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I have been trying to upgrade to 1.5.2 from 1.5.0 I can't seem to get rid of it. I have Removed it via Software Center, Synaptics Package Manager, and some command lines. Killed orphan files. typing; wine --version give; wine-1.5.0 Please help me remove.. I need to install 1.5.2 Note: Im a novice.. so might have to spell out what to type in command line. Thanks

Hello, I did a fresh install of ruby182 and gem rails --include-dependencies Now when I do: rails receipts cd receipts ruby script\generate scaffold receipt receipt rails does not create the views or controller. What can I do? Thanks Frank

Hi How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full error message? I want the error to be associated with the field so that the .fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I don''t want it to add the field name to the actual error message. For example: errors.add("occurs_on", "The date can''t be today!") unless occurs_on != Date.today I

I am a freshman when it comes to RoR, and I haven''t been able to figure this out. I need to figure out how to query records in my database using form check boxes (or radio buttons) then display them in that same instance. What would this look? I have been told that just putting a question mark after here, :conditions => field = ?, but what would the argument look like? Thanks in

Is it possible to write activex controls and windows DLLs in ruby? I would like to have some of my logic be usable from VB (don''t ask why). Thanks.

Hi All, Is there a way to filter / modify the output of a model class before it''s returned to controller/view that''s calling it? Example: I have a field phone_number which I always want to preformat using the number_to_phone() helper.... Any help is appriciated. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, Could any of you recommend an out fit for hosting my rails app that is not expensive with excellent support. Thanks Patrick

Is there any scalable alternative to iterating all the records of a certain model? #find_all seems to load everything into memory. With 500.000 records it will be a swap storm. Pedro.

i''ve got an issue with integer columns in the database becoming strings in the model and I''m not sure why this is happening. perhaps someone can explain. given the following setup (simplified for example) tables: users ---------- id - int name - varchar(60) roles ---------- id - int name - varchar(60) roles_users (join table) ---------- role_id - int user_id - int

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

Hi everyone, Are there any Rails systems that are either: * Easily extensible to use a different auth store? * Use LDAP out of the box? Thanks, Sean

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to install the OCI8 ruby interface on Debian64 without having to install Oracle? My understanding, from experience with Debian i386, is that you need Oracle (specifically the SQLPlus) installed to be able to compile OCI8. Since my new dev machine is AMD64 running Debian, I''m stuck. My rails applications need to connect to a remote Oracle 10g, but cannot

Hello my friends Today at FISL (International Forum of Free Software), I''ve had the opportunity to watch a Turbogears presentation. The framework, itself is really weak in comparison to rails, but... When the guy who was making the presentation show the NEW 0.9 TurboGears Toolbox I''ve though: - Isn''t something like that in Rails? Well, after a little googleing

Suppose I have one table: states id statename And I have two other tables that contains states: houses id color state_id places id place_name state_id How would my model relationships look like? class State < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to house belongs_to place end class House < ActiveRecord::Base has_one state end class Place <

Hi, Is it possbile that one active record maps to N tables, actually the relation is 1 to 1, I wonder it is possible. also can a ruby object map to N tables, instead of an active records? Thanks you very much:) Saiho __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I''ve been going back and forth about this kind of thing for a while. I reverse my opinion on it every project, and I''m wondering if anyone has any advice/battle scars to share. As usual, please forgive my long-windedness in advance. Let''s say I have this: Table: PLANS ID int CATEGORY_CODE_ID int --Other junk removed for clarity Table: CATEGORY_CODES ID int DESCRIPTION

Hello, When I am trying to run rake migration tasks, I get the error as shown below. I am using ruby 1.8.4 and edge rails. What am I missing or doing wrong? C:\rails\temp1>rake db:migrate (in C:/rails/temp1) rake aborted! no such file to load -- rails_version Thanks for your help. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

I intend to override pagination_links method. I added following lines of code in application_helper.rb module ActionView module Helpers def pagination_links(paginator, options={}, html_options={}) raise("boom!!") end end end But my code is not executing my code. The view is still using the method pagination_links from rails. What''s the correct way to override

I know I can use :index => collection_counter with text_fields, but do they work with any version of select form helpers? Thanks! Ian

Hi, Correct me if I am wrong but there doesn''t seem to be an easy way to add validation outside the pre-built ones (validates_presence_of, validates_lenght_of, etc.). Ideally there should be something like: Class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates :my_method, :on => create, :message => ''was not valid'' def my_method(param) false unless