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> Slightly OT question here, but I have a friend who needs to watch the Rails > intro movs, but is on Linux and has no way of using an actual Quicktime > player. VLC? I assumed everyone used that anyway. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

How can I link to a CSS file in one of my view files? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I realize this is probably a very basic problem but I''m developing my first rails app and running into this problem. I''m trying to write a photoblog application. I have a photo table and an album table. Photo has a to-one relationship to Album. Photo.album_id => Album.id In my view for photo I have a selection list that''s populated with all the available albums.

Has anyone used the built in FAT (Fade Anything Technique) that exists in 0.11.1 of Rails? I could not find anything in the documentation so I was wondering if anyone has any code snippets on how they used it? Thanks for your help. John

I am implementing a messaging system, which requires broadcast to group feature. Instead of a relatively clunky habtm group structure, I am using tags. Form a usability standpoint, it would be helpful to avoid redundant tags. Like, friend vs friends OR client vs. clients. Is it practical to filter tags, before entry, to avoid duplicate tags like plural vs. singular? -- Posted via

I noticed a pointer to this in some RSS feed today. "Agile Web Development with Rails", release date July 4, 2005. http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html Once you''ve got an ISBN and a title, you''re halfway there. :-) How soon can we pre-order?

Hi, I'm looking for a solution to access pop mails (sendmail in linux) securely. Most of the access would be from window clients (outlook express etc). Is there a way to encrypt the password (like ssh2) when authenticating with sendmail? Any info is greatly appereceiated. Thx. Regards, Wong.

Does anyone have a working example of a simple collapse/expand tree list they can share? What I want to replicate is the standard open/ close node behavior, but I''m not sure how to make the parent node open and close correctly. Something like this: <ul> <li>Click me to open and close the sub list <ul> <li>One</li>

First of all, I love Ruby on Rails. I have an intermediate understanding of PHP, JavaScript, DOM and CSS, and that''s the extent of my programming experience. I''m developing an online game''s web presence with another colleague. We''re the only two technical guys on a team of +10 content developers. So, baring all that in mind, here are my questions with a

I''ve put together a little library to provide sortable tables. It is heavily copied from http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/ (mentioned in the Wish List) but has been modified to match the same form as the prototype.js library and add some new features. I still need to clean up some of the comments, but everything is pretty much working at this point. I posted an

Hello After upgrading to ruby 1.8.2, finally got rails to install properly. Now, following the tutorial, I found a couple of things: First, apparently rails tries to establish local mysql connections using "/tmp/mysql.sock" which mandrake does not use. In mandrake 10.1, this file is located at "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock". The solution is to create a simlink

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

I''d like to propsoe that the RubyOnRails mailing list forks into three lists. PROBLEM: * The list is getting swamped with traffic, making it hard to use and even harder to follow. * Many, many messages get lost, with no reply. * Due to the overwhelming traffic, it''s hard for beginners to get the help that they need, since their messages get lost in the shuffle, and

I have a library I''ve developed that I believe is the most flexible and useful table sorting/striping/row-selecting library around. Big features: Single and multiple-level sort Arbitrary sort criteria (IP address, date, etc.) Works with table headers that are > 1 row or column large Stripe tables and/or enable row selecting Row selecting supports drag-select and SHIFT-click No extra

Hi Folks, Just a quick message saying that, after much demand, I wrote a quick write-up for the RoR + XUL thing I did yesterday: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/programming/ruby_xul.html It lays out the few simple things I did, has a bit of rant on an unrelated topic, and other stuff but it''s short still. On a related note, I''d like to thank "xal" on IRC for reminding

On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing list: I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a chance to contribute yet. The basics should include your name, your organization, your country and city, and the project you''re

> An equally interesting question: Where does one find such for a free > software project? I have some very interesting ideas in mind. Finding > talented and enthusiastic developers is reasonably easy. But where does > one go to find someone with aesthetic skills and some design experience > (as opposed to a mere understanding of css)? It''s not like there''s >

> On problem I encountered-- I assume this is a Rake related issue-- > is that > after running Rake, my mysql table was deleted. Fortunately, I have > a fresh > backup. Obviously, Rake is not intended to be run on real data. That''s not an issue as such: Rake runs on the database you''ve established as test in your database.yml. If you didn''t

I know many people on the list like TextMate for Ruby/Rails editing, so please don''t flame me for this request. I''m a long-time BBEdit user, I gots my keyboard shortcuts in my hands and brain, and I really don''t want to switch. Anyone on the list capable of writing a BBedit Language Module for Ruby? Would you do it for money? BBEdit does not support Ruby as a

> I certainly think the time to make any sort of big changes like this > is PRE 1.0 release. We''re currently in a kind of weird place though with that 1.0 release: the Agile Dev book is out in print, sold lots of copies to many eager buyers, and it certainly assumes the pluralization conventions. It''s clearly too late for that to change.