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Is there a simple way to get the original url which spawned a controller action, including any query parameters? Thanks in advance, Don Mc -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m quite new to this language and I''m having trouble finding out simple things like a dropdown menu in rhtml. I know I have to use <% select_tag %> but I''ve read lots of different ways to put in the options so I''m a bit confused. Options are hard-coded for the menu I''m trying to create so no database is involved! Thanks v much! Bex --

Hi guys, I''ve just installed Rails 2.3 and I am using the clearance plugin with cucumber features. When I run rake features I get this "uninitialized constant ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError)" error from webrat trying to call AbstractRequest which now is called Request (I think). My question is : Is there any way to alias the old name to have backwards

Is there a definitive guide on how to create a controller that understands and responds to GET/POST methods ? This does not necessarily mean I''m trying RESTful Web services. Google returned lot of material but most of them is pre-Rails 2.0 or not well explained. Did I miss any obvious document ? -Arun --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message

Hi. In my environment.rb, I have: ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/foobar" In my layout, I have: <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> Question 1: I am getting an error: ActionController::RoutingError (no route found to match "/javascripts/prototype.js" with {:method=>:get}): When I remove the relative_url_root, everything works great.

Hi, 99% of my site is rails, but I have a tiny php section I just cant get rid of (phpbb3). I''ve turned on server-side includes on my site and my phpbb3 template starts with this: <!--#include virtual="/main/header" --> ... The problem is, rails isn''t recognizing that it was called as "/main/header"; I get this error in my development.log:

Hi all, (I''m new with RoR) I''m using a migratio to import data into a database but nothing is being happens. I''m importing strings from a parsed file. this is what I have: controller: class UploadController < ApplicationController def create table = { } params[:localized_string][:data].each_line do |line| if line =~ /^\s* " (.*?) "

Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific action, for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same action? I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed? Thanks, Andy

Hi, I have two models: category and subcategory. (one to many relationship), and a controller ''home'' I''d like to display all the categories and their sub categories in the view: home\index.rhtml. I have a method in the ''home'' controller'' like this: def list_categories @categories = Category.find(:all) end This list all the categories

I''ve been having great fun trying to deploy a fresh install of rails on debian, specifically xlsuite to test it out, but my god how many more errors can I take before I give up. RAILS IS NOT NICE After battling with countless different errors from trying Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows and now Debian the list goes on and on and ON... now the latest error `load_missing_constant'':

Hello, I''m sending out an e-mail message to new users of my service. I want to send a particular link in this e-mail but I can''t figure out how to get a complete URL from the url_for method. Is there a way to do this without manually setting the host name? Thank you, -- Miles --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are

Hi, We are thinking about choosing Rails as our weapon of choice for our next project, which is basically a text editor on steroids, whith some functionality that need an Internet connection. In the first step we are going to develop it as a plain web app (AJAX-ified, yay!), however, in the next step we would like to port some of the functionality (such as the editor) to a desktop app (which can

I''m having a problem getting the text area the size I want it to be. In my view at the top I have this init calls <script type="text/javascript" > tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: ''advanced'', theme_advanced_toolbar_location: ''top'' }); </script> Then in my form: <%= text_area

Does anyone know where I can find good documentation on how to use RJS template. I know I can do various things with the page object: page.visual_effect :shake, ''some_id'' Is there a list of method I can run on the page onject and what parameters they are expecting? I can''t find this anywhere. Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com

Hi, I''m wondering if there is a simple solution to call a method once per page request. I tried to place my call in a before_filter in ApplicationController but it''d called a second time if I use render_component from a view. Seems to me that a hook should be added in Dispatcher#prepare_application. Context: working on i18n, I''m trying to check lang either from uri,

It''s actually REALLY easy with lighttpd on linux. Two apps... Myserver.com/code/ => /apps/code/ Myserver.com/test/ +> /apps/test/ Each application needs this in the environment.rb /apps/code/config/environment.rb ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/code" /apps/test/config/environment.rb ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root

Hello everyone, I have a problem concerning two rails apps, which I can''t seem to solve. I already tried the Ruby On Rails IRC channel. I also started a thread at the Site5 forums: http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=6682 As is described in http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine , I would like two separate Rails applications to

I have an application running on a Lighttpd instance which is proxied by an Apache server. It seems to work fine but my urls are incorrect: all urls reference / which is not where my application runs at the Apache server. How do I set the base url of a Rails application? My Apache has the following proxy rules: ProxyPass /hieraki http://localhost:3001 ProxyPassReverse /hieraki

hello All I am passing some form value from one page to another and if something is missing from form value redirecting user back to home page, following is code to redirect back: redirect_to request.referer ? :back : "/" i want to pass those params back. something like; redirect_to request.referer ? :back + params : "/#{params}" any advice Thanks Ajit

Hi, After a Rails update (rails-1.1.6) , Webrick server don''t start. Error: Cannot find gem for Rails =1.1.4: Install the missing gem with ''gem install -v=1.1.4 rails'', or change environment.rb to define RAILS_GEM_VERSION with your desired version. Looks normal because of the update. A new project has no problems if I start the Webrick server. My