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Hi there- What''s the easiest/most efficient way to perform a zerofill in Ruby? i.e. Given the value ''val'', I would like to do something like: val = 43 puts val.zerofill(8) ---> "00000043" gsub? sprintf of some sort? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello -- I would like to setup a system where a user can generate a "ticket". This ticket will be stored indefinitely. The ticket will be sent to someone who does not have an account on the system and therefore, I would like to ensure some level of security in that ticket number. Basically, the other user would receive an email like: --- Please click on the link below to view this

Hello Rails Community, I put this request out to the community a few weeks ago and got one reply and he ended up being too busy to do it. So, let me try again. I have a need to generate a shipping order from an application that is rails driven. All the data for the shipping order is contained within two tables. I feel like it it too cumbersome to map out all the coordinates for the

...all the files in your script folder? If you''re deploying from Windows to Linux, subversion has to know that these files are supposed to be executable and that their end-of-line characters need to be changed for the *nix environment. If you need help doing this, let me know. >>> jakejanovetz-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 12/22/05 09:18AM >>> jamis wrote: > What version of the Net::SSH gem do you have installed? There was a > problem with 1.0.2 that caused problems on windows. Please try > upgrading your Net::SSH gem to the latest (1.0.3) and let me know if &...

(Donning flameproof suit) Am I the only person who thinks that the Ruby forum software sucks? E.g. search only for a word. Can''t search for new posts, can''t search by date, topic list doesn''t indicate when I''ve already read a post, there can be several independent replies to a topic, just to name a few. There are lots (admittedly not Ruby based) of good

I have a situation where I want to edit an arbitrary number of instances of one model on one page. I can and have accomplished this by manually managing the object <-> text field relationship, but in a way I consider at best hackish. I''d like to know a clean way to do this. If you want to edit the name attribute on a person class, you write code like this

Hello- I''m new to the ruby-based schemas and migrations. As I''m looking over examples and such online, I see that many of them don''t make use of schema-enforced attributes. For example, instead of: t.column "post_id", :integer, :default => 0, :null => false They do: t.column "post_id", :integer So I''m wondering -- is this

Hello- I see that the trunk of Rails is moving with ''reflections'' for the associations stuff. I would like to plug into some of this development with an ''acts'' module and am wondering where best to find docs on it. Say, for example, I''d like to add an option to belongs_to: belongs_to :account, :new_option => ''name'' Where I

Hello- I was wondering what would be the simplest/cleanest way to have a view offer entry fields for several items (e.g. the "quantity" for items in a shopping cart). If I have a model such as "cart" which has_many "items", then I can use "cart.items" to get an array of all of them. Each item has a quantity, so I''d have

I''ve got a database with about 25 tables and growing. I was wondering what conventions people use with rails for the columns regarding NOT NULL and DEFAULT values. I realize this depends a lot on the data being stored, but after entering dozens of columns into the database, you have to come up with your ''default'' case, right? Generally, I just do NOT NULL DEFAULT

Hello again- I have a form with array information (like, say, items in a shopping cart). Each item has several fields (quantity, for example). Is there a nice way to specify the tags so that: 1. Data is extracted easily. They could be listed as "cart.items", for example, but how to bring the updated data back into the array of "items" without having to manually stuff

Hi folks- I have the following map for default ''junk'' routes: map.connect ''*anything'', :controller => ''welcome'', :action => ''unknown'' Which works just fine for a URL like: "mysite.com/junkjunkjunk" However, it still tries to resolve an action when I do: "mysite.com/my_controller/junkjunkjunk"

I''m curious how best to handle global constants in a Rails application. That is, where do they go? I''ve seen a couple of possible places -- a module, the ''application.rb''. Let''s say I have a user-selectable configuration "config" that is stored in a table as an INTEGER. The user could select among: THIS_WAY = 1 THAT_WAY = 2

I have a helper which will be placing certain tags through a view. These tags have "Element.toggle" sorts of relations, so I need to have different id''s assigned to their HTML elements. What I would like to do is somehow count them as they are installed in the view and reset at the top of the view. My current thinking is: --- In controller --- before_filter

All the examples I''ve seen have the SSH repository accessed via http:// Does Switchtower support svn+ssh:// URLs? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ll be implementing a WS backend to an application which requires user authentication to login. Can this same authentication method (based on the salted hash login generator) be used to authenticate web service access? Or, should some other authentication method be used? i.e. each user must retrieve an authentication token manually before setting something up to use web services.

Hey folks- What is the preferred dev environment for Rails apps? I''m presently using Eclipse with the RubyPeople RDT, but I''ve also heard of RadRails. Are these comparable? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello- I would like to know what the suggested practice is for having multiple submit buttons on a relatively complicated input page. Let''s use the example of a Contact. There is lots of info there, including name, address, phone number. There is also a list of "contact associations" which can be modified on the same page. Ideally, the user could have one

Hello- With a database filled with several customers'' datasets, I thought it would be a nice feature of my app''s backend interface to be able to extract (and optionally delete) the data from a single customer. It would then also be nice to rebuild that data from the stored info. What''s a good way to do this efficiently? If all the ":dependent => true"

Hello- I have a Rails web app that is database-centric (go figure). What I would like to do is expose certain parts of this database to an application running on a Windows box (or whatever). For the moment, let''s consider the read-only case, but authentication will be required. Is SOAP what would be used for something like this? Are there better alternatives? The existing