similar to: Getting the original url from a controller action method

Is there something similar for rails that is like $_SERVER in PHP? Something that gives you the hostname, etc. I tried using just host in my controller, because the documentation says there is a host method, and got an undefined method error. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Hi all, (I''m new with RoR) I''m using a migratio to import data into a database but nothing is being happens. I''m importing strings from a parsed file. this is what I have: controller: class UploadController < ApplicationController def create table = { } params[:localized_string][:data].each_line do |line| if line =~ /^\s* " (.*?) "

Hi, I have two models: category and subcategory. (one to many relationship), and a controller ''home'' I''d like to display all the categories and their sub categories in the view: home\index.rhtml. I have a method in the ''home'' controller'' like this: def list_categories @categories = Category.find(:all) end This list all the categories

Hi, I''m quite new to this language and I''m having trouble finding out simple things like a dropdown menu in rhtml. I know I have to use <% select_tag %> but I''ve read lots of different ways to put in the options so I''m a bit confused. Options are hard-coded for the menu I''m trying to create so no database is involved! Thanks v much! Bex --

Does anyone know where I can find good documentation on how to use RJS template. I know I can do various things with the page object: page.visual_effect :shake, ''some_id'' Is there a list of method I can run on the page onject and what parameters they are expecting? I can''t find this anywhere. Thanks for your help. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com

I''m trying to use a non default webserver with Rails and succesfully does this by calling the disptacher directly, by setting the environment variables: REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_NAME My problem is that the relative path is incorrect when I identify myself as anything else than apache. In request.rb the @@relative_url_root is only set when the webserver is apache. Is this default wanted

I have a many-to-one relationship between a model named Category(one) and a model named Brands (one). How can I get ActiveRecord to order the brands by the "name" attribute? This seems like a simple question and I can think of long ways around it but there has go to be a way to do this by accessing @category.brands . Can anyone help? I tried the code below in the controller but it

Is the REST Controller (for calling APIs through the REST interface) already built-in ?? Or, I have to generate one -- generate controller rest ?? MSN id: ICEMANyears@netscape.net -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I wander if it is possible to force reload of all ActiveRecord object''s of some class that are already loaded, something like Book.reload_all? I know that I am able to reload specific objects with reload method but I would like to reload all that are currently in memory. thanks in advance, Bojan -- Bojan Mihelac Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. |

Hi, In my environment.rb, I have set: config.active_record.schema_format = :ruby Whenever I do a rake db:migrate, both db/development_structure.sql and db/schema.rb get generated. This shouldn''t happen should it? I thought I should only get db/schema.rb? Thanks, Jordan

Is there any particular distro that seems to be most used among RoR developers on Linux? Any that might provide better support somehow for development of RoR apps? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have an application running on a Lighttpd instance which is proxied by an Apache server. It seems to work fine but my urls are incorrect: all urls reference / which is not where my application runs at the Apache server. How do I set the base url of a Rails application? My Apache has the following proxy rules: ProxyPass /hieraki http://localhost:3001 ProxyPassReverse /hieraki

Just wondering if and how I can access the referer from the controller. Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, 99% of my site is rails, but I have a tiny php section I just cant get rid of (phpbb3). I''ve turned on server-side includes on my site and my phpbb3 template starts with this: <!--#include virtual="/main/header" --> ... The problem is, rails isn''t recognizing that it was called as "/main/header"; I get this error in my development.log:

Hi there, I am a newbie and interested in learning Ruby on Rails. I see there are 2 books out there: Ruby for Rails Ruby techniques for Rails developers David A. Black and Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, and Thomas Fuchs Which one should I get? "Agile Web Development with Rails"

Hi all, thanks to the all of you. This list is very interesting also for a newby like me. My problem: I just setup my first full working asterisk installation with this config: 1. n.1 GXP-2000 2. n.4 Budgetone 102 3. n.1 TDM400p (3 FXS, 1 FXO) Everything seems to work fine, but the sidetone... it's really annoying! We can hear the sidetone only when we call to the outside (PSTN), it

We have a Centos server with a number of virtual hosts, and my rails app runs under one of those virtual hosts using mongrel_rails. The app lives in /home/mydomain/railsapp where /home/mydomain/railsapp/public is the rails root. It runs under mongrel on port 8008, so to get to it users invoke the url http://www.mydomain.com:8008/ - all is fine to this point. Now I have some users whose

Are there any best practices for implementing a back/cancel/return button... even when the page you want to return people too is 2 pages back (when people submit form and then want to return)? Thanks :-) Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering

Hi guys, I''ve just installed Rails 2.3 and I am using the clearance plugin with cucumber features. When I run rake features I get this "uninitialized constant ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError)" error from webrat trying to call AbstractRequest which now is called Request (I think). My question is : Is there any way to alias the old name to have backwards

Hi, how can I get the current URL withing a controller? There seems to be no appropriate method in ActionController::Base. I''m creating a site, which requires a login for some pages. I''m using before_filter for authentication. My idea was to store the currect URL in a session before redirecting to the login page and then redirect to this URL after successful authenfication.