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I am getting the month and day reversed in parsing a date. I am wondering if there is some intelligence in Ruby that knows that at the moment I am in Mexico, as the parsing is working as if I was "6/15/2008".to_date => ArgumentError: invalid date "15/6/2008".to_date => Sun, 15 Jun 2008 What I really want is my date to be understood as month/day/year. Is there a way to

ruby script/console webrick after 23 seconds: => Booting WEBrick... after 78 seconds: => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options [2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i386-mswin32] [2008-07-21 08:07:17] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4664 port=3000

Right now in my view, I have a whole HUGE clump of <% if current_user %> and then <% if current_admin %> and then <% if current_teacher %> and then all that other stuff in my view. I have a ginourmous chunk of if and else statements in my views... is there a way to make it prettier? The if and else''s almost all have the same functions, expect for some minor changes.

Help please. My first attempt at Rails, I''m trying to use PostgreSQL and I''m seeing this error. I''m also new to PostgreSQL, but the default encoding in PostgreSQL appears to be SQL_ASCII. I''m not sure if I should try and get the patch or try and change the PostgreSQL template. Sorry I''m so confused. FWIW, I''ve been a .NET MSSQL developer

Hi Is there any freeware anybody would recommend for showing database models and how they relate to each other? I''m picking up an app another developer left in a mess and I''m trying to sort it out. Diagrams would be a great help. Suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

I''ve got two entities created by scaffolding: Expense & Vendor In Expense#new there''s a form with a Vendors-drop-down and a NewVendor- button. The latter button brings up Vendor#new. The Create button in Vendor#new brings up Vendor#show with Edit & Back links. I want to append a third link conditionally to Vendor#show: if the Expense#new form led to the Vendor#show

Hello! I''m trying to create a simple image "popup" effect using Lightbox2, http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/. But I don''t get it to work. My code looks lite this: <span class="ad_image"> <a href="<%= ad.image.url(:thumb) %>" rel="lightbox"><img src="<%= ad.image.url(:thumb) %>"

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I''ve always distrusted the ruby and rails installs on my Mac (oOS X 10.6.3) -- sudo gem cleanup can''t seem to get rid of old gem versions (lots of Gem::InstallError: cannot uninstall). Because of that, I don''t trust the rails beta3 install I just completed. Here''s the story: * config is Apple''s ruby 1.8.7 and gem 1.3.6. * xcode is installed from

I have a Lexicon model, and I want user to be able to create dynamic feature to every lexicon. And I have a complicate search interface that let user search on every single feature (including the dynamic ones) belonged to Lexicon model. I could have used a serialized text field to save all the dynamic information if they are not for searching. In case I want to let user search on all fields, I

Can anyone suggest a development tool for RoR? How is the plugin for Eclipse? -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I''ve created a simple hello world app that doesnt appear to serve up the view greeting.rhtml. :< Any ideas ? The error message is from development.log is... # Logfile created on Tue Aug 18 16:49:55 -0400 2009/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Tue Aug 18 16:50:34 -0400 2009 Status: 500 Internal Server Error unknown error PS . It does show the default web page ok at http://localhost:3000 just not

The recent discussion about different graphing solutions made me think. What is everyone using for general reports? Currently I have a web based application at work that has roughly 20 different reports ranging from simple tabular data with totaling at the bottom to pretty, colorized, graphic logo''s,etc... going to clients, and finally complex ones I hate to think about such as

Hi, i have a problem with if-else. I get this error: "uninitialized constant ActionView::Base::CompiledTemplates::Male" I want to change the background-color for male and female. So i wrote this code with if and else. I think there is a mistake in line 8. How could this work. What do i have to write? 5: <% for article in @articles %><br /> 6: <table> 7:

Hi every one How are you? after a days and searching in forums i still can not find some things that helping me to connect Rails with postgre SQL of course those are helpful but not for a stupid person like me :D So i need my friends helping me here and advice me to how can i connect this two things (ROR and Postgre Sql) I need your help so much My eyes going blind because of searching and

Using rails 2.3.2 I have a partial _foo.rhtml that begins with a comment as follows: <% # here is a comment %> <li><%= foo %></li> When I render the partial from a view in the traditional way, e.g. <% some_numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] %> <ul> <%= render :partial => "foo", :collection => some_numbers %> </ul> I

I would like to take a rails page and convert it to a pdf. I don''t want to have to generate the code myself for making the pdf, so it should obey css. What is the best tool for doing this? Does the tool use the standard css, or can I provide it alternative print-css? Thanks in advance, Jonathan Steel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you

Hello, I have the following: <% @projects.each do |project| %> <tr> . <td><%= link_to ''Destroy'', project, :confirm => ''Are you sure?'', :method => :delete %></td> . </tr> <% end %> How can I safely comment out the TD line above? Do I have to use the =begin way? -- You received this message because you

I have these sql code in postgresql "SELECT * from convenios where id NOT IN (SELECT convenio_id from solicituds where usuario_id=?" but don''t find a way of used it in rails except find_by_sql. There is a another way?? class Usuario < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :persona has_many :solicituds, :dependent => :destroy has_many :convenios, :through =>

I was just wondering about locales and .yml files. Is it better to store the multilanguage strings in .yml files than in databases? And if yes, why? I was also wondering how rails are loading this files (for example, I have 4 languages in my web app, each has her own .yml file, will my rails app loads all the files in ram and then it will call each variable inside my web app? Or something else?)