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Hi, What is the simplest way to validate a positive integer? validates_numericality_of :foo, :integer_only => true how do I add the positive part? Do I need another validation statement for pattern matching or do I have to write a validate() funciton for my model? Thanks, Peter

...9;'t found a drag and drop library flexible enough for my needs and I think I have come up with something that is generally worthwhile. I use the DOM and Event utilities from Yahoo! UI and no Prototype.js. I''m interested in any ideas or suggestions people might have. Blog http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/2006/06/16/donut-dragdrop Examples http://peter.michaux.ca/examples/donut-dragdrop/donut-dragdrop.html http://peter.michaux.ca/examples/donut-dragdrop/scrollable.html http://peter.michaux.ca/examples/donut-dragdrop/slider.html Initial docs http://peter.michaux.ca/examples/donut-dragdr...

Hi, I want to start using has_many :through. I think that eventually I''ll be removing all uses has_and_belongs_to_many from my project. Here is my situation I''m using SVN I want to use edge rails Reading the wiki about switching to edge rails[1], I can''t figure out which combination of subsections I must perform. Do I want edge rails to reside in the vendor

Hi, I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list. Something like div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif Thanks, Peter

Hi, I am having a problem saving a new model that has an associated child model. If a new ticket is being created and will have one comment to go with it then I tried this in my action @ticket = Ticket.new(params[:ticket]) @comment = Comment.new(params[:comment]) @ticket.comments << @comment if @ticket.save @notice = "Ticket added. Thanks for

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

Hi, A store front a customer wants to GET /product/5/show. But for the application this is really GET /cart_item/new/5 or even better /cart_item/new?cart_item[product_id]=5 When the customer clicks add_to_cart they POST /product/5/show so that the url doesn''t confuse the user when any validation errors occur. But for the applicaiton this should be POST

Hola! In case there are some mexican readers here... It is little difficult for an english speaker to find information about mexican domains. Is it possible to register a domain like "fiesta.mx"? I have seen sites selling ".com.mx" and similar but not just ".mx". Thanks, Peter

Hi, The documentation doesn''t make it clear why both file_field and file_field_tag are both useful. What is the reason for having two instead of just one of these? Thanks, Peter

Hi, I am changing a very standard old school website to rails. When I make the change to rails, all of the old urls will not be valid. If a person has a bookmark to an old web page I would like them to be directed to the front page of the new website www.domain.com. How do I do this? Do I do something in routes.rb? Thanks, Peter

...mes. Seems pretty straight forward. Unfortunately I can''t get my application to actually send mail. I uploaded my application to the web server and tried to get a mail message sent. Nothing happened. I looked in the log file and it says Sent mail: From: service@freedomkilts.com To: petermichaux@gmail.com Bcc: petermichaux@gmail.com Subject: Freedom Kilts Order Confirmation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 and I don''t see any errors. Does this mean that the rails app was happy and able to connect to the mail server? In my configuration.rb file I have (where password is ac...

Hi, How do I make an image that is a clickable link the rails way? Is there a view helper for this? Thanks, Peter

Hi Peter, is your patch against script.aculo.us mentioned in [1] gone any further in the last 3 months? -- alberto [1] http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2585 On 22/ago/06, at 00:35, Peter Michaux wrote: > > On 8/21/06, Bill Lazar <blazar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: >> >> Before pounding my head on this particular rock I want to ask if >> anyone has done, or come across an article or code on how to do, the >> following. >> >&g...

Hi, I''ve been confused about the purpose of _marker in dragdrop.js for quite a while. It doesn''t really look like it does anything with ghosting on or off. I removed the mark method and didn''t discover any problems. Is all the mark business a relic from some past idea? Thanks, Peter

Hi, Which FTP client would fit in nicely with OS X and Textmate. Thanks, Peter

I wonder if there is a standard Rails way to redirect from an action back to a previously viewed page. As a quick fix I created two little methods in the controllers/application.rb. Does this seem like an ok way to go? Thanks, Peter class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def i_was_here session[:i_was_here] = request.env[''REQUEST_URI''] end def

Does anyone know of a fix for the issue with prototype and replacing table rows in IE? render :update do |page| page.replace "row_#{params[:id]}", :partial => ''wireless_request/wrequest'', :locals => {:wrequest => @wrequest} end This ends up making IE throw an "rjs error [object error]" Searching around I found a couple of posts about

Hi, I''ve started reading some Java books. Gasp! What makes website development with Java so bad? I haven''t looked at Struts but I''m reading about Hibernate. Compared to ActiveRecord, Hibernate seems like some extra typing to explicitly define the model fields, getters and setters. I know that these are things that you can do in ActiveRecord when things get complicated

hi, i have noticed that the validations in RoR happen at server side mostly what sites do is using javascript they validate user information there... whats the point of doing it at the server side is it that loading of javascript file in a browser makes a response to client slow and validation at server side offsets that....????? any sugeestions???? is it that i am missing something as

Hi, I''ve been learning about building Rails apps for about 8 months but I don''t really know how servers work or how to build a server. I have an old 450 GHz Pentium computer I can play with. Since I use OS X, I was thinking about installing a BSD system and trying to make a MySQL/Rails server. That is about all I know about servers. How does a server in my house get connected