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This is not a question but a report on the difficulties I had and the solution I found with respect to UTF-8, YAML::load, and Ruby/Rails. Comments are appreciated. - - - I had been struggling for two days to get UTF-8 working in my Rails app. I had/have a localization file, lib\locale\de.yml, that had iso-8859-1 encoding. I could not get that to display properly. Marnen, quite correctly,

I am working on a project that has some complex table associations, and I am having a hard time declaring this association in a Model, and fear it can''t be done. Here is an example of my issue... class StoreType < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Store < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base; end class Product < ActiveRecord::Base; end A StoreType has

I am experimenting with a combined form. I wish to force the HTTP verb for this form to PUT. However, it always uses POST when submitted and I cannot determine why. The view template code is: <%=form_for( @user, :html => { :class => :edit_user_role, :id => :edit_user_role_form, :method => :put }, :url => user_roles_url( @user ) )

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"

Any idea why this calculates the integer the way it does? irb> ("291.15".to_f * 100.0).to_i => 29114 Thanks, Tom -- 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

Hello, I''m using escape_javascript to return a partial to the browser via ajax. Something like: $("#inject").html("<%=escape_javascript(render :partial =>"feed/ index")%>"); Problem is escape_javascript ends up outputing all kinds of wasted space like \n\n\n\n\n \n Is there anyway in Rails to escape_javascript more

Is there a relatively easy way to do this code in sql? @categories=Category.all.reject{|n| n.blank?}.sort{|a,b| a.name <=>b.name}.collect{|t| [t.name,t.name.downcase.gsub('' '',''_'')]} -- 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

hi, im totally a newbie so i have got no idea whatsoever why i got this error, the thing that happend was i was doing a little coding along with the lynda.com rails series that i got this error. well as u can see this is the error which i get on terminal, but there is another one in browser too which says : "NoMethodError in AdminController#index " u can see it in the picture here :

I have a controller test here: http://gist.github.com/275616, which works fine when account is an independent model, however I want: an account to be a property of user, ( and created and associated when a user is) when the user goes to /account/edit it should on edit the account of the logged in user - I can make rails do this, but I''m utterly baffled how I should alter this test to

Just a poll here i am looking for a good IDE for rails and wondering what you guys use? features i like in an ide code highlites auto code complete file browser Currently i am using dreamwever but the code highliting is really bad its also a pain to set up other doucment types such as .yml data config. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Looks like I''ve gotten my app upgraded successfully, at least in the browser. When I ''rake test'' I get no love. I know I can start digging through the Rails rake tasks, first want to see if anyone has an idea what is going on: DKMac:creditcompare3 DK$ rake test (in /Users/DK/Documents/ror/projects/creditcompare3) DKMac:creditcompare3 DK$ (requesting verbose fares just

I''ve tried out ''acts_as_taggable'', ''acts_as_taggable_on'' and ''acts_as_taggable_on_steroids'' and all of them output "undefined method ''empty?''" with the tag_cloud action. I am following the guides precisely. Yet I can find no references to this error anywhere, so I must be doing something wrong... I am on

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

Hi Folks, I use render :js => "alert(''Test !'')" in my modele, but instead of having the alert displayed, the browser try to donload a file containing this string : <<render :js => "alert(''Test !'')">>. Do you know why I the browser behaves such a way ? Regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

I am pretty new at rails and seem to be stuck on an issue. Trying to find a way to get me app admin to create a form on our rails app. These would include: - Select form control type - Select required validation - Select price change if selected How should I even start going at this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk"

Hi everyone! :) I''m currently accomplishing what I want, but I''d like to clean it up a bit. I''ve placed the following items in an array (please excuse my lack of proper syntax): @widgets = [1, red] [2, blue] [3, red] [4, blue] I''d like to learn a way to search through the @widgets variable an separate the widgets, so that I could have: @blue_widgets = [2,

Hi, I''m trying to get my javascript to execute after clicking a link on my page using :format => "js" here''s my link: <%= link_to image_tag("/images/icons/user_add.png"), add_contact_path(:profile_id => profile.id, :url => request.url, :format => "js"), :title => "Add person to your contacts"%> in my controller i have

I''m using Shoulda. After copying the code here.... .... http://joshuaclayton.github.com/code/2009/07/14/should-act-as-list.html.... into my test_helper file so I can test acts_as_list, I came across issues. For one I realized I had to get rid of the _ between the "should" and "have" in past cases, but here, I get this error when I run my unit test:

OK ... so I''m not supposed to use it but ... Why doesn''t rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError work witht he code from http://www.rubyplus.org/episodes/20-Extended-RESTful-Authentication-Rails-2-App.html class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base helper :all # include all helpers, all the time # See ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection for details

Hi All, I can''t seem to render a template outside of a controller in my Rails 3 application. The googling I''ve done has been helpful, and I eventually found some useful info at http://www.swombat.com/rails-rendering-templates-outside-of-a-contro. However, this seems to be broken in Rails 3. Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this method or perhaps know of a better