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Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. I have 2 different views/models/controllers, 1 called post and 1 called comments. How do i link a post from the views/post directory to the comments that belong to the post in the views/comment directory. This is the code in the post/show.rhtml <%= render :partial => "post", :object => @post %> <%= link_to

I am trying to run instant rails on windows xp SP2. I can get the cookbook and typo sample sites to work with webrick but not with scgi. When i click the start with scgi i get a blank dos window and typing www.mycookbook.com returns Firefox can''t establish a connection to the server at www.mycookbook.com. This suggests that apache is not even running even though the green light is

Hi, I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. The blog.rhtml in the layout folder has a the following code <td width=150 valign="top">This is the left menu</td> <td width=600 valign="top"><%= @content_for_layout %></td> <td width=150 valign ="top"><%= render :partial => "categorylist", :collection =>

Hi, I have a def in my controller see below where i want to find the page object based on a parameter value and then use the page_id to then find all the contents that belong to that page in the same method. Controller def aboutus @page = Page.find_by_name(params[''About Us'']) @contents = Content.find(:all, :conditions => "page_id = #{@page.id}") end

I have installed instant rails and configured it http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Getting_Started I can get typo and webrick to work on webrick localhost:3000 but cant get anything to work with scgi. When i start the scgi server i get a blank dos window screen. When i type www.mycookbook.com into the browser i get the following Unable to connect Firefox can''t

In my blog a user can add comments. I want an Ajax call to add the comment to the bottom of the comments list. How to i return a comment thats is in the comment template and add it to the bottom of the page. I have gotten as far as rendering some text back to the form and the comment doesn''t display until i refresh. This is my _newcomment.rhtml form to create a new comment <div

Hi, In my blog i display a post. I want to display a link tot he previous post if there is 1 and a link tot he next post if there is one. So i have in my controller def post @post = Post.find(params[:id]) @post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts, :per_page => 1 render(:layout => false) end And the following code in post.rhtml <% if @post_pages.current.next %> <%=

I am creating a blog to learn ruby on rails. from the layout page i pass all the posts as a collection to _archive.rhtml <%= render :partial => "archive", :collection => @archive %> On _archive.rhtml i have access to the collection. I am then gone to render partial another page _archivecount.rhtml to display the number of posts for each month. Can anyone give a clue

Hi there. Is there a way i can have my link_to refer outsite the current controler ? I have a path /refrences/ wich lists the refrences, and i want a link_to in this template, to refer to the path /companies/show/company.id is this possible ? I have tried using: ink_to ''link'', :action => ''/companies/show'', :id => company.id but with no luck, is

Hi, Any idea why image_tag doesn''t work within an email template? I''m trying to generate the URL for an image and I''m getting the following error. undefined method `request'' for #<Mailer:0x6a719e0> I''ve been able to use link_to but no luck with image_tag. I''ve seen a similar post to this in the list but no one has posted a response.

Hi, When a user adds a comment i want to add the comment to the end of the comments list using ajax so there is no full page refresh. The code i have below adds the comment to the database but doesn''t update the comments div with the new comment. Can anyone help? This is my first use of rjs templates and i have read http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates

Hi, In my model i want to overide the default find all for sorting purposes. Is this possible or can this only be done in the control or by adding a custom method in the model. def self.find_all() @contents = Content.find(:all, :order => ''pos, position_id'') end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have followed the instructions below to get lighttpd and scgi working on windows. http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToDeployWithLighttpdOnWindows When i typ in the following address http://127.0.0.1:9999/ i get just a blank white page. In the scgi.log file i have the following error but dont know what the problem is [INF][3552] Running in production mode on 127.0.0.1:9999

Ive installed apache2triad on my windows xp machine. I have followed the instructions on http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Fast+CGI+and+Apache2+for+Windows+XP When i open a browser and type http://localhost/blog/ i get a file listing directory with all my rails application folders inside the page. If i click on the public folder i get the Welcome to rails web page. Can anyone help?

Hi , I was trying to use link_to along with image_tag to setup a link that would open in an external window. But I was unable to make a link using both text & an image So my current workaround looks like this inside a partial where link is http://foo.com & text would be descriptive <img src="images/arrow.gif" border="0"/> <%= link_to(text, link, :popup

Hi, I want to allow users ti search my blog. I have the following code below to initiate the form. <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'', :search => search %> <p align =center><%= text_field ''search'', ''search'',"size" =>"20" %> <%= submit_tag ''Search'' %></p>

Hi, I''m having a problem installing plugins in the latest version of radrails running on windows XP. I used the Plugin window in radrails to select file_column to install file_column and everything worked ok. Now i want to install remote_upload plugin which isnt in the plugins list contained in radrails. So i select plugin from the generators tab and type remote_upload and hit

the link_to command is really nice, especially with confirm built in - wondering if there is a way to use it with SVG images since SVG doesn''t seem to work with image_tag I can display svg images (in Firefox) with the following code: <embed width=32 height=32 src="/images/quit.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></embed> "normal" link_to code:

I am just diving into Rails and I am a bit puzzled by the link_to function. am writing an app to display my photographs in categories. My application layout has a sidebar to show a menu with categories from the categories table in the database (like in taken from the tutorials), to be shown on every page. I managed to get a global @menu_categories object that keeps track of all the categories

Hiall, Call me stupid if you like .,) but it seems i can''t figure out how to get a named link using a combination of link_to and image_tag. What I need is basically a link displaying a name along with some image to indicate status (open,working,finished). I found no combination of link_to and image_tag that accepts a name, this seems to be solely used for making whole images into links