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Hi, I''m looking to create a ruby script that loads a bunch of records and manipulates these. Where do I start? I got this to begin with: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../config/boot'' players = Player.find :all But it complains about a DB connection. How do I set this up? Jeroen

Hi, Is there an easy way of querying an active record for a maximum column value? I need to do queries like: SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees TIA, Jeroen

Hi, Whenever I restart mongrel on my production server, the first request in my browser always fails, I get this error: Processing Base#index (for 83.xx.xx.xx at 2006-09-03 16:08:47) [GET] Session ID: f1918346d193e19a70c3230286e5ce1a Parameters: {} TypeError (superclass mismatch for class Stats): /app/models/stats.rb:1 stats.rb:1 just contains a normal A/R line: class Stats <

Hi, I just moved from 1.08 to 1.10 and now have one example failing, which, under 1.08, passed. Is the due to a change in behaviour? Here''s my spec (removed some passing examples) require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../spec_helper'' describe "A user" do before(:each) do @user = User.new @valid_user = User.new( :email =>

Hi, Just thought it was weird that Ruby doesn''t automatically cast ints to floats. Seems so un-rubyish irb(main):006:0> 12/16 => 0 irb(main):007:0> 12.to_f / 16.to_f => 0.75 Jeroen

Hi, I recently bought by first Mac and I''m looking for some alternatives for my windows applications. Does anybody know a decent gui admin app for postgresql? On windows I use postgresql manager: http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/manager I find this a very good piece of software and it''s free, even though I paid a little for some extra features. I''d

Hi, Some controller filters: before_filter :require_logged_in, :only => [:create, :new, :confirm] before_filter :init_players, :only => [:create, :new, :confirm] The first one, you guessed it, redirects a user if he''s not logged in. Now when I hit this page and I''m not logged in, the 2nd filter gets executed and throws an error, because it depends on the user

Hi, Are there any recommendations as to what is currently the most stable setup is for mongrel & apache? I read somewhere (probably here) that you should avoid using PStore for sessions. Are there any more of such recommendations? Also, what is currently the safest version of mongrel to use in production? Jeroen

Hi, I get errors doing this: 1) createdb myapp_test 2) rake db:test:clone_structure 3) rake test:units rake aborted! PGError: ERROR: relation "matches" already exists I''m using the :sql schema format because there are some problems with postgres and the :ruby schema format config.active_record.schema_format = :sql It seems rake test:units is trying to create the tables

Hi, Disclaimer: I''m pretty sure this isn''t a mongrel issue, as I''m pretty sure I had the same problem back in the lighty-fastcgi days.. After a postgres restart, my rails apps crash with this error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (PGError: FATAL: terminating connection due to a dministrator command server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably

Hi, Do I need to configure something to get my custom public/500.html page showing on my production server (lighttpd)? My custom 404 page is showing but when I hit an exception I just see the default (Applcation Error) message. Also, is it possible to include some ERB in error404 and 500 pages? Jeroen

Hi, I''m trying to include a partial in an email template but it throws me this: undefined method `controller_path'' for SupportMailer:Class Extracted source (around line #12): 11: 12: <%= render :partial => ''footer'' %> I guess email views are a little different from normal ones as they don''t seem to have a access to a proper controller (?)

Hi, Is there a way to test if a certain (local) variable has been initialized? I''d like to do something like if isset(myvar) and myvar.true? #some code else #default behaviour end I have a lot of shared views that I call with params such as { show_pager => true Instead of having to explicitly say show_pager => false it should be possible to make false a default value, right?

Hi, I wrote a little helper that calulates someone''s age based on his/her date of birth. def age(dob) diff = Date.today - dob age = (diff / 365.25).floor age.to_s end It works fine, but it''s not completely accurate as it just takes the average days in a year. It should be able to calculate this more accurately, right? I can''t work it out

To Whom It May Concern: I have an ActiveRecord-based application (non-Rails). Life was grand until I upgraded ActiveRecord yesterday, after which point I was getting TONNES of these errors from my app and in PostgreSQL''s logs: FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command According to Google searching, this happens when an external process sends PostgreSQL SIGINT or

In the API docs I found this: "You can also build forms using a customized FormBuilder class. Subclass FormBuilder and override or define some more helpers, then use your custom builder " I couldn''t find any further documentation on this. Where can I read more about this formbuilder class? For starters, where would I define a subclass of this class? TIA, Jeroen --

Hi, I''m trying to get a nice repository structure happening and was wondering what other people like to use. I''m about ready to publish a rails app. This app now lives in myapp/trunk When this app goes live I will need to freeze it so I will copy myapp/trunk to myapp/tags/release-1.0 (right?) I also would like to get going on a new version which will break the current

Hi, Is it possible to render a partial template from within a mail template? I get the following error undefined method `controller_path'' for SupportMailer:Class Extracted source (around line #8): 5: 6: <%= @url %> 7: 8: <%= render_partial ''sig_admin'' %> Jeroen

Hi, I can''t get breakpointer to work on locomotive. Pretty sure it used to work... Any ideas?? Jeroen jeroen$ ruby script/breakpointer /Applications/Locomotive/Bundles/rails-1.0.0-max.bundle/Contents/Resources/ports/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:828:in `getaddrinfo'': getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename (SocketError) from

Hi, Just running a simple unit test and trying to save an object gives me this error. test_validations(FriendTest): NoMethodError: undefined method `each'' for #<Mysql:0x38f60d0> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_a dapter.rb:292:in `columns'' .... .... Rails 1.1.6 mysql 5 mysql gem 2.71 After I