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I''ve got a web-app currently partially working. The user uploads a .txt, .docx or .doc file to the server. Currently the model handles those files, saves some metadata (the extention and orig filename) then saves the file to the hard drive. Next it converts the doc and docx files to plain text and saves the output to a txt file. My problem is I want to copy the plain text contents of

Hello, I''ve been trying for hours to parse an XML using Hpricot. Usually it''s not a problem. Here''s my simple code: #This works and outputs the proper xml data @url1 = ''http://www.sportingnews.com/stories/sportingnews/MLB/rss.xml'' @page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1)) <%= @page 1 %> #This does not work, and I''m scratching my head @url1 =

Hey everybody, I''m trying to make an example of a small networking site, and when I log in a user, it should redirect and show his profile, but I get the following error: NoMethodError in User#index Showing app/views/user/index.html.erb where line #5 raised: undefined method `screen_name'' for nil:NilClass Extracted source (around line #5): 2: Your basic information 3:

Hi Everyone, I am pretty new to Rails. I have very little idea about everything. But for my new project i have been asked to do some research on Solr search and implement it on Rails. Please provide me some link on tutorials and guides about Solr on Rails. Trouble is... have to do it by tomorrow. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are

Im a new user - I just installed rails, following directions here: http://rubyonrails.org/download however, when it came time to make a rails new path/etc/etc I get this message: Can''t initialize a new Rails application within the directory of another, please change to a non-Rails directory first. The only complication during the download was that I had to upgrade from version 1.8.6 to

Hi, I have a rails app running which provides an interface to create/update data stored in a DB. How do i develop a cmd line interface to do the same i.e i should be able to retrieve/update data to a DB. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email

I have a posts controller and a pages controller for ''static'' pages ie my homepage I want to have the latest post shown on the homepage.... accessing the posts controller from within the pages controller Is there a way I can do this? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

Hi there, I''m newbie here and I have a problem with the connection with MongoDB. The connection among Rails and MongoDB works, but I don''t know, how to print only one "column" from document. If I''m trying following a part of code: puts db["testCollection"].find_one().inspect So I''will get the entire structure of BSON, as:

Hello All, I am very new to Ruby on Rails and I have a quick question for you all, which is as follows: I have this following line of code in an partial that renders itself on the posts/index view: Created By (User): <%= User.find(:all, :select => ''name'', :conditions => ["id = ?", 1]) %> (I am hard-coding that ''1'' there) Now, when I run

Could someone please demonstrate the code to send both json (or xml) AND javascript (to be executed) in a single Ajax request? Is this even possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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''m following a rails tutorial (Hartl) and it''s been fine so far, but something doesn''t seem to be working right. I have two basic models so far, "User" and "Micropost". class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :microposts end class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end If I do something like: "first_user =

Hi Is there any freeware anybody would recommend for showing database models and how they relate to each other? I''m picking up an app another developer left in a mess and I''m trying to sort it out. Diagrams would be a great help. Suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

HI, guys, How to remove a table with migration, i saw a drop down method in migration created file , how can i use that ? thank you. -- 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

hi there, How do we share variables in a given data migration? For example, the code below fails to work because "statuses" don''t seem to be in scope for both up and down. class AddDefaultValuesToStatuses < ActiveRecord::Migration statuses = [ { ''details'' => ''details'', }, {

Hello, I am building an application that consists of two areas; a website and an API. I would like the website to use HTTP and the API to use HTTPS. How can I set this up for my Development Environment? I am using Thin, which I can start using the --SSL flag. However this means any HTTP urls will fail. As far as I can see it is impossible to have a server handle both HTTP and HTTPS, so how do

I am using http.get in a model to parse html code returned from a Oracle server. My first try was to use assertions (assert and assert_select) to test and parse the html code. But I have problems including the methods in the model. Have tried both "include" and copy/paste to get assertion methods into my model. Works as a model, but I get load errors when I am using the model from a

I just installed my RoR application on my ISP''s server. This is a Cpanel environment and it creates a .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xyz.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.xyz.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1\:12001\/$1" [P,L] in a public_html directory. (I changed my domain name in the text above to xyz because we are

Hi Im trying to link my User model to a Teams model. I seem to be getting the following errors. Any help would be great as Im just new to RoR Thanks error ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in UsersController#update Team(#2183395560) expected, got String(#2174675960) app/controllers/users_controller.rb:67:in `update'' app/controllers/users_controller.rb:66:in `update''

So I just got involved in a huge team project with RoR and PostgreSQL. But I can''t find anywhere on the internet to find a proper way to put them together. I did find one but it is for iOS :-/ http://railscasts.com/episodes/342-migrating-to-postgresql?view=asciicast I have them both installed and the gem package for postgres also. the database.yml is already configured. I just

Hello guys, I have two tables, tasks and projects, and each model I put: Task.rb class Task < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :user_id, :project_id, :name belongs_to :project end Project.rb class Project < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :name, :description has_many :tasks end But when I go to my prompt and I make a SELECT with task, none project is returned.