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Hi peoples, I'm trying to work out a function which will allow me to relace column names on the basis of substrings within the existing names. e.g. I'd like: blah.Na blah2.Na blah3.Mg blah4.Mg blah5.K blah6.K R1 x x x x x x R2 x x x x x x ... to become: Na (%) Na (%) Mg (%) Mg

Hello, all. I found that so many unnessary queue files are saved at /var/spool/clientmqueue/ directory. I tested two way to delete these files. 1. # rm -rf /var/spool/clientmqueue/* 2. # cd /var/spool/clientmqueue/ ; find . | xargs rm -fv But this makes a few load of the system and took too much time to delete. What is the best way to delete fast without too much load?

Hi, How can I use a substring match as a condition in a subset command? Sth like this: subset(input, field1=="blah1" & field2=="blah2") # but now with substring match in field2 subset(input, field1=="blah1" & field3 *substringmatch* "blah3") I've tried with gsub, but it won't work: subset(input, field1=="blah1" &

Hi, ? I tried to use the syslinux.exe (version 4.04)?to make my usb drive bootable. When i run the syslinux.exe with the respective options I get this error ? "Accessing physical drive: The request is not supported. Did not successfully update the MBR; continuing..." ? I have administrator privilege and I started cmd prompt with "Run as Administrator" option too. I tried the

HI, I got this error when i am testing my rails application. I dont have the table named ''instructions''. But it shows a error like "ERROR: relation "instructions" does not exist". Totally, I got same error for 64 tests as 64 errors. I am using rails 3.0, Ruby 1.9.2, Netbeans 6.8. PS: I didnt creat Instruction manual for rails application. *Error:

Dear List, Need to know if anyone on this list has had any experience with using the Nortel BCM 50 for Call Account Reporting using an IP connection to a Linux / Asterisk interface? Presently, I have a BCM 50 installed that uses a local Lenova Small Form Factor PC with a windows XP / os that quit reporting because of a up-grade to the Nortel reporting software. Nortel support is now telling

I''m trying to get a collection_select generated Drop-down box to display two fields from a table (first name & last name); however, I am having trouble concatenating the symbols. It appears as though any code I put in the 5th argument for collection_select is processed prior to executing the collection_select method. The code executes successfully with 1 symbol in the 5th

Hi, I have built a select field that allows multiple options selected with collection_select and "multiple"=>"multiple". How do I go about receiving the values? If I use a variable name like collection[], it complains that I can''t use @collection[] as the instance variable. TIA victor

I would like to add javascript ''onChange'' event handling for a select field, such as <%= collection_select("job", "client_id" , @clients, "id", "name") %> with onChange="xxx" Anyone know how to make this work? Thank you, Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello - I am fairly new to Ruby on Rails, but feel like I am learning quick. I have what seems to be a fairly unique issue as I cannot find much out there that describes what I''m seeing. Hopefully it''s a very simple fix, and I simply can''t see the forest through all the trees! I am attempting to create 2 related drop-down lists in the same form_for, both using

I want to be able to change one attribute of a link_to to be what is the current selection of the collection_select. And needless to say I can''t quite figure it out. app/views/tasks/show.html.erb Who would you like to assign this task to?<br /> <%= link_to ''Myself'', :controller => ''task_queues'', :task_id => @task.id, :action =>

Hi, I have 2 models: Model 1: er, Columns: <er_id, er_name> Model 2: er_process, Columns: <er_id, er_process_name> er_id is a foreign key for Model 2. When I am creating a new er_process or editing an existing one, I have been successful to use collection_select to show the available er''s so that the user can select a particular er by its name (to populate the er_id

Hello, I am quite a newbie to RoR, I hope you maybe able to help. I have a collection_select in a _form.rhtml: "collection_select(:assets, :model_id, @models, :id, :model_ref,options={:prompt => ''- Select a model -''})" As you see my drop down menu will show the model_ref column. 1) Is it possible to have more than one column. For example I would like to

Hi everyone! Model: http://pastie.org/511290 Controller: http://pastie.org/511285 View new: http://pastie.org/511286 View _form: http://pastie.org/511284 When I hit submit button there''s an error for usuarios(users in portuguese) instance. It does not seems to save usuarios even though it seems to be posted by the form. Error: http://pastie.org/511292 Need some help here guys plz --

The rails docs are so horrible on the collection_select method. They need to show a *complete* form, and show two examples: one that calls f.collection_select(), and another that calls collection_select(), and explain the differences. Given this line: f.collection_select :topic, Topic.all, :id, :category What the !@#$!@#$ is :topic? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

I have a machine with two swap partitions (sda2 and sda8). Both will have none as mount point. When I try to use puppet (using mount type) for managing fstab I get problems because "name" in both instances (i.e. mount path) will be "none". How should I fix this within puppet? Regards Halvard Moe

I am creating a data entry form that allows a user to fill in multiple rows and save them all at once. In my controller, I create an array of "person" objects and pass it to the page. On the page, I have a text field like so: <%= text_field "person", "name", "index" => 1 %> Note the "index" attribute, which sets the name and id

hello, supposing i have a User class that contains a Wibble class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :wibble end in my view i have <%= collection_select :user, :wibble, Wibble.find(:all), :id, :name %> when i post, i get an error like "Wibble expected, got String" how/where am I supposed to convert this posted wibble_id into a Wibble, or am I using collection_select

sorry for the noob question: how do i reference an association''s properties in a form helper? e.g. if i wanted to build a select list to choose a user''s address''s state (user.address.state), how would i hook that to the "method" of collection_select collection_select :user, ???, States.find(:all)

I have a Shipment class that is used to ship packages between Branches. However, when I try to have two belongs_to in Shipment called shipped_to and shipped_from I can''t seem to make it work. I can get it to display the form properly but when I select the branches and click save I get the following error... "Branch expected, got String" Any ideas? I have added some code