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Dear all, I have a table with a column named "type" and I ''d like to access the type field of the correspondant model object but I get a deprecation warning when I use the following code : modelObject.type "type deprecated use class instead" How can I access such a named field in rails ? Johan Johan Duflost Analyst Programmer Belgian Biodiversity Platform ( http://www.biodiversity.be) Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (http://www.belspo.be ) Tel:+32 2 650 5751 Fax: +32 2 650 51...

All, I want to run automated unit tests as part of my build. I am building to my test environment. Upon successful completion of all of my unit tests, I would then like to load some data (using a fixture, I imagine) into my test database that will act as fresh "system test" data for my users to play with. What is the best way to "load the standard system test/user acceptance

I would like to validate a number within a certain range. To first test that a entry is a valid number i use validates_numericality_of :my_number, :message =>''sorry, not a number'' to test if the number is within a certain range i use validates_inclusion of :my_number, :in => min..max, message => ''outside range!'' If the numericality test fails, I

Hi Folks, Say I have 2 continuous variables X,Y. I can of course plot (X,Y) with plot(X,Y,pch="+",col="blue") say, and add the regression line from lm(Y~X) by extracting the coefficients 'a' of Intercept and 'b' of X from Y.lm <- lm(Y~X). Now, however, I want to have not only a general explanatory title such as main="Plot of Y against X"