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I know this is a simple question, but i just want to put the current day, month, date and year on my website. I still can''t figure out how to read the Rails API. Can anybody help me out? TIA -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Does anybody know how to turn a floating-point number (i.e. 60.345) into an integer by cutting off or rounding the decimal portion? Either method, or both, would be quite welcome. Thanks! This forum rocks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Quick question - if i want to separate a long string of text, separated by single carriage returns, into an array of paragraphs, I can use the following code: paragraphs = article.content.split("\n") The "\n" means a carriage return, as far as I can tell. If I wanted to take text, that had been written using the more common double carriage returns, into an array of

I think I''m missing a step here, but they don''t seem to cover this in the AWDWR book... does anybody know the various steps required to switch from development to production mode in Rails? I''ve scoured the application and changed everything that stands out, but the damn thing is still running off the development database and won''t connect to the production

How to make that the typed code on ruby in text_area it was carried out in @params ["name"]?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m using this: <% words = article.content.split(/ /) %> <%= words[0..20] %> to (ostensibly) split a paragraph into component words, with spaces in between, then print to html only the first 20 items, words and spaces. I got this (split(/ /)) from the online pickaxe book at http://rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html#String.split . The problem is, the resulting array

Hey everybody! I was just wondering if Rails'' javascript library includes something as simple as making a dropdown that jumps to the link when selected without needing a "submit" button. I see a bunch of AJAX effects and draggable-element stuff, but all i need is a simple dropdown... should I code it myself? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi guys. Total newbie here. I''ve been doing web stuff since 1996 but only began the foray into scripting last year. I haven''t got my skull completely 360 degrees around OOP yet. It''s just me here (in Japan) and there are no Ruby groups in my area (never mind any in English). I''ve got a database table - real simple: question, answer, and id fields - and I

Has anybody had Rails just refuse to cooperate with anything? I had an application working great in development mode, then switched it over to production, tried to host it, but couldn''t. Some error that I can''t figure out. So I decided to create a simpler application, host THAT in little baby steps until something went wrong so I could tell maybe where I was losing it.

I''ve got a bunch of dynamically generated link paths that I want to use to link some dynamically-generated image paths. Specifically, I want to link thumbnails in a gallery to the larger images. But I''m stymied by Rails'' syntax. I can''t figure out how to do this. I tried this: <%= link_to(image_tag("../../images/photos/photo.photogroup/TN_

I''d like to find all records that have a certain integer as their "level" field in the database. I know how to find all the records: allquestions = Question.find(:all) ...and I know how to find the one record that has a certain id: allquestions = Question.find(params[:id]) ...but how do you find all the records that share a certain value in one of their fields? I tried

Is anybody aware of any special issues Rails has with Japanese/Chinese characters? My database is peachy, the application works fine on my local machine when I run it off of WEBrick, but for some reason when I host it (Dreamhost) all of the Japanese characters come up "????". I''ve run killall like five times to restart the server too, so all I can come up with is that

Thank you to everybody that has helped me since I signed up. I''m flying along thanks to you. I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag": I''ve been trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name" attribute for my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do

Does anybody know any RoR groups or classes in Japan? Especially the Kansai area? I would have thought the place would be crawling with them, but I can''t find any. The language is no problem; I can ???? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Something''s not working, and I just want to make sure that my class is not to blame and that I''ve got how it works straight in my head: The attr_reader parts make those :something (hash values, i think) accessible as @class.something attributes outside of the class. So, once I find the right session in the controller, I can access those values as @session.something. Right?

I''m sorry guys. I''m really still such a newbie at this. i''ve been having trouble getting my Rails apps to run on Dreamhost, and I think it might be a problem with the database connection. Anyway, I read on Code Snippets that I should do this: [rhod]$ ruby -Iconfig -renvironment -e "p ActiveRecord::Base.connection" to find out if my database.yml file is