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...out making this has been seeing how Rails does *so much* and hardly has any superfluous parts, if any. There are so many features that I initially didn''t think I''d ever need, but then the need arose and the feature was there to save time for me. Hooray for Rails! Daniel daniel at flyingmachinestudios dot com

Hi everyone, I''m having trouble actually running mysql queries. I can connect to the database, I think, but when a query gets run the following shows up in my log: SQL (0.000000) Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW TABLES Any suggestions? Thanks! Daniel Higginbotham

Hi everyone, Is there a time select helper which uses a 12 hour clock rather than a 24 hour one? Also, does anyone know if :discard_year actually works in datetime_select now, or how I could find this out? Thanks! Daniel

Hopefully this isn''t completely inappropriate, but lately I''ve been curious about what books people have found most helpful in their development as programmers. If one of the icons like Dave Thomas, DHH, Mike Clark, Andy Hunt et al could weigh in that''d be awesome :) Here are some of my favorites: Refactoring, Martin Fowler Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl

Hiall, I want to give the action of a form an additional parameters but can''t figure out how to do it. My code looks like this <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'', next_step => true %> <%= render :partial => ''user_form'' %> <%= render :partial => ''community_form'' %> <%= submit_tag

Hi everyone, It seems like every time I want to evaluate a possibly undefined variable I have to use defined? to see that it exists first, so I can''t simply have -- if params[:range_start] > 3 or something like it. I need to have -- if defined? params[:range_start] && params[:range_start] > 3 I can''t even have -- if params[:range_start].nil? This is really

if I call a helper method from inside a partial, it doesn''t appear to have access to the partials local variables. is there a way to make them avilable without passing them as parameters? here''s a simple example # in the view <%= render :partial => "my_partial", :locals => :value => 2%> # _my_partial.rhtml - raises "undefined local variable or

I want to make use of a form_remote_tag to submit a form asynchronously. Easy done. However, we also want to add an observe_form tag to check for some value changes while the form is being entered. The observe_form tag needs a dom id to work on but I can''t see how to enter an html option for the dom id of the form on the form_remote_tag. Any ideas? Here is the form tag so far...

Not sure if I want to build my own or use something already built that''s out there. This is the first step in my project though and a major one, so some of my requirements would be: 1-The ability for a user to register themselves 2-Email / link activation 3-Access levels (or ACL control - I think they are basically the same). 4-The ability to track users either through session or cookies

I am saving an array of active record objects (college courses) in the session as session[:course_list]. This is the cart for a registration controller. If a student chooses to delete the course from the list I get the :id as params[:id]. However if I do session[:course_list].delete_if {|x| x.id ==params[:id]} does not work. session[:course_list].delete_at(idx) works. Ocourse to do this I have

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="#"

Hi everyone, In an integration test I have assert_tag :content => /Quantity/ and this always fails, even though Quantity does exist in the html. Similarly, I have assert_no_tag :content => /Quantity/ , and this fails even when Quantity *doesn''t* exist in the html. Am I missing something here? Thanks Daniel

I wanting to add an onchange event handler to collection_select but I''m not sure how. The api gives the signature as collection_select(object, method, collection, value_method, text_method, options = {}, html_options = {}) I''m not sure, however, if I need to place the desired code in "options" or "html_options". I''m sure I could just figure it out

I''m looking through the api for something like find(:all, :distinct => true) so that multiple instances of a row won''t be returned - is this possible? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Is there anything out there that allows model-level access control? Basically, records need be available if a)You created them and they''re associated with your user id b)You''re an admin, in which case you should be able to see very record. I imagine I could implement this functionality by creating separate actions, one which only pulls records based on user id, and

Hi all, I want to limit access to model objects based on the role of the logged in user. It seemed the most blunt way of doing this would be make copies of each controller which accessed the models and use one of the access control systems out there to limit access to the controllers. However, with 9 different controllers this seems like a terrible choice. Here''s what I''ve

Hi Everyone, I''ve made a plugin that adds a 12 hour time helper. You can download it here: http://www.happyfreelancer.com/time_12hour_select.zip The method you want to use in your views is time_12hour_select(object, method, options = {}) This will only work with fields of type Time - it won''t work with Datetime. I haven''t thoroughly tested it but it seems to be

Hello everyone, I have the code below: paginator_options.merge!({:conditions => ''cities.id = 4'', :include => [:cities]}) @people_pages, @people = paginate :people, paginator_options There''s a many-to-many relationship between people and cities. It seemed like before this was working, but now in the sql that''s generated the join table isn''t

I''ve been trying to make some table rows sortable using Scriptaculous. I''ve used: Sortable.create("secondlist", {tag:''tr'', treeTag:''table''}); and Sortable.create("secondlist", {tag:''tr''}); Neither of which works. Is it even possible to do this? Thanks, Daniel

Hi all, Every time I try to add options for the find_conditions argument of find_by_contents I get the following: a = AnnotatedLink.find_by_contents(''test'', {}, {:conditions => ''category_id IS NOT NULL''}) >> NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while