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Hey guys, I''ve been hearing a lot about erubis: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/ Especially about how much faster it is than straight ERB. In their Ruby on Rails support docs: http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/users-guide.05.html#topics-rails They state that with a few added lines to your environment.rb it will replace ERB completely. I''m wondering if anyone has done this in

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Hi everyone, I''m writing a lightweight AJAX application using Rails on the server side as a RESTful web service provider. I need the web service to support both JSON and XML I/O. Outputting data in XML and JSON is easy (using to_xml and to_json), and it''s also easy to do XML input as Rails does it for you automatically. Is it possible to somehow have the same automatic parsing

I have an app that was built using the new RESTful methods and I''m trying to access its resources from another app using ActiveResource. (more about the app itself on my blog -- http://jystewart.net/process ) The app provides details of bus stops in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the index method for the stops resource allows users to specify a point (using its longitude and latitude) and a distance, and find all stops within that distance of the point. To do that, I use a query stri...

See the blog post at http://blog.lonestarsoftware.net/2007/03/09/active_resources-010-released/ Reading through the rails blogosphere last week, I read a post (which I can not find again) that suggested a completely different approach to AJAX use in rails apps. The idea was to create a Javascript proxy to the ActiveRecord models and allow AR operations to be called from the client. I see this

Hi Everyone- In my project I need to take a zip code and get all the schools within the selected mile radius of that zip code. In addition I will need to check to see if the user selected any other items to add to the search. My problem is the geo code will return multiple results and I need to get that result into the final sql string. The flow is this: Get the zip code and mile radius the

Hi, I''m new. ;-) I creating a little rails app, that will crawl the web on a regular basis and then show the results. The crawling will be scheduled, likely a cron job. I can''t wrap my head around where to put my crawler. It doesn''t seem to fit. An example: Model - News Story Controllers - Grabs a story from the DB, Sort the Stories, Search the Stories etc. View -

Hello I need to check that the NHS numbers in my database are valid. I''m storing them as ten-digit strings: the first nine are the identifier and the tenth is a check digit. There are four steps to calculating the check digit (from http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/nsts/docs/tech_nn_check_digit.pdf): 1. multiply each of the first nine digits by a weighting factor