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Hi, It seems there must be a better way to do this than what I am currently doing. I have a simple app that collects a users thoughts along with their email address and their first an last name. On a page that lists all the users thoughts they can click on a link to "add a thought" which then displays a form with ajax. My current methodology for this is not very dry. If js is

How do I do multiple layouts for a single controller: I am aware I can do... render(:layout =>''mylayout'') for individual actions, however this becomes a multiple render problem. I tried this... layout "mylayout", :except => [:myaction, :myotheraction] layout "myotherlayout", :only => [:myaction, :myotheraction] However that doesn''t

Say i want to include the same chunck of text (a menu on a webpage for example) on each page. Is there a method by which I can save the HTML in a text file and call it up later? Is there a better way? I know ruby has "puts" but i can''t use that b/c it does not work with my webhost (dreamhost.com) Any suggestions? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have a shared web hosting account. Currently the hosting company has Rails 1.0 but I''m sure they will upgrade to Rails 1.1 sometime soon. I don''t want my site to break if anything with Rails 1.1 will cause a break. How do I freeze my app to Rails 1.0? I imagine I download the rails source into the vendor directory. But from where to download and how to configure my app to

Hi, I am looking for ideas on how to remove the last item from a paginated page when a new item is inserted, thus leaving only 10 elements on the page. Currently I have a form that inserts with AJAX, but as expected, each post added to the page just increases the number of posts leaving 11 on a page that should only be displaying 10. I have unique ID''s for each post (e.g.

Sorry if this is a simple question, I''m a CSS noob. I have a rails app that is displaying posts, I am having it generate each post with its own div like "post_19", "post_20", etc. I could make it so it puts another div around that div (i need the individual post div''s for deletion with AJAX) but would rather not. Is there some way to use CSS to do