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hey, i have this website (with ajax also) with lot of records of employee, and as an extra feature i want that the customer can import his employeelist (perhaps 100+ records), lot of work to do this manually. i would create a template like this Firstname Lastname Phone xxxx xxxxx xxxxx yyyy yyyyy yyyyy then they upload the excel file or save it as csv file

I have been using Ruby on Rails for around 6 weeks now (so far I love it), but I''ve gotten to a point in the application where I need to allow the user to upload comma deliminated text files that will get loaded into one of the database tables. Before I get started doing this, I was wondering anyone knows of any examples or tutorials that deal with this. I''d rather do it

I''m trying to grab a CSV file from a user and let them upload it directly to my database, but doing some minor checks on the data before saving. Which is the easier way to implement this? CSV or FasterCSV? I saw that perhaps there were some issues with FasterCSV and csv files created from Mac versions of Excel. Anyone have any experience with this and can recommend a newbie friendly

When I use pp on an object in rails, it prints out a nice string representation of the object. I am trying to pass objects from one server to another and I am wondering if I can just pass this string and create an object on the other server. Any libraries/functions out there that can do this? Or any other way to do this (not necessarily using pp). Thanks! -- Posted via

Hi everyone, I am new to ruby and i just wanna send an email using ruby action mailer. i have been trying it for about a day. Not achieved. so many replies came in from google but many were beating the bushes .. can any one send me a correct procedure.. regards ds -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

I hope to store the log file by day , because the log file will be so large with the time goes by.Is it possible to do this ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

What''s a good solution for fixing character encoding problems for compatibility between ascii and utf-8? The database is postgres and is encoded in utf-8. Once in awhile there will be a compatibility error from strings from a webform. Is there a command to fix this besides using a_string.force_encoding(''utf-8'')? Even this doesn''t seem to always work either.

I''m looking at the documentation: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html And I notice two uses of Net::HTTP. Both are using GET requests. But what''s the difference? When to use which? Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http| request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object end uri =

During one of my controller actions I want to call an external machine before I do anything. It''s not a real web service, more like a REST-style thing where I''ll just be tweaking a servlet running on another machine and sending it some data. Does Rails give me anything to work with for doing that? I read the web service stuff but it''s overkill for what I need. I

Anyone know of a Ruby utility that will translate HTML character entities into text? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to send http post request in the controller to a web address. In my application I''m using ajax to communicate with the controller, and then use the controller to pass the message on to a remote server, something you can''t do using ajax because of browser security problems. Just wondering what the syntax for a http post is in rails. Thanks Alex -- Posted

hi all, any one know how to grep page source by rails? i.e. i wanna grep html source from http://www.ruby-forum.com/ by ruby code. regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m developing a mini-programming language for research surveys. [code] question S1 { label: The first few questions are just to help us categorize you. label: Do you or does any member in your household work for... (MARK ONE ONLY FOR EACH.) grid { col { 1 Yes 2 No } row { 1 An advertising agency 2 A public relations company 3 A marketing research firm or

I''m sure a real newbie question, but try searching for ''h'' in any search engine and you don''t get far. I am wondering what the h does in Ruby as in the code below: <%= h(truncate(product.description, 80)) %> -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

These HTTP Request methods are used for testing. They are discussed in the testing chapter of the Agile Web Development with Rails book, as well as in http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/28#page72 "A Guide to Testing the Rails". I want to set the encoding to multipart for a test I''m writing, but I can''t find any documentation to show me how. Pointing me

Hello people, I''m implementing a geocoding feature in my web app, a classic feature, for showing registered user by location. For this purpose, I''ve inspired myself from the following tutorial : http://earthcode.com/blog/2006/04/rails_geocoding_and_google_map.html However, I''m getting this error from Rails : uninitialized constant SandboxController::XMLRPC Being a

Hello :) Having just gone through the (admittedly simple) API of Mocha to learn how it works, I wrote a quick guide (190 lines) to help others get up to speed. I''ve attached it as RDOC and as HTML. It is a first draft - please help me improve by giving feedback ! Contents : Overview - Quick overview of Mocha Unit testing, mock object and stubs - Very quick introduction to mock

Two questions from a PHP guy thinking of moving to Rails: 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions (www.php.net/ftp)? 2. What about image editing functions similar to PHP''s GD2 functions? (I would basically want to be able to crop, rotate, draw lines, add text...) I searched online for the above but I got somewhat conflicting info about image editing and

Hi, All, Suppose I have a CSV file, there is data in it. * Column 1 Column2 Column 3 Column 4 Row1 a b c Row2 a2 b2 c2* You know, the column 4 is no data Now, I would like to insert data to Column 4, after save, the CSV file will be: * Column 1

Hi, Iam a nubie, i wanna know how can i load/read a .properties file in to my rails application. For example i have a property file where i have defined the spanish equivalants of some english words as follows user Name:nombre del usuario user Code :c?digo del usuario likewise. now , where should i store this properties file in the directory structure and how can i read these in to my