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I just installed an updated set of tools (ruby, rails, etc) under my home directory for my mac 10.4, since I did not want to disturb the pre-installed environment in case something in the system relies on that. The problem I have is that the rake command is still using the old stack rather than the new one, even though the new rake is there. I presume the ''rake'' command itself

Hi! I have a legacy table that has a column named "type" and need to remove this automatic subclassing by ActiveRecord. The api pages are vague about this, and I tried self.inheritance_column = "xtype" which seemed to get me half-way. In the validate_on_create method, the value of self.type was my model Class name. How would you disable this feature? -- Posted via

I have tables with double as their field''s datatype. When I ran db:schema:dump, Rails changed all of these double to float. I would like to know why, and if there is anyway I could preserve the datatype. Thanks a lot, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

3 tables. item, brand, commercial item -------- id name brand_id name brand --------- id name commercial ---------- id item_id The idea is that a commercial will have one item. each item will have brand. and a brand may have zero to many items. I can''t figure out how to make the relationships for my models. Eventually, i''d like to be able to show a brand name from a

Hi, I have an inplace editor and I can access the innerHTML value of the created form. However the innerHTML gives "<textarea>....</textarea> ..." How can I access the textarea value? I tried to do innerHTML.textarea.value but it didn''t work. Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks, Joe -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there, I have 2 actions that are rather identical: # Put /account/you/update_password def update_password @user = current :user respond_to do |format| if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) format.html {redirect_to account_url} else format.html {render :action => "edit_password"} end end end # PUT /account/you # Update

I have the seleniumrc_fu plugin installed and setup according to the instructions, and can run the selenium:test task if there are no test cases. My first test case simply does an open_home_page to verify that things are working at all. Unfortuniately there seems to be an issue with even this simple a test case. The following suggests that there is an issue with the getNewBrowserSession

I search an plugin or gem, but don''t find nothing satisfactory. I believe to be stranger a technology that nails the DRY, have that create you vary equal tables, instead of using inheritance. Exists an soluction for this? I want a solution similar to this: create_table :people |t| do t.column :name t.column :address end create_table :customer |t| do t.column :person_id