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I am in the process of trying to migrate to ROR from a home grown ORM, but one stumbling block is ActiveRecord''s typed associations and object ID assignment scheme. In the home grown system, I have a master table which *all* objects are packed into and a master associative table which holds *all* associations. This allows each object, regardless of type, to have a unique ID and thus it

I want to have popup menus and check boxes in my forms to let users select associated objects. In the form I''m working on, the object "belongs_to" another type of object which is selected from a popup menu. The id of the chosen object(s) for association is passed back in the parameter hash, but when rails creates a new object from this parameter hash, I get a

I''m still relatively new to ROR, but I like what I see with the database-neutral approach of Schemas. In the spirit of keeping it simple and minimizing the number of files and location of information, does ActiveState currently allow me to go ahead and place other low level model information such as validation requirements and associations inside the schema rather than putting it in

If I submit a form with lots of checkboxes using IE, rails, lighttpd (server on OSX Server, client on XP), then I get a "This page cannot be displayed" message from IE after some delay and nothing shows up in the rails or lighttpd logs. Cutting the number of checkboxes fixes the problem. Safari works fine. I''ve googled for anwers and apparently there is an upload problem