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What methods do people use to notify users of upcoming downtime in an application, and for handling requests nicely while scheduled downtime is occurring? My Google-fu is not yielding me anything useful-looking. -- 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

I have an app that varies its content based upon the domain from which it is being accessed. Some of the domain characteristics are supported in the model but it is easier varying static text in the views and then sharing the form templates via partials etc. Rails 2.3.10 and looking at the documentation at

Hello again, It''s possible to use before_filter in the application_controller, and exclude for some methods from other controllers ? i have a before_filter in application_controller that checks if the user is logged, if the time hasn''t expired, ... and I want to exclude some methods of this check, like the login. This ''login'' belongs to other controller. I

I''m setting up authentication with Authlogic and I get this error. I''ve done some searching but with no success. I tried setting the current_user method in Application_controller to protected and not private, on the recommendation in Stack Overflow. Error in browser----------------- NoMethodError in User sessionsController#new undefined method `require_no_user'' for

Hello, Maybe this is super-trivial... I need to have a list of links on the left hand side of my application, for *every* single page. So, I''ve created a layout called "main" (main.rhtml) under view/layouts, and included >layout "main"< in pretty all of my controllers. main.rhtml has, amongst all the other HTML stuff: <%= render_component

I stumbled across a weird problem i can do: @session[:userid] = 1 but cant: @session[:user_id] = 1 The second session var doesnt set. Is there a config setting for this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

From: root <root at ovirt.admin.virt.par.lng> Signed-off-by: root <root at ovirt.admin.virt.par.lng> --- src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb index 4c4666e..c7f8431 100644 ---

Signed-off-by: Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com> --- src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb | 2 +- src/config/environment.rb | 2 +- src/config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb | 6 +++++- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/src/app/controllers/application_controller.rb

Hi all I want to outsource an extension for ApplicationController, that I had in application.rb so far, into a plugin. I have created this plugin, and in init.rb I load require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/lib/application_controller'' In lib/application_controller.rb I have the following code: class ApplicationController before_filter :prepare_user ... end This worked

Hi Champs, Need Help .. :( Actually the thing is that i am having many controllers a, b, c and d.. But what i want it that only "a" should be displayed to the users .. b, c, d not .. Is there any way to do it .. ? Cheers .. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Greetings, I am new to act as autenticated and was wondering how i can check if the user has been logged in from their account. i would like to do this so i can show things a member can do in the main site (vote, comment, etc) thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

I''ve got a javascript that provides me with the timezone for the client. I want to use this to set Time.zone so that all my times stored in the database are displayed in the timezone for the client. So really simplistically var timezone = jstz.determine_timezone().timezone Time.zone = timezone.olson_tz obviously this can''t be done. I''ve taken a look on the web and can

I''m already successfully testing before_filters in application_controller courtesy of this blog post: http://www.movesonrails.com/articles/2008/01/23/spec-ing-your-application-controller However, i can;''t work out how to test the sort of method that is added to application_controller so that all controllers can use it. It must be something simple that i''m doing

In my save function in my (ajax!!!) controller, i''ve got a bit like this: if ... flash[:notice] = ''NOT SAVED: This month is locked'' render :partial => ''edit'' else save it... redirect to ''show'' action.... ... If i try to save an entry for a locked month, it correctly brings me back to my edit action with the

Hi, Is this possible Can I specify a url ie http://localhost/AccountName/:contorller/:action/:id Where AccountName is should be a userName, which will lookup a siteId in the database? Whats the best way of going about this, is there somthing in the routes.rb file I can change to get the account name into a variable? Thanks for your help jon -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Greetings, I''m working with the salted hash login generator. Is there a way to post a flash message if the user isnt authenticated for a section of my site and has to login? If so, where should I implement it? To understand what I am talking about, try and visit a Basecamp page without being authenticated. It posts a notice flash telling you to login. If you just directly visit

This is my environment.rb # Load the rails application require File.expand_path(''../application'', __FILE__) # Initialize the rails application Qstack::Application.initialize! require ''koala'' This is my application_controller.rb class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base # protect_from_forgery before_filter :parse_facebook_cookies def

Hi, I''m new to Ruby/RoR so please bare with me! I''m trying to adapt a ruby setup where someone logs in to a bonjour service via a web browser. I have the login screen which asks for host and password. There is only one user per host and i can log in fine. It''s suppose to redirect me to /list in my browser but doesn''t. Once i''ve entered the correct

In a test app, I have a drop-down selection to change the language of the site. I use an Ajax request to an action in which the locale is changed, and the it''s redirected to the home page unfortunately, the locale seems to be changed but the home page doesn''t reflect the new language .. application_controller.rb .. before_filter :set_locale def set_locale I18n.locale =

Is it possible to declare an instance variable in a controller that is available to every action without defining the variable in every action? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.