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Hi, Is there a way to test if a certain (local) variable has been initialized? I''d like to do something like if isset(myvar) and myvar.true? #some code else #default behaviour end I have a lot of shared views that I call with params such as { show_pager => true Instead of having to explicitly say show_pager => false it should be possible to make false a default value, right?

Does anybody know what could possibly be causing my error? Somehow action_controller got into a state where it was retuning not found for about 4 out of every 5 requests, seemingly arbitrarily. Has anybody else ever experienced this? I''ve heard that apache and fastcgi is not the best solution, do you think this is fcgi''s fault? Could it be a bug in my ruby code? Could it be a

Hi, What''s the problem with this line? <%= ''height="750" valign="top"'' if request.request_uri =~ /survey_result/i %> No problem with development environment but when uploading to server I get application error. And is there a better way to do this? Thanks

...STI in my application. setup: - two tables one called "wikis" on called "categories" with a hbtm relationship. - the wikis table is the sti one with a model PageWiki being extended from Wiki (and the correspondig type column) Following happens: - server restart - get :wikis, :show_pages - in show_pages the first line says PageWiki.find(:all) ! Now I get the following error LoadError in WikisController#list_pages app/models/page_wiki.rb to define PageWiki // (it is of course defined there ) If i call the page again everythings works as it should be and the the error message never...

I have a site (for an academic conference) that I want to convert to RoR - both as a learning exercise and to ease further updates and development. There are a number of child pages for each conference (past and future), but these pages are different for each conference (not same child pages for each conference). The URLs are along the lines of: /conference/2000/keynotes

The thunderstone crawler (http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/ websearch/about.html) sends the folliowing HTTP accept header when requesting pages Accept: text/*, application/javascript, application/x-javascript This results in a "Missing template" exception text/* is valid. How do I tell my rails app to treat this as rhtml by default instead of returning a 500? Missing template

I am trying out ROR for the first time[1], and have much PHP poisoning to overcome in my mental baggage. That said, I was delighted to find that I could make a link from a "show" page to the next record in the database by simply adding @next_page = Content.find(params["id"].next) to my content_controller.rb and then constructing a link to it within my show.rhtml. The

Hi, I have attempted to install radiant on my server using mongrel. I have it working fine using lighttpd on my development box, but as soon as i attempt to run it using mongrel I get the following error: NoMethodError (undefined method `find'' for Status:Class): /app/models/page.rb:49:in `status'' /app/models/page.rb:57:in `published?''

Hi there, Is there a neat and easy way to implement pagination with letters rather than numbers eg : A B C D ... Z Rob

hey, i''ve created a basic content management system using rails and scriptaculous. I posted a first version last week, but I heavily extended it since then. Features: Pages are arranged in a sortable tree (sortable by drag and drop) Pages have "nice" URLS (no /index?articleid=97361496 or something) Cacheing on page basis every page has a layout with a number of columns page