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I''m working on a simple photo gallery in rails, it seems to be a good project for a newbie. I have photos and categories, many-to-many association. It worked well with HABTM. Then I decided that it would be good to be able to change order of the photos so that thumbnail pages would look less chaotic. So I created a Layout model which is a join model (or whatever it is called) that

I am trying to do a search for a crazy problem. Anyways, the search can only contain one word and the database it''s searching contains one word per row. Basically if someone tries to search for a word I want to find the closest match. Ex: If someone types "cat" and "cat" is not in my database, but "bat" is, how could I select bat? Also, if someone

Hi, I''m a newbie even though I''ve play with rails for a few months now. I would like to save several activerecord objects (not in the database) accross several screens. What is the prefered rails way to do this? Should copy all of their data to @session or use the member variables and put them into hidden fields? I am trying to move from "whatever kludge works" to