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I need to generate some browser-specific code; can I identify which browser is being used from within my RoR code? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

simple question: how do I output something from within <% %> tags? e.g. like ''echo'' in PHP. I thought it would be ''puts'' or ''print'' but neither seems to work. right now I always close the %> and open a <%= which is tedious. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a bunch of html files with partial page content. I''d like to be able to include the content of these files in my RoR views without having to change or rename them. In PHP I''d simply use include("file.html"); What is the RoR equivalent of this? render_file insists on it being an rhtml template, and render_partial requires me to rename the file. Ideally, I

I have a method that returns either a comment stored in the flash (if it exists) or a new comment. It works when I put it in my application controller: def preform_comment if flash[:badcomment].nil? comment = Comment.new return comment else return flash[:badcomment] end end However it would be cleaner to put this in the Comment model, so I tried: def

I''d like Rails to intercept the url''s of html pages in a certain directory so I can embed them in my site. I put them in public/pages and tried to catch them with a route like map.connect ''pages/:pagename'' However this only works if the file does not exist; e.g. "pages/test.html" will only be routed if that file doesn''t exist,

I have a difficulty with something that makes me think I don''t understand an aspect of Rails what. I''ve made a sort of blog site, and under each article I show the comments and a comment form. The comment model validates whether the user has entered his name. When he hasn''t, I want to send him back to the form with his comment text still there. In the comment/create