developer.

I sure hope so: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2006/03/additional-thoughts-on-why-ruby-isnt.html Seems like it''s getting genuine rebuttals, though. It''s actually kind of amusing.

What could cause this? >> sdfl=PartNumber.find_by_part_number("1111111") => #<PartNumber:0xb78fc744 @attributes={"id"=>"11601", "part_number"=>"1111111"}> >> sdfl=PartNumber.find_or_create_by_part_number("1111111") NoMethodError: undefined method `find_or_create_by_part_number'' for PartNumber:Class