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All -- I've been working on a simple tooltip widget and thought I'd release it into the wild. It builds on the features found in Prototype 1.5.0 RC0 and Scriptaculous 1.6.1. Very basically, it walks down a list of links and if they have id, href and title attributes, displays a tooltip on mouseover. Styled with a few lines of CSS and background images. You can demo it here:

i seem to be experiencing a bug where rails tells me that my organization object''s associated credit card is invalid (activerecord validation-wise invalid), when i know it to be valid. this happens only if i tell the organization to validate_associated :credit_card. i know the associated credit card is valid, because a) that credit_card object itself throws no validation errors, and b)

Hello all, I'm using R to visualize and explore the data produced by a software system. The software generates logs for many types of events. The software runs for days on end, and can possibly generate multiple events per second. What is the appropriate time format for year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond? that R can properly interpret (using zoo? or ITS?) I'll have

Hi, Is there anyone know if BUGS language allows the combination of variables as response such as Y[i] <- a*X1[i]+b*X2[i] Y[i] ~ dnorm(c,d) It seems doesn't work in my model. The problem is between two ######. The error message is > modelCheck("BayesBioMarker.BUGS") model is syntactically correct > modelData(paste("BUGS_data.txt",sep="")) data

hello guys, i want to use facebook api for my app any body have any idea.... -- Arun Agrawal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send

When I update an ActiveRecord, i would like to "touch" one of the related objects, that the updated record belongs_to, in order to update the timestamps on the parent record, although i don''t want to change any of the data in the parent. Whats the accepted way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

is there a way to always eagerly load an associated object so that you don''t have to put :include into every finder? class Product <ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user #always load user when product is loaded end Product.find(1).user.login #1 query since user was loaded with the product, same as if i used :include but I don''t want to have to specify it everywhere.

Has anyone seen this happening to their apps? I''m starting to get errors like this come across from one of my apps: ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute: <script type The parameters being sent are: {"user"=> {"email_confirmation"=>"someone-hcDgGtZH8xNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org",

Just wanted to make sure I''m not missing anything here... I''m trying to use ActiveResource and I was trying to avoid using Edge Rails. However, since ActiveResource depends on the edge version of activesupport, I appear to be stuck going edge... have flailed around for a while trying to get ActiveResource to work with 1.2.3 but it just ain''t happening. Am I right? Gotta

I would like to set some db session variables specific to my application on the database connection that rails uses. They can be set by issuing an SQL command like "SET statement_timeout = 1000" once - it will be in effect for every subsequent SQL statement that uses this connection. So I tried to put the following into an initializer: ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SET

Hi! Can anybody link to some ror based project what is using rspec, so nuby as me can learn from it. So it should have updated and practising advanced rspec. After reading last threat about "testing behaviour or testing code?", I just realised that I would definitely learn something from app like that. Some casual googling didn''t help me this time. Thanks! Priit at

OK, I am a Rails nuby, so please keep that in mind. I want to have a form on a page where users can enter in their email address in one field, a message in a text area field, and when they click "submit" the message should be sent to a static email address, say me@mysite.com. I have read the "HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer", but I am not sure this is exactly what I need.

Hi I am pretty sure that this is a common nuby problem but I cannot figure it out i try to run scfaoldong and get a error "Before updating scaffolding from new DB schema, try creating a table for your model" I have mysql set up and created the tables etc. Derek -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m occasionally getting exception notices with this error message: ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod: ***, accepted HTTP methods are get, head, put, post, delete, and options Anyone ever seen this or know what could be causing it? Thanks, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

This is a bit of a nuby question methinks but i''ve had a play/search around and it''s just bugging me now :0) Say I have a conditional statement, testing a variable against a number of values. The first way i did this is like so: if myvar != "" and myvar != 0 and myvar != nil # .. code end This seems a bit messy - is there neater way of doing this? I thought of:

Hi! I know you must be answering a lot of basic questions, sorry about that :-) However I have not get it, how do you keep mocks updated without pain? I reached to the point where mocking things for view. I spec model-controller-view using "correct doc" way mocking-stubbing (plus I should run integration test to be sure that everything really works together). Now, when I want to

Hi, I have an array with objects and I want to generate an XML like: <objects> <object> <category_id>1</category_id> <helper-method>result 1</helper-method> </object> <object> <category_id>2</category_id> <helper-method>result 2</helper-method> </object> </objects> The helper

total rails nuby here. I have a table "thumbnails", hence the model Thumbnail. I''m extending the Thumbnail class with a few constants needed for thumbnail cropping: class Thumbnail < ActiveRecord::Base SOURCE_FILE_PATH = "path/to/source" TARGET_FILE_PATH = "path/to/target" TARGET_WIDTH = 100 TARGET_HEIGHT = 100 end Now, in my controller

anyone can explain me why in the Agile Depot Tutorial application they use i.product_id to find if a product already exist in the cart, because the cart contains items, each of them references a product. I tried i.product_id like in the tutorial and i.product.i all of these 2 notation works , but i find the second seems more clean??? isn''t it. Any explanation will be fine Regards

Hi everyone, I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the list. Here''s my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem: Ruby version 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0) RubyGems version 0.8.11 Rails version 1.1.2 Active Record version 1.14.2 Action Pack version 1.12.1 Action Web Service version 1.1.2 Action Mailer version 1.2.1 Active Support version 1.3.1 I did