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I have ruby 1.8.4 and gem 0.8.11 installed on Ubuntu Dapper. Now I wanted to use gem to install rails (as documented in the wiki). That worked fine, but afterwards, the command rails is not found. It seems that the gem install command does not place the binaries in the apropriate directory. The instruction pages at the Rails websites show that one cun simply type "rails" after the gem

Like with simple table editing, there are also typical ways of how a user usually interacts with one-to-many or many-to-many relations. For example, one would show the fields of one row of table1 in the screen and below a line-by-line view of all associated entries in table2. Then, one could press an "Edit" button and add or delete rows from table2 to this entry of table1,

I am disappointed about the (seeming) lack of Unicode support in Rails. Is there a howto about working the most important limitations? For example, figuring out the length of an entered word: "???".length() will return 6, not 3. So if there is a maximum number of characters a user is allowed to enter, this won''t work as it should -- it treats strings as byte arrays instead

I am rather new to ruby but was considering to use it for my next project. However, support for Unicode strings would be essential. This includes the correct handling of unicode strings in regular expressions, in IO operations etc. Is there a way to do this in ruby? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there a documentation for the different built-in generator functions somewhere? If I do ruby script/generate -h I get a short overview, but I would like to know what possibilities exist for each of the built-in generators. Which files exactly are created? The examples I have seen are puzzling -- sometimes they generate models or controllers per-se, sometimes using the scaffold-generator

I am writing an in-house web application with RAILS and I want users to log-in to the application before they can do anything. Since all users already have an accont on the linux machine where the web application will be running, I''d like to use these accounts for authentification. Is there a way in Ruby/RAILS to authenticate a user/password pair against the accounts defined on the