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Hi. I''m using backgroundrb to, in part, wrap smtp transactions made through actionmailer. The problem is that when smtp fails with a timeout error, the worker simply stops at that point. No exception is returned. I''ve tried wrapping this call in a begin...rescue block but no exception seems to be making it back to the worker (other methods are correctly passing exceptions to

Hello, I''m experiencing some odd behavior with a sortable tree when I try to add an element using javascript via rjs. What''s strange is that things work fine if I have moved any item on the list prior to adding a new element but produce odd results if I haven''t. My tree is a normal nested group of ul''s and I have the call to Sortable.create in a partial so

I''ve gone through Chad Fowler''s recipe for creating a drag and drop sortable list, and have been trying to extend this to a sortable tree. Has anyone come up with or seen code which allows drag and drop sorting (altering the position and parent_id variables of the relevant objects) but for data in a nested tree rather than a list form? - Justin