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Greetings all, I''m sure there is probably a very obvious reason for the following problem. However, after much hair pulling, I am just not seeing it yet. As you can see from the trace below, I am not able to complete scaffold generation due to some problem between rails and mysql. I double checked MySQL to make sure both my Ruby user and Root user have full rights to the database.

Greetings, I''m trying to make a simple logging application that just displays the last few rows of information in the log. In order to do this, I am trying to use the ":offset" option for find. However, I am not getting the results I expect. For testing purposes, the query is being run against a table (MySQL) that contains 11 records. According to the RoR documentation,

Greetings all, As a Noob, I''ve been diligently working my way through the AWD4R book and finally arrived at the part about observers -- which BTW I think are very cool tech. Anyhow, I got the Audit Observer working. Now I want to test it and perhaps examine it''s attributes and methods to make sure it does what is expected of it. For example, one thing I would like to do

Greetings all. Does anyone have a clue how to use Ruby to do modular exponentiation using the binary left-to-right method? I looked through the documentation and searched the forums and found the String.each_byte method. However I had no luck finding anything showing how one might manipulate bits of bytes. Below is an example of what I am talking about. The calculation a = b^e mod n (or

Greetings all. I''m using the Microsoft "NorthWind Traders" database "orders" table as test data for the Rico LiveGrid JavaScript. The problem I''m noticing is that some of the records in the "ShipName" field contain ampersands -- which for some reason are not being escaped by Rails. Rails does in fact automatically escape all of the other