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Hi, my video sharing website (politube.org) that I developed with rails, runs on lighttpd/fcgi (I know it is obsolete by now) and is severely under load and regularly blocks because the lighttpd process chews up 50% of RAM (1GB). So now I want to move the system to a new server with 8GB, 64bit , Quad core processor (intel i7 920) but I am not sure if hyperthreading will really do anything better.

I know similar topics have been covered before, but I''d like to get a more up-to-date Ruby developer''s opinions. (Please note that I''ve read similar threads in this group and read a lot of hosting comparison sites, even contacted both companies and am still having a hard time making decisions. ) After reading about limitations with shared hosting plans, I decided that

Hey all, im not sure where to set a default value if a textfield is empty? For now i do it in the controller, and check if the submitted parameter is blank. But this seems not to be the best solution... Thanks for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

A lot has been posted about validation issues with associations, however, I don''t see this issue addressed specifically. ex: class Foo has_one :schedule, :dependent => :destroy validates_presence_of :schedule class Schedule belongs_to :foo validates_presence_of :foo_id this creates a circular dependency that breaks test frameworks like pickle and machinist. At first I was

I''m new to Rails3, and I''m just trying to get one last thing to work before I call it a night. The situation is the following (please if the code is horrible, just let me know, still learning): I want to log a dive. I might have a new location on that dive at which point I have to create a new Location, and then create the dive. A dive has_one location. A location has_many

I just yum-installed the 2.6.9-34 kernel RPMs and rebooted, and lo and behold, my other onboard NIC is now detected, after a fashion. /etc/sysconfig/hwconf now has entries for: device: eth0 driver: forcedeth desc: "nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller" device: eth2 driver: sky2 desc: "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller" The device/desc

There''s a small inconsistency in ActiveRecord''s callback syntax that has tripped me up before. It wouldn''t be a big deal, but it can lead to a silent failure. I''d like to suggest that it either be made consistent or be made to fail loudly. The issue is that to do something before validating, but only when creating, you use `before_validation on: :create`,

Le''s say that I have a table called people and the column middle_name is nullable. If the user enters say blank or empty space then in the database it is recorded as empty space. I would like in all my models all empty spaces to be recorded as null. I guess I can write a plugin which will do so for all the models but I''m sure something like that should already be existing.I

i used this private function for removing leading and trailing white spaces from the values.that below function would be called before_save. when i print the value after it strips.it prints string without any spaces.but in the table fields it saves with spaces . waht would be the problem.pls help me class CompanyInfo < ActiveRecord::Base before_save :strip_whitespace def strip_whitespace

I''m using Restful Authentication, and the code to create a user is pretty straight forward - there is a before_save action and a before_create action: before_save :encrypt_password before_create :make_activation_code But for some reason when I try to create a user programmatically in the controller like this: User.new(:email =>

I am having a problem finding the best way to make a "before_save :encrypt_password" conditional. I have to at times update user model attributes but each time I do this the password is reencrypted because of the above. I need to differentiate between when the user is first logging in and the password does need to be encrypted, and when they are already logged in and the

Well, I''m starting on RoR, so I got a Book called simply rails...Following the steps in it sometimes when I try to call a property, the browser shows me the next exception: undefined method `name'' for nil:NilClass I don''t know why...here''s my controller: #Controller starts here class StoriesController < ApplicationController before_filter :login_required,

Hi. I have to convert the contents of all columns to uppercase before creating a row. Is there an easy way to accomplish this so I don''t have to go one column at a time and upcase! it? Thanks. Pepe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group,

Is there a way to get the MIME extension of a file_column field? Here''s what I want to do (look for comment in before_save method): class ProductFile < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :product file_column :file_name def before_save self.file_type = # something that returns the MIME type (e.g. image/jpeg) end end TIA

Hi all, I have a multi model form (Project with many tasks) and I want to prevent a task from being saved to the DB if it is empty ie. if there is no i/p for that task from the user. I tried the following class Task < ActiveRecord::Base before_save :check_if_empty ... def check_if_empty self.destroy if description.blank? end but i get this TypeError in ProjectsController#create

I am pondering the possibility of encrypting/decrypting some fields in a SQLite backend on-the-fly. The point of the message is not security, I know that''s broken, but whether there''s a technique that provides on-the-fly save/read filters. Of course the solution would need to work transparently in joins, so user.posts.last.title would do the right thing if title

Is it will known and accepted that before_save triggers should return true? I didn''t notice this before but now I see it in the documentation. Here is what I''m doing in my model: def before_save if self.has_album? self.visible = self.album.visible? end end That results in the expected result when album.visible? is true - but not when it is false. To make it

We all know that acts_as_tree gives us ability to set up data in a tree-like structure and use methods like ''parent'', ''children'' and so on. Something I''m completely stuck on. Observe. class Page < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree def before_save raise self.parent.to_yaml end end Well, you''d think that it should show

Greetings, This, I hope, is a simply answered question. Based on Agile Web Development with Rails (depot application), I''m developing a single table application for contact info. There is only an admin side to this, so there''s always authentication. Part of the info record (member) is changed_by and changed_at which I automatically want updated. Changed_at looks after

I am sitting with the Agile book on my desk and scratching my head at the discussion on aggregation - perhaps that isn''t what I need. I have a db called clients. fields include - first_name middle_initial last_name I want to combine them all into one name element in a list view. I can add/edit the fields separately but in the list view, I only want the one combo field. Is there a