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Hi, I''m trying to follow the "AWDR" example of storing certain types of numbers (in my case, percentages not money) as integers in the database. I understand from the Depot application how to format the output to have 2 places (or n places for that matter) decimal. Now, I"m wondering about the input. It''s more natural for people to enter numbers as

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

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, 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

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/.

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

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

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

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 expert validater that can point me in the right direction? I''ve looked for extended documentation on ''validates_presence_of'' but i can''t seem to find any. I''m trying to make sure that i don''t enter a nil object in my database, so i''ve added validate_presence_of to my Record Model. i.e. --> class Record <

I need to compare a column in TableA to a column in TableB and then select 3 columns from TableA for all the records in TableA that don''t exist in TableB. TableA and TableB are different but do have one field in common that i am comparing. The tables are not related in anyway. right now I have a find_by_sql query located in a model that looks like this: def self.absent_charges

Hello - Rails newbie here. I have the following form with this input box: <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :product, :name%> How do I extract its value on my controller? I''m trying this: @query = @params[:name] I see that :name is making it into my params hash: {"product"=>{"name"=>"ipod"}} But I can''t seem to extract its value! --

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

I''m trying to install a plugin using the supplied command... $ script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/backgroundrb I get an error sh: line 1: svn: command not found What am I doing wrong? What is svn, and why is it not found?? It seems to work for everyone else.... Have I missed something in my Ruby install? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all. Am relatively new to RoR and I am pondering how to do something without using components since they appear to be "coda non grata". I have a standard layout that is used by all controllers. In this layout I want to list the next 5 events that are upcoming based on todays date. These events are currently stored in the Event model (created using scaffolding). Currently only

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/.

Hi, Say I want to display the subversion release number in the footer of each page in order to track what version of a site I''m looking at. I know subversion has a substitution keyword (LastChangedRevision) that inserts the last known revision in which that file .changed. So, if I stick $LastChangedRevision$ into views/layouts/application.rhtml, it''ll show the last time that

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Hi, I''m wondering if there is any way to specify the id of a form tag with the start_form_tag helper. I''ve tried playing around with ", id=>"marginForm" " and also inclosing both the action variable and id variable in curley brackets. The Rails API doesn''t off much help for a n00b like me. It''s probably really easy but any help you guys