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Hi- We just finished our app and I tested for performance with httperf. Our setup is browser -> apache2.2-> mod_poxy balancer-> mongrel cluster -> 3 mongrel servers. I have noticed that the total request per second is is about 7.5. When I increase the no of mongrel to 5, it inches up to 8 req/s. My question is how bad or good this number is? We are on a old dell 2400 machine

How do I save an array of obects into the database? For now I am doing for a in array a.save end. I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Why can''t I access the utility methods defined in applicaion.rb from the model classes? If that does not work, where is the best place to put common utility methods that must be available to all the models. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Gang- 1. Is there anything in Ruby that handles the .properites files similar to the J2EE application servers. Or do I need to define all of the properties as constants? 2. Is there anyway I can load some of my classes (such as singletons) during the startup? I am looking for the startup classes that J2EE containers provide. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am running apache with mod_fastcgi on Linux - I would like to run my app in production mode, but I could not. Following is what I have in my httpd.conf. Can someone tell me why it does not recognize the env variable for production? The app always runs under development mode i.e ignores the RAILS_ENV directive. thanks/ thila. <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/

Hi- I need to create PDF docs on the fly with data from a database. I see couple of options floating around to achieve this in Ruby. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? Also any helpful hints or sample programs will be appreciated. Thanks Thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a text_area to accept upto 1000 chars, which is stored as a blob in mysql. When I try to display the saved data, I dont see the new line characters - however I could see the newline characters in EDIT MODE. So my newline char is lost during displaying. Any ideas how to fix it. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am truying to install the plugin ("ruby script/plugin install engines"). But I get this big error. Any help? D:\develop\Ruby\workspace\a2>ruby script/plugin install engines script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn --version script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn ls http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn /rails/plugins/

Gang- We are getting ready to launch our ROR application; the last item remaining is the deployment platform. For testing, we had used Apache + MOD_FastCGI. I am not that impressed with it; sometimes it has strange effects. For example, when we start the application, for about 5 minutes or so, the app is very unstable and it gets better over time. My questions is .. should I go with (1)

Hi, I''m very new to Rails and have a general question. What technique would you use to allow users who have a uniform set of data to create very un-uniform websites from that data? One set of data, many different website/output possibilities. It would have to go beyond CSS. I''m assuming there will potentially be some level of scripting involved for each template. The goal is

I have a table with the list of business name and address in it. It may contain 1 million rows. The users want to look up into this table based on the business name. The simple solution is to use LIKE in mysql, but I am worried about performance, since the user load will be very high for this system. Any suggestion on how to handle the potential performance issue? How can i use a search

Does anyone have an idea of the rates being charged by Rails developers (or salaries for FTEs)? I''m curious to see whether rates will become comparable to those paid to more experienced Java/.NET developer types, or if rates will be lowered by the free/open source mentality, and the possible perception that Rails makes Web development "easy." Sometimes rates are more

My form fields are inside a table; each field in its own <td> element. When there is a validation error, the corresponding field gets highligthed (with a box around the text box). This work perfectly on Mozilla, but in IE, the browser fils the entire TD column with a background color ie.. the highlights looks real messy. For example if the TD element size is 50 and the text box size is

Hi- I have a BigInt (MySql) column type - RAILS treats it as FixNum, which causes big problem for us since we need to store a 12+ number of digits. How can I tell Rails to treat is as BigNum instead of FixNum? thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

>From WITHIN my web app, I want the web app users to be able to send IM messages to yahoo,msn,AOL users. The receving users are not aware of the sender. So our web app takes the input msg from the sender (RAILs app), then on the background sends the msg to the recevier (the recevier is aware of the sending application id). Any response from the recevier will then be displayed to the sender

Hi- I have a list of objects and each of them has an image. (like an array of person object, with name and picture as attributes) I need to display the images on the html in the thumb format. I use the following RMagic stuff to create the thumb image <% file_name = "pictures/" file_name << person.image_name file_name <<

I have lot of static pages in my applications (FAQs, Contacts, Privacy etc..) What is the best way to handle (deploy) these pages in my application. I am using Apache with fastcgi. I would like to deliver the static pages from the apache itself. Basically how the deployment is done? The catch is the user should be easily navigate between the static and dynamic contents. thanks thila --

All- I am new to Ruby; following are my two questions: 1. Which is the best login plugin? I keep hearing about SALT and loginengine. 2. For installing loginengine; I see the two following steps - Both these does not work for me. : $ script/plugin install login_engine ==I am getting "script/plugin is not a internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

I got a strange problem. My image upload worked fine in my XP. However after deploying to Linux, I am not able to upload images from XP machine - I get "Image location invalid image" error message. However, I am able to upload images from linux boxes. Can anyone tell me what would cause this problem? Is there any setting in file_column that are specific to the deployment server os?

Hi- I need to create simple charts on the fly - I had used JFreeChart in the past with inJ2EE apps. Is there any equivalent here for Ruby. My charting needs are simple: just line charts. Also if anyone has done this, pls let me know how I should go about in doing it. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.