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I''m writing an upload script for contact management, but having encoding issues: #=> Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xFA" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 I will not always know the encoding supplied, and this is the result of `some_string.encode("UTF-8")` I have also tried .force_encoding("UTF-8") to no avail. For now I''m simply trying to

Thoughts on using WickedPDF vs PDFKit vs. Prawn or others for developing forms with dynamic content? TIA, Garrett Lancaster -- 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 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"

Hey guys, Trying to figure out how to do something like the following: class Child belongs_to :parent has_field :some_field, :through => :parent end class Parent has_one :child attr_accessible :some_field end child.some_field #=> parent.some_field child.some_field = value #=> sets parent.some_field = value I can of course accomplish this by adding custom accessors

hi all: when using namespace or nested resources in routes.rb,such as "namespace :admin { resources :books }, we can use [:admin,@book] way to generate path. It works fine in form_for , but when I use it with respond_with in controller, I get problems. The problem is when I put following code in controller: def create @book=Book.find(params[:id])

I''ve been writing a gem to implement and extend common controller functionality so that Rails can be used with Javascript frameworks like AngularJS (which we are using), Ember.js, etc. in such a way that the user doesn''t have to tweak a a bunch of rails g controller boilerplate code to provide services for use in these frameworks that in turn would require various changes to

My ajax stopped working when I switched to using respond_with. For my Votes, I have the create action and the corresponding create.js.erb, and respond_to :html, :js, :xml in the controller. Heres the log when I try and create a vote: Started POST "/stories/3-asdfasdf1111/votes" for 127.0.0.1 at Fri Jan 14 20:46:36 -0800 2011 Processing by VotesController#create as */* Parameters:

Does anyone know how to open a file like the below? "Filedata"=>#<File:/var/folders/9D/9D8PtWGBFgmSvF-Ue+uD9++++TI/-Tmp-/RackMultipart20110121-7108-6aqdij-0>} file_column is used to upload a document and i need to open it just with the information above, Any ideas? JB -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

I have: <%= form_for(@supplier) do |f| %> ....... ...... <%= render ''sector_categories'', :locals => {:f => f} %> in _sector_categories partial I have: <div class="field"> <div id="category_update"> <% for category in @categories %> <%= f.check_box :category_ids[], category.id,

The test: test "should get new" do get :new, :room_id => @room.name assert_template(:ne) end the template new does not exists but the test does not get failure. Why? -- 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 all, I''ve just started working on another RoR project after a couple of months away. I''m having trouble with named routes, specifically root_* In previous apps I''ve used root_path and root_url without any problems, but in this project (2.3.2 - the same as my last project where I used it) it comes up undefined. I''ve double and triple checking my routes.rb,

I have problems on a simple design problem. I have many companies. Each company have one or more commercial activity. Activities types are: ecommerce, local unit, television, automatic vending machines, and so on. Company may have one or more ecommerce activity or one or more local unit activity, one ormore vending machines, etc. How can I model this scenario? Company has_many ecommerce has_many

Today was expected the new stable rails release 3.0.9 with some fixed, among all the problem with escape_javascript. It seems that it see that has not been released, unfortunately. -- 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

Even reading the documentation I can not figure out what is the select_tag difference between this: <% = select_tag (bags [], "options_for_select (bags.collect @ {| bb | [bb.bag_type, bb.id]}, ruser.bags.collect @ {| ub | ub.id}), {: multiple => true,: id => "bags"})%> and this: <% = select_tag "bags [], " options_for_select (bags.collect @ {| bb

Hi, I''m currently in the process of switching from my previous web page management tool (by coincidence also called "webgen" ;-) to webgen-0.5 and stumbled upon a problem regarding the definition of menus, which I can not resolve either by the online documentation or the previous posts in the different groups (maybe it is a too trivial question?) I want to define a standard

Suppose I have this controller: class SalesController < ApplicationController respond_to ????? def get_price @price = Product.find(params[:product_id]).price respond_with ????? end end 1) What do I specify for respond_to() so that get_price() will accept ajax requests? 2) What do I specify for respond_with() if all I want to do is return @price? -- Posted via

Hello, So let say I created this class with the following method that responds to xml or json. class UsersController < ApplicationController::Base respond_to :html, :xml, :json def index respond_with(@users = User.all) end def create @user = User.create(params[:user]) respond_with(@user, :location => users_url) end end How do I call the create action from another

I have a .cfg configuration file for a xen virtual machine. I need to convert it in xml format to use with libvirt. So I run virsh domxml-from-native xen-xm backupsrv.cfg but I have an error: error: Unknown failure. How can I investigate about the error?

Hey all, For those of you interested in view isolation in controller specs, an issue has been reported with ActionController''s new respond_with method. Please take a look at http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/103 and add comments if you have any thoughts on the matter. Thanks, David

Hi. When you use respond_with in a controller #create method and want to render XML the response gets the http status 201 (Created). But if you use a view to render this XML response_with uses the status 200 (Ok), for example when you use the gem rabl. I cannot determine if this matter is related to Rails or rabl. If it''s from Rails, is there a particular reason for this behavior?