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Greetings, I''m a newby to both "R"s in RoR. I would like to use Builder::XmlMarkup to generate my pages. If there is a working downloadable example somewhere, that would probably be enough. Otherwise, here''s what I want to do: With the following controller: class AccountsController < ApplicationController layout ''accounts'' model :account

I''d like to try autocompletion, and my understanding based on AWDWR:2, and on various website tutorials, is that I should install the script.aculos.us javascript library. My question is how to do that. The instructions on their site tell me to "Put prototype.js, scriptaculous.js, builder.js, effects.js, dragdrop.js, slider.js and controls.js in a directory of your website,

I have a comma-separated data file in which trailing commas sometimes occur. I am using strsplit to extract the data from this file, and it seems great except in cases with trailing comma characters. The example below illustrates. What I'd like is to get a fourth element in the answer, being an empty string just like the second element. Is there a way I can express my patter (or perhaps

hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

Hi, Sorry abt the half finished post that I sent out earlier. The idea is to generate an output xml response as such: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <response status=''NOT_AVAILABLE''> <message>Some text</message> <from>Me</from> </response> I make a request like such

Hello, I am new in this group. Please give me a short hint, in case this is the wrong place for my posting. I want to create an XML file and store it in "filetransfer". The XML part of the file (the body) sould go to "filetransfer.data". Despite the last line, everything is fine with the code below. With "filetransfer.save" two entries "<clone/>"

Has anyone hacked Builder::XmlMarkup to dasherize underscore tags by default? I know I can use tag!, but I''d like to find a way for it to translate underscores to dashes automatically. In other words: xml.department_manager do "fred end #=> <department-manager>fred</department-manager> I tried hacking Builder::XmlBase.method_missing but got myself all twisted up!

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I am using rxml to produce opml files and need to escape ampersands in the attributes. builder 2.0 docs found at http://builder.rubyforge.org/ show the following xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new xml.sample(:escaped=>"This&That", :unescaped=>:"Here&amp;There") xml.target! => <sample escaped="This&amp;That"

Hi all, I am getting ActiveRecord to produce XML with render :xml => @user.to_xml However, on the client end it is a bit annoying for me to deal with attributes like first-name. I would much rather have first_name. Is there any way for me to turn off the behavior of converting _ to -? This seems to be done by a call to dasherize inside the to_xml of

#QUESTION# Is there a way to calculate the offset between timezones, e.g. from "AST" to "GMT"? #DETAILS# I am working with data files that use local time, and that indicate the timezone by e.g. "AST" (Atlantic Standard Time, my local time) in a header. I was guessing that > ISOdatetime(2008,1,1,1,0,0,tz="GMT") - >

Hey guys, I''m new to the world of web site development. Although I''m in the process of learning RoR, I''m not a graphics artist nor a web developer or web site designer. With that being said, does anyone have any suggestions for tools to use to create the actual interface for a web app based on a RoR framework? Obviously the default output of RoR is fine for

for some reason, i am getting an extra: <?xml version = "1.0"?> in my xml file.. i am using a file called: lastLogins.rxml and the code looks like: xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0", :encoding => ''ISO-8859-1'' xml.loginData do @lastLogins.each do |login| xml.entry do xml.user(login.user)

In the book there is an example how to convert DB payment value to more readable from. PAYMENT_TYPES array is defined and then in your views you can use it as Order::PAYMENT_TYPES. The problem is: how should I convert DB values (for example with type char(1)) to full string representation. I know that I can add a Hash to a model: IM = {''S'' => ''Skype'',

I started a php-based website a few months ago with a buddy of mine on netfirms.com. I was perusing their knowledge base and I came upon a quick-start for something called Ruby on Rails. Since then I have immersed myself in RoR. I''ve done the tutorials, I''ve purchased the books. But, I could never get even a sample RoR app to work on netfirms. 500 server errors.

When I do a to_xml(with a block) on an association of a model I got a Builder::XmlMarkup#to_ary should return Array Example that does not work. @intervenant = Intervenant.find(params[:id]) output = @intervenant.to_xml( :skip_types => false, :dasherize => false) do |xml| @intervenant.individu.to_xml( :builder => xml, :skip_instruct => true, :skip_types => false,

source) xml.list {xml.cdata! "test"} result) <list> <![CDATA[test]]> </list> but I want to <list><![CDATA[test]]></list> (because firefox don''t understand first result) how to????? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hello... I''m trying to generate and XML file using .rxml and I''m having a problem with element names that contain a hyphen. Here is a chunk of the .rxml file: xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.properties do @properties.each do |p| xml.property do xml.location do xml.street-address(p.street_address) xml.city-name(p.city) .. end end end

Hi, add_rjs_to_action_view.rb of javascript_generator_templates doesn''t work with setting Content-Type in a controller. (e.g.) http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSetDefaultEncoding class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :set_charset def set_charset @headers["Content-Type"] = "text/html; charset=utf-8" end end I

I''m working on the ability to share a single session between Facebook and Non-Facebook requests. Right now, to setup a shared session, you create a link like: <%= link_to "Non-Facebook view",leaders_url(facebook_session_parameters.merge(:canvas=>false))%> The facebook_session_parameters includes all of the necessary info. Is this okay, or would it be better as