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Hello, I have to code a small application for a car repair shop running under Windows (98 SE but may be my client could upgrade to 2000) and using RoR is my definite choise ! The app will be powered by WebRick (which is enough powerfull for a small app used by only ONE user at a time) My questions are targeted to the best database to use... I had a look to SQLite and Firebird but support

Hello, I''ve heard these words to describe a RoR application returning an empty page. This happen from time to time even here, in the forum. That is the cause of this misbehaviour ? Is it related with something external to RoR itself ? What is the solution to avoid the WSOD ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! I''m looking for a good tutorial that explains the main points of performing queries with Rails. I do have AWDWR and have read the section on ''find'' but I''m looking for something that goes into more detail on how to perform queries across tables. Abstracted from my current application, this is an example: * person has_many sites * site has_one room *

Hi ! There must be something I don''t understand clearly in acts_as_list I have a list of gallery entries (images + text), model is GalleryEntry. I have a field in_exhibition (boolean) I want the list to be sorted with a scope on in_exhibition : from 1 to N for every record having in_exhibition = false and 1 to N for every record having in_exhibition = true When I use acts_as_list

I would like to get at all models in a rails application to be able to add a field to every one of them as part of a migration. Something like the following: Appmodels.each { |x| add_column x.table_name.to_s, :foo, :text } I understand I can get the table name using ActiveRecord::Base#table_name, but how do I get all the models into an array that I can use in the above manner? -- Cheers, Hasan

Hi all, Is it possible to configure red cloth to escape a block such as: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, _this_ works *beautifull* [code lang="ruby"] def foo bar end [/code] ------------------------------------------------------------------ The text in the [code] block should not be parsed by Red Cloth''s to_html method. I cannot

I just installed ruby, lighttpd, and mysql from darwinports on me laptop in lieu of the Apple version of ruby. Now when I fire up my rails application, it''s not running lighttpd anymore -- it''s running webrick. It also exits immediately. MySQL is running, the database and tables are restored from the backup. What step am I missing? Thanks for the help! Cheers, Hasan

Easy one: Let''s say I have a table called ''employees'' with a column called salaries, how can I add Employee.salaries_total to the model? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello list, I''m trying to start my Rails server after doing a long complex switch from Postgres to MySQL, and I''m getting the following error: => Booting WEBrick... /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in `const_missing'': uninitialized constant ApplicationController (NameError) from

I am evaluating rsync for the mirroring of a website and associated database. To exercise it and establish the correct run string I need I am running tests LOCALLY between two test directories. I have a /scratch/temp/Departure and a /scratch/temp/Arrival trees. I apply changes to the Departure tree, run rsync, and do a diff -r. Now I delete a file in Departure rm Departure/Quattro/uno.file

Hey, Does anybody know of a good Geocode library for Ruby, similar to Perl''s Geocode::Postal, that i could use in my rail app? I need to do some "within 5 miles" calculations of zipcodes and i dont have a nice ruby (or gem) utility to do it. any help would be appreciated. thanks adam _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

Hello, I have been trying for some time to get a file to upload using the file_column plugin. My code is here: http://pastie.caboo.se/7304 But my code is not the issue. I cannot even pass the unit test that come with the file_column plugin. If I run ruby file_column_test.rb i get: 1) Error: test_store_dir_callback(FileColumnTest): TypeError: can''t convert Fixnum into String

i''m still pretty new to rails, and while i''ve been able to hack my way into having it do what i want so far, i''m not happy with the way my code looks. on top of that, i''m sure that what i''m doing prlly isn''t the most efficient either. one of my biggest problems is probably to do with using relationships and forms together. i''ve

I have to tables: "articles" and "groups". Between I have article_groups as a jointable. Now I want to select every article who is a member of group with id ''1'' and id ''2''. Whats best way to get that? Extract from schemas: CREATE TABLE articles ( id int auto_increment, ingress text NOT NULL, story_text longtext, constraint fk_items_users

I''d like to implement the search capabilities of Ferret and am looking for sample code to see how it''s done. I''m thinking my controller creates the index when "Search" is clicked and a partial is rendered. What is this partial supposed to look like? Is it built in to rails/Ferret? Thanks for the help! Cheers, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@gmail.com>

Rails 3.1.3 Hi. I have designed the database used for my travel plan application. You should be able to look at the diagram in the link below, hopefully. https://cacoo.com/diagrams/biDSyxh8yzk2kIeg ("belongs_to" is omitted since it''s obvious) Basically, the application can list the destinations from a choice of the departure. Not mention that the departure_id (integer) and

Any idea what this means? I have done many google searches and got nothing? Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Using the paginator helper, is there a way to determine what page an item in the collection is on? Thanks in advance for your help!

I have the date saved in a database in the following format ''20060102170020''. How do I go about converting the date in the format of January, 01, 1901? I searched all over and found something similiar using ''to_formatted_s''. However I only found support for converting month to a three letter format (e.g. ''Jan''). Is there an eaiser way?

Hi guys, My site ( http://shunya.in ) recently started receiving some spam and I had ignored the issue till it became a problem, and I guess it is becoming a problem now. I looked around on suggested ways to address the problem and found two systems - CAPTCH and Akismet. I consider both of them in this email along with the reasons why I am debating using neither of them. Then I ask for your