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HI, I am creating n onlinecalendar sort of functionality for which the user input for events is taken. To make it user friendly, its left to the user to write the time down rather than selecting it from a datetime field in a form . The user can also specify a timezone. And while doing so its obvious that most inputs will be an abbreviation. My question is - is there a way to convert

Hi, after changing a primary key column name, the auto-increment information (MySQL) and sequence (Oracle) are lost. What is the correct way to rename primary keys? Thanks, Gustavo -- 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 just have a few questions about join tables. From my understanding the following applies (correct me if I''m wrong): 1.Join tables are always named with the names of the two associated tables, in alphabetical order, separated by an underscore. 2.The foreign key fields are named with the name of the table they are referencing, with _id appended. 3.The foreign key is referencing a

I am building an application and I have generated the scaffold for a product. In the list method I include something like my_date = Datetime.now and the result I get from the webrick is an error uninitialized constant Datetime Do I have to add a line with a require? I am new at ruby on rails thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

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.

Hi everyone, I am attempting to connect an already existing mysql database with Rails. For This I can''t use the traditional "generate scaffold" and "rake db:migrate" because (I think), I''ll loose the data already existing in that database table. So what I did was, I generated a scaffold for my table, and instead of running db:migrate, I added a

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/.

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"

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/.

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

Hi, How to embed ruby code in xml . here is my XML template : string = <<EOF <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ozxmlscene> <ozml version="4.0"> <styleRun style="1091379" offset="0" length="7"/> <text>The End</text> <object value="84"/> <object

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 ) )

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

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 :

Is ROR a good fit if I want to edit and expand on a developed script like RoundCube( http://roundcube.net/ )? I''m planing to edit it for my business as an order/transcript application. If anyone is interested this link is what I want to make. http://handoff.wordpress.com/

I have an iPhone version of my site, and for some reason none of the rjs works when viewing the iPhone version. This happens instead: ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template controller_name/ update.erb in view path app/views) The rjs works fine when viewing the site normally, and it worked when viewing the iPhone version prior to upgrading Rails to 2.3.2. Additional info: I have

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

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 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