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Hi, I have a really dumb qustion, but I can''t find an answer in "Agile Rails" or any other hand holder. And, it is a difficult topic to search for in google. What controller/view is used for the home page of a site? I get how to create new controllers, but I don''t get at all how to change content on the home page. thanks, matt On 12/14/05, Austin Ziegler

I have this in my routes.rb: ... map.connect ":action/:id", :controller => "default_controller" .. It worked nicely, until I added a second controller to my project. The new (second) controller is "Admin". The problem is I cant reach the actions in the second controller. http://mysite.com/some_action is routed to some_action in default_controller. That is

Hi On every list request i render an item partial through a collection of items. the item table has 3 columns namely name,anotherName and id. the item partial looks like <%@item=item%> <%= error_messages_for(:item) %> <tr id="<%=item.id%>"> <% for column in Item.content_columns %> <td><%=h item.send(column.name) %></td> <%

I have a STRUTS based webapp and I want to port it to RUBY/RAILS... Can anyone suggest a migration strategy...I would like to migrate my struts actions over time if possible. Jim _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

What would be the best way to create a form select dropdown box and upon "submit" have it directly go to a controller method view? I have something that somewhat works, but I think there is probably a much easier way to do it. As of now, I have the dropdown list which when the form is submitted is handed to a controller method which basically I have my dropdown box: <%=

hi @ all I create a new archiv.html.erb and a archiv method in the controller. Now, I would like to link from index.html.erb to archiv.html.erb. I tried to use <%= link_to ''archive'', archiv_xxx_path %> but it doesn''t run. It appears a error message "SyntaxError in xxx#index". Does anyone know, how I can enhance this problem? thanks a lot... -- Posted

hi all, i''m working on deploying my app w/ apache and a mongrel cluster. i''ve started by copying the instructions and code from the agile rails book and everything seems to be working fine but apache isn''t forwarding my requests to mongrel the way i expect it should. there''s nothing in the rewrite logs and nothing but 404 errors in the apache error logs.

Hi There, I have several ajax elements that require authorization, but for various reasons, they can''t pass session[original_uri] to the redirect on user log in. I''m trying to hack in a uri by passing a param to the login page. I can see that the param is passing into the login page, but for whatever reason, no matter what I do, the user is redirected to the homepage after

Here''s the issue: When I submit a form for updating, @person.update_attributes doesn''t work. But the next nested clause for updating images DOES work. How is that possible? However no matter what I do the Person object will not change its attributes. def edit @person = Person.find(params[:id]) if request.post? @person.update_attributes(params[:person])

I have installet the Ferret gem v. 0.11.6 and the latest acts_as_ferret plugin from svn://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret I''ve followed the instructions here http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/wiki/DrbServer to set up the server, and put acts_as_ferret :remote => true on one of my models (Ad) I can also start the ferret_server, but when

Hello! I''ve been trying today to setup fleximage to handle photo uploads to a RoR application by following the tutorial that is provided (http://github.com/Squeegy/fleximage/wikis/gettingstarted) Originally, I just dropped in all of the sample code that they provided, which I copied below this question. - When I tried to access "new" to upload a new photo, I received an error

Hey, I try to do my first steps in Ruby, and designed an "Hello World!" Application. Now I want to install this Application on an Apache server. I copied it to the "/public_html/" Directory here: (the application is called "rubyapp") http://sn00p.profusehost.net/rubyapp/ I ran http://sn00p.profusehost.net/rubyapp/public/dispatch.fcgi and get an Error. So I looked

I have a catch all route. map.connect ''people/*args'', :controller => ''people'', :action => ''default_action'' I can test this one way, with assert_recognizes. expected_options = { :controller => ''people'', :action => ''default_action'', :args => [''made_up''] } assert_recognizes

Hi, i was looking through the docs and couldn''t find a good clean solution for ordering a partial with an :order clause. say i was iterating over categories and thier corresponding sub-categories (regular belongs to) and wanted to order the subcategories according to a certain column; <% for category in @categories %> <% render: partial => ''sublist'',

Hello and sorry for necro posting xD this is the only thread I found about stalker. I really want this game to run. I've tried to run it under ubuntu but when I boot it ti makes xengine to crash... I've tried to follow the guide posted but i've got none of the packages from the line #yum install etc... how can I fix it? plz

Hi! I''m from Russia. It''s my first post in this forum. Execuse for my bad language, but i hope you''re help me! I try to deploy rails app on apache + fastcgi hosting. .htaccess file contents: AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]

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