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Dear all, let suppose I have following vector:   > dat1 <- c(rep("asd", 5), rep("xyz", 12), rep("erd", 17)) > dat1 <- dat1[sample(1:length(dat1), length(dat1), replace=F)] > dat1  [1] "erd" "xyz" "erd" "asd" "asd" "erd" "xyz" "asd" "erd" "erd"

Hi, I have a small app that needs to keep track of quotes, and organisations. An organisation can either be the unit who finally receives the goods (the end_user) or and intermediary (customer) (and in some cases both) An Organisation will (hopefully :) ) have many quotes; and a quote can belong to an organisation, either as a customer or as an end_user or both. So the quotes table

I''m trying to rewrite a fusebox-like application (Active4D plugin to 4D database) in RoR/postgres and I''m doing okay - but keep running into things that stump me. It seems like it takes me hours to figure out something that I could have written in pure code in minutes. The select_month and select_day helper has been my latest waste of time. All I''m trying to do is add

Ok, that''s not the best subject line, but I couldn''t think of a concise way to describe what I''m trying to do. I''ve got two models. Grouping simply contains an id and a few other attributes (e.g. rating). A grouping can contain many elements which are stored the Element model. A set of elements is tied together by a grouping_id. An element can be one of

I''ve been having problems making threaded comments for the last few days. Mainly with creating children and displaying the children. Currently, I have comments shown at the bottom of my articles show view. The top level comments work, but I do not really know how to implement a way for users to "reply" to the top level comments and take them to a form (the comment

I''m about to embark on a project and am seeking advice on my approach. I have an automotive site that needs to have shared categories. I''ve checked out different nested set, ancestral, acts_as_tree, acyclic plugins but feel they don''t exactly fit. So I am about to roll my own simple solution. Any feedback as to whether this looks good is appreciated. Essentially I

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Having problems with STI. Names below have been changed to protect the innocent. Imagine a system that allows someone to apply for one of two different types of school scholarships. Each scholarship goes through a different review process, represented by a state machine (this is not a state machine question). So there are two state machine classes that differ slightly and subclass a generic

Code: <%= check_box_tag("person[#{person.id}][is_approved]", 1, true) %> Rendered output: <input checked="checked" id="person[7][is_approved]" name="person[7][is_approved]" value="1" type="checkbox"> Problem: The value of "1" is always passed, even if the box is UNCHECKED. Suggestions? Thanks! -- Posted via

Hello all, I plan to make an (emergency) multi OS bootable CD which contain: - Win98 boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - WinME boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - Linux boot disk - Win NT boot disk - Win 2000 recovery console - Win XP recovery console - Winternal Administrative Pak (ERD Commander etc) I am new to Linux and feel

Where is the best place to solicit bids on a mid-size web app? (budget ~$15,000) What is the appropriate protocol for posting RoR RFPs? Thanks! Taylor -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do you do? I am a deaf and I am working at Gallaudet University as IT technician. For troubleshooting computer problem, I fixed over 4000 computers with different CDs such as Windows XP SP2, Dell 32bit Diagnostic Tools, Windows Memory Tester, Acronis True Image, ERD 2005, and others. Everyday, I brought many different CDs to different building for services. Really, I wanted to develop

Hi, This is not a DTrace technical question (so, please don''t flame me for it) :) This is regarding the DTrace (un)conference TShirt. I am curious to know what engine is it. Could not figure it out. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev. -- Solaris Revenue Products Engineering, India Engineering Center, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. Tel: x27521 +91 80 669 27521

i think there ara two ways of relate products and categories , basically i want to fix one product(e.g hp dv7....) to some categories (notebook,17"notebooks...) i made a table named categorization(incuding category_id,product_id fields) then in models i write these codes below class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :categories, :through => :categorizations

I just bought an Aastra 480i CT for a client who needed cordless capabilities in their office. I'm trying to set up the base station and cordless handset in my office first. I'm able to connect the phone to my Asterisk box and make outgoing calls from either the base station or the handset - to extensions within my office as well as numbers outside the network. But I can't

I am creating forum application which needs usage of acts_as_list or acts_as_tree or acts_as_nested_set. I am unable to decide among these. please could some one recommend from their experience? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi: I am using authlogic, and following railscast tutorial. I am running into this error code with the password confirmation. authlogic password confirmation is too short Has anyone experienced this error? I need your help. Thanks in advance for your help.

Please, if this question is not appropriate to this list please direct me elsewhere. If it has been discussed in a previous thread, please direct me there. An initial search of the archives did not appear to show anything. I am new to Rails but not to app servers having 4 years with J2EE. The set up of a Rails app seams strait forward and I understand the MVC model. Initial test code has

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/.

On 30 August 2010 15:47, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote: > Colin Law wrote: >> I have the following html >> <p><b>text</b>value</p> >> I can use >> assert_select "p>b", "text" >> to check the text portion, and >> assert_select "p", "value"