similar to: What is require ''digest/sha1''?

In http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial there is the string/method protected in the model. What does it do? Can''t find that in http://api.rubyonrails.org/. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Newbie to RoR -- as a long time Java Struts/etc. guy it is an awesome tool! I have implemented some basic login/session stuff with the help of a great tutorial, props to the author ( http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial). I have a trivial instance method in ApplicationController, which just grabs the User object from the session. def current_user session[:user] end

Not sure if I want to build my own or use something already built that''s out there. This is the first step in my project though and a major one, so some of my requirements would be: 1-The ability for a user to register themselves 2-Email / link activation 3-Access levels (or ACL control - I think they are basically the same). 4-The ability to track users either through session or cookies

Hi all, I''m interested in starting a ruby/rails user group in Ireland and I''m trying to gauge the level of interest. So if you''re interested please get in touch (aidanf at gmail.com). I would also appreciate any suggestions/pointers about starting/organizing a user group. cheers, AF ------------------------------- http://www.aidanf.net

I am a the point now where I have to add user authentification to my application. Anyone can point me toward an easy to use / secure library? I know about ActiveRBAC and was wondering if there is anything else that I should consider. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I need a HTML rich text editor for a field, and widgEditor seems to be just what I need: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/ I''ve installed it, following the Aidanf.net''s post: http://www.aidanf.net/adding-a-rich-text-editor-to-your-rails-application But althougth it displays well, I can''t write inside; as if it was Read-only!! I can''t

Hello folks, this is the first time I''ve written to this forum. If there''s already a topic on this, forgive me but the search isn''t working right now. I seem to have a problem validating confirmation of a password. The first two snippets are some model code and some test code that work just fine: ---------------------------- class Challenge < ActiveRecord::Base

And compared to PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''m a web designer/-developer. I found Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and as I can understand (for now) this is what I''ve been looking for. I''m really exited about this. Prior to this I''ve used Lasso and PHP. But a few questions (sitting on Mac OS 10.4.6). I tried to install according to this:

How is the performance running RoR with Apache2 compared to running it with PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In an migration file there is one up and one down method. Below is from Agile Web Development with Rails: class CreateOrderHistories < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :order_histories do |t| t.column :order_id, :integer, :null => false t.column :created_at, :timestamp t.column :notes, :text end end def self.down drop_table :order_histories end end Why is there a drop

When creating a scaffold you get a layout file. How does it work? I thought I would find the var @content_for_layout in the controller, but I didn''t. Where is layouts defined or controlled? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can I use the table name "adm_users" (mysql)? Will that give the model name "adm_user"? Or should it be "admusers" and "admuser"? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Are there any other tutorial than "Agile Web Development with Rails" that you can suggest? So far I can''t say that RoR has been easy to learn. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is so frustrating. Is RoR that easy to learn or is it hype or is it just me? I wonder how many newbies like me are surfing the docs trying to get a clue of the basics. Every tutorial I find is much the same, and seems to skip the fundmental parts. How should you understand the Ruby API http://api.rubyonrails.org/? What is < ActionController::Base? Can''t I set a cookie under

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What are the possibilities of file manipulation in RoR? How do you create a .html or .rhtml file with ruby to be placed in the public folder, with custom content? Btw, where is RoR root? Is that ''public''? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I have a rails app running on mongrel on freebsd using mongrel 0.3.13.3 with ruby 1.8.4. Mongrel dies every time the application generates an exception. I have the same setup running on a linux box without any problems. Mongrel crashes with the following error: Bus error (core dumped) And the following message in /var/log/message kernel: pid 57638 (ruby), uid 0: exited on signal 10

Hi, I''m just learning Ruby on Rails and ran into something where I know I''m either doing something very stupid or I''m missing something. My model as a boolean attribute called active_flag. In my Sql Server database this is stored as a bit value. I then setup a method in my controller called "deactivate". This is very simple, it does: def deactivate

I'm looking for an R equivalent of Beaton's (1964) Sweep algorithim for partial inversion of a matrix by pivoting. It implemented in SAS/IML as sweep(matrix, indices), described here http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/imlug/59656/HTML/default/langref_sect266.htm and here for python http://adorio-research.org/wordpress/?p=262 -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku