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Hi, I am using the autocomplete for text field with ''Scriptaculous'' and it works perfectly fine in "new" action. All the examples I see are only for the "new" action. But doesn''t default to the selected value/text in "edit/show" action? Is this possible or should I write custom code for "edit/show" action? Thanks, Hari --

Hi, I am using the ''acts_as_taggable'' gem and have issues when I try to ''tag'' an entity with a ''tagname'' already defined. i.e 1) book[1].tag(''science'',''paperback'') --> works fine 2) book[2].tag(''roman'',''physics'',''paperback'') --> creates an

Hi, Where to put the execute statements in migration scripts? e.g, I would like to create a table and add a foreign_key reference. def self.up ?? execute "alter table ...." create_table :my_table do |t| t.column :user, :string end ?? execute "alter table ...." end Should the execute statement be above the table creation or below the table creation? Logically I

Hi, How can I debug the models interactively? When I load the console using "ruby script/console", the changes in the models doesn''t get reflected. I have exit the console and reload the console everytime I make some changes. Is there a better way? Thanks, Hari -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, When I start the "autotest" it gives me the following error...not sure what HOME path I have to set...all Ruby/Rails related components are in path! --- C:\>autotest -rails C:/Tools/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.3.0/lib/autotest.rb:285:in `expand_path'': couldn''t find HOME environment -- expanding `~/.autotest'' (ArgumentError) ---

Hi, How can I make sure the redirect should act as a "POST" method and not as "GET"? Thanks, Hari -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/redirect-as-post--tf1884434.html#a5151391 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.

Hi, What is the best way to parse HTML? Or is there a simple way to convert a table to an array? I tried beautiful_soup and the built-in htmltools, but have trouble getting them to run. Any pointers? Thanks, Hari -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have built a simple RoR application and would like to show it to some friends. I would like to assign a dyndns URI like "myapp.dyndns.org" address to point to the application. As the WEBrick/Mongrel servers are running in "localhost (so loopback connections)" and I couldn''t bind them to the external server name or couldn''t bind them to my IP

Hi, How do I associate two different tables which have a lookup id (table) as common. I tried the has_many :table2, :through => look_up_table in my table1 model. Any hints? Thanks, Hari -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have a float that often looks like somthing like 2003.2 in my controller (1 decimal place) Is there a way to always show it to 2 decimal places eg 2003.20 ? Thanks Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello I'm trying to use C random generator function drand48() which return floating-point values, uniformly distributed over [0,1], (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/drand48.html). When values are returned to R, they are not in [0,1]. A simple C program using drand48() gives values in [0,1] so I suppose there is a problem (type definition ?) between C and R. Here are R

Hi, George sent a patch on this problem before, but it was not completed. This patch makes libxl use xenbus to communicate with xenstored if libxl cannot open a socket. There''s a place that does not close fd in the case of failure, which is also fixed in this patch. -----------------------------------------Patch------------------------------------------------------ diff -r eff592364826

I installed wine 1.2.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 with the hopes of getting OpenBUGs running, but no success. It seems like OpenBUGs installs properly, but when I try to open it, I get the following: wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\OpenBUGS.exe What does this mean/how can I fix it?

Hi, I would like to deploy a RoR application from my local machine to a remote host. Looks like the capistrano assumes that you are using an internet accessible host for the SVN repository and doesn''t checkout files using file:///! Did I miss some configuration? How do other people handle their application deployment from your local machine? Thanks for your feedback. Regards, Hari

Hi, How do I configure my routing file to handle the following condition: www.my-domain.com --> "Web site under construction" page www.my-domain.com/beta/ --> The actual beta application In the normal case when I access "www.my-domain.com/beta/" the application works fine but the redirects go the root and fails. How can I make sure the "redirects" goes to

Hi, I am reading RSS feeds and quite often I get the following error in the "net" library. Anybody had such error before? Any info would be very useful? Thanks, Hari ----- /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `sysread'': end of file reached (EOFError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `rbuf_fill'' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in

Hi, What is the best way to format amount in RoR? e.g $12000.937 => $12,000.94 Thanks, Hari -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This patch series adds support for preservation of the VM generation ID buffer address in xenstore across save/restore and migrate, and also code to increment the value in all cases except for migration. Patch 1 modifies the guest ro and rw node creation to an open coding style and cleans up some extraneous node creation. Patch 2 modifies creation of the hvmloader key in xenstore and adds

The following series of 10 patches is a merge of the xenfb and xenconsoled functionality into the qemu-dm code. The general approach taken is to have qemu-dm provide two machine types - one for xen paravirt, the other for fullyvirt. For compatability the later is the default. The goals overall are to kill LibVNCServer, remove alot of code duplication and/or parallel impls of the same concepts, and

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> -- 1.7.10.4