similar to: Getting data from the select menu

Hi everybody, I''m pretty new with Ruby on Rails and I was hoping someone could help me out. I''m trying to take in data from a file and add it to my existing database. what I''m thinking is that I have to create a class that reads the data and copies it. I''m not sure how I will input the data into my database. I''m not sure if this approach is the

Hello there, I''m new with Ruby and I''m trying to develop a web app. I''m following an example from the book and they used ''select( )'' with three parameters...what exactly does ''select ( )'' do? I''m trying to have a scroll down button that will let me select one of the options. Is there another way to accomplish this? I

Following is the error I get when I run ''\root\ ruby script\server'' The server does not starts. Any help !?! ------------------------------ => Booting WEBrick... c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.8/lib/xmlsimple.rb:275: warning: already initialized constant KNOWN_OPTIONS c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.8/lib/xmlsimple.rb:280: warning: already

Hi everybody, I''m new with Ruby on Rails and would like to know how to upload data into my database from a batch file. I want users to specify a path to their batch file and then upload from a path box. Does anybody know how to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am having a problem porting Solaris R/W lock functionality to Linux. The problem is that RW_LOCK_HELD() doesn''t have an equivalent function in pthreads. This was not a problem before because RW_LOCK_HELD() was only used in ASSERT statements. In this case, I was able to make it work by making it behave a bit differently (specifically, it would return true if *any* thread was

Hi everyone, I''m new with RoR and I''m working on a project that uploads information (keys-values) from a file into a database. Here is the situation: Somewhere in this file there is a strin-table such as the following: "hello" = "hello world" "sayHIgh" = "Saying hello to the world" I have parsed the files with a ruby script in such a

All, Thanks for any help in advance. I have what I think is a very straightforward partial template and I can''t figure out why a text_field call within it doesn''t work. Here is my calling template: lists.rhtml <div id="target_lists"> <%= render(:partial => "target_lists", :collection => @target_lists) %> </div> In the partial

Hi, I m very new to Ruby. I bought a book "Ruby on Rails" and I think I understand some concepts. My question is : Is there a way to not use "Cookies" or "Sessions Variables" to keep some information about the user. I ask this question because I would like to prevent some cases where the user browser won''t accept cookies. I m from Asp 3.0, and I

Simple question: I know how to access a data field in a hash by doing hash_name[datafield_name]. But what if the datafield itself is a hash? I tried a couple of variations but nothing seems to be working and tutorials do not go into such details. Is there a simple way or should I create separate instances? -Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m creating my first Rails app and need an idea creating forms. I have Meeting model with place attribute. I want to have two fields for Meeting.place = one would be select with places from other meetings or text_field if the place is being used first time. User would be selecting radio_button of which field he has used. So is there any way to nest select and text_field within 2

I''m hoping there''s an easy way to do this. I''m trying to read options from a database, and insert them into form tags. So for example, In the Database Table: options size: 300 type: text_field maxsize: 300 and I want to create a text_field form tag, with all the appropriate options, is there an easy way to do this, other than having the code output the HTML

Hi, Im trying to build a form using: <% facebook_form_for(:task, at task,:url => create_task_path) do |f| %> Assign Task To: <%= fb_friend_selector %> <%=f.text_field :ttype, :label=> "Title"%> <%=f.datetime_select :duedate, :label=> "Due Date"%> <%=f.buttons "Add" %> <% end %> But im getting an

I wrote a ruby script that parses a file into key-values like so: class Parser table = { } IO.foreach(''Localizable.strings'') { |line| if line =~ /^ \s* " (.*?) " \s* = \s* " (.*?) "/x table[ $1 ] = $2 end } end I want to store the key-values in different colums on my database so that when I enter a key, it gives me the corresponding value...how

I have a form for submission of brand, model, and style. Style belongs_to model, and model belongs_to brand. The form is actually a style submission form, but allows users to create new brands or models as well, should they not exist. What I want is for the autocomplete for ''model'' to populate when an object for ''brand'' is selected in the first text field..

I have a search form in my navbar where a user can select in which area he wants to search. After clicking the submit-button the results get rendered but the previous selected area is no longer selected. <%= form.select (:suchfeld, [ [''Beschreibungen'',''description''], [''Headlines'',''headline'']] ) %> I was able to

Hi, I have this code for a select box, <%= select("plugin", "plugcats", Plugcats.find_all.collect {|p| [ p.title, p.id ] }, { :include_blank => true }) %> at the minute it extracts teh requried data, but submits the data as params[''plugin''][''plugcats''] how can I get it to submit it as

getInitializer returns the complete initializer of the global. My globals are complex nested structs, from which I want to extract e.g. one double datafield. Example: >From a struct Stuct having double,array(3xint),float fields, I could extract the second int value using the index sequence 0,1,1 with getGetElementPtr. This gives me a constantPointer, but I would need to get a constInt...

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I''m trying to grab a temporary variable from my view and then pass along that value to my model My view code is this: <td width="40" align="center"><%= text_field ''product'', ''qty_added'', {:size=>3} And I''m trying to pass the qty_added variable to my model. item.quantity = qty_added It doesn''t seem