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I''d like to try autocompletion, and my understanding based on AWDWR:2, and on various website tutorials, is that I should install the script.aculos.us javascript library. My question is how to do that. The instructions on their site tell me to "Put prototype.js, scriptaculous.js, builder.js, effects.js, dragdrop.js, slider.js and controls.js in a directory of your website,

Hi All, New to the group, and new to learning rails. I''m having some trouble, i''ve done a few tutorials on creating some small apps with rails and am now starting to play around myself. I''ve been trying to create a simple form which when a user enters any data that data is displayed as a preview elsewhere on the page instantly, just like when creating an advert with

Should models call action mailers, or should those calls always originate from controllers? For example, should user.forgot_password send the email, or should the user_controller.forgot_password? Just looking for some opinions... Thanks, Tom

Hi, I was developing a rails app with version 1.1.6 that just worked fine. I decided to upgrade to 1.2.3 and then, I keep getting that horrible message: "Application error Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html" Now, before starting script/server I modiffied config/environment.rb and

Hello... I''m trying to generate and XML file using .rxml and I''m having a problem with element names that contain a hyphen. Here is a chunk of the .rxml file: xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.properties do @properties.each do |p| xml.property do xml.location do xml.street-address(p.street_address) xml.city-name(p.city) .. end end end

hello all, i have a problem with test_truth. require ''test_helper'' class MyDataTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase def test_truth assert true end end this should ok without failures or errors. but it failure: 1) Error: test_truth(MyDataTest): ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Table ''alldataserver_test.members'' doesn''t exist: DELETE

Hi, thanks for reading. Till now, I''ve used railroad to visualize my models. But as far as I can see, there''s no possibility to add information about the model class methods. Methods are only added to a diagram, if you visualize your controllers. Is there a way to change this behavior? I''ve looked out for something else and found ''ruby-uml'', seems to

Cucumberists (and RSpec Classic users ;): How can we convert a Cucumber feature file into HTML with syntax highlighting? Not the test-runner output; that''s preprocessed so it does not match the input file... Tx! -- Phlip

WeBrick handles the link correctly on development, but apache in production does not: <%= link_to "Orders", :controller => ''/admin/orders'', :action => ''index'' %> The controller lives in ./app/controllers/admin/orders_controller.rb From the production log, apache is looking for the "orders" action in

I am trying to do file i/o with rails and rjb and can''t figure out a way to make this work. Here''s what I am trying to do: - a user uploads an image to the server via a standard html form: <%= file_field("blog", "attach") %> - this returns a ruby File object to the controller in params[:blog][:attach]

How do I connect an existing or new Access database with Ruby on Rails? I am new to Ruby on Rails and a tutorial I am going through mentions using MySQL but I don''t have MySQL and only work with MS Access. Is MySQL available for free on the web? Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Why do the generated test files have: require ''test_helper'' It cannot obviously find the file because it''s located in a subdirectory. That''s annoying. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for implementing an editable data grid (like a spreadsheet) based on a dbase table/model? What I would like is something similar to Google Spreadsheets. Thanks, Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group,

Hi, I''m stuck. How do you parse a "dd/mm/yyyy" formatted date string??? I get a date format error. Thanks in advance Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

I have skimmed through many web pages, how to''s and editorials, my final conclusion is that the programming language for this particular part of the program is going to be Ruby. There are many reasons: 1. Apple will support it in 10.5 2. There seems to be a lot of support for it in the Mac community 3. Ruby developers seem to be Mac people. 4. There is better documentation than

Hi. I swear I found this in the group archives, but now I cannot find this in the group or elsewhere online! In a view I would like to get the current controller name and action that was used to get here. For example, I have a template that I''m using from two different controllers (and four different actions in each controller), such as :controller => "my_view", :action

Hi, I''m just starting with Rails today... type this in the command prompt: rails C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\file Then it displays... create x, create y, etc... But when I check the desktop, I see no folder. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

hi folks. i want to check if a param exists if not to set it to a default value for my date range filter. in my controller i have: @from_date = Date.strptime(params[:startdate],"%d/%m/%Y") @to_date = Date.strptime(params[:enddate],"%d/%m/%Y") @articles = @results.find(:all, :conditions => [ "created_at >= ? and created_at

hi everyone.. i''m a high school teacher who wrote a webapp in PHP and MySQL for my curriculum.. i use it to keep attendance, take notes per student or class and keep track of activities. i would like to soup it up and have read both the pickax and version 2 of agile web dev... now i''m starting to work and i''d like to rename columns and relationships in the database so

I''m not quite sure how to get at this data using Actrive record.. I''m trying to get all the appointments made for a particular project. I''m using four models, Projects, Tasks, Resources and Appointments. The SQL gets me what I''m looking for but how do I do it using Active Record? Select a.* from appointments a join resources r on r.id = a.resource_id join