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Hi, We are encountering occasions where users post twice or more a form, basically we have detected two situations: a) The user push twice enter b) The user push double click on button "save" or "submit" We consider that this becomes a problem when creating (because we duplicate data) and we think that in some context it could become a security issue

Ive recently moved my files to amazon S3 storage. There is some functionality to allow an archive of files to be downloaded to a user via delayed job. So basically a project may have 10 documents in 10 different folders in the s3 bucket. What i need to do is zip the files up into one zip file and then send the user a link to download them. Im using https://github.com/qoobaa/s3 and paperclip to

So I''m updating multiple model objects in one go with something like this in my controller: => Photo.update(params[:photo].keys, params[:photo].values) When the update fails due to validation errors, how do I detect it? The Rails API says: "If the save fails under validations, the unsaved object is still returned." So I can''t simply do this: => if

Hi, Hi I am trying to use RSPEC on windows and i keep getting the following error "You must gem install win32console to use colour on Windows" I have installed this Gem but i am still getting the same error. The file that error is coming from is: C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rspec-0.8.2\lib\spec\runner\formatter\base_text_formatter.rb Do i need to put this line of code in? Where

I am trying to run instant rails on windows xp SP2. I can get the cookbook and typo sample sites to work with webrick but not with scgi. When i click the start with scgi i get a blank dos window and typing www.mycookbook.com returns Firefox can''t establish a connection to the server at www.mycookbook.com. This suggests that apache is not even running even though the green light is

I am having inconsistent output with multiple options in the spec.opts file. I can, for instance, pass --color or --colour, or, separately, use --drb. But when combining them I get: /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1381:in `complete'': invalid option: --options --color --drb (OptionParser::InvalidOption) from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1379:in `catch''

What''s a good solution for fixing character encoding problems for compatibility between ascii and utf-8? The database is postgres and is encoded in utf-8. Once in awhile there will be a compatibility error from strings from a webform. Is there a command to fix this besides using a_string.force_encoding(''utf-8'')? Even this doesn''t seem to always work either.

Can anyone tell me how to pass a value from a link_to in a view to a controler? The value is just a piece of text for the time being. <%= link_to ''About Us'', :action => ''about'', :params => ''string'' %> ??? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. The blog.rhtml in the layout folder has a the following code <td width=150 valign="top">This is the left menu</td> <td width=600 valign="top"><%= @content_for_layout %></td> <td width=150 valign ="top"><%= render :partial => "categorylist", :collection =>

Hi, I have a def in my controller see below where i want to find the page object based on a parameter value and then use the page_id to then find all the contents that belong to that page in the same method. Controller def aboutus @page = Page.find_by_name(params[''About Us'']) @contents = Content.find(:all, :conditions => "page_id = #{@page.id}") end

I have installed instant rails and configured it http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Getting_Started I can get typo and webrick to work on webrick localhost:3000 but cant get anything to work with scgi. When i start the scgi server i get a blank dos window screen. When i type www.mycookbook.com into the browser i get the following Unable to connect Firefox can''t

Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. I have 2 different views/models/controllers, 1 called post and 1 called comments. How do i link a post from the views/post directory to the comments that belong to the post in the views/comment directory. This is the code in the post/show.rhtml <%= render :partial => "post", :object => @post %> <%= link_to

In my blog a user can add comments. I want an Ajax call to add the comment to the bottom of the comments list. How to i return a comment thats is in the comment template and add it to the bottom of the page. I have gotten as far as rendering some text back to the form and the comment doesn''t display until i refresh. This is my _newcomment.rhtml form to create a new comment <div

Hello people In my rails 3.0.9 app I''m trying to add nested attributes dynamically, but I don''t want to use "nested form gem" So I found this example https://github.com/alloy/complex-form-examples/blob/a234fde4419836f277d7e340657f1d8418911d68/app/helpers/projects_helper.rb but this code doesn''t work module ProjectsHelper def

I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. from the layout page i pass all the posts as a collection to _archive.rhtml <%= render :partial => "archive", :collection => @archive %> On _archive.rhtml i have access to the collection. I am then gone to render partial another page _archivecount.rhtml to display the number of posts for each month. Can anyone give a clue

I am trying to implement a check all and uncheck all button for my check boxes. Here is what I have below. I am getting this error each time: Error: document.myform.add_visit_for_this_Pt has no properties Source File: http://localhost:3000/AddPatientVisit/addvisits Line: 1 Strange that I can''t seem to pass value into the function. Thanks for your help! <SCRIPT

I have two models, one model girl and one girl_photos (a file upload asset). The only code I have in models which describes the association is: For the girl => belongs_to :girl and has_attached_file :photo For the model girl_photos => has_many :girl_photos and accepts_nested_attributes_for :girl_photos I''ve tried to save as a nested attribute the photo, it saves the association

Hi ! I have the following: <li id="photo_<%= @photo.id %>" class="photo"> <%= link_to(image_tag(url_for_file_column(:photo, :picture)), {:action => ''photo'', :id => @photo}, {:title => @photo.description}) %> </li> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!--

Hi, In my model i want to overide the default find all for sorting purposes. Is this possible or can this only be done in the control or by adding a custom method in the model. def self.find_all() @contents = Content.find(:all, :order => ''pos, position_id'') end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.