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Hi folks, I''m a linux noob, and I''m trying to pick a distro for my rails server. I don''t want to start a flame-war about linux distros! I''m interested in the best distribution for these criteria: 1 - Simplicity of getting ruby and rails set-up (gem updates) 2 - Stability (it is a server, after all) 3 - Support resources (community, and as a fall-back, paid

I am seeing a problem with text_field_with_auto_complete in which the input does not get populated with the selected value, but only in firefox (1.5.0.4). Works in IE just fine. I have a super-simple mockup that shows this problem below. Can anyone please confirm for me that this does/does not work in firefox or point out my mistake? I''m wondering if I need to submit a bug? The example

I am wondering what are the rules for the availability of params in controller actions? If I redirect, are the params still available? How about when I render a different action? It doesn''t seem so... What are the best ways to pass them? I''m trying to use an ajax scaffold component with 2 actions which load different data for the component. I have an ajax scaffold component

Hi folks, I''m wondering if it''s possible to use foreign key constraints on the join tables of a has_and_belongs_to_many relation. Specifically, I get this error when I try and delete a model I''m using, named saved_search, which is many-to-many with neighborhoods. Any ideas? Thanks for any help. :-) -Eric Code: @saved_search.destroy Error: Mupdate or delete on

Hi all, Any help is appreciated. I used the ajax scaffold generator to make 3 scaffoldings. Then I put them together as components in a combined layout and created a master controller, which happens to be named "dataentry''. That works fine. Within each of the components, I was able to set up links that paginate and update the div (for the component) with correctly paginated

Hi folks, I''ve been looking at how to create generators for a lot of little tasks. Does anyone know how to pass, recieve, and then use named arguments to a generator? I''ve been looking at this argument, but I''m not clear on what''s possible. Is it solely based on the order of the arguments? http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/UnderstandingGenerators For

I''m trying to convince a co-founder of the startup I''m working on that rails is the new black, or possibly the next sliced bread. Does rails ship with doc, or the API? I can''t even figure out how to download it from api.rubyonrails.com, or if that''s possible. When I look in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rails-1.1.2\doc I see nothing of use. I have to admit

If I have several controller actions which have this same line of code (or more), how can I DRY up the line without running into complaints about redirecting or rendering only once? If I put the line in another method in my controller, won''t it think I''m redirecting? I want to dry up lines like this: @listing = Listing.find(params[:id]) def customerview @listing =