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Hi, Hi I am trying to use RSPEC on windows and i keep getting the following error "You must gem install win32console to use colour on Windows" I have installed this Gem but i am still getting the same error. The file that error is coming from is: C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rspec-0.8.2\lib\spec\runner\formatter\base_text_formatter.rb Do i need to put this line of code in? Where

I am trying to run instant rails on windows xp SP2. I can get the cookbook and typo sample sites to work with webrick but not with scgi. When i click the start with scgi i get a blank dos window and typing www.mycookbook.com returns Firefox can''t establish a connection to the server at www.mycookbook.com. This suggests that apache is not even running even though the green light is

I am having inconsistent output with multiple options in the spec.opts file. I can, for instance, pass --color or --colour, or, separately, use --drb. But when combining them I get: /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1381:in `complete'': invalid option: --options --color --drb (OptionParser::InvalidOption) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1379:in `catch''

Can anyone tell me how to pass a value from a link_to in a view to a controler? The value is just a piece of text for the time being. <%= link_to ''About Us'', :action => ''about'', :params => ''string'' %> ??? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. The blog.rhtml in the layout folder has a the following code <td width=150 valign="top">This is the left menu</td> <td width=600 valign="top"><%= @content_for_layout %></td> <td width=150 valign ="top"><%= render :partial => "categorylist", :collection =>

Hi, I have a def in my controller see below where i want to find the page object based on a parameter value and then use the page_id to then find all the contents that belong to that page in the same method. Controller def aboutus @page = Page.find_by_name(params[''About Us'']) @contents = Content.find(:all, :conditions => "page_id = #{@page.id}") end

I have installed instant rails and configured it http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Getting_Started I can get typo and webrick to work on webrick localhost:3000 but cant get anything to work with scgi. When i start the scgi server i get a blank dos window screen. When i type www.mycookbook.com into the browser i get the following Unable to connect Firefox can''t

Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. I have 2 different views/models/controllers, 1 called post and 1 called comments. How do i link a post from the views/post directory to the comments that belong to the post in the views/comment directory. This is the code in the post/show.rhtml <%= render :partial => "post", :object => @post %> <%= link_to

Ive recently moved my files to amazon S3 storage. There is some functionality to allow an archive of files to be downloaded to a user via delayed job. So basically a project may have 10 documents in 10 different folders in the s3 bucket. What i need to do is zip the files up into one zip file and then send the user a link to download them. Im using https://github.com/qoobaa/s3 and paperclip to

In my blog a user can add comments. I want an Ajax call to add the comment to the bottom of the comments list. How to i return a comment thats is in the comment template and add it to the bottom of the page. I have gotten as far as rendering some text back to the form and the comment doesn''t display until i refresh. This is my _newcomment.rhtml form to create a new comment <div

Hi, I have a product that has many photos, so when creating a new product the user can upload as many photos as they want. This all works fine using nested attributes for. I want the user to be able to set one of the photos as the default/primary photo, so i have played around with using a radio button to decide which photo to select as the default but i cant seem to figure out how to save this

I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. from the layout page i pass all the posts as a collection to _archive.rhtml <%= render :partial => "archive", :collection => @archive %> On _archive.rhtml i have access to the collection. I am then gone to render partial another page _archivecount.rhtml to display the number of posts for each month. Can anyone give a clue

Hi, In my model i want to overide the default find all for sorting purposes. Is this possible or can this only be done in the control or by adding a custom method in the model. def self.find_all() @contents = Content.find(:all, :order => ''pos, position_id'') end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have followed the instructions below to get lighttpd and scgi working on windows. http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToDeployWithLighttpdOnWindows When i typ in the following address http://127.0.0.1:9999/ i get just a blank white page. In the scgi.log file i have the following error but dont know what the problem is [INF][3552] Running in production mode on 127.0.0.1:9999

Ive installed apache2triad on my windows xp machine. I have followed the instructions on http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Fast+CGI+and+Apache2+for+Windows+XP When i open a browser and type http://localhost/blog/ i get a file listing directory with all my rails application folders inside the page. If i click on the public folder i get the Welcome to rails web page. Can anyone help?

Hi, I''m having a problem installing plugins in the latest version of radrails running on windows XP. I used the Plugin window in radrails to select file_column to install file_column and everything worked ok. Now i want to install remote_upload plugin which isnt in the plugins list contained in radrails. So i select plugin from the generators tab and type remote_upload and hit

Ive followed this example of how to validate a form with a tableless model: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/11/19/validate_your_forms_with_a_table_less_model Ive got this example working but when validation fails the failed boxes are not highlighted in red. At the moment i have a contact details form and want to validate the information entered by the user but this will just result

Hi, I want to allow users ti search my blog. I have the following code below to initiate the form. <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'', :search => search %> <p align =center><%= text_field ''search'', ''search'',"size" =>"20" %> <%= submit_tag ''Search'' %></p>

Hi, When a user adds a comment i want to add the comment to the end of the comments list using ajax so there is no full page refresh. The code i have below adds the comment to the database but doesn''t update the comments div with the new comment. Can anyone help? This is my first use of rjs templates and i have read http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates

Our company is mainly made up off application developers but we have a lot of web work coming up so we are deciding which route to take at the moment. We initially identfied ASP.NET 2.0 with the ATLAS AJAX framework because of the RAD features, easy to learn etc. I had read some stuff on ROR and our Boss who is open minded allowed me to create a sample application with ROR. He was impressed