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I have installed Gruff and am trying to get an example to work i found at http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/02/charts_and_grap.html. I have the following code in the controller: # Send a graph to the browser def crumpetchartaction days = 5 g = Gruff::Line.new(500) g.title = "Crumpets over the past #{days} days" g.theme_keynote crumpets_to_da...

Hello all I am wondering how rails handles case sensitivity in databases. If I do a Person.find_all_by_name("tim") in mysql I would expect to get tim, TIm, and Tim. Do I only get tim in postgres? How do other people deal with this? Do you resort to find_by_sql for all your postgres queries to get case insensitive results?

I have been struggling for hours trying to connect Rails to postgresql. I have trawled google results - all to no avail! I have installed the postgres gem but it doesn''t appear to install properly: # gem install postgres Attempting local installation of ''postgres'' Local gem file not found: postgres*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''postgres''

''Twas a foolish thing, but I upgraded my Fedora Core 4 workstation to Fedora Core 5 and various things happened with Ruby and Rails. Details and fixes are here for those also on the (more or less) bleeding edge: http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/juniordeveloper/2006/03/ruby_on_rails_a.htm l Yours, Tom

I''m just getting started with GD2 and have successfully made a few dynamic PNGs. I need to make some fairly detailed line graphs on the fly and I know that GD2 is capable of what I want but I strongly suspect I''m reinventing the wheel badly. Are there gems or other projects that help creating complex charts? I''ve used GDChart in the distant past but I

Hi, I am just installing a new test environment, but this is just for preparing the next one, which will be a production server. I am doing a clean Debian Sarge 3.1 install with stable sources. I have to decide if I install Apache 1.x or 2 now. I have read that FastCGI is better supported/developed for Apache 1.x. Is this (still) true? What is easier, more stable, etc? I want to run rails