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Hello, Is there a common way of stripping html tags from a string? Right now I''m just calling gsub!(/<.*?>/, ''''), but with a background in PHP and always having used its strip_tags() method, I wonder if the Rails community has standardized this fairly common task with something a bit less simpleminded than my quick fix. Thanks! Zack -------------- next part

Hi, I''ve been learning about building Rails apps for about 8 months but I don''t really know how servers work or how to build a server. I have an old 450 GHz Pentium computer I can play with. Since I use OS X, I was thinking about installing a BSD system and trying to make a MySQL/Rails server. That is about all I know about servers. How does a server in my house get connected

hi, can''t find any good tutorial or advice to deal with the creation of a new record and it''s associated objects within the same page. do i have to use ajax just to add custom form fields that will be handled by the controller for associated objects creation.? do i have to use ajax to add associated objects to the unsaved but allready in session parent object? what''s

Hello all, I know that this issue has come up before, but I read all the previous posts regarding thread safety and haven''t come up with a solution. I''m spawning lots of threads in a backgroundrb worker that each do things with activerecord models. I get the connection lost to mysql server exception about 90% of the time, with my process working by sheer luck the other 10%.

I have a model that as an instance maintains a session on a website, and has methods to return some scraped data. Instead of hitting a URL over and over during testing, I would like to just save the source to a file and use that like a fixture. A mock object doesn''t seem appropriate, because there is a lot of data here. What I''m doing now is storing each separate

Hello everyone, Here''s my problem for the day: I have three tables that look a little like the following table_a id table_b id position table_a_id name table_c id table_a_id table_b_position There will be many rows in table_c that have the same table_a_id, and the same table_b_position. These will all be referencing the same name value in table_b. The row in table_b may