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Hi there, How can I run rake commands from a rake migration? I''m looking to run rake engine_migrate and others commands from a migration in order to migrate my engines along with my core app. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Jason

Hi, I''m having errors when running webrick or the console. webrik starts, but give me an error when I try to load my controller. It give the same error as the console: #ruby script/console Loading development environment. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/console.rb:23:in `exec'': No such file or directory - irb -r irb/completion -r

Hi, I''d like to use migrations to build my initial database. Is there a gem or plugin that will generate the migration code for initial db if I point it at a live database or sql file? If yes, then can you automatically generate the incremental migrations as well? Thanks, Jason

Hi, I''m using a room model throughout my code. I keep doing the following: @rooms = Room.find(:all, :order => ''buildings.name, room_number'', :include => :building) I have to copy this into several of my controllers and I feel that I''m violating the DRY principle. Can I set this as the default order in my model? If so, how would I do that? Thanks,

Hi everyone, Where can I get a royalty-free copy of the spinner.gif or some other AJAX activity icon? I don''t want to swipe one without asking. Thanks, Jason

Hi, I have my rails sites tricked out with capistrano, and backgroundrb, so I can easily use the ant tasks, but I would like to be able to start and stop backgroundrb from within rails. I have a few reasons for this: 1. Using fastcgi, backgroundrb would start under the apache user and the same mod_security context as apache, instead of my developer account which has many more privileges. 2.

hello everyone, Any idea how can i export a resultset from a database to a CSV or XLS file from the application ? would like the user to have the option to export selected data to a CSV/XLS file. Any plugins or libraries avaiable to accomplish this ? Thanks for your time, VASU. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Could someone please elaborate on the technical differences and practical impact of whether choosing memory-based tables in MySQL or using memcached. I got this far on my own: It seems that MySQL uses the NDB engine for transaction-safe memory access in a cluster. the memory storage engine seems to be faster but not synchronizable by any means in a cluster. memcached seems to be ultimately fast

Hi, Not sure where to address this question ... but I guess this is a good start. I am a freelance Rails developer - and have been developing Rails apps professionally for about a year now. I just want to get an idea of what you other freelancers charge yourselves out at. I have been charging the equivalent of about $28/hour, but get a sense that I could/should charge a whole lot more. I am

it''s been a nightmare trying to set it up. I keep getting a an Application Error message when I try to navigate to a url which should be taken care of by my newly created controllers. For instance, I wanted to test RoR out so I created a MyTest controller which should allow me to navigate something like: http://localhost/rubytest/MyTest but it does not. I have no problem getting

Hi, I''m writing yet another cms and I need to capture the html output of a rendered template including helpers, etc from within my rails app. I plan to use backgroundrb, and I need to be able to capture the output of "pages.browse()" where pages is my controller. I need to pass in the id param. How can I do this besides using Net::HTTP? Using Net::HTTP hangs when

Hi all, My unit tests and functional tests are failing because my tests aren''t authenticated. I''m using using user engine and login engine. How can I fake authentication to make my tests work properly. Thanks, Jason Edgecombe

Hi all, I need to do some screen scraping from my rails app. Given an ethernet (MAC) adress, I scrape results from an internal web page that returns location and hostname. How can I cache the result from that screen scraping as to be polite to the scrapee? I would like to expire the results daily. In perl, I would use Cache::File. Can I use rails caching for this? What''s the best

I can''t my rails app to work with cgi or fastcgi. My app works using webrick. I''ve even hard-coded development mode in environment.rb in order to get most descriptive messages, but the best I get is the following in the apache2 errorlog: [Thu Dec 15 10:38:04 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x] FastCGI: incomplete headers (35 bytes) received from server