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Hi everyone, I have a problem. I want to display a different select box wether the current user is an admin or an user. So I thought I could do this in my view where my form is displayed : <p class="form-input"> <%= f.label(:role_id, ''Role:'') %> <% if (current_user.admin?) then collection_select(:user, :role_id, Role.find(:all, :order =>

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

I''m having a little trouble with understanding how to work out the schematic for some of my classes using ActiveRecord when a file is in my lib directory: Brief example: Here''s the outline of the files in use: ....app ........controllers ............application_controller.rb ............rushing_offenses_controller.rb ........models ............rushing_offense.rb ....lib

Is it possible to somehow send an email containing the user password if it is stored as a md5 hash in the database? Is it stupid to save the passwords as clear text strings in the db? Its a web shop. A workaround would be to generate a new password and send it to the user. If the user then want to, he may change to another password. Any other thoughts on this? //D -- Posted via

Hey, I need to get the number of years (as a number) between two dates. Here is what I have as a helper. # Returns the number of years between now and the specified date. def years_ago(date) dateDifference = DateTime.now - date results =Date.day_fraction_to_time(dateDifference) return results[0] / 24 / 365; end I''m sure there is a better way to do this. What is it?

Hello, Having a boolean *.weekend?* on the Date class would be a good feature. It will basically do this: saturday? || sunday? Makes the code cleaner and easier to read. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Hello, I wants to make a self compiled kernel for my domUs on a debian etch server with Xen 3.1.4 and 2.6.18.8 dom0 kernel. So, I download sources for linux-2.6.26.8, and I enabled all the Xen features : Symbol: HVC_XEN [=y] Symbol: XEN_BALLOON [=y] Symbol: XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND [=y] Symbol: XEN_SCRUB_PAGES [=y] Symbol: XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND [=y] Symbol: XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND [=y] Symbol:

Hey guys! I''m having a little trouble trying to integrate RMagick with my rails app. In the online terminal (on my host''s server) if I write: export "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before opening the rails console then I can require "RMagick" no problem. Without adding usr/local/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get the error message described

Hi, I''ve installed mongrel to check it out and want to go back to using webrick as default when i type server/script to run my server. How can I do this? I know that I can just type server/script webrick but i''d prefer to have it as default. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because

If I am in controller A and I want to show the index of controller B, how would I do that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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

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

So thanks to Craig, i got up and running on rails 2.2.2, though now i''m dealing with a whole new can of worms. I''ve done a good bit o searching and haven''t found any solid leads. I''m using the simple_captcha plugin on my site, and all is well until i call that plugin. http://www.pastie.org/347721 ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method

Hi, I am creating an application in which I am allowing users to have customized views of a form. These forms do not have to be customized at this point by the user, but will for now be customized by us, and uploaded to the server. My idea was to take the similar approach done by the plug in acts_as_attachment, and, have a default layout stored in the normal views/controller_name folder, but

I''m looking to write a javascript heavy clientside program with a something serverside backend that connects to the free maxima math program. I have extensive knowledge of ruby on rails, so I would prefer to call Maxima with ruby, but I don''t know if this is even possible. Its fairly easy to call Maxima (with a lisp implementation) using ANSI C, it is a little less easy to

Hi, I ve just spent about three hours trying to figure this out, so any help would be appreciated. I ve followed these steps: 1. Downloaded Instant Rails 2. Unzipped it 3. Ran "InstantRails.exe" to configure it. (path is c:\InstantRails) 4. Went to the "Manage Rails Applications" area and chose "cookbook" app. 5. Clicked on "Start with Mongrel" 6. Mongrel

Hi, I'm trying to migrate from a SME server to an Ubuntu 10.04 Domain names are the same (domain SID already retrieved) example User john on SME server has SID S-1-5-21-1222067456-3914006320-3959678504-11026 User john on Ubuntu server has SID S-1-5-21-1222067456-3914006320-3959678504-3010 Not to loose Windows profiles, I'm trying to modify john's SID on Ubuntu server : pdbedit -u

Hi, i m trying to do some kind of database dump using .to_xml and after i try to fill my database back (well an other) with the content of the xml. Right now i m doing that : @xml = Video.find(:all).to_xml(:include=>[:vlogiciels]) it does produce : <videos> <video> <mycolumns> ..... <vlogiciels> <logiciel>

I am a rails beginner and I am having trouble displaying external urls on view. This is what i have in DB for ex: www.rubyonrails.com, if i try to construct the url on the page using link_to the url formed is - http://localhost:3000/www.rubyonrails.com. Can someone help me in fixing this issue. Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you

I have an iPhone version of my site, and for some reason none of the rjs works when viewing the iPhone version. This happens instead: ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template controller_name/ update.erb in view path app/views) The rjs works fine when viewing the site normally, and it worked when viewing the iPhone version prior to upgrading Rails to 2.3.2. Additional info: I have

Hi all, I need a help. I have got a user registration form, where the user signs up and then an activation link is sent to the user email id for activating his/her account. Now I need to send an another email to the user, only after he logs in for the first time in my site, then the second email should be sent. Can anybody give me some suggestion on how to do it ?? NB: When the user clicks on