similar to: OT: Best practice for multi-user select boxes

I''m using Markby to convert a standard form witth selects. Can someone tell me why this works: <tr> <td><label class="formLabel" for="task_owner_id">Owner</label></td> <td><%= select ''task'', ''owner_id'', Owner.to_dropdown %></td> </tr> But, the Markaby conversion

I read somewhere that the correct naming of bridge tables is in alpha order. For example. I have two tables: houses, and colors. If I want to create a bridge table to associate colors with houses, I would name the table: colors_houses The associations work fine. But, if I have a table named: track_houses. Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model associaton errors.

I need to process some text files quickly. I''ve not been able to find the answer in the archive. The Ruby Standard Library site times out. Can someone tell me where to find info on how to: 1. Get a list of filenames in a directory. 2. How to open a file. 3. How to read it a line at a time. -- Thanks in advance for the help, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Ruby script/console takes 30-secs to start on the Windows 2003 servers in our shop. Has anyone found a way to speed that up? ( I know Linux is much faster, but that''s not an option, in this case). -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Recently discovered Markaby. Before I use it on a production system, I''d like to know if it is still being maintained? According to the change log, the last change was in February of 2006. Does this mean that the project has been abandoned? Or, at version 0.3 it was considered production stable and complete? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Installed Fedora5. Installed Ruby 1.8.4. Installed rubygems. Installed rails. Created test app to verify that ruby and rails were working. When I attempted to install mongrel via: sudo gem install mongrel I get this error: Install required dependency daemons? [Yn] y Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn] y Building native extensions. This could take a while... can''t find

What''s the best way to handle a find that doesn''t find anything? For example. Model Foo @result = Foo.find(:first, :condition => "some condtion string").name if the condition is not met Foo.find stops the application with ''unexpected nil''. What is the best way to gracefully trap this error and return something meaningfull to the calling

Rails 1.1.6 on gems I had the acts_as_dropdown plugin working fine, but now starting webrick gives me a: C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/base.rb:1129:in `method_missing'': undefined method `acts_as_dropdown'' for User:Class (NoMethodError) My other plugins are working fine. I have the latest version of acts_as_dropdown. Gems are

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

Does anyone have any experience getting ODBC to work? I could really use some help here. I''m having trouble accessing a db2 database via odbc using rails. It''s an external database, that I import data from. I have placed the connection code in my model : unless connected? establish_connection( :adapter => "odbc", :dsn => "<dsn

Hello, I hope somebody can explain to me what''s going on here because I''m baffled! In a controller''s action I want to create a new order for a customer. Because I post back to the same action (not RESTful I know, but that''s for another day) I use code like this: def edit @order = Order.find_by_id(params[:id]) || Order.new ... end I

What is the best way to create a drop down where the viewable text in a concatenation of 2 or more columns? For instance, I hane a lookup table with these columns. Model FOO columns: id , name, phone In my drop select tag, I''d like the user to see: "name1 phone1" "name2 phone2" etc.. I know I can do this using find_by_sql . .. But, isn''t there a more

I''ve decided to take the plunge and go with Gentoo for my rails development and test box. I figure the easy of maintenance is worth the setup hassles. Anyway, I''m followin the instructions on the Gentoo web site. I''ve selected the ..''i686'' 2.6 kernel for my 700mhz amd processor, and choosen stage3 install option from CD. I''m now at the the

I''m trying to find all the unique bill_number, status records in Bills table. I can do it with a find_by_sql statement like this: @records = Bill.find_by_sql( "select distinct bill_number, status from bills group by bill_number, status;") How would I rewrite it using ''find :all

I know this is off topic, But, my boss has tasked me with finding a better ftp client than the one in Windows XP. Is there a Ruby client that can recover dropped connections, ( a resume feature)? Would be nice if it could handle secure/ encrypted transmissions as well? Failing that, can anyone recommend a good scriptable ftp client for the Windows plaftorm? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work,

How to I display the binary equivalent of a number? I tried this: b = 0b1101 puts b # returns decimal value ( 13 ) b.to_bn # generates "unable to convert FIXNUM to STRING.." error. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

I want to create a new scaffold. Would it be best to implement as a plugin? Any tips on how to get started? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I discovered Markaby recently, and am loving it! I''m generating scaffolds, then converting them to Markaby ''.mab'' files. It got me wondering... Has anyone written a plugin to generate scaffolds in Markaby, yet?? That would be truly awesome if there was on out there already. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

I have an app that needs to retreive data through an ODBC connection on a windows platform. Has anyone done this? Would someone be able to walk me through it? or point me to the relavant docs. My searches haven''t turned up any usefull information so far. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson

How do I run SQL scripts from rails? I have a testing menu item called "import data". How can I get it to call a SQL script file that will import the data into a MySQL table for me? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: