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Hello there, I''m new with ruby on rails and i don''t know how to load up a parsed file into my database. I have my ruby script that parses it but don''t know where to put my code, or how to combine it with view/model/controller. this is what i have: class Description < ActiveRecord::Base def import_strings(a_file) table = { }

I wrote a ruby script that parses a file into key-values like so: class Parser table = { } IO.foreach(''Localizable.strings'') { |line| if line =~ /^ \s* " (.*?) " \s* = \s* " (.*?) "/x table[ $1 ] = $2 end } end I want to store the key-values in different colums on my database so that when I enter a key, it gives me the corresponding value...how

I know i''m new with ruby and i''ve been kind of confused with how rails manages all the details. I want to store the key-values in different columns on my database so that when I enter a eky, it gies me the corresponding value. this is what i have: my view: <h1>Importing Strings<h1> <%=error_messages_for("string_record")%> <%=

Hi everybody, I know this is an easy question but I don''t seem to see the solution. I''m trying to have a user select a file so that my code can parse it and populate the database with corresponding values. So far it seems like uploads but nothing shows in my db. Can anybody give me a hand? thanks view: h1>Importing Strings<h1>

Hi All, Wonder if any of you guys can help troubleshoot the following for me. What I''m trying to achieve is: 1) Perl web service, using SOAP::Lite (server) 2) Ruby web service consumer, using SOAP::RPC::DRIVER (client) My problem is, if my client and server are both Perl based, the output is as expected. However, if the client is Ruby based (haven''t tried another

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 having trouble with files being marked read-only in Windows because the Solaris file owner does not have write-permissions on the file; group-write is allowed: -r--rw---- 1 user group 32 Feb 13 14:19 testfile.txt I thought that setting "store dos attributes = yes" for this share would allow the "read only" setting to be stored in extended attributes, but it

I''m getting this when I run my Rails controller specs. <projectroot>/config/../lib/authenticated_system.rb:16: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id I added "include AuthenticatedTestHelper" to /spec/spec_helper.rb so that my controller tests^H^H^H^H^Hspecs can use the "login_as" helper method. Anyone know how to fix this? -- Cheers,

I have a situation where I''d like to perform some actions when a node is removed from a class. I have a few (homegrown) services that install ssh keys in authorized_keys and it''s possible that a node may have the service enabled and disabled during it''s lifetime. When disabled I''d like to clean up the ssh keys for security reasons. This brings up the broader

Is it possible to select a portion of string? For example, in many websites, they give the first paragraph in the main page and link for the article on the other page. I remember this is available in PHP. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Rizwan -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

WHat is the significance to Samba of pam_password exop vs pam_password md5 in ldap.conf? The reason I ask is that, wherever possible, I prefer to use the vendor supplied tools for manipulating config files. With Fedora 3 it's system-config-authentication and it doesn't give you the option of exop. You either enable MD5, which puts pam_password md5 in ldap.conf, or disable it, which puts

Im not very familiar with RoR so this question might be kind of silly. I want to store strings from different lenguages in a database. I want to have the key for the string in english be the ''key'' for all the corresponding traslations of that string. For example: (database columns) lenguage-------------key-----------------value----- english hello

Hi folks, I having a problem compiling Samba (Last Stable Version) from source on a Debian fresh install. Escenario: OS: Debian Lenny 5 64 bits Kernel: 2.6.26-2-amd64 Samba Version: 3.5.4 OpenLDAP Version: slapd_2.4.11-1 I tried this before and after the OpenLDAP installation and always have the same error: ./configure --with-ldap --with-ldapsam . . . . . checking for LDAP support...

the question ask me to use gsub() and subsetting to remove the comma at the end of the for all but the first value in a data frame. the first few lines are like the following: [1] "2177663,-41,175,2678248,6021224,1840,5,25,17,,,6,," "2177691,-39.6,176.2,2784798,6173592,1843,7,8,5,30,,7.6,12," [3]

Good afternoon, I am a new user of the R application, and I don't know to much about the lenguage. I am trying a to run some of the S programs I have, and some of them are crashing with the "dates" function. This function translate a character string into a 'dates representation object'. Do you know if there is a similar function in R? Thank you very much for your help

Hi everybody, Ruby on Rails is my first programming lenguage...it looks to me like i''m missing the big picture. I''m trying to upload a file into a database. In my app. my user needs to select a file and upload it...however I only want him to upload certain information from that file. I have written code to parse only string tables from that file. For example, the table

Hello, I''ve created a little class which should unpack a 7z archive on Windows. The class has a parameter for passing in the archive version, so that I can trigger an update when a new version of the archive is available. A simplyfied version looks like this (requires 7z): class my_archive ($version = undef) { file { ''version'': path =>

Estimados miembros de la lista, Cómo hago para trabajar con tildes en RStudio. En concreto, cuando cargo un archivo .txt o .csv en RStudio, no me reconoce el tilde com tal y me coloca otros caracteres en su lugar. ¿Existe alguna solución? Saludos, Manuel -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000

Hola a todos, Tengo un programa que muestra unos informes generados con R (utilizando la función cat()), y me gustaría que dichos informes le aparecieran al usuario en el idioma que tenga definido según su LOCALE. ¿Cómo se podría hacer esto con R? En otros lenguajes lo que se hace es definir un diccionario con todas las palabras que aparecen en los informes, y su traducción en los distintos

Dear All, Does anyone know of any GIS packages for R? I know that there are GIS facilities for S-Plus (eg Arc Info), and am looking for freeware equivalents. Best wishes, Sam Brown ----------------------------------------------------------- Sam Brown sam at zoo.cam.ac.uk Department of Zoology tel +44 1223 330933 Downing Street fax +44 1223 334466