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Are there any other tutorial than "Agile Web Development with Rails" that you can suggest? So far I can''t say that RoR has been easy to learn. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Sorry - working on a simple tutorial but something is throwing me here. I''m supposed to get a Time.now() print to the page but it''s not working and I can''t figure out why. No errors are thrown my the page shows: Howdy, world! My name is Stuart Felenstein. This was verified at . So no time stamp showing. I went into IRB , did a Time.now() and it''s working

Hello, I have to code a small application for a car repair shop running under Windows (98 SE but may be my client could upgrade to 2000) and using RoR is my definite choise ! The app will be powered by WebRick (which is enough powerfull for a small app used by only ONE user at a time) My questions are targeted to the best database to use... I had a look to SQLite and Firebird but support

reading through Agile Web Development with Rails, i am almost completely through with the chapters explaining the depot shopping cart application. everything has worked fine except for one thing, i still have to go to http://localhost:3000/store to get to the first page. if someone just goes to http://localhost:3000/ it will still show the welcome page for Ruby on Rails. what if i want some

I''m having trouble installing lighttpd for local development on Mac OS X Tiger. Here are the commands I''ve run: sudo port install fcgi sudo port install lighttpd Here''s a snippet from running "port installed" with several ports removed for brevity: fcgi @2.4.0_1 (active) lighttpd @1.4.9_0 (active) rb-rubygems @0.8.11_0 (active) readline @5.0.005_0+darwin_8

does anyone know much about resizing different versions of images with file_column? i tried it and everything works fine, but my question is can you do more than just make sizes with a version of image? i''m working on a photo album and i would like to resize the image to a medium size, but create a thumbnail as well and crop anything left to make the thumbnail a perfect square. --

I''m considering rolling my own rails-based blog, but want to take a look at what''s available first. Here''s what I know about: Typo http://typosphere.org/ Simplelog http://simplelog.net/ Mephisto http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/6/12/mephisto-out-in-the-wild Am I missing anything?? Thanks, -TJ

i''m still pretty new to rails, and while i''ve been able to hack my way into having it do what i want so far, i''m not happy with the way my code looks. on top of that, i''m sure that what i''m doing prlly isn''t the most efficient either. one of my biggest problems is probably to do with using relationships and forms together. i''ve

i used the hivelogic article to install ruby on rails to my mac: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger everything works great using the script/server command, but isn''t that still using WEBrick? how do i server my apps with lightTPD? i tried following the instructions given here: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsonlighty but have had no

I''ve been working with ActionMailer for a few days and finally have a pretty good grasp of it. In the book I''m reading, it shows how to send to multiple users or an array of users. Is there a setting or some configuration I can do to send the email to each person separately, or would I just need to loop through each user and send one email at a time? What is the best way to

could someone explain some of the uses for a web service. i''m reading about how to make them, but i''m still not quite sure what they''re good for. i have multiple rails apps that i would like to pass user information back and forth to. i''m not sure if something like this could help me or not. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I started working on an app. It''s new at this point so backing up wouldn''t be difficult, however I''m wondering if there is some plugin that exists where I can use it to grab the current database (set up without migrations) and create a migration file ? Sort of grab a current snapshot of the database and use that as a stating point for my migrations directory. TIA Stuart

i am reading Agile Web Development with Rails and i have some noob questions about it. i''ve gone through the depot application with hardly any problems and now i''m reading through the chapters that explain some of the deeper facets of rails. on chapter 14 it starts talking about active record. all the sudden, it''s showing examples of how to connect to the database.

i have a datetime field in my database that i need broken up. i want to display the date and the time in separate places. i tried looking through the api, but couldn''t find what i was looking for. if someone could please point me in the right direction to format dates, that would be great. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i found Ezra''s acl_system plugin yesterday and i am trying to figure it out. based on the simple instructions on the site, it does exactly what i need but i''m getting some errors when i try to use it: NoMethodError in UsersController#index You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.roles i am pretty new to rails and

i just went through installing RoR on a cpanel setup and everything seems to work except for deployment. i go through the entire process of setting up a new rails app on a cpanel account and i get: Not Found The requested URL /testapp/index.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

i am working on a catalog for our customers to order printing. i have worked a little bit with imagemagick and pdf_writer. currently i am uploading a pdf and an image for the preview of the file. i''m just wondering if there is a way to convert a page of the pdf to a jpeg so that i only have to upload once. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i am trying to generate a pdf of all of the users in an application that i have built. i am still pretty new to ruby and rails so i don''t know the best way to go about it. here is my controller code: require ''pdf/writer'' require ''pdf/simpletable'' class ReportsController < ApplicationController def test _pdf = PDF::Writer.new table =

i am trying to figure out how file column works so i can play with it a little bit on my site. i have installed it as a plugin to my rails application, copied the snippets on both model and view but when i try to run the page, i get an error saying "undefined method `file_column_field''" did i do something wrong or is something not installed? -- Posted via

i''m playing with the toggle_slide effect right now which is great. the problem i''m having now though is figuring out what state the div starts in. i want it to be hidden and slide in first, but it always starts out visible and slides out first. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.