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Hey folks- If I wanted to distribute my code to users that would run the code on their own machine, how could I go about encrypting the source to run on a user''s machine? PHP has the Zend Encoder among others, I believe. Is there anything similar for Ruby? 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

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- 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"

Let''s say I create a "ticket system" that has a support ticket with a status attached to it. (Say, OPEN or CLOSED for now, but more later) The status -could- be another table in the database listing status types, but I think that''s unnecessarily complex and overly flexible for this. (opinions on this point would be interesting) Another alternative would be to

Is there any information on how to go about accessing a strongspace account from a rails app? What are the preferred methods for doing this? Are there plugins for RoR that support SFTP transfers and so on? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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/.

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

Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hi all- I just decided to move from my 1.1.0 to 1.1.2. I had previously frozen to 1.1.0 and therefore had all of rails in SVN in my vendor directory. When I finally got rake freeze_gems to work, it blasted (rm -rf) my vendor/rails directory and put a new one in there. This also blasted all my .svn directories. Is there some convenient way to do a freeze upgrade and play well with SVN?

I''m running WinXP and recently upgraded to the most recent version of rails. Unfortunately script/server gives me Booting WEBrick... Then it silently dies without starting. My previous version of rails can still run WEBrick just fine. Anybody seen this? -Theo

Hello- I''d like to throw a little AJAX into a table to allow the user to edit a single row of data inline rather than moving to another page. The row (which has N columns) would be swapped out for a row which has a single column (colspan="N") and the form inputs would be in that row. My question is, is this legal HTML? I can''t find anything that says either way.

Hello-- I''m investigating the API facet of my site and wanted to ask a couple questions: 1. The Agile book describes adding an API using the web_services generator which adds stuff to app/api. In Rails 1.1, Jamis added some wants.xml stuff to the controller code which also allows API generation. Which is better to use now? Do they mutually exclude one another? 2. In some cases, I

In my rails application, certain computers were having huge problems. There were certain pages that were exceptionally slow, even to the point of timing out. Other computers did not have a problem. I finally found that Firefox was the difference. When using Firefox on those computers it works fine. The slow pages were typically posting a form with a couple hundred fields. This behavior was

Hello- I have a database/rails design question. I''d like the user to be able to specify a set of fields they would like associated with items. Imagine a shopping cart where each item has a description and price. But a particular customer may choose to associated a color with all her items. (it will be site-wide, so every item listed for this particular user will have this

I''m looking for ideas on how you would implement a controller/view in Rails that needs to show the progress of a possibly 2-3 minute operation. For example the user wants to generate 100 reports that will take about 3 minutes. I would like to have a page that would indicate that the operation is taking place as well as showing progress as to how far along. With basic CGI you could

(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

Hi, Anyone got some slick ideas on how to sweep an AR session store? I have a few ideas how I can do it, just want to see if there is an elegant solution that someone is already using. Bob Silva http://www.railtie.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I''m using textilize with redcloth 3.0.4. Everything works best except that paragraphs are not translated as an HTML paragraph When I write something like: *first paragraph* second paragraph the output is without paragraph: *first paragraph* second paragraph Any help??? Thanks Jörg

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