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Hi, for those of you who haven''t read: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/05/08/flummoxed-by-frameworks/ ""Oh", they gush, "you should absolutely try Ruby on Rails! It''s so easy! It''s almost like writing regular English!" Which means they''re clearly on crack, because Ruby on Rails is so very different from a human-written language

I got an idea less than two weeks ago and now as a testament to the power of Rails I have released the first initial beta version of SoapBx, with less than 20 hours of programming involved so far. SoapBX is an application to create css based presentations and uses Erik Meyer''s cool S5 css and js code: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ With SoapBX you can use basic Textile and a

S5 - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ - is an html-based slide-show system. It produces professional-looking slideshows from text with a little xml markup. Has anyone tried using Markdown to generate S5 slide-shows? I think this would be a pretty neat system. I'm thinking a level-1 header could be the slideshow title, and level-2 headers could define individual slides. Any thoughts? - Dan

Hi, Presently the submit button is coming as a button in below case. <% form_for @chapter do |chapter_form| %> ... labels ... text_areas.. <%= chapter_form.submit ''Create'' %> I want to build a custom button in CSS and show that instead of the button. Can anyone help me please?

Hello, I''m trying to use Nicedit to improve my text_areas in some views of my project. I have installed jquery: ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/aaronchi/jrails.git nicEdit plugin: ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/sergio-fry/Simple-nicEdit.git Add js in layout: <%= javascript_include_tag ''nicEdit'', ''nicEditInit'' %> Use it

Hi folks, I''ve been trying to figure this one out for a few hours now and can''t seem to understand what I might be doing wrong here. Basically, I have a textarea which has a little icon next to it which will fire off a reset of the original comment if pressed. It works under IE so that when the user types some garbase in to the textarea, and clicks the icon, the contents

Hi I''d like to know how to add default text text area using the function text_area. I ''ve tried using value = "....." to do this but with no luck. Could some one please answer my simple question? Thanks. Dan. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m having a problem getting the text area the size I want it to be. In my view at the top I have this init calls <script type="text/javascript" > tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: ''advanced'', theme_advanced_toolbar_location: ''top'' }); </script> Then in my form: <%= text_area

I''m trying to use the text_area() method and would like to populate the text block with initial text. According to this: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3752 there was a fix put in place, but I''m ont sure how to integrate this. How do I get the :value parameter to show up within the textbloc instead of the html attributes? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I had posted earlier about ''silent failure of a controller'', what seemed to be an intractable problem where I was getting failure of a particular action in a controller while others worked. What was irritating was that there were no useful messages. Nothing to the browser, nothing in logs, and even the breakpoints wouldn''t hit. Finally by a process of elemination I found

I''ve just dabbled the tiniest bit in AJAX, but I have an app with a grid of text_fields (each row of text_fields being a row from the database, and I would like the user to be able to navigate between fields with the arrow keys in a spreasheet-like fashion. Is this reasonably doable? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

how can i set the text_fields to put data into a model with habtm bindings? Example: model1 has_and_belongs_to_many :model2 how can i insert data into the references of model2 into model1? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello people I''m trying to figured this out, but I still can''t do it. I have a rails 3 app, I''m working with invoices and payments. In the form for payments I have a collection_select where I display all the invoices number (extracted from a postgres database), and what I''m trying to do is when i select an invoice autopopulate others text_fields (provider,

I''m trying to get a page to validate as XHTML Strict, and I''ve gotten everything fixed except for one <textarea> that Rails is generating. <textarea cols="40" id="estcomment_comment" name="estcomment[comment]" rows="10" wrap="virtual"></textarea> This tag is being called in my view with <%=

I am getting a blank page, no errors, just a blank page. I have 2 files... reports/city_taxes_print.erb reports/_city_taxes_print.erb and my method is city_taxes_print and after getting variables from the controller, my erb file which is fairly basic... <% # City of Scottsdale @taxauthids = [ "32", "40" ] @report_title = "Scottsdale Sales Tax Detail Report for

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Hi, If I have @answers in my Controller, which is an array of Answer model objects which don''t exist in the DB yet... How do I bind a text_area helper in the View to each Answer? (I''m pre-filling some of the Answers with other data people need to verify before submitting and will insert on POST.) I''ve been able to get the textareas to render but not with the

Is there a easy way to add components like: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/ http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true in ruby forms, by plugins or whatever? Thank you Rodrigo Dom?nguez Iplan Networs www.iplan.com.ar <http://www.iplan.com.ar/> ? rdominguez@iplan.com.ar www.rorra.com.ar <http://www.rorra.com.ar/> ? rorra@rorra.com.ar --------------

I have in my view the following: <% 0.upto(@num_performances) do |idx| -%> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''city'', :index => idx, %> <%= text_field ''performance'', ''venue'', :index => idx, %> <% end -%> and in my controller I have: @performance = [Performance.new("city" =>

Hello, I've published a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Yes, that's Markdown. (Textile is supported too ;-) You can find two samples online in Markdown: o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/rest.text o