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Hi all, On the Rails wiki there are a few user groups listed, including one in Long Island, but none in New York City proper. Are there any user groups in NYC not listed to which people belong (including relevant non-RoR-specific ones)? Would love to share some ideas... thanks, - michael. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I have a shopping application I am testing, and one of the models is an Order model, within which a credit card number is encrypted and stored in the db (mysql) as a BLOB field. When trying to run my unit tests, I cannot get my model fixtures to load the encrypted data. If, in my dynamic fixture (YAML) file, I could have access to my app''s models, the problem would be trivial..

Hi all, I''ve got a form which accepts a "price" field and I''m attempting to validate it and allow some flexibility in the way the user enters it. It''s a numeric field but I want the user to be able to enter dollar signs and commas naturally in the data entry. I''m trying to understand how to use validates_format_of, and I''m not sure what

This one''s kicking me in the *(&#^. All I want to do is create a draggable item and then detect the coordinates where it is dropped. So my first approach was to just use the draggable_element with :revert => false, like so: <%= draggable_element "my_element", :revert => false %> That works great and lets me drag stuff all over the place. In the scriptaculous

Hi, I would like to set up a "shared hosting"-like rails environment on a linux (+Apache1.3 +FastCGI +MySQL) machine. As we all know, rails provides support for different environments. Now I would like to enable my "users" to switch individual applications between development and production mode. In theory, all they have to do is to add

Hi all, I am creating a multiple-storefront shopping cart in Rails, and have run into a small problem. In addition to the cart, line-item, product, and order models (pretty much standard for this sort of thing), I have a Storefront model which locates the current storefront (by examining the domain name), and initializes itself. This works fine throughout, and by declaring a

Hi all, Here''s an odd one. I have a "Tax" model which is related via a habtm relationship to a "Storefront" model. In my view_store rhtml file, I have the line : @storefront.taxes.each do |tax| This line returns the following error: NameError in Admin#view_store Showing app/views/admin/view_store.rhtml where line #52 raised: uninitialized constant Taxis See