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Hello, I have model which has a property named "name", I want to append a number to the end of the name when there is similar name in db. name, name1, name2... Is there a ready to use method in ruby and/or rails for doing so? Thanks in advance, - Dunnil

Hi- I''m technical lead at Lingr (http://www.lingr.com), a chatroom-based social networking site. We''ve currently got several million user utterances stored in MySQL, and we''re looking to build a local search functionality. I''ve played around with aaf and I really like it, but I have some questions. 1. Is anyone out there using aaf to index a corpus of this

Hello everyone- We recently added full archives search to Lingr (http://www.lingr.com), and we used Ferret/AAF to do it. I''ve written a blog post with some details of that integration, and I thought some of you might be interested. See http://blog.lingr.com/2007/05/we_heart_ferret.html. I''m grateful to the authors of Ferret and AAF, as well as to all the people in this forum

Is there a standard way to make sure a client''s web browser pulls the latest version of your style sheet or javascript file instead of using a cached one? We are currently using a tedious way where we add a version number to the file (e.g. screen-v12.css) and when Rails boots up it finds the latest version in the style sheet folder. On the other hand, I have seen Basecamp append

Hello, I''m trying to implement something like the following scenario. I''ve got "Alloys" (blends of metals), "Metals" and "Percentages" I want to implement this using a join model, not using a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship. (If i''m wrong about that, let me know). Basically, i have the following tables: Metals id name Alloys

We''re still hard at work on Rails 1.2, which features all the new dandy REST stuff and more, but a serious security concern has come to our attention that needed to be addressed sooner than the release of 1.2 would allow. So here''s Rails 1.1.5! This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn''t affected by this). If you have a public

I have a worker which wants to delete itself after it finishes its work- how can it do that? Best Regards, Danny Burkes

Hi Folks, I was playing with Lingr today (http://www.lingr.com) and kind of like it, so I thought I''d setup a little room and see how it works for answering Mongrel questions. http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 I''ll be hanging there for a while and we''ll see how it works out. If it works well, and doesn''t turn into a nastier-than-IRC situation then I may

I''m spending today writing documentation. I''ll be updating quite a few documents, doing some edits, and adding some user contributed docs. If anyone has documentation suggestions, FAQ questions they''d like included, or things they think are old and stale, then let me know. Swing by the Lingr room: http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 And drop me a line if you want

Hi Everyone, Just want to get out another ping on the Mongrel pre-release saga. I''ve updated a bunch of the documentation to include documents people have donated and to beef up the FAQ for most of the questions people have asked over the past month. INSTALL gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/ CHANGES * Fixed memory leak by switching to Sync rather

Hi- Danny Burkes here from Lingr (http://www.lingr.com). We''re evaluating bdrb and so far, so good. It''s deployed in staging now and seems to be working fine. I have a couple of questions that I couldn''t find references to in the archive, so here it goes- 1. Is there any way to do a "graceful" stop of bdrb? What I mean is, I want to stop bdrb,

Dear lists, I want to construct a loop in R, but don't know how to do it. I can do it in SAS, but I prefer in R (which I am hoping I will off SAS for good soon). Could anyone help me to convert the SAS codes to equivalent R codes. Basically, the following codes were written to establish the sire gametes or phases for daughter design for one markers two alleles. Here are the SAS code: do

Calling All Mongrel Minions! I wanna have some fun and would like this as a Christmas present. The site http://www.workingwithrails.com/ has this lame popularity system that''s kind of irking some of the main Ruby contributors. I think it''s kind of funny, but would like to demonstrate what an army of motivated people can do to these kinds of popularity contests. So, as a

Hi folks, I took a break from Mongrel today and instead whipped up an Atom feed generator for my site. People who love or utterly hate my essays will lover or utterly hate to subscribe to it. http://www.zedshaw.com/feed.atom Let me know if it isn''t working well in your favorite feed reader. -- Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu http://www.zedshaw.com/

In a Rails controller I set the scope on a model class in an around filter. I have defined expectations on the model classes, and ideally, I would add a further expectation for the scope. Is this already possible in some way? How would I go about adding support a scope expectation? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:michael at schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

I''ve noticed that using several TimedObservers (prototype.js) on a page to watch for changes to text fields (haven''t tried forms) can have a non-negligible effect on the CPU cycles used by the browser process. Nothing dramatic, to be sure, but unnecessary. Autocompleter.Base (controls.js) follows a smarter strategy to watch for changes. Currently this functionality is tied

Has someone come up with a generic way to handle ajax requests that exceed a certain time? In my concrete case, I have several select boxes for drilling down a hierarchy. When the user clicks an option, the next deeper level is retrieved. To avoid multiple concurrent requests, I disable the select box. As the request may take too long or cause an error, I set a timeout that re-enables the

Hello people, I''d like to detect whether an attribute of a model has vaildates_presence_of applied to it so I can automatically apply a mandatory (*) to the field...it doesn''t look easy...any ideas? Cheers, -- Dan Webb http://www.danwebb.net

Recently, I''ve started to write unit tests for some of my scripts. In general,it''s no worse in JavaScript than in Ruby or Java. I didn''t have the courage to try Selenium, but had a look at JsUnit. Unfortunately, in Konqueror it produces unfathomable errors and in Firefox it is slow beyond imagination. Anyway, writing tests for functions that are computational or

Somewhere between 0.13.1 and the current SVN version the :overwrite_params option to url_for (and related methods) went missing. I can''t tell whether this was deliberate or by mistake, and I have no idea how to get the same functionality in some other way either. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Life is what happens