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Hi all! I''m looking into the testing chapter of Agile Web Development With Rails (2nd ed.). I want to performance test my app, but I''m too lazy to write fixtures for performance test. I''d rather use the data from my development db (because the data is so close to the production data). How do I get the data into the test db without writing fixtures? Could you please

I have an autocomplete field with road names (looking up in a database with approx. 100,000 road names). To limit the number of roads, i want an extra input field where to put postal code. I''m currently using <%= text_field_with_auto_complete %> for the field. What is the best way in Rails to intercept the Ajax call and send the value of the postal_code field? (I guess I could do

In my work with a simple localization plugin, i''m running into a lot of places in the Rails core, where text and other localization specific information is hardcoded. I''ve included some examples in the bottom of this post. It''s hard for an outsider to know, if the hardcoded values are a result of inconsistency in code, or "by design". I hope that we can have

I needed something simpler than Globalize and GLoc to localize my Rails application into Danish. I packed it into this plugin. Feel free to use it. Languages available: Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, and ("Swedish Chef" for the fun of it) Plugin available at http://visitjesper.homeip.net/plugins/ IMPORTANT: Plugin directory likely to move to more appropriate location anytime The

The Rails demo videos is a great showoff on how productive Textmate editor is. The 15 minute build-a-blog example should be twice as long if there had been no keyboard shortcuts in Textmate. Unfortunately, I use windows and thus RadRails. Does anyone know how to implement the same keyboard shortcut into RadRails? Sebastian Friedrich made an overview of the keyboard shortcuts:

I want to validate a field via AJAX in my Rails application. If there is an error, I want to set an error class on the text field and give it class="error" to color it appropriately in CSS. I''ve been looking at <%= observe_field ''fieldname'', :update => ''another_fieldname'', :url => {:action =>

(this will be a bit off topic, but in my opinion important info for Windows users) Hope i get your attention before running "gem update --system" on win32, as the 0.9.5 version of rubygems caused me some problems I have done what I could to gather the information and write what worked for me: Rails 2.0, gem install, Windows => Mongrel Trouble

Hi everybody. After DHHs talk at RailsConf yesterday, it''s essential that some of you can rectify this patch for ruby on Rails Please help me an have a look at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/9587 Thanks! Jesper Rønn-Jensen blog: www.justaddwater.dk ===== ActiveRecord::Errors has a placeholder (@@default_error_messages) for messages that can be overridden. Just the same way, the

Hey I''m writing a simple admin interface thats reading user data (skills) from a comma separated file. To clear the database before inserting new skills, I use Skill.delete_all Then I insert the new values I read from a file. Everything goes well up to the point where I see that auto-generated ID''s are not starting from 1. They start off at 840 (responding to the number of

[This might be slightly off-topic] I just posted my thoughts on how we use Rails as rapid prototyping tool in Capgemini. http://justaddwater.dk/2006/04/12/rails-prototyping/ Unfortunately I cannot give details as to which clients due to privacy issues. Just want tho share my thoughts on this and hear if you have anything to add. -- Jesper R?nn-Jensen Capgemini Danmark A/S Oernegaardsvej 16 DK -