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I have categories and sub-categories in a table called "categories". Every row has a "parent" field to note if the entry is the sub-category of another (never goes deeper than 1 level). So there might be something like this: id | name | parent 1 Dog 0 2 Pug 1 3 Siamese 5 4 Shih Tzu 1 5 Cat 0 6 Wiener Dog 1 7 Persian

I''m trying to get the id of the previous row prior to what would be input and then rename an uploaded image to that row number. So say the previous row was 19 and the image in that row was named 19.jpg, I''m wanting to name the next uploaded image as 20.jpg since the row that would be added then would be 20. Right now I''ve just got: @new_tutorial =

I have one dedicated server for all my various projects (both PHP as well as Rails) and will be getting a second server to run only the Rails apps on. What is the ideal server setup in terms of RAM vs. Processor Speed (more RAM or more processor speed?) and should I use Apace, lighttpd, mongrel, or what? I''ve got the money to afford something pretty solid...just don''t know

So I''ve sort of come to the conclusion that if I wanna get stuff done, I need to either A) Find some dang money and pay people to do it or B) Do it myself. I''m opting for B. Soooo...now I''ve got some programming/technologies to learn. I''m self-employed and I can afford to take a month (or 2) off to totally immerse myself in this and learn how to do it.

I''m fairly new to RoR and am teaching myself by slowly converting one of my sites (http://tutorialoutpost.com) to RoR from PHP. What I''m having trouble with though is figuring out what controllers I should make and what actions to use. How do you plan all of it out? I''d had to start hacking away at this and then come to find I had it all laid out wrong from the

I''m working on building the shopping cart in the Depot tutorial in the Agile Web Development book. I''m at the part (about page 80) where you build the ability to add items to the cart. I''m able to get to /store/display_cart/ and it seems items are being added, but if I just click on a link to add an item (/store/add_to_cart/2) it gives me this: NoMethodError in