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hi, i have a situation where i have a list of options from which a user selects his options if its not in the list he/she selects Others/Not Present and a new textfield should pop up and the data entered there should be considered instead of dropdown. i have done this using javascript/dhtml but i was wondering how this can be done using pure rails i.e using some of the RoR apis?. i would

hi, i have a situation where i have a list of options from which a user selects his options if its not in the list he/she selects Others/Not Present and a new textfield should pop up and the data entered there should be considered instead of dropdown. i have done this using javascript/dhtml but i was wondering how this can be done using pure rails i.e using some of the RoR apis?. i would

hi, i have noticed that the validations in RoR happen at server side mostly what sites do is using javascript they validate user information there... whats the point of doing it at the server side is it that loading of javascript file in a browser makes a response to client slow and validation at server side offsets that....????? any sugeestions???? is it that i am missing something as

hi, I recently attended one of the ruby meetings that we have in my city. There one of the speaker said that google,amazon .. are working on RoR but still the performance of RoR is not at par with J2EE others.... he meant that though google,amazon working o it they will not bring it as front applications only parts the reason ruby is slow in comparison to other languages.... and in real time

hi all, if i want to write a query select * from a,b where a.b_id=b.id in active record using joins,condition how can i write that in docs i found for conditions you do by giving "?" and then the parameter eg. a.b_id=? but it takes b.id as string i.e a.b_id=''b.id'' i dont want that any suggestions thanks in advance regards gaurav -------------- next

hi, all, I have a problem with image_tag, the url it generates keeps adding ???? at the tail. e.g. src="/images/gicon.jpg?1153577588??????????" src="/images/gicon.jpg?1153577588?????????????????" I''ve checked the source code of image_tag, and couldn''t find any solution. The ???? is appended to the "source" parameter before it goes to the real

hi, all i have been playing around with rails for sometime, i have seen most not all of the rails sites have similar look and feel (good one) i want to know how to use the stylesheets provided by the RoR framework if any or is it that we have to define on our own from scratch. basiclly i need information regarding how can i make my view better looking(the visuals) Thanks in advance warm

Hello I''ve encountered a little problem with zeros using the decimal data type Specifying a scale of 3 and inserting a number with 3 zeros after the point (for example 12345.000) it gets correctly stored in the database, but rails insists to show me the number only with the first zero after the point (12345.0) There is a way to tell rails to not truncate at the first zero?

Hi Could anybody please advice me to work with wecamera in Rails. What i want to do is to capture webcam images from a machine and send that data to a remote server there it needs to be processed. I have no idea of where to start.Please help Thanks in advance Sijo -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi- I''d like to load a PDF file into a page, in my controller: send_file "/path to/my.pdf", :disposition => "inline" However, instead of rendering inline, it asks to download the file. How can I display the contents without downloading? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Back in 2.1.1 everything was sweet: Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) >> include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper => Object >> number_to_currency(12.3) >> "$12.30" Then I upgraded to 2.3.2 and: Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3) >> include ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper => Object >> number_to_currency(12.3) >> 12.3

Hi, I could never find out what''s the difference between nginx and mongrel. All my searches say "nginx is a HTTP server ..." and "Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby....". For me they both mean "...HTTP server...". I kept up with this question for some time till I came across this santence from the guys at Friend for Sale: -----------------

When I do file_field within a form_for things are fine... but within a form_remote_for, with nothing else changed, I find that the params does not even have the element document[uploaded_file] even though it is definitely present in the HTML source in the form. Obviously the file upload fails. Am I missing something? Or has someone else faced this? Or is this a known bug? Rajesh

Hope this should be simple: I have a User model and a Role model. Factories for each. When I create a User using FG, I want to assign a specific role. Cant seem to figure out how to do this, getting errors like: uninitialized constant SysadminRole for doing things this way: Factory.define :user do |u| u.practice_id { |a| a.association(:practice).id } u.password ''password1''

Hi, Can anyone help me out re how I change the startup options for mysql (v5.0) running on my Mac? (I just want to add the "--log" option is about it). I tried doing "sudo ./Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM restart" however this started a 2nd instances of mysql & mysqld. Here is what I see start after Mac startup if this helps: $ ps aux | grep mysql _mysql 137 0.0

hi all, i have been trying to study web services using rails so far i succesful with server implementations in REST,SOAP,XML-RPC but the client code is troubling me. i have done most of the coding as per the rails book agile web development i.e implementations of the servers and when i invoke them they give result but when i try to acces them through another controller it gives time out error

Does anyone know if it''s possible to do multiple AJAX responses to a single request in Rails? I did some googling but didn''t find anything extremely helpful. Thanks. -- 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

Hello! I''m working on my first Rails app and I have a question regarding authentication. I already have authentication for signing up, logging in, logging out, etc. What I need is an account email activation function and a reset password (forgot password) function. I have read a little bit about Devise and watched the Railscast episodes on it, it seems nice, but is it possible to add

Hi all, I''ve installed paperclips but paperclip is not saving the files my model has has_attached_file :attachment,:styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb => "100x100>" } and i have db migration as class AddAttachmentToPolicies < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up add_column :policies,

Hi, I want to have a page in my Ruby on Rails application that is like a dynamic / updateable data grid. Like a matrix or spreadsheet segment (x rows, y columns) which one can click in any of the cells and make an update, which triggers some AJAX code to fire off the update, and then the responses come back and update whatever else needs updating based on this change. Is there a prototype