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Hi, First I would like to ask if someone could give me the direct link to the mailing list this forum mirrors. This is so I can do searches directly and not bother folks with repeat questions. Now my question: I recently installed a ROR app built on Ruby 1.8.2 and moved it to ROR on Ruby 1.8.4. I got a few errors and had to regenerate my app in the later and copy the App files and a few

Hi all, I am currently not able to use search since it is disabled, so I will ask my question and hope I am not repeating a past question. I am looking into developing an app to run in Windows 2000/2003 Server environment. To install ROR on a server to run an app on Webrick do I need any extra steps beyond those needed to install on my development laptop (XP prof) ? The idea is to run the

Hi, I am just starting of in rails. I am trying to understand the features of rails and I have this burning question. (and search is not available now): Apart from relying on the automatic CRUD sql script produced, is there a way I can create my own sql script ex: with many joins between exixting tables (for reporting ). All I need is to declare the custom query and place the result in a

Hi, i am new to rails and trying to understand the migrate feature of rake whenever I call "rake migrate", i understand it call all the latest version of a given of given migrate files. Now when these files are executed, id the #down method called and then the #up ? or must i explicitly call the #down method from rake. If yes how do i do that from rake ? I experimented with rake

Hi, because search is not working, I would like to access this list through some other means so that i can search past questions and feedback. Can someone give me the links or infomartion needed to subscribe. I especially need the ability to do searches TIA, Tuka -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Being true to DRY, I know in Rails it is possible to define a single layout associated to a controller and all associated views, lists etc.. by the layout name taking on the name of the controller but is it possible of a layout to be shared between many controllers ? TIA, Tuka PS: I accidentally posted this in the Test forum.. so I moved it here to get a pertinent reply -- Posted via

Hi, I want to disable textbox in my page so that user can not modify its contents. How can we do that in ruby? Thanx, Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am new to ROR. I have created a form with foru fields in ROR. Now its working fine for all CRUD operations. But I want to validate data on form for "validates_presence_of" validation. How to do this? I tried it by putting line "validates_presence_of :description" . But its not working. Its throws error like "undefined method `each'' for

Hi I have question where I run web form. Now on this form I have one field with link select user. This link will pop up new window with javascript and on this window I have form with items which end user can select. Once selection is done end user press button Select User. Now I need to close that javascipt window and send back value of that selection back to form and to the field which has

So I''ve sort of come to the conclusion that if I wanna get stuff done, I need to either A) Find some dang money and pay people to do it or B) Do it myself. I''m opting for B. Soooo...now I''ve got some programming/technologies to learn. I''m self-employed and I can afford to take a month (or 2) off to totally immerse myself in this and learn how to do it.

Hey, I have this link_to_function which takes an RJS block as follows: page.insert_html :bottom, :documents, :partial => "upload_fields", :locals => { :doc => Document.new, :index => ''UNIQUE_ID'' } It adds a partial to a div. I need index to be a unique id, but can''t generate one. I have an actual javascript function next_index() that will

Im wondering how to go about passing a ruby array to a javascript function. I was able to do this the other way around and pass a javascript array to an action using JSON and convert it back to a ruby array: Object.toJSON(<%= array_or_string_for_javascript(@array) %> then in the action I was able to do: ruby_array = JSON.parse(params[:array]) But this time I want to pass an array to a

Hi, Brand new to this so please excuse anything obvious that I don''t yet get. Here''s what I''m trying to do (This is all in a .rhtml file): As a simple test I create a local variable called ''localVariable'' and give it the string "Hello" like this; <% $localVariable = ''Hello'' %> Next I want to call a function

Hey everyone, I''m new to RoR - how can I get my database content filtered by alphabet? Eg, on my php site now I use this format: http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/index.php?page=B How can I get this kind of functionality out of ruby? Also, how could I go about making a multiple select box of authors, then depending on how many you chose, the next page of the form displays a

The website I am working (http://xoth.media.mit.edu:8000/ica/view) on uses a LiveTree add-on that should update a portion of the page to reflect the components of the tree when the appropriate textbox is used. For some reason, instead of simply updating a portion of the page, the site is opening a whole new page with on the partial updated component displayed. Why is it doing that and how can I

Hello I am leaving Whitebox because of lack of up to date sec. updates. Did any body try to "upgrade" WBEL to CentOS? Any dificulty or problems? Thanks Petr Klima

hello everybody my name is reynaldo and my question es the next: i have a form whit a combobox and a textbox the combobox have the number of days: 1,2,3,4,etc and i want show in the texbox the result of the number of days for a number for example: when de user choice 1 day, show in the box $200 when de user choice 2 day, show in the box $400 when de user choice 3 day, show in the box $600 when

Hi, I want to allow users ti search my blog. I have the following code below to initiate the form. <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'', :search => search %> <p align =center><%= text_field ''search'', ''search'',"size" =>"20" %> <%= submit_tag ''Search'' %></p>

I am writing a GUI for my R script. It is a very basic form consisting of textboxes and buttons. I tried to run the following example to learn how to read value currently entered into the textbox: ( it requires tcltk/tcltk2 packages ) # Create the widgets base <- tktoplevel() list <- tklistbox(base, width = 20, height = 5) entry <- tkentry(base) text <-

Hi, I''m having a problem trying to get a login controller working. When I try and post to my login controller I get the following error: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in LoginController#login login_controller: class LoginController < ApplicationController def login case request.method when :post if @session[''user''] =