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I read the Amy Hoy''s presentation on why scaffold is not a good thing for beginners. For admin application, is it ok to use scaffold? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, I''m looking for a way to store common settings, such as the application_name or email address from value in a file. I then want to be able to call these settings in my controllers and models? Is there any easy way of doing this? and where would you recommend I save the file ? Thanks scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Has anybody else had a problem with using Lightbox in their RoR apps? I include all the necessary files in application.rhtml and then attempt to use the Lightbox functionality in pages and such. Nothing happens except that a new page opens up with the link to the image I was attempting to show with Lightbox. I''ve even gone so far as to strip out everything except the necessary

Hey All, I''m currently working on a Guitar Reviews website and I think i''ve been coding for way to long and forgot the basics..I''m having trouble doing a simple SQL method. I have 2 Tables, 1 for Guitar Manufacturers (gmanufacturers) and 1 for Guitar Models (gmodels), every model has a manufacturer and every manufacturer has many models (gmodel belongs_to

Does anyone know of any fixes to this? Any industry-known tips/tricks? The page loads sometimes take 20-30 seconds. so bad. mk -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have been trying for some time to get a file to upload using the file_column plugin. My code is here: http://pastie.caboo.se/7304 But my code is not the issue. I cannot even pass the unit test that come with the file_column plugin. If I run ruby file_column_test.rb i get: 1) Error: test_store_dir_callback(FileColumnTest): TypeError: can''t convert Fixnum into String

hi all, i am looking for a host for my ROR web app. the target audience will be 70% from mainland china, and 30% from the rest of the world. i dont want a chinese hosst because: 1. it''s very slow for the rest of the world to access to it. 2. the speed is quite ok for china to access the us sites. both dreamhost and godaddy provide similar budget plans, and i saw them all from this

Hi All Just a few minutes back I came across a post about autotest/zentest and that post reignited the feeling I get when I look at RDoc, RoR documentation. The main thing that is lacking in RoR and to some extent Ruby''s RDoc is showing method names in HTML is not documentation. The arguments to method, exception/errors raised by method, return value and a usage example completes the

Hi. What is the best way to pre-populate your database with records while developing, not testing? For example, I want to: 1) > [run this command to populate db] 2) > ruby script/server 3) now I can surf to localhost:3000 and my app will already have relevant data I''m hoping to use yaml to suck it in. Is there a way to use the Fixture class to handle this even though this is

Ok, no one has said it yet so I will. http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php?102#comments How is this going to affect Rails? Or is it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Google lets me down once again :-) Coming from a PHP background I know I can take submitted form data, mix it, mash it and put it together in very odd ways. In other words do this. $title = "My Title" $sub_title = "My Sub Title" $full_title = $title . "-" . $sub_table And submit $full_title to the database. I have yet to find a solution for this in Rails - I

I''ve been going back and forth about this kind of thing for a while. I reverse my opinion on it every project, and I''m wondering if anyone has any advice/battle scars to share. As usual, please forgive my long-windedness in advance. Let''s say I have this: Table: PLANS ID int CATEGORY_CODE_ID int --Other junk removed for clarity Table: CATEGORY_CODES ID int DESCRIPTION

Hi folks, I am in the process of converting an existing non-rails application to rails, and am not sure what the best approach would be for specifying the relationship between the two sets of data. I''ll describe the existing table structures first. Table 1: Urls Each url has a unique id and two lists of Phrases, these are currently setup as varchars with "," delimitation -

I''m trying to figure out an elegant way to do this: I have the following three tables: people, employer, employees And consequently the following three models: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base end class Employer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees end class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :employer end I want to be able to say:

All, I''ve been looking switching hosting providers, and have been strongly considering TextDrive. Doing a little Googling turns up a fair number of complaints that seem to be centered around server performance, stability and uptime. Since I know a poorly written app can contribute to all of these, I thought I''d pose the question to all of you. Does anyone here host

Are there any other tutorial than "Agile Web Development with Rails" that you can suggest? So far I can''t say that RoR has been easy to learn. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Our company is mainly made up off application developers but we have a lot of web work coming up so we are deciding which route to take at the moment. We initially identfied ASP.NET 2.0 with the ATLAS AJAX framework because of the RAD features, easy to learn etc. I had read some stuff on ROR and our Boss who is open minded allowed me to create a sample application with ROR. He was impressed

ANNOUNCING AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH RAILS, SECOND EDITION =========================================================== http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails2/ Rails has changed a lot since we announced the first edition of the book a year ago. DHH says that the 1.1 release "boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors." Who are we to

We''re still hard at work on Rails 1.2, which features all the new dandy REST stuff and more, but a serious security concern has come to our attention that needed to be addressed sooner than the release of 1.2 would allow. So here''s Rails 1.1.5! This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn''t affected by this). If you have a public

Hello all, Maybe the $subj is a little bit weird (i.e. apples vs oranges) but it is a situation i am facing at the moment: We are developing a small web site which will be mostly a CMS (more or less) and my colleagues is arguing for drupal, and i am for RoR. Maybe i can formulate the question in a different way: when to use a CMS (not necessarily drupal but e.g. Radiant CMS) and when to use Ruby