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Hi, I was wondering if some of you have had to keep more than one version of Rails on your machine at a time? If you have more than one customer, they may have different requirements. You might need to work on a pre-existing app that is not scheduled to be moved to a newer version of Rails right now. How is the best way to deal with this? thanks, jp -- Posted via

Hi, Nuby on Rails here trying to bring up an existing app on a new installation. The whole ruby/rails/mysql/lighty installation was done per the much touted "hivelogic article" that runs through all the steps. I am running into a permission error when I try to do a rake migrate to set up a session database needed by this existing app. Extracted from the trace... ** Execute

Can I get some opinions on which free DB to use with rails for a virtual server that will eventually be doing lots of heavy database lifting? Not a lot of heavy duty querying per se. Think multiple simultaneous forums and blog sites and the like. I know each of the different DB possibilities such as MySQL and PostgreSQL has plus points and minus points. I''m particularly interested

How can I capture the IP address of a user who is posting my sign-in or login forms? I want to store it as part of my user information so that if I want to block the user in the future, I can also block the IP address they used to sign in. thanks, jp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

just wondering if there is a better way to create a nice view other than using iweb. like, it would be nice if you can design a view, and then just add the ruby tags. thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When you put up a page with a form on it and the top item is a text field it would be nice to have that field already focused instead of forcing the user to click in it before they start typing. Is there a rails (i.e. probably Prototype) way of giving focus to a field? I did some searching and found nothing. thanks, jp P.S. I''m on a Mac. Perhaps a winoze and/or unix automatically

Hi, Noob here. One problem faced by developers of active content is making sure that the final results of their magic result in URL''s that Google and other search engines are comfortable with. Otherwise, your content won''t ever get spydered and indexed and ultimately returned in a google user''s results pages. In reading the agile rails book, it seems that the

Just a positive experience I would like to share with you : testing is great on paper but very tedious to apply because nobody wants to run manually the tests by hand. Last week I have discovered zentest, an automated test process command line utility. That was at the beginning (hopefully) of a new project. Believe it or not, I have started to code most parts of the application without using

Hi, I''m trying to figure out the best way to protect images uploaded by users who may wish to keep them private. For example, if they are uploaded in the default file_column location (/public/blah/blah/1/) then someone can simply type the URL http://www.blah.com/blah/blah/1 and get the image. I can store the images in a non-public directory in the rails app (ie: /railsapp/images/X/)

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

Any body have an idea why my first attempt to use "observe_field" isn''t working? <%= start_form_tag(:name => ''my_form'', :controller => ''boo'' , :action => ''ya'') %> <%= radio_button_tag(''foo'', ''true'', checked = true) %> <%= radio_button_tag(''foo'',

This question may be one of those monumentally rtfm/do some more reading sort of affairs. At the moment though, it is not apparent to me how one would go about creating a page that has two very separate rails views (say, a forum, and a "sign up for email notification" view) on the same page. If anybody knows of a tutorial that covers this or can explain why it''s not a

Hi, total Noob here. I have a rails server set up and running. I''m working my way through the "agile" book. I see that all of the examples show URL''s that explicitly call for port 3000. How would one go about creating a ruby app that is engaged with a "normal" URL with no port number in it? That is apparently the default port for webrick to start up on

Hi, I was lucky enough to learn ruby a bit before starting to learn rails. That has helped quite a bit. Unfortunately, my knowledge of SQL and databases in general started from zero when approaching rails, and I find that trying to "get" database stuff from the context of rails books and documentation is holding me back. Can anyone recommend a free online pdf or website that will

I''m just at the "reading various rails tutorials" stage. One thing that has puzzled me a couple of times so far is the fact that the creation of the database is not part of the "migration". The steps as I''ve seen them are always: 1) $ rails myapplication 2) $ mysqladmin yadda yadda to create a table 3) $ script/generate migration myWickedTable 4) put rows

Hi, I''m definitely a newbie on rails here. My very first attempt has gone well up until this point, but for some reason, when I try to do a render partial, I''m getting a full screen refresh. I did a render partial just fine from an rhtml file. This problem is specifically when calling render :partial => "my_partial" from the controller''s .rb code.

Total Ruby Noob here. Just in the throws of reading the books and choosing an isp for my server etc. If you are developing a "one-off" rails app with the intent of using it on an isp hosted server, would it normally work better to develop and debug the thing locally (like on a Mac for instance), and then go through a round of "move it to the server and retest everything there

Following the advice here I''ve been trying to get subversion installed and working from my virtual dedicated server this weekend. I believe everything is installed properly, and that all that''s left is to get the apache httpd.conf file set up correctly. to talk to my server with my client I''m using the path: http://svn.mylittlecorneroftheinternet.com/svn/repos/ error

Well, I understand what they do and how, I just don''t get why! It seems to me that any time you would have this relationship between two tables...they should be one table! Agile Rails book gives what seems to me to be a lame example for this. They use the example of an "invoice" and an "order". An invoice belongs to an order and an order has one invoice. Seems

Hi, I''m completely new to all of this. Not even certain this is an appropriate forum for an installation question. I''m just about to plunk down some money to get a virtual server. In looking over the list of isp''s elsewhere on this site, goDaddy isn''t mentioned - probably because they don''t offer rails as a standard distribution. There are some