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Howdy. I''m trying to work with a legacy SQL Server database where some of the table names have spaces in them. I''ve done set_table_name "tablename with spaces", but I can''t get find(:all) to work. I get the following error (because apparently it''s not putting [ ] around the name as is required for SQL Server for names with spaces.

In the initial version of my application I am just going to require cookies - down the road _considering_ changing that and providing something that works without. Anyway, this is somewhat of a two part question 1. Does this approach make sense or is there a better way typically used? Just have a before_filter in my application.rb to verify that the :_session_id cookie is present. If it

This seems like it must have been asked before - I really _did_ try to find it in the archives, so my apologies if it''s already out there. Utilizing ActiveRecord, I would like to specify a prefix for the column names in my table. For example, in ''Recipe 16 Integrating with Legacy Databases'' (Rails Recipes, from PragProg, by Fowler) they deal with integration with a

Hello, This is the sort of question that could interess others, so you should have CCed it to the list. As for the question, from the package vignette, section 3.3.6: "writeWorksheetToFile() is a wrapper function, calling loadWorkbook(), createSheet() and saveWorkbook() functions subsequently. It therefore allows for writing data into worksheets of an Excel file in one call." To

Dear all, Good day! I have a problem in reading Excel files in R and appending them to each other. Suppose we have several Excel files in a directory with headers and want to use R to append them in a single file with an additional variable in the final file indicating from which files the data come from. As I have many Excel files and their sizes are very big I should write a loop in R to do

I''ve got a question on the use of check_box. *** This is working but there just has to be a better way: RHTML: <% for book in @books do %> <tr> <td><%=book.label%></td> <td> <%checked = book.subscribed ? ''checked'': ''nope''%> <%=check_box("book" + book.id.to_s,