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I feel I am very close to understanding how layouts are used in Rails: Q1. I know one can specify a "default" layout for all methods in a controller by specifying layout ''my-default-layout'' How can this be overridden for individual methods so when those methods are called/executed, the overridden layout will be used. Is this possible? Q2. With no

I have gone through the following site for the creation of my login page: To mention I am using Windows XP pfofessional running on WEBBrick server http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticate The code is given in the following 3 steps: 1)The controller that needs protection: class WeblogController < ActionController::Base before_filter :authenticate def index # show the secret stuff end protected def authenticate unless @session["person"] @session["return_to"] = @request.request_uri redirect_to :controller => "login&qu...

Sorry if this has been asked before; it seems like a simple problem. I have a controller called ItemController which displays information about specific items to a user on various pages. The routing looks like "items/:item/:action". Is there any way to automatically look up the :item in the items table (it''s just an ID). I tried: before_filter { @current_item =

Hello! I''m just starting out with Rails--and Ruby itself for that matter--and have a couple of questions regarding primary_key_prefix_type and non-integer primary keys. I see in the ActiveRecord documentation [1] that by default the primary key of a table "foo" is expected to be "id", though primary_key_prefix_type this can be changed to :table_name or

Note that one of the 8 patches (#6) will be sent separately in reply to this email, as some of the replaced lines are too long, so git won't let me send the email. However, there is nothing wrong with that patch, and it should be applied in the sequence listed below. Note also that I assume this will be tested on a clean f11 install, rather than an upgrade of an existing ovirt server