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Hi everybody, I know this is an easy question but I don''t seem to see the solution. I''m trying to have a user select a file so that my code can parse it and populate the database with corresponding values. So far it seems like uploads but nothing shows in my db. Can anybody give me a hand? thanks view: h1>Importing Strings<h1>

Hi everybody, Ruby on Rails is my first programming lenguage...it looks to me like i''m missing the big picture. I''m trying to upload a file into a database. In my app. my user needs to select a file and upload it...however I only want him to upload certain information from that file. I have written code to parse only string tables from that file. For example, the table

Hi, I have two models: category and subcategory. (one to many relationship), and a controller ''home'' I''d like to display all the categories and their sub categories in the view: home\index.rhtml. I have a method in the ''home'' controller'' like this: def list_categories @categories = Category.find(:all) end This list all the categories

Hi, I''m quite new to this language and I''m having trouble finding out simple things like a dropdown menu in rhtml. I know I have to use <% select_tag %> but I''ve read lots of different ways to put in the options so I''m a bit confused. Options are hard-coded for the menu I''m trying to create so no database is involved! Thanks v much! Bex --

Hi, I am using standard Ruby library openURI to capture the HTML code from other pages. The problem openURI does not work for capturing pages from the same rails application. Here is the code: class CdCreatorController < ApplicationController require ''open-uri'' def generate lines = [] file = open("http://127.0.0.1:3001/cd_creator/product/1"){ |f|

I have a many-to-one relationship between a model named Category(one) and a model named Brands (one). How can I get ActiveRecord to order the brands by the "name" attribute? This seems like a simple question and I can think of long ways around it but there has go to be a way to do this by accessing @category.brands . Can anyone help? I tried the code below in the controller but it

Is the REST Controller (for calling APIs through the REST interface) already built-in ?? Or, I have to generate one -- generate controller rest ?? MSN id: ICEMANyears@netscape.net -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I wander if it is possible to force reload of all ActiveRecord object''s of some class that are already loaded, something like Book.reload_all? I know that I am able to reload specific objects with reload method but I would like to reload all that are currently in memory. thanks in advance, Bojan -- Bojan Mihelac Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. |

Hi, In my environment.rb, I have set: config.active_record.schema_format = :ruby Whenever I do a rake db:migrate, both db/development_structure.sql and db/schema.rb get generated. This shouldn''t happen should it? I thought I should only get db/schema.rb? Thanks, Jordan

Does anyone know where I can find good documentation on how to use RJS template. I know I can do various things with the page object: page.visual_effect :shake, ''some_id'' Is there a list of method I can run on the page onject and what parameters they are expecting? I can''t find this anywhere. Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com

Is there a simple way to get the original url which spawned a controller action, including any query parameters? Thanks in advance, Don Mc -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there something similar for rails that is like $_SERVER in PHP? Something that gives you the hostname, etc. I tried using just host in my controller, because the documentation says there is a host method, and got an undefined method error. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for development of RoR apps? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I need to create a news posting system without the use of a database. I''m going to create a file for each news post and have the view post each file in a specific directory as HTML. The newspost will contain: 1. A title. 2. A date. 3. The body. In the text file, I want line 1 to be the title, line 2 to be the date, and everything from line 3 on down to the be the body. What method

Hii all , I am trying to create a button that, when clicked on, calls a method in a controller . I am thinking that button_to_function is good to use for that i made htnl viwe like <h1>File Upload</h1> <p><label for="upload_file">Select File</label> : <%= file_field ''upload'', ''datafile'' %></p>

I am beginner for this Rails from the past 2 days I am working hard to fix the following error C:\Murali Rubby\demo\library>rake db:migrate --trace (in C:/Murali Rubby/demo/library) ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:migrate == CreateBooks: migrating ==================================================== --

when i tried to crate an upload file application in rails i am getting error like this Template is missing Missing template app\views\upload\uploadfile.html.erb in view path app/views this is ma model class DataFile < ActiveRecord::Base def self.save(upload) name = upload[''datafile''].original_filename directory = "public/data" # create the

Does anybody know if there is a big performance/time cost difference between these two methods of serving a file: ------------------------------- #1 ----------------------------------------- send_file "test.png", :type => ''image/png'', :disposition => ''inline'' ------------------------------- #2------------------------------------------

This clarifies the dns setup section in the installer and notifies to use the bundled dns setup if the management server is not in the upstream dns already --- installer/bin/ovirt-installer | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/installer/bin/ovirt-installer b/installer/bin/ovirt-installer index 2d88886..862c5e2 100755 --- a/installer/bin/ovirt-installer +++

Hi there, I am a newbie and interested in learning Ruby on Rails. I see there are 2 books out there: Ruby for Rails Ruby techniques for Rails developers David A. Black and Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, and Thomas Fuchs Which one should I get? "Agile Web Development with Rails"