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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

I''ve setup two models, 1 and 2, that are associated by has_and_belongs_to_many. I''m trying to get an attribute from model_1 to use in a method in model_2. When I use the code below, I get an error saying ''undefined method model_1_id''. What am I missing? Thanks! Model_2.rb Class Model_2 < ActiveRecord::Base ... has_and_belongs_to_many :model_1 def

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

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

Apologies in advance ...this may be a really dumb question but here goes. @formatted_question[:a] contains text with HTML markup. I want to display it in a field so I can control its vertical and horizontal size on the page. When it is displayed on the page now, rather than interpreting the HTML, it is output into the text field as a string with all HTML tags showing. What am I doing wrong??

Hi, I''ve been stung when deploying a rails app to heroku, and I''m fairly confident the problem is the difference between my local db sqlite3, and the heroku standard free shared db which is postgres(i think). I have a scope in my model that looks like this scope :not_archived, :conditions => [''application_state != "archived"''] The idea is I want

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

Hello, I''ve got some experience in Java, and recently, I''ve begun to practice with Rails. One of the things that has surprised to me, after I''ve read some books, it''s that classes hasn''t got attributes; the attributes are in the files db/migrate/*. After that, the ORM makes the mapping with de Database. But the attributes aren''t in the files

Hello every body, I just started working on Ruby on Rails and as i am progressing I noticed that I can not start my WEBrick server on the Command prompt. The following are the various error messages that I am going. Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002] C:\Users\imedia2\Desktop\test\helloworld>ruby script/server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 2.3.5 application starting on

hi, i am using rails 3.0.10 i am trying with sample application for searching data from table and updating my search.html.erb file is <%= form_for (@employee) do |s|% <div id ="search_details"> <%= s.text_field :name%> <%= s.text_field :emp_id, :onfocus => ''sal(document.getElementById(''employee_name'').value);''%>

I''m creating my first Rails app and need an idea creating forms. I have Meeting model with place attribute. I want to have two fields for Meeting.place = one would be select with places from other meetings or text_field if the place is being used first time. User would be selecting radio_button of which field he has used. So is there any way to nest select and text_field within 2

Hey guys, As most of you know, Rails 3.1 introduces query caching for ActiveRecord. Great change all-in-all, but for those of us with IT department mandates for using MySQL (yeah, yeah, I know...), it''s kind of a mixed bag. I need to disable query caching in a project I''m building based on 3.1. I''ve tried a couple different approaches, both without any success. I

hi , I have started to learn ruby on rails and I''m an absolute beginner . when I try to rake a database like "rake db:schema:dump " I get this message : "rake aborted ! unknown database ''cms_development'' " although I have modified my database.yml and have created my database before. I''ll be appreciated if someone can help me with this thanks

The form is inside a table, enclosing a <tr> = form_tag admins_backoffice_dashboards_path, :remote =>"true" do %tr.search %th= link_to t(:clear), "#", :id => :clearFilter %th= select_tag :role, options_from_collection_for_select(Role.global, :id, :name, :selected => @role_id ) %th= text_field_tag :email, nil, :value

Hi, I''m working on an app for a colleague. He has written his own pagination class, but it is buggy and not very DRY. Therefore I replaced it with the well-known "will_paginate" gem, and that works just great. The only problem is, that although this works on my machine, my colleague (for whatever reason) refuses to install any additional gems on his machine (I guess this is

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.

Hey all, Chronic will parse a date range in console: Chronic.parse(1/1/2011 - 1/1/2012, :guess => false) => 2012-01-01 12:00:00 -0500..2012-01-01 12:00:01 -0500 However, when I use logger to check if it''s parsing in application, it is not: logger.info "The value of history date is #{history_date}" => The value of history date is 1/1/2011 - 1/1/2012

I am getting this message after run: ruby script/server and click in "About your application environment" in the browser. -- 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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To

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''

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 =