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When you put up a page with a form on it and the top item is a text field it would be nice to have that field already focused instead of forcing the user to click in it before they start typing. Is there a rails (i.e. probably Prototype) way of giving focus to a field? I did some searching and found nothing. thanks, jp P.S. I''m on a Mac. Perhaps a winoze and/or unix automatically

Can I get some opinions on which free DB to use with rails for a virtual server that will eventually be doing lots of heavy database lifting? Not a lot of heavy duty querying per se. Think multiple simultaneous forums and blog sites and the like. I know each of the different DB possibilities such as MySQL and PostgreSQL has plus points and minus points. I''m particularly interested

Hi, I was wondering if some of you have had to keep more than one version of Rails on your machine at a time? If you have more than one customer, they may have different requirements. You might need to work on a pre-existing app that is not scheduled to be moved to a newer version of Rails right now. How is the best way to deal with this? thanks, jp -- Posted via

Hi, Nuby on Rails here trying to bring up an existing app on a new installation. The whole ruby/rails/mysql/lighty installation was done per the much touted "hivelogic article" that runs through all the steps. I am running into a permission error when I try to do a rake migrate to set up a session database needed by this existing app. Extracted from the trace... ** Execute

Hi, Noob here. One problem faced by developers of active content is making sure that the final results of their magic result in URL''s that Google and other search engines are comfortable with. Otherwise, your content won''t ever get spydered and indexed and ultimately returned in a google user''s results pages. In reading the agile rails book, it seems that the

just wondering if there is a better way to create a nice view other than using iweb. like, it would be nice if you can design a view, and then just add the ruby tags. thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Just a positive experience I would like to share with you : testing is great on paper but very tedious to apply because nobody wants to run manually the tests by hand. Last week I have discovered zentest, an automated test process command line utility. That was at the beginning (hopefully) of a new project. Believe it or not, I have started to code most parts of the application without using

Ok, maybe its a short walk, not a drive... I have it working just fine using smtp in development env from my OSX machine. When I deploy it to the server (which happens to be the same box where the smtp server lives), no email, no errors, nothing in the Postfix logs. I''ve double checked that my production and development action mailer settings are identical. Here''s whats in the

I have a view where I render a partial over a collection. Each instance of the partial includes a <div> with an id specific to that instance. Inside the partial, there is a select tag for "year". I''m trying to change some of the contents of the partial when user changes the year. I''m using this in the view: <%= select_tag :year,

Following the advice here I''ve been trying to get subversion installed and working from my virtual dedicated server this weekend. I believe everything is installed properly, and that all that''s left is to get the apache httpd.conf file set up correctly. to talk to my server with my client I''m using the path: http://svn.mylittlecorneroftheinternet.com/svn/repos/ error

I''m working on an app that includes the feature to allow user to download a csv file of their data. I''ve got it working on my local machine, but when I deploy it, the link I''m making doesn''t work for doing the download. The file IS being created in the location I''m intending, but the file download only works on my local machine and not on the server.

Hi, I''m trying to figure out the best way to protect images uploaded by users who may wish to keep them private. For example, if they are uploaded in the default file_column location (/public/blah/blah/1/) then someone can simply type the URL http://www.blah.com/blah/blah/1 and get the image. I can store the images in a non-public directory in the rails app (ie: /railsapp/images/X/)

I''ve been mostly lurking here with an occasional nuby question for a few weeks now. It seems like Ruby and Rails and the many libraries and tools growing up around it are a remarkable toolset. Unfortunately I''m finding the whole enchilada a bit daunting. It seems that if one is to truly tap into the power of this thing and do a significant amount of developing, one needs

So I''m wondering about the origin of "ActiveRecord" and "ActionPack" and the like in Rails. I''ve always thought that perhaps DHH found himself in a suit one day (maybe he had to attend a friend''s wedding or something), and as long as he had the suit on, decided to lapse into a one of the barely lucid frenzies that Marketing people are prone to when

Just wanted to let anyone know that might have checked out the generator before and couldn''t use it b/c you''re project required graceful degredation. Well its in there now. Thanks everyone and enjoy. Demo: http://ajaxscaffold.height1percent.com Release Notes: http://www.height1percent.com/articles/2006/03/04/ajaxscaffold-2-2-0-released-with-graceful-js-degredation -- Richard

Total Ruby Noob here. Just in the throws of reading the books and choosing an isp for my server etc. If you are developing a "one-off" rails app with the intent of using it on an isp hosted server, would it normally work better to develop and debug the thing locally (like on a Mac for instance), and then go through a round of "move it to the server and retest everything there

A search of this forum for "cloud" brought up a pretty anemic and mostly year or more old list of stuff. That was a bit of a surprise to me. I''m interested in getting opinions on the easiest way to deploy a Rails app to a well known (S3 or similar) "cloud" server. It should be something with little or no "installation" or "establishment" fees and

Hi, I''ve got some Ajax stuff that shows more or less of a complex form based on a radio button selection. A "radio_handler" controller action is the action for a form handler. Some seemingly simple "replace_html" fires as a result of different radio buttons being chosen (which should then show more or less of the form). This all works just great on Mac Safari and

Hi, I''m completely new to all of this. Not even certain this is an appropriate forum for an installation question. I''m just about to plunk down some money to get a virtual server. In looking over the list of isp''s elsewhere on this site, goDaddy isn''t mentioned - probably because they don''t offer rails as a standard distribution. There are some

Well, I understand what they do and how, I just don''t get why! It seems to me that any time you would have this relationship between two tables...they should be one table! Agile Rails book gives what seems to me to be a lame example for this. They use the example of an "invoice" and an "order". An invoice belongs to an order and an order has one invoice. Seems