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Hey guys, I wanted to share with you guys a detailed tutorial I just finished this weekend for using Acts_As_Ferret. http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial I started using Ferret and Acts_As_Ferret a few weeks ago, and I learned so much that I wanted to give back to the community by writing up a helpful tutorial that covers all the key topics in one

I''ve got quite the ActiveRecord challenge, any help would be appreciated. In my current project Companies can have many reviews. class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :reviews, :as => :reviewable end However, my company table, I have two different IDs to identify my company. id - This is the typical id we use for normal stuff other_company_id - This is the id we use

Please help, I have an application I switched over to UTF-8, but I am unable to decode URLs with unicode characters in them properly. For instance, if I have "item=Pur%E9ed" as a parameter in my url, when it''s decoded by rails, it returns "Pur?ed" and not "Pur?ed". Is there an easy way to fix my controller to accept these characters properly?

Please help, Does anyone know how to override the Mongrel request URI limits built in? I know it was set at a 512 byte limit, but my application will not work with this in place. Why do I need a larger limit? I''ve written a rails application that uses a bookmarklet to send large amounts of data from site to site. The only way to do this is (and keep it cross browser

Hey friends, I need a little assistance getting one of my applications running on OSX. I am able to install everything, and get my application running, but when I try to store an object in the session in one of my apps, the session object doesn''t get stored. I tried running webrick, and I tried running under lighttpd. I tried running a regular session store, and a mysql

Hey guys, This morning Jason Seifer and I released a new screencast website called EnvyCasts. If you enjoy the content that comes from Rails Envy, then maybe check it out. Our first screencast is "Advanced ActiveRecord", which is available for just $9 bucks at http://envycasts.com How are our screencasts different? Well, we use a green screen, which means you actually see

Please help, I have followed the rails wiki to convert my rails application to use UTF-8: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToUseUnicodeStrings I am able to succesfully cut and paste Unicode characters from other page, successfully store and display unicode characters. However, my client actually wants ISO-8859-1 encoding, which I''m coming to realize is somehow

I''ve read the Rails Envy AAF tutorial at http://railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial and its given me some really good ideas. My problem lies in having AAF search the target Model''s child tables. I have no problem at all doing something like: acts_as_ferret :fields => [:title, :update_collection, :member_name] def member_name return

Hey guys, Simple question here. I have a single index of recipes, from which I''m looking at the following fields: Name, Ingredient Text, Tags, and Description. The key is, I want to show all the results that come from Name, before I show any of the results from Ingredient Text, Tags, or Description. I tried doing this: acts_as_ferret :fields => { :name =>

This works: oggenc -b 192 -a "Astral Projection" -l "In the Mix - CD1 (Sundown)" \ -t "Another World" -o "01-another_world-(floorplay_remix).ogg" \ -c "TRACKNUMBER=01" -c "TRACKCOMMENT=Floorplay_remix" \ 01-another_world-(floorplay_remix).wav But this doesn't: oggenc -b 192 -a "Astral Projection" -l "In

As part of my work, I am trying to append matrices onto data frames. Naively I assumed that when rbinding a data.frame and matrix, the matrix would be coerced and appended, keeping the names from the data frame. Clearly, I am not fully understanding the process by which rbind works. Example code: > A<-data.frame(1,1,1); names(A)=letters[1:3] ; B<-matrix(0,2,3) > rbind(A,B)

I have Rails 1.1.2, ruby 1.8.4 and gentoo linux running kernel 2.6.15. Here are the errors: gregg@gregg2 ~/user/DMS $ rake test (in /home/gregg/user/DMS) /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/ ordered_options.rb:2: warning: method redefined; discarding old []= /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/ ordered_options.rb:11: warning: method

hi I have installed ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix on my acer aspire one and after that I had some problems in installing wine. and now every time i wanted to edit source code or repositories it tells: "E: Type 'b-src' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-maverick.list E: The list of sources could not be read. Go to the repository dialog to correct

Peter, I am trying to get memdisk to work with grub and have run into a problem. Grub loads memdisk into the 0x9000 segment and then starts it at location 0x90200. I run into problems in the first printf statement. It turns out that printf uses a switch statement that compiles into a jump table. When I reach this jump table, I believe the code is jumping into hyperspace due to the jump table

I'm written a function that uses nls in a loop to fit a model to resampled data. Occasionally a sample is drawn such that the algorithm (apparently) can't converge and step factor reduced below minimum is printed to the screen. I tried a few different settings for the minFactor parameter in nls.control with no different result. When this happens, I would like my function to put NAs

Does anyone out there have any thoughts on the type of load common DTrace scripts would cause on a system if run 24x7? I know "common DTrace scripts" and their underlining probe calls a vague statement. So for the lack of a common and establish set of scripts in the OS, I''ll use the most popular right for my question...the DTraceToolkit from Brendan Gregg. Which by the

I have read the highlighting section at http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/2/19/acts-as-ferret-tutorial#highlighting It mentions that for highlight to work I must have {:store => :yes}. However it also mentions that only "small" fields should be stored. My question is how small is small enough. I have a site where events information is maintained. I have events title and events

Hey, I''m probably just missing something really obvious but I''ve been stuck on this problem for a while now and I''m not getting anywhere. I have installed the acts_as_ferret gem, as well as ferret according to the tutorial on RailsEnvy. My model, controller, and environment.rb files have all been modified as per that turotial. However any attempts to use the

Hi, What is the required size of the echo residue buffer in speex_echo_cancel function? The mdf.c source would suggest that it's frame_size + 1, while preprocessor.c source claims it's frame_size. Bug? Or am I missing something? I am using 1.2beta1. Thanks, Gregg

I've got a netbook, circe 2009. When I got it, not that I was wild about ubuntu, but there was specifically an ubuntu netbook remix. Well, it's a few years later - has anyone put CentOS (6, preferably) on a netbook, and were there any problems? mark