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If I wanted to use a friendly url, say, http://www.something.com/my-url, how would I go about doing that? I can''t define an action my-url, and I don''t want to clutter my routes up... Is there a way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there a way to upload an AVI and convert it into quicktime, or flash, and generate an output in those format(s). Like YouTube... I have no idea how that is done. I am fascinated and was wondering if it was possible. Cheers. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I was wondering if there are any IDEs out there that has autocomplete features for win32. It would be perfect if it could do something akin to what DHH is doing on the screencast hosted on the rails website. http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov Cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I would like to knock up a phpbb forum with a rails application. I wanted to do this as I want to use ActiveRecord to crawl through the user database in the rails app. Is there a way to do this - on the same domain name and server... Or does it depend how the server is setup? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Say, for example, I have this in my db: id name date 1 Item_1 feb-19 2 Item_2 feb-20 and I want to manipulate it so that the view can output this: feb-19: Item1 feb-20: -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there a way to display what actions or controllers that are invoked in the view using erb? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Say I have some stuff in my database Item 1 DATETIME (Sometime in Janurary) Item 2 DATETIME (Sometime in Feburary) And now the month is March. I would like to be able to do this in the view effectively: <%= select( ''donated'', ''donated_on'', [[''Janurary 2006'', DATETIME for JAN2006],

For example, this url returns some xml: http://www.mysite.com/xml What is the correct way to perform a GET on this url, and then parse the RESPONSE xml? Could someone shine some light on a poor soul? :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If I were to serve files, would send_file via rails be slow? I think they will be 200mb avi files. Would it be better to send them via /public ? But I would like to track the clicks on each file - which makes me think that I can''t serve them out on /public as those clicks will not go through my application. Any help or suggestions? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.