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Hi, I would like to figure out how to determine what the id of the last element in a table is. Is there an equivalent to the Table.find() method which will tell me the number of elements in a table? also, maybe more importantly, where are the available methods on tables documented? What i am trying to do is to increment the id and work through a table and check whether the id i am currently

I have a view with a form and i want to be able to process the button selected in a controller - not sure how to do this. The form does not map directly to a model - all I want to do is be able to pass back the selected button and know which one it is. So, i have a form and several radio buttons - the submit (not shown) takes me to the process_answer action where I want to determine which

Hi, I am trying to create a basic form in which I want one of the fields initialized before displaying it. My code (in a view) is as follows: <% if ( session[:user_id] != nil ) then logged_in_user = User.find(session[:user_id]) end %> <% form_for :suggestion do |form| %> <label for="suggestion_title">Topic:</label><br/> <%=

Hi, I am a rails and ruby nuby :-) How do you pass data between different controllers and views? I have a page ( a quote) that I am editing url ....quote/edit/6 6 id the current id. I then go to a catalog (url....catalog) to add an item to my quote (I do this via a line_item file that the quote reads) I now want to go back to the quote. I have tried this <%= link_to ''Back to

Hello! I have a problem in my AD, after removing a file server that was as AD member. I can no longer put any computer in the domain. In the Samba 4, run a command like wbinfo - u. wbinfo -g, samba-tool user list and it works, but when I type samba_dnsupdate --all-name --verbose generates the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate",

Hi list, > Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: IMAP(someone at somehost.org): block_alloc(): Out of memory > Jul 17 12:15:10 seamus dovecot: child 26181 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory) I found those two entries in the logs this morning. The system has ample free memory. What's going on? -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "i wish i hadn't slept

Hi everyone, I am writing a helper function that takes a parameter and block and wraps some HTML around it. e.g. def box_with_caption(caption, &block) data = capture(&block) buffer = render_partial("helpers/box_caption", :caption => caption) buffer << render_partial("helpers/box_data", :data => data) buffer end however, when I attempt the following,

Hi folks. I started to play with tc+htb last week, and I must confess that this thing is really driving me nuts. All we want to do is control bw, with no borrowing. In order to get the feeling on this subject, I have setup the following test bed. ---A---B---C--- On B: eth0 connecting A and eth1 connecting C. The script. tc qdisc del dev eth0 root tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: htb

Hello, I am setting up a red hat machine on a windows network and i am wondering if the samba application needs to be installed onto the server or weather I would get away with it being installed on the local machine only. Thanks for your help, seamus.

Does render_partial work within a RXML file? I am attempting the following: xml.users do for user in @users render_partial ''user'', user end end All that is output is: <user> </user> Without any exception or anything to indicate that I''m doing something wrong. Does anyone have any experiece with this? Josh

I need to add various header and footer dressings around groups of form fields for GUI goodness, and am wondering if there''s already something out there that will suit my needs. These headers/footers have special properties for display(title, help links, etc...). I want to be able to easily take advantage of the existing HTML helper methods provided for controllers, in a mini-layout type

The helper spec I am writing tests a helper method that calls render. ## module HelperHelper def render_partial render :partial => ''partial'' end end ## The helper spec. ## describe HelperHelper do it "should render partial" do render_partial.should_not == nil end end ## The output generated ## $ spec spec/helpers/home_helper_spec.rb .F 1)

Hello, i simplified have a news model, a news category model and a news controller. my _news.rhtml partial renders a single news entry. in my controller there are the actions show and show_category. if the "show" action is called, a single news item is rendered through my partial with no errors. if the "show_category" action is called, i get a NoMethodError while displaying

I am trying to teach my models how to render themselves, i.e. <%= my_model_object.render() %> Let me explain my reasoning and proposed method before this gets shot down as anti-MVC. Let''s say I am writing a contact-management application. I have a class Contact. I will need to display this class all over the application. My first choice is to use a partial. Now I can

I have an odd problem while trying to use a simple rjs. _test.rjs : page.alert "test" test.rhtml: <script><%=render_partial(''test'')%></script> When I am attempting to view controller/test the page comes as if it was a text file. So i am actually seeing: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

Hi, I am having the following issue with a partial. During initial page load, I am doing a "render_partial_collect ''foo'', @foos", and all goes well. Each foo partial makes use of a variable inside called ''foo'' (and can get foo.id etc). After all the partials are loaded, I need to :update a div corresponding to one of the partials (ie re-load the

hello, I have the following in my controller def totalmembers @total = User.find_by_sql "SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM users " end now inside my template how do i access the field "count" from the query so i can print out the number of members ? I tried everythign like <%= @total.count %> but nothing works. thanks adam

Hi, I am using the Debian dovecot packages and the deliver LDA from postfix, all version 1.0.beta8. My problem is with quota support, I am using Maildirs. The relevant configuration stuff is included at the bottom of this email. Quota support seems to work with IMAP. However, even when IMAP complains about an account being over quota, the deliver LDA still happily writes new mail to the (correct)

Maybe I''m misunderstanding something but it appears as if <%= render :partial => @items, @locals => { :this => ''that'' } %> does not give the local variable this but this one does: <%= render :partial => ''items/item'', :collection => @items, @locals => { :this => ''that'' } %> Shouldn''t they mean

Hi All I''m having some problems running my view specs when using simply_helpful. I have it semi-working via the following: module SimplyHelpfulHelper def self.included(base) base.send :include, SimplyHelpful::RecordIdentificationHelper base.send :include, SimplyHelpful::RecordTagHelper end end context "The index template" do setup do @shift =