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A client of mine has a ton of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. I''m building a web application for her (backed by a real db of course) and want to import all that data. Is there a library available to read data from Excel? Is there an easy way to upload the spreadsheets and then read the data? Thanks, Ken Kousen -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc.

I have a customer that I''m developing a solution for on RoR. They have IIS today and use Sharepoint for their intranet. Is it possible to have some kind of single sign-on between these systems? So when a user is logged in to ther Sharepoint she will also be logged in to my rails-app? We haven''t decided yet on what to deploy rails on so I''m open to suggestions... If we

I''ve defined a table with these columns t.column "some_date", :date, :null => false t.column "some_time", :time, :null => false The result in schema.rb is t.column "some_date", :date, :null => false t.column "some_time", :time, :default => Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT Standard Time 2000, :null => false The time column generates a

...essages in a database queue (AR) - yet same app, but relying on ruby spread or another messaging system to have the messages delivered (btw, did you notice I didn''t even mention the word ''container'' ? :-) What do you think ? Thibaut -- [blog] http://www.dotnetguru2.org/tbarrere -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060505/ef00ad14/attachment.html

Hi, Every so often, I see Java people bashing RoR because it doesn''t have distributed transactions and threads. Are they talking about the lack of native threads in Ruby? Or something else? And what types of applications would need them? Joe

Hiya RoR gurus, I work at a .NET shop, but I enjoy learning Ruby. So, I wanna prototype some of our product''s screens using Rails (and hopefullly AJAX). One thing I''m not sure about, since I''m a Rails noob, is whether ActiveRecord will get along with our database... So I have two questions: * Can I have ActiveRecord get along with our PascalCase naming conventions?

Gang- 1. Is there anything in Ruby that handles the .properites files similar to the J2EE application servers. Or do I need to define all of the properties as constants? 2. Is there anyway I can load some of my classes (such as singletons) during the startup? I am looking for the startup classes that J2EE containers provide. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to grab a CSV file from a user and let them upload it directly to my database, but doing some minor checks on the data before saving. Which is the easier way to implement this? CSV or FasterCSV? I saw that perhaps there were some issues with FasterCSV and csv files created from Mac versions of Excel. Anyone have any experience with this and can recommend a newbie friendly

I updated RailsCron to fix some threading issues with ActiveRecord. Please update if you were on 0.2.1. Also, I am still working on a good unit test strategy (its tricky because I would think that the tests must occur over a lot of time), but haven''t had/made time to give it its due. If you have suggestions, please let me know. -- Kyle Maxwell Chief Technologist E Factor Media // FN

I want to develop a web application that allows a user to input data into a set of forms and then save that data in an XML file format to their hard drive. Can anybody point me to a Ruby\Rails tutorial that would help? Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

Hi sorry for the slighty out of topic question but I''m sure someone here will be able to answer. Does anyone use some kind of remote connection to connect to MacOS ? I''m thinking of using VNC but I''d love to hear from other (especially secure) alternatives. I''m just fond of textmate, I have a dell laptop which I''d like to use as a terminal. kind

I just subscribed to this list and i just wanted to say hello before starting dumb questions about rails. I just started my programming career with a ruby''n''rails application here in italy and i could use some help, and in time, when i will be more skilled, i will be glad to give some help back ;) See you! -- Maurizio Marek idnondisponibile@tin.it

Hi, I''m new to programming and ruby and ROR, but I''m hoping to learn ruby to create custom scientific software. Mainly it involves measuring people''s reaction time to a series of words. I''m positive that this is possible using plain ruby on a computer (cause this is BASIC territory right?). But I want to create a ROR app that can do the same thing. My

As part of my 3 day training course on Rails, I hand out a 24 page "short reference" of Rails. It''s collection of the most used calls, methods, functions across a wide range of Rails functionality. I have released it under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to grab it and use it and improve it. It''s a bit rough around some of it''s edges, and I

TDD, SVN and migrations seem to be a natural combination for model development: create a test, add the column with a migration, write the code, and check it all in when you''re done. The trouble is that this ends up creating one migration per field. I guess it''s not horrible in and of itself, but it does have a code smell to it. Has anyone come up with a different way of doing

hello Friends, I am a newbie to "Ruby or Ruby on Rails". A J2EE application architect at my day job. A fairly experienced PHP web-developer as well. After reading into the many articles on Ruby/ROR, have to admit looks pretty good so far. Really serious about getting into this and possibly developing some good Web 2.0 applications. Just wondering the best way to learn Ruby on

Just a quick question, if I were tired of typing ruby into a terminal editor, say I wanted, oh, a scroll bar, mouse support, and maybe syntax highlighting? Anyone know os a good Ruby/Rails editor or IDE, one that runs on OS X, possibly in Java? -Josh ----------- Due to the recent increase in spam and falsely sent email, I now PGP Sign all of my outgoing mail to prove my identity. This

i have a problem with the datetime format of rails. i am unable to save a dataset to the db. here''s the error message -- the original error message was in german, so i translated it -- i get: DBI::DatabaseError: Execute OLE error code:80040E07 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Couldn''t convert a char-Datatype to datetime HRESULT error code:0x80020009

Hi all. I have never implemented online payment and it''s the only thing that keeps me from accepting a project for a UK based client. (I must reply quickly!) While I can afford spending an extra week - or 2 - to learn/try/tune the payment system, I must be sure to succeed before I accept the contract. If you''ve already been through that path, any hints, links and/or