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Hi, I wanted to add a few notes in the wiki on the fastestmirror plugin on how you can add exclude info in the fastestmirror.conf file. This became important because amazingly ucalgary.ca shows up as a fastestmirror for servers I have in both Nevada and New York. However, the mirror is horribly slow for actual downloads and frequently times out. So, I just want to add info on how to add the

Hello I have a strange problem with this code: <%unless (@students.empty? and params[:commit].nil?) %> <%="test"%> <%= render :partial => ''results'' %> <% end %> Even though in some cases @students.empty? returns false and params [:commit].nil? returns true (or the opposite), it displays the test and the render area. I put before and

Does anyone know a good authentication tutorial they can suggest? I''ve tried several restful authentication ones and an authlogic one on RailsCast. But with each one I try, something seems to be missing in the tutorial and I can''t get it to work. I''m new to Rails so it''s possible user error on my part. I''m on Mac OS X 10.5 and I generate all my apps in