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Hello everyone, I just showed a friend a prototype of a site offering a service I''m trying to sell (sorry, not on the Internet yet - he saw it at my house). His comment: "Looks like it does everything, but also looks pretty ugly. You''re not going to wow anybody with that". Sitting back and thinking about it, he''s dead right - it needs some bling to make it

Hi everybody, after looking a bit around the Internet and checking which website style some users of webgen are using, I found that many people just stay at the default webgen website style (which is not really pretty ;-) So, I''m thinking about changing the default webgen website style to something more Web-2.0-ish, and I would like to know if there is a particular website style

I''ve written my app already. It outputs valid xhtml and I need a stylesheet to drop over the top. How hard is it for people to understand that? It''s a small project, they''d have to do the main design/layout, and then a little custom styling for some specific elements which don''t appear on every page. That''s the point of CSS right? write once, use

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any pointers / suggestions re cheapest Rails hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)??? Can be a shared platform, however not sure if there is a shared platform type hosting service where they do give you such access?

hi, all i have been playing around with rails for sometime, i have seen most not all of the rails sites have similar look and feel (good one) i want to know how to use the stylesheets provided by the RoR framework if any or is it that we have to define on our own from scratch. basiclly i need information regarding how can i make my view better looking(the visuals) Thanks in advance warm

Hi guys, I''ve just been reading Martin Fowler''s article re mock versus stubbing<http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html>where he compares traditional TDD testing techniques with mock based testing. I''d be interested in comments from a ruby on rails perspective in terms of this and Mocha? For example: a) Do you see Mocha as a robust way to test Ruby

Hi, I''d like to do a "find_by_sql" without a model (e.g. <model name>.find_by_sql("...")) as the results I get back are a once off special, and I''m happy to handle them as an array. How do I do this? "ActiveRecord::Base.find_by_sql(...)" does not seem to work? Background - At the moment I''m doing within a model <model_name>,

anyone able to explain logic behind "rake spec" startup? i.e. the below steps & why things occur when they do Macintosh-2:myequity greg$ rake spec --trace (in /Users/greg/source/myequity) ** Invoke spec (first_time) ** Invoke db:test:prepare (first_time) ** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute

Hi, Does anyone know how to correctly configure RadRails (0.7)? I can''t seem to get 0.7 version of radrails to create a Rails project. All I get is a blank project. I have ensured that my PATH does point to my ruby\bin area. Also any clarification regarding which directory (with an example) should be used for the following preferences setting (are they asking for a file or

Hi, Q1 - Know why rake doesn''t recognize "rake examples_with_rcov" per http://rspec.info/documentation/tools/rcov.html ? Q2 - Also when I run "rake spec:rcov" it seems to give me the same as if I just run "autotest" or "rake spec". I was expecting a heap of pointers to code I haven''t tested?

Hi, Can anyone help me out re how I change the startup options for mysql (v5.0) running on my Mac? (I just want to add the "--log" option is about it). I tried doing "sudo ./Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM restart" however this started a 2nd instances of mysql & mysqld. Here is what I see start after Mac startup if this helps: $ ps aux | grep mysql _mysql 137 0.0

Hi, Just trying to get Capistrano working to Dreamhost. I''m hitting a permissions issue on the reaper file at the moment. Has anyone a copy of the capistrano DEPLOY.RB file they could post or send me a copy of please? Thanks Greg -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Just wondering if rails has a method to look for an existing record and return it, but if it''s not existing then create a new record. (i.e. "FIND EXISTING OR CREATE NEW IF NONE FOUND"?) Then when finished updating one could use the existing "save" method which caters for either a new or updated record already Thanks

Hi, Just get started with Rails and I''m trying to read ahead and find out whether Active Record supports auto-creation of database tables for you? Is this supported, or is the concept that you write your own database DDL to do this? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m developing a budget planner for myself and do have a table for recurring expenses, as well as a transaction table for my bank account CSV file uploads. Questions: For the projections forward in time I''m wonder whether to: (a) keep it simple and just calculate future balance projections on the fly, then feed to gruff graphs (b) each time a recurring item changes, or

Hi, Just having a problem trying to get capistrano working to the remote server. I''ve set things up per the below to links, but when I enter "cap setup" (or "rake remote:exec ACTION=setup" - I assume they are the same) then things FREEZE and it never asks me for a password. I have to kill the "cmd" window. Is there a way to get some level of trace or

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 all, Any suggestions re cheap [or free ideally :)] hosting solutions for Ruby on Rails applications. At this stage for me it''s just the ability mainly to learn/play, but at the same time being able to publish the application to internet so friends can use. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.