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this bug is similar to something i see already discussed on why''s blogpost comments, which was reported fixed, but that was before the gem was made available (which is what im using since i cant seem to access the C.WTLS SVN) my guess is one of 3 things: fix didnt propagate to gem, my own failure to make an educated guess on proper setup (1), or a genuine bug essentially, for

This novice coder roughly understands the difference between instance and local variables thanks to David Black''s excellent book, but I''m still unclear as to when and why a either is more desirable to use. In general, I use instance variables in my controller and local in my views, but I''m not sure as to why or if this is correct. Thanks Joe Kowalski

i have these two really similar methods in my addressbook controller. def edit_company @company = Company.find(params[:id]) if request.post? and @company.update_attributes(params[:company]) flash[:notice] = ''Company was successfully edited.'' redirect_to :action => ''show'', :id => @company end end def edit_person

Hi, Sebastian Kanthak of the file_column-Plugin wrote once: "is the photo object inside a local variable or an instance variable (e.g. photo or @photo)? url_for_file_column only works with instance variables, like all other active record form helpers. Could this be the problem?" So I''m using file_column in a partial, e.g. <%= render (:partial => "product",

I''ve got a field in a database that contains a string of ids. I want to be able to remove an item from that list and save the list again. The only way I saw how to do this was to convert it to an array and back to a string again. The variable names are for an example. This code works, but I don''t think that it''s efficient. It''s all in my controller.