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Hello friends, I am developing an application in RoR. After registration in this application I follow the following steps: 1. Enter the hotmail,gmail,aol email id. 2. Enter password according to that mail id. After submitting this information, I want to get the contacts in that my mail id. How can I do this. Whenever I login next time, my contacts should be there in the list of my application.

Hi, Me a newbie in RoR - switching from .NET. i want to write an application that has a newsletter functionality where I can create an interface where in I can have options to send newsletters to multiple people in the database. i need to make a form which has from hardcoded, to is selected from te database maybe a listbox next to it and then a subject and text area. how wud i go about doing

hi all, anyone seen this controller argument error: invalid byte sequence in utf-8 ror/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/blank.rb: 50:in `=~'' ror/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/blank.rb: 50:in `!~'' ror/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/blank.rb: 50:in `blank?''

Hi all, I am new to ROR world. I know the REST conceptually but find the difficulties in implementation can anybody guide me that which is the best book which i have to read. also some good links of implementation of rest in ROR. If anybody made a small application to restful in rails please forward me that application. i found some demo but i didn''t understand for what purpose they

Hey, first of all I will like to thank you all for reading this since I am a new user, this really looks like the place to meet the right kind of people interested in Ruby on Rails. I represent an Web 2.0 Development Center in Monterrey, Mexico and we really need RoR developers for full time on site work and part time distance projects. You don''t need to know Spanish, all you need is some

hi, I have installed Instant Rails 2.0 on my machine which comes with Rails 2.0.2. Now I want to update my Rails to version 2.1.0. So I do gem update rails and It seems to be fine. But when I check the version of my Rails I get the following message: >rails -v C:/RoR/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error'': RubyGem version error: activesupport(2.0.2 not

Hello everyone, For some time I was studying Ruby on Rails, Active Record ideology and other thing related with RoR right now I still know a lot more about PHP than RoR. I am almost ready to start writing websites using RoR and get more experience. But I still have some questions before starting and I can''t start without answers. If you could simply answer some of them, would be great.

I have been following the instructions found in Apple''s Developer Guide to developing ROR with Leopard found here: http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html I''ve gotten to the point where I''m supposed to execute "script/ server" (specifically, from the XCode run menu, but I get the same error doing it from the console)...the result should be

Hi there, I have a RoR app but for one of the funcationality (photo uploads) I am using PHP. I need to know how I can share/access session information from RoR in PHP since the PHP also updates the database and the entry information is contained in the RoR sessions. Please advice. Thanks in advance. Adil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because

Hi all, I have a SOAP XML request coming from a VB6.0 application, which I have to handle in my ROR application. After the request is handled, i have to parse the request and check the extracted values in the database according to the checking i have to send a Response to the VB6.0 application. Please tell me the procedure how can i used SOAP XML in ROR application for handling these

Hi , By default encoding system is UTF-8 for ROR request and ajax request. How to change the encoding for this both type of request? Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi all, I want to use Active Resource to communicate with other application. How can i use Active Resource in my ROR application. anyone knows please help me out. Thanks and regards, Shripad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi Folks, I am just trying to get started up in RoR, I have done a simple application of add, edit, delete.... I am now trying to accomplish pagination in RoR, I referred a few tutorials, however none of the examples that i tried from there, seemed to work error free..... I have heard that lots of things have deprecated in RoR, can someone please post me a detailed report of how i can

We are close to releasing a high-volume, multi-lingual, e-commerce site in Ruby on Rails that has previously been written in an alternative Java framework (e.g. servlets and JSP). This is a real-time 24/7 betting and gaming web site based out of Gibraltar in Europe. When we embarked on this project, we really wanted to find examples of other high-volume web sites that had adopted RoR. We did

Dear all, Is there something like phpinfo() for RoR? I have a dual install of ruby and would like to know which version I am actually using. Thanks in advance! Harm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

Hi..Friends...I m a final yr IT engg student...I wanna learn RoR n use it for my Btech project...Kindly help me in dis regard...My exact query is: 1)Wat project topic to choose 2)How to learn dis technology n implement it in my project --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

I have a project for which I am seeking a partner to do the development. You should be an expert in RoR, have time available for development and looking to be a part of an unusually good business venture. With this project you will not have any annoying clients with no understanding of technology, I am very adept at web tech in other languages and can supply you business logic in terms of

Hi there, I''ve been trying for a few hours now to get RoR and postgresql talking - but I''m very confused about what''s going on (I''m running windows btw). I haven''t created a database in postgresql (I''m assuming that RoR will do that?) my database.yml looks like this: production: adapter: ruby-postgres database: rails_production

After having successfully created and run a few RoR test projects via RadRails in MyEclipse, I imported one from an Oracle tutorial (http:// www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/saternos-rails.html?_template=/ocom/print), showing how to deal with a legacy Oracle database. Unfortunately, after having configured database.yml, I get the following error message when I attempt to start either a

Hi all I''m playing around with Selenium IDE for creating automated acceptance tests for my RoR projects (very cool tool by the way). Often it''s the easiest way to pass a HTML-tag ID to Selenium to perform actions such as clicking on a link or submitting a form. Sadly Rails does not automatically create ID attrs for many tags like links or buttons. Has this a special reason? Or