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I''d been ignoring this error message in my log for a while: ActionController::RoutingError (Recognition failed for "/robots.txt"): I had never touched robots.txt. So I decided to make it a proper robots.txtfile I found this great article... http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/seo/robots-txt-file/ ...where Dave explains the ins and outs of the file. Before I changed mine, I

I''m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout, so what i''m doing is ... class SomeController < ApplicationController layout "simple", :only=> :some_action ...... end and the "simple" layout is applied to all the actions, can someone please give me a hint?

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is there a way to replace unkown action error with a pretty 404 page ? I set the ErrorDocument 404 in .htaccess, however when someong goes to http://www.mysite.com/bogus i would like it to show a 404 error instead of just "Uknown action". Is this possible with a rescue or something? adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''ve noticed that it is possible to pass javascript unaltered through the sanitize function using CSS. For example: sanitize( "<style type=''text/css''>body{background-image:url(''javascript:window.alert(1)'') }</style>" ) IE will execute the javascript. Firefox will not. I haven''t tried it with any other browsers.

Hi All, I have been using Ruby and Rails for only a few short days and I am loving it so far. I have a couple of questions relating to a specific project I am working. 1. I am wondering about sessions expiring after a set period of in activity and what would be the easiest way to set it up. 2. I would like to be able to users on the system. Each of these users has a login of there own. Each

Hiall, Is it possible to organize my model files below app/models into subfolders? E.g. I would like to put admin related models into their own subfolder. This kind of structuring works for controllers and views (scaffolding creates the right subfolder-model mappings), but app/models always stays flat. I''d really like to be able to group my code into logical, well packages :-) Yes, I

Hi, I need to allow login based on the phone number. During the signup they can give the number in any format with spaces, slash or (). But for storing in database and then during login to compare I just want the 10 digit number. How can I remove the special char from phone number before storing to db ? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do I pass parameters from one controller to another during redirect_to command? I want to pass both model and non-model objects. The solution I use is via session, but I rather pass it as parameters to the redirect_to Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It seems the wiki-spam bot has been at work again. There are numerous hidden links toward the top of the page that might be better gardened out right away, if you know what I mean ;-| -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have an interessting problem, I''m not sure how to solve :-) I have the name of a model in a variable like this: My model is called Article My var contains "Article" Now - How do I get the model class, so I can call Article.find, Article.new etc ... ? Greetings, Gitte Wange

I would like to put Ruby code inside a string, between <%= %> tags, and have the code inside the tags executed when the string is displayed. Is this possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If yes, how do I set it up in the yml file? Thanks. - amateur Railist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060818/6690a4e2/attachment.html

Hello everyone! I am new to Ruby on Rails. These are my questions: - is Ruby on Rails SEO friendly? - can validation result be in another language then english? thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have the following code that generates a rhtml page, <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <%= render :partial => ''form'' %> <%= submit_tag "Create" %> <%= end_form_tag %> <%= link_to ''Back'', :action => ''list'' %> ...I am trying to put a "Browse" button to

I want users to have their own landing pages: http://username.domain.com. Since this is dynamic (any user will have a subdomain), is there a way to do this without creating a DNS record for each of them? Can you DNS records be dynamic? -- Austin Govella Thinking & Making: IA, UX, and IxD http://thinkingandmaking.com austin.govella-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

Hello all I''m having an issue with ruby on rails, and it not throwing an error where it should. I have a class ''clientpool'' that is: class Clientpool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "clientpool" set_primary_key "id" belongs_to :clients, :foreign_key => "cliname" validates_presence_of :cliname validates_associated :client end

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

When I add an item to the shopping cart, I get an error: undefined local variable or method `cart_item'' for #<#<Class:0x3715a78>:0x3715a48> Session info says the cart being updated properly. I''m just not able to output two variables: <%= cart_item.quantity %> &times; <%= h(cart_item.title) %> I did some research, and I can grasp that local

For expats from other languages, what''s the next best step after the Agile Web Dev book: Rails Recipes or Ruby for Rails? Thanks, -- Austin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.