similar to: in_vertical_groups_of

Hi all, Not really sure what to put in the title so hope people still open this! What I want to do is produce something like this Col1 Col2 Col3 data1 data2 data3 data4 data5 data6 data7 data8 data9 data.. data.. data.. data.. data.. data.. data-n data-n+1 data-n+2 I can get the data back from my db

Just running through the first little project (depot) in ''Agile Web Development with Rails''. It isn''t scaffolding like it says it should in the book. After running: >rails -d mysql depot then SQLing: drop table if exists products; create table products ( id int not null auto_increment, title varchar(100) not null, description text not null, image_url varchar(200)

Hi, I have wasted few days and I''m not getting anywhere. I was trying to follow tutorial on Rails Guides and this one: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/rails-send-email.htm . All I need is to be able to send some text, nothing fancy. Why in Rails it has to be so difficult? Why it can''t be so simple as in PHP? Can anybody point me to some good simple tutorial,

Ok, I know this isn''t a Rails problem, but if you could help me out that''d be brill. I''ve used JavaScript to create a new Date object containing a date of my choice... mydate = new Date("11/24/2007"); //going with Javascript''s mm/dd/yyyy format now this is good, what i want to do now is put in an integer variable the number for the day, in this case

Hello, I''ve done === class HomeController < ApplicationController def index @country = Country.find(:all, :include => "cities") end end === And rhtml is: === <% @country.each do |country| %> <h1><%= country.name %></h1> <% country.cities.each do |city| %> - <%= link_to city.name, :action =>

I have been scratching my head on this one for most of the day. Hopefully someone can help explain why before_filter isn''t working for my codes. In my Application controller, I have this: before_filter :login_required, :except => [:newacct, :create_newacct, :passwd_reset ] def login_required unless session[:user_id] flash[:notice] = "Please log in"

Hi guys, Is there an elegant way to capture the sql that would have been executed by an ActiveRecord statement, without actually executing it? :) I''m imagining something like sql = User.find(1).groups.to_sql or perhaps sql = ActiveRecord::Base.capture_sql { User.find(1).groups } resulting in sql = ''SELECT * FROM groups INNER JOIN memberships.... WHERE users.id =

Hi... I want to know the equivalent instructions to insert, update, search and delete a registry. I know Rails can do it easily Thanks to ActiveRecord, but here''s the catch: I''m using PostgreSQL. As I''m using SQL to do the migration (Including the foreign keys), I need to know if I can use SQL queries to do those actions. Is there an example out there? I uncommented

Hello Rubyists, I''m currently trying to get email hooked up via ActionMailer, and while I''ve gotten it to work in the past on Rails 1.2.x, I''m seeing an error that I''m unfamiliar with. Right now, I''m just trying to send email from my dev box via the SMTP server at work. My development.rb file: #...snip config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp

Hi Everyone, I built a scaffold and I''m having trouble getting results properly formatted. (I need to get the data into multiple columns instead of just one big column) I can''t get all of my CSS to work properly in scaffold.css, layout/books.rhtml, or the books/index.rhtml.erb Anyways, maybe you have a suggestion. Default view (127.0.0.1:3000/books) Title Abstract

Hello, I am trying to achieve a search functionality in the following manner i have an table called people which has first_name,last_name,etc... After the user form to search people is submitted i get the params hash as params[:persons]={"first_name"=> "%John%","last_name"=>"%Stevens%"} NOTE : I have changed the params hash to include the %. Now

I have a situation in which I want to validate a number is not zero. Both positive and negative values are acceptable, just not zero. validates_numericality_of has an :equal_to attribute, but I don''t see a :not_equal_to. I have not yet been able to find anyone who has discussed this. I did find information about custom validators, so I am now using a custom validator to check the field

Hi all, I have a complex link_remote_to link I need to generate often. I want to DRY up my view and create a helper that generates this link_remote_to for me. Is there a way my helper can output the link_remote_to javascript? Thanks STijn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

I''ve got a publications table that contains an author_id foreign key and a pubrole_id foreign key. What I want to do is query the DB using AR so that I can get a list of all publications that belong_to a particular author, and group the results by the pubrole.role_name (Author, Joint Author, Editor, etc.) so that the results look something like: Author book1 info book2 info etc.

Are you using Array#in_groups_of(n, false)? That is, you want the array chopped into n groups, and if its an uneven number, you want the missing positions filled with "false". If so, please post the brief snippet where it is being used. (I''m trying to settle a bet with Mr. koz.) -- David Heinemeier Hansson http://www.loudthinking.com -- Broadcasting Brain

Hey all, The following has two columns. Each column has a head with a name and then a data cell with a time directly below it. I''m wondering how I can get the time to display next to the name, not below it. - @clock.in_groups_of(2) do |group| %tr.header - group.each do |item| %th= item.name %tr - group.each do |item| %td

I''m trying to build a table out using in groups of, but I''d also like to be able to customize the first and last rows. Apart from the actual formatting, is there an efficient way to figure out how many total groups there are and what group the iteration is in? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

I''m trying to display a series of pictures in a table. Rather than just house each of the pictures in separate rows, I''d like to have 5 pictures per row. So, basically after I iterate through five columns in my table, I need to start a new row and show the next 5 pictures. Could someone help me with the looping structure I''d need to create to do this? Thank you! Sarah

hello, Suppose I have a table that looks like this: center name email Health Jon jon@test.com Health Bob bob@test.com Admin Jane jan@test.com Admin Jill jill@test.com I would like the output to look like this: Health Jon jon@test.com Bob bob@test.com Admin Jane jan@test.com Jill jill@test.com when i using cold fusion, this was easy via a tag called cfoutput. when i was using java, this was

I have a product listing of 9 per-page. The products on the far right and bottom row should NOT have a border on the aforementioned sides. So, similar to a noughts and crosses layout. However, pages do not always have 9 products to display. You may have a better understanding if you see the code I''m currently using: http://pastie.org/1223260 The code above is passed inside a block and