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There was some discussion on this list recently about doing .rcss templates in Rails using a custom template handler. I''ve come up with a very simple way to support rcss without a handler. Turns out all it takes is a route and an action that calls render(:file...). I put a full write-up on my blog earlier today:

What suggestions do you guys have for using instance variables in CSS? I suppose I could just include a partial with style tags, but I''m looking for something a little more elegant. I found this: http://rcss.rubyforge.org/ Has anyone used it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''ve just been trying out the dirt-simple rcss scheme posted here: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/03/23/dirt-simple-rcss-templates It looks like the content-type declaration on the line: render :file => file_name, :content_type => ''text/css'' isn''t getting honoured. I had to add a separate:

Hi all. I have installed latest INSTANT RAILS i.e 1.3 When i run the following command: c:\instantRails\ruby\bin>gem -v it returns 0.8.11 I want it to be 0.9.0. I have downloaded gems 0.9.0 but i dont know how to place them and where so that i get the latest version of gems. Please help me out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi! I know that the web is essentially stateless, so I was wondering about how lost connections can be managed. I have an application that posts data to a web form. This form has a large number of items (about 38) and I''m a bit concerned about the connection being lost while posting the data. Is it safe to assume that the web application will reject the transmission if the right

Hi, I''m trying to follow the "AWDR" example of storing certain types of numbers (in my case, percentages not money) as integers in the database. I understand from the Depot application how to format the output to have 2 places (or n places for that matter) decimal. Now, I"m wondering about the input. It''s more natural for people to enter numbers as

Hi, Just trying to get my first database based rails app up on dreamhost.com. The app was working prior to putting in mysql DB usage but I''m just stuck on getting the app working with mysql. I''ve already created the database and can connect to it manually. Below is the error I get after running the rake migrate. It worked OK on my home PC environment. I did change the

Hi, I wanted to be able to use some Rails code inside CSS files, so I set up a controller (StylesController) to serve CSS files that reside inside the controller''s view folder when the browser requests /stylesheets/:action So in the controller I just define empty actions with the names I want my style sheets in (ie: def cooleffects end - that would respond to

Hey everyone, I''m currently making an application that allows users to create custom fields that have attributes associated with each field. They can then attach instances of these fields (each with their own separate attribute instances) to their account. So, it looks like this: Fields / \ Field Instances Field Attributes \ / Field

Hi, Very new to RoR; have been a flash developer for four years or so. I have an urgent question -- in the list.rhtml file, I only want to display certain columns instead of dumping out all the columns in the database. Could someone shed some light this topic? Thanks!!! Sam -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all. I have the following scenario. http://myapp/site1 is using <%= stylesheet_link_tag ''myapp_standard'' %> to define the stylesheet for layout, I have myapp_standard.css in /public/stylesheets and it works fine. However, in the stylesheet I define a image to use for my site background. eg: html, body{ background-image: url(mysite_background.jpg); padding-top:

There are areas of my application that "want" to use a url structure like domain/<human_readable_param>/<Module>/<Controller>/<Action>/<Id> Please note that the human readable parameter I need to inject is NOT related to the <id> being used by the action/controller pair. It''s identifying a container object whose contains are operated

Hello all. For the purpose of my question, let''s imagine we''re building some search functionality. You''re a sales person (you poor sap). And you''re hanging out in the SalesCenterController. You need to do a search for available productions; you''ve decided to be cool and use Ajax. Do you... a) Make a remote call to an action in your current controller

I have two problems. I have a comment that has_many uploads. Before saving the comment, I want to be sure that the upload(s) has passed validation, but I also need to validate in other ways. For example, I do not want to save the comment if there is no comment or upload. Or, I do not want to save the comment if the image has been uploaded previously (comparing md5s with past upload md5s

I''m trying to re-flow email messages, removing the line breaks that get added by mail programs so that the lines don''t exceed 72 characters. Mail.app and Thunderbird seem to insert a space character before each added line break. Outlook replaces new lines in the email with double \n''s, then uses single \n''s for the ''soft'' line breaks.

Guys, I understand the logic behind using image_tag in rhtml to maintain app portability, but how do you link to images in a stylesheet maintaining that same portability? Thanks for your help! B.A. -- B.A. Baracus: I thought you weren''t crazy no more? Murdock: Only on paper. -- Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your mailbox.

What I want: I get a normal http request containing a URL from a remote server. Instead of redirecting to that URL, I want to load it into an iframe on an existing page. I''ve tried a number of approaches with no success. Can anybody suggest a good way to do this? Alternatively, if you can say "this is bloody impossible, because....", that would be helpful, too. --Al Evans

I need to compare a column in TableA to a column in TableB and then select 3 columns from TableA for all the records in TableA that don''t exist in TableB. TableA and TableB are different but do have one field in common that i am comparing. The tables are not related in anyway. right now I have a find_by_sql query located in a model that looks like this: def self.absent_charges

Hello - Rails newbie here. I have the following form with this input box: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :product, :name%> How do I extract its value on my controller? I''m trying this: @query = @params[:name] I see that :name is making it into my params hash: {"product"=>{"name"=>"ipod"}} But I can''t seem to extract its value! --

Hi, does anybody have any pointers on where to look to learn how to write custom dynamic templates? Agile is a little sparse on this (but otherwise superb)! Thanx -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.