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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 have a Windows program that collects data and would like to store this data in a database that is usually accessed through Rails. It was recommended that I try to "POST" the data to the Rails application. I''m running into some problems trying to format my POST string for the application. I''m trying to learn by interfacing to the TODO application (Four Days

Now that Rails core converts a database''s decimal type into a Ruby BigDecimal type, is it ok to now store money information as a decimal in the database (instead of an integer)? Joe

Hi Everyone, I''m trying to formulate my thoughts on how views work in RoR and I understand the basic bits - 1. Every controller has its own view defined using rhtml files in the views/[controller_name] folder. 2. There is one "view" file (rhtml) for every in the controller and has the same name as the method. 3. For portions that are common, partials can be used - file

I am building an application that requires a C++ program to access the Rails web application using POST. Now, I just added user authentication to the mix and it has made things more interesting. I''m using basic authentication as shown in the AWDWR and Rails Recipes books. I can now get my C++ program to submit the user credentials to the login/login page. All I want the login page

When developing applications, Webrick will automatically reload controllers, models, etc. if the source changes. For obvious reasons, it doesn''t do this for plugins, which makes it a pain to develop said plugins. I was hoping Mongrel might have some facility to say "watch this directory too and reload any changes". Obviously, re-init''ing all plugins would be

Is there a problem with Direct Web Services on Windoze? A routing error occurs with simple controller/api configs as described in the AWDwR text. route.rb has a wsdl route, but I would like to scaffold it to render either wsdl or ws functions from localhost:3000/ctrlr/invoke or localhost:3000/ctrlr/wsdl. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

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

This isn''t affecting my app, but I''d like to know the reason why I''m seeing this. In my layout, the following code <%= image_tag "front.jpg", :size =>"760x175" %> generates <img alt="Front" height="175" src="/images/front.jpg?1122106054" width="760" /> Where is the parameter in the

Hi! I''m looking for a good tutorial that explains the main points of performing queries with Rails. I do have AWDWR and have read the section on ''find'' but I''m looking for something that goes into more detail on how to perform queries across tables. Abstracted from my current application, this is an example: * person has_many sites * site has_one room *

How''s the experience with using ActiveRBAC? For my "next 4 days with rails" :P I''d like to consider adding Role-based access to the To-Do List application in the original "four days w/ rails" tutorial. Just wondering if ActiveRBAC would be a good place to start? Thanks! For those who are wondering: https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/trac Cheers Mohit.

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:

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/.

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

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.

Is there an addition to the Rails Recipe or the method in AWDWR to allow a user to change his/ her password? I have put something together that does all the work again - mostly because I''m not sure how to leverage on methods like ''password='' that are defined in the model. Has anyone got a ready sample that I could learn from? Right now, I''m basically

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