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...tes a quote number, looks to see if it is in the db already. If it is, it calls itself to try again. I want to test that it looks in the database for matching numbers until it finds one which does not exist already. ## The code def generate_quote_number quote_num = "MMQ#{self.random_string}-001" if Policy.find(:first, :conditions => ["quote_number = ?", quote_num]) quote_num = generate_quote_number end quote_num end def random_string(size=8) # return a random string end For the test, I simply lookup 3 existing quote numbers,...

...n system to get familiar with rails, and have basically solved most of my apps problems till now. I keep getting the NoMethodError, and can''t understand why. Model: customer.rb class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base ... def self.password=(pass) @password=pass salt = Customer.random_string(10) if !salt? self.hashed_password = Customer.encrypt_password(@password, salt) end end Test: customer_test.rb require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' class CustomerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase self.use_instantiated_fixtures = true fixtures :customers ......

I''d like to set up capistrano to send an email whenever we do a deployment. Just start an SMTP session with localhost and shoot off the email. I have all the code to do that actually, I just don''t know how to run some Ruby code on the deployment server. Anyone know how to do that, or do you have an email recipe? Pat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

Hello, I've got a problem with a PHP script, in which I call the system function (to call another processes). The call is : system("R --slave --vanilla < path/to/source/source.R"); if in this R file, I've got the lines: pdf(file="/path/to/file/file.pdf") commands dev.off() the pdf file is perfectly created but if I change the lines to:

The attached patch adds an option (off by default to preserve current behavior) to set a timeout on the select() statement that waits for input in clientloop.c. This fixes a timeout issue for me (explained below) and probably also fixes the timeouts mentioned in last month's thread "Idle time out". The patch is also available by http from:

...before_create self.email_address = @pending_user.email_address self.account = @pending_user.account ##self.pending_user = @pending_user self.pending_user_id = @pending_user.id # XXX: send an email with the activation key here... self.email_validation_key = MiscUtils.random_string(80) # XXX: since we''re not sending email, manually set the validation flag self.email_validated = true #breakpoint("user before_create finish") end def after_create # mark the pending user as used # XXX - handle failure better ##self.pendi...

Hello for my password recovery system I want to recover the users password and send it to them. In the DB its saved via SHA1 (login generator) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

(I don't have a BZ# for this yet, but I'm expecting it to be filed as an RFE) Currently if the user is in the virt-p2v GUI and cancels the conversion, all that happens is we abruptly close the ssh session to virt-v2v. That is bad .. possibly (or maybe not). But in any case there is an alternative: we can send a ^C key to the virt-v2v process, which it could catch and handle gracefully,

libguestfs has used double and triple underscores in identifiers. These aren't valid for global names in C++. (http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797) These large but completely mechanical patches change the illegal identifiers to legal ones. Rich.

Now that virt-p2v has its own repository [1] and releases [2], it is time to remove it from libguestfs. [1] https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-p2v [2] http://download.libguestfs.org/virt-p2v/ Pino Toscano (2): Remove virt-p2v Remove remaining virt-p2v bits .gitignore | 4 - Makefile.am | 7 +- bash/Makefile.am