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Hi all, Short of hacking the code apart, is there a method making the login_engine authenticate against email address rather than username? I find that people rarely remember usernames, and would prefer to use email addresses as the identifier. Thanks! Tom

Hi all, I''m messing around with has_many, and has_many :through (on edge rails), using a join model. Branches and Projects join through ProjectsAtBranches. If I do @branch.projects, I can see the associated projects, and visa-versa, if I manually put them in the join table. But I cannot do @branch.projects << Branch.find(blah), or @branch.projects.clear, and then save the

Hi, I was trying to use the geocoding stuff in Mapstraction and found a bug with IE6. I couldn''t find a way of submitting it on Trac, so here it is. Change line 110 of mapstraction-geocode.js from: place = response.Placemark[0]; to: var place = response.Placemark[0]; Otherwise IE6 doesn''t declare the variable properly and things break in obscure ways. Cheers, Tom

Hi all, How do you use :except or :only conditions on a filter block? I can''t seem to work out the syntax! I''m currently doing: before_filter { |c| c.role_required ''admin'' } Thanks a lot! Tom

Hello all. I don''t suppose some enterprising soul with much more skill than me has whipped up a "validates_dateness_of" (Complete with leap year calculations) method for use with all the other validation methods and wishes to spread much much joy? Cheers Jeff "I can barely code RoR and rely on others to do the hard work" Jones -- Posted via

Used a great howto @ http://iamrice.org/articles/2005/12/09/using-google-maps-in-the-uk-with-rails for using google maps on uk sites. Just having one issue I can''t seem to work out how to draw the postcode from my table I keep getting hit by method errors. The controller is require ''postcode_2_latlong'' postcode = Postcode.new("TN22 2LG") # I want this to

A lot has been made recently about the need to freeze your gems for production deployment on a shared server so your application can depend on it''s own gem version instead of being subjected to whatever gem is installed on the server, but does this rule of thumb come with an exception? Architecture dependent gems such as RMagick, Ferret and Unicode have dependencies that cannot be

This plugin gives ActiveRecord the ability to do stricter date checking. Example: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_date :date_of_birth end This will ensure that date_of_birth is a *valid* date. The date can be set initially as a string in any of the following formats: "2006-01-01" "1 Jan 06", or "1 Jan 2006" "1/1/06" # Day /

I know there are some Dreamhoster users here, who might be interested in getting Dreamhost to support Mongrel. If you are, vote for the suggestion via this link: https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=home.sugg&category=Software%20Installations&search=mongrel Cheers, Tom

Has anyone managed to find a nice and easy way of upgrading to Ruby 1.8.4 on Debian stable? I''m not too adverse to installing an extra repository, and would like to avoid compiling it myself. Stability isn''t a *major* issue; this machine won''t be in ''real'' production. There''s nothing particularly obvious when searching Google. I''m

Now that Rails is doing regular updates to 1.1.x branch, is it possible to track the this release using svn:externals inside my app? Currently I have: rails http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-1-1/ in my vendor directory. Can I change this to something like a wildcard ''rel_1-1-x'', ensuring that I always have the latest of the stable 1.1 branch? Cheers! Tom

Hi all, I''m trying to make pretty URLs using routes for some of my actions across different controllers. For example: http://www.example.com/london -> http://www.example.com/articles/show_by_name/london But if the id ''about'' couldn''t be found, then to search for it as another action, this time from the ''branch'' controller.

Hi all, How can I customise my Capistrano maintenance template, per RoR application? I''ve found the system wide file, but want to design a different one for each application. Thanks a lot! Tom

I don''t know if I missed this on the list, but the Agile Web Development with Rails book is now at version 4.0, for those of us who bought the PDF from the Prag Prog site. Just a few typos and corrections from the looks of it, but can''t hurt to get the latest. You can reorder the book for download at: http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails/reorder Cheers, Tom

Hi all, I''m trying to deploy my app to Dreamhost for production. I''ve managed to solve all of the Error 500s and it''s *almost* working. When I try and view a page, I get a TemplateError that I don''t get when I''m running from home using InstantRails under Windows. The error is: ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `user?'' for

Hi all, I''m building a custom content management system for a website in Rails. What''s the best way of restricting members to being able to edit specific pages? For example, a members might belong to a branch, along with many other members (n:1 relationship). But I only want specific members to be able to edit their branch page on the site, and no other branch pages.

Hi all, If I was to start developing an application using Edge Rails with the view to deploying on Rails 1.1, would I fall foul of lots of bugs, or is it relatively stable? I''d really like has_many :through relationships, to save me dealing with HABTM + associations. Thanks, Tom

Hi all, I''m trying to debug some code in my paypal instant payment notification action. Why can I not access the breakpoint placed inside the action that paypal POSTs to? It just doesn''t find the server, but it works fine when placed inside other actions. I''ve appended the code to the end of this post. Thanks everyone! Tom -- def paypal_ipn notify =

Does anyone have any experience with production deployment of RoR on Dreamhost? Is it now stable enough? Any tips and tricks? Thanks a lot, Tom