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Gang- We are getting ready to launch our ROR application; the last item remaining is the deployment platform. For testing, we had used Apache + MOD_FastCGI. I am not that impressed with it; sometimes it has strange effects. For example, when we start the application, for about 5 minutes or so, the app is very unstable and it gets better over time. My questions is .. should I go with (1)

How do I save an array of obects into the database? For now I am doing for a in array a.save end. I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Why can''t I access the utility methods defined in applicaion.rb from the model classes? If that does not work, where is the best place to put common utility methods that must be available to all the models. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Gang- 1. Is there anything in Ruby that handles the .properites files similar to the J2EE application servers. Or do I need to define all of the properties as constants? 2. Is there anyway I can load some of my classes (such as singletons) during the startup? I am looking for the startup classes that J2EE containers provide. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am running apache with mod_fastcgi on Linux - I would like to run my app in production mode, but I could not. Following is what I have in my httpd.conf. Can someone tell me why it does not recognize the env variable for production? The app always runs under development mode i.e ignores the RAILS_ENV directive. thanks/ thila. <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/

I have a text_area to accept upto 1000 chars, which is stored as a blob in mysql. When I try to display the saved data, I dont see the new line characters - however I could see the newline characters in EDIT MODE. So my newline char is lost during displaying. Any ideas how to fix it. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a table with the list of business name and address in it. It may contain 1 million rows. The users want to look up into this table based on the business name. The simple solution is to use LIKE in mysql, but I am worried about performance, since the user load will be very high for this system. Any suggestion on how to handle the potential performance issue? How can i use a search

Hi- I need to create PDF docs on the fly with data from a database. I see couple of options floating around to achieve this in Ruby. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? Also any helpful hints or sample programs will be appreciated. Thanks Thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am truying to install the plugin ("ruby script/plugin install engines"). But I get this big error. Any help? D:\develop\Ruby\workspace\a2>ruby script/plugin install engines script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn --version script/plugin: No such file or directory - svn ls http://dev.rubyonrails.com/svn /rails/plugins/

Hi, I''m very new to Rails and have a general question. What technique would you use to allow users who have a uniform set of data to create very un-uniform websites from that data? One set of data, many different website/output possibilities. It would have to go beyond CSS. I''m assuming there will potentially be some level of scripting involved for each template. The goal is

Hi all, I''ve been spending quite a lot of time trying to install a decent RoR server on my dedicated server (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS), and now, everything works. However, the performances are not really what I had expected... I would like to know what you think about it. Here is my config: 2GHz VIA proc, 1Gb RAM, SATA-II HD. I have apt-got ruby 1.8.4, mysql5 and installed rails 1.1.4 by

I get the following error when I try to install Rmagic (via gem) on Linux. Do I need to install anyting before installing rmagic? This worked seamlessly on windows. What the best way to install it on Linux. I am on RedHat ES 3. /thanks -thila Attempting local installation of ''rmagick'' Local gem file not found: rmagick*.gem Attempting remote installation of

Hi- I need to create simple charts on the fly - I had used JFreeChart in the past with inJ2EE apps. Is there any equivalent here for Ruby. My charting needs are simple: just line charts. Also if anyone has done this, pls let me know how I should go about in doing it. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Basically, the way puppet installs things things with /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install <package_name> fails due to authentication WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated But if I do it from an ssh console normally, using apt-get install <package_name> it works fine without issues. Is there a way to change how puppet uses the

Hi Rowland, Sorry to inform that none of thus packages solve my problem. But today, with some Tranquil.it helps, I have some news: - Upgrade from 4.11.14 -> 4.12.9 is OK - Upgrade from 4.12.9 -> 4.13.2 : problem is present with Tranquil.it AND Louis package - Fresh install + member join with 4.13.2 is OK (Centos AND Buster packages) Problem only occur when upgrading member to 4.13.2 with

All- I am new to Ruby; following are my two questions: 1. Which is the best login plugin? I keep hearing about SALT and loginengine. 2. For installing loginengine; I see the two following steps - Both these does not work for me. : $ script/plugin install login_engine ==I am getting "script/plugin is not a internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

I''m having a problem but don''t know what is causing it so I don''t know exactly where to post, please bear with me. I''m trying to set up https access however whenever I go to https://url_for_site the root route renders but the url is rewritten to http://url_for_site. The ssl request shows in the apache logs but obviously no further ssl requests show up.

Hi- I have a BigInt (MySql) column type - RAILS treats it as FixNum, which causes big problem for us since we need to store a 12+ number of digits. How can I tell Rails to treat is as BigNum instead of FixNum? thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have lot of static pages in my applications (FAQs, Contacts, Privacy etc..) What is the best way to handle (deploy) these pages in my application. I am using Apache with fastcgi. I would like to deliver the static pages from the apache itself. Basically how the deployment is done? The catch is the user should be easily navigate between the static and dynamic contents. thanks thila --

I got a strange problem. My image upload worked fine in my XP. However after deploying to Linux, I am not able to upload images from XP machine - I get "Image location invalid image" error message. However, I am able to upload images from linux boxes. Can anyone tell me what would cause this problem? Is there any setting in file_column that are specific to the deployment server os?