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I''ve been working with ActionMailer for a few days and finally have a pretty good grasp of it. In the book I''m reading, it shows how to send to multiple users or an array of users. Is there a setting or some configuration I can do to send the email to each person separately, or would I just need to loop through each user and send one email at a time? What is the best way to

does anyone know much about resizing different versions of images with file_column? i tried it and everything works fine, but my question is can you do more than just make sizes with a version of image? i''m working on a photo album and i would like to resize the image to a medium size, but create a thumbnail as well and crop anything left to make the thumbnail a perfect square. --

i have a copy of the typo source on my desktop that i am going through just to get a better understanding of the rails framework and ruby itself. i''m fairly new to everything so it has proved to be very helpful and very inspiring. i''m stuck on a part though. i was trying to figure out how everything on the sidebar works. i found the components folder and started looking

i''m still pretty new to rails, and while i''ve been able to hack my way into having it do what i want so far, i''m not happy with the way my code looks. on top of that, i''m sure that what i''m doing prlly isn''t the most efficient either. one of my biggest problems is probably to do with using relationships and forms together. i''ve

i used the hivelogic article to install ruby on rails to my mac: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger everything works great using the script/server command, but isn''t that still using WEBrick? how do i server my apps with lightTPD? i tried following the instructions given here: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsonlighty but have had no

i have a datetime field in my database that i need broken up. i want to display the date and the time in separate places. i tried looking through the api, but couldn''t find what i was looking for. if someone could please point me in the right direction to format dates, that would be great. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

could someone explain some of the uses for a web service. i''m reading about how to make them, but i''m still not quite sure what they''re good for. i have multiple rails apps that i would like to pass user information back and forth to. i''m not sure if something like this could help me or not. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i am in the process of taking all of our php applications for the company i work for and rewriting them in ruby on rails. just to help with username and password management, i had a program where we could create a user and then assign what other programs they had access to, so that they would only have to log in at one place and have access to all of the software. i''m not sure of

i am reading Agile Web Development with Rails and i have some noob questions about it. i''ve gone through the depot application with hardly any problems and now i''m reading through the chapters that explain some of the deeper facets of rails. on chapter 14 it starts talking about active record. all the sudden, it''s showing examples of how to connect to the database.

reading through Agile Web Development with Rails, i am almost completely through with the chapters explaining the depot shopping cart application. everything has worked fine except for one thing, i still have to go to http://localhost:3000/store to get to the first page. if someone just goes to http://localhost:3000/ it will still show the welcome page for Ruby on Rails. what if i want some

All assumptions aside, "rectest" and "salt" are usernames not databases/schemas according to the pasted config. If they were in fact different databases/schemas, this problem could never have happened. While different database brands may have tricks for ways to handle users and what they perceive as a database/schema, the fact remains that if 2 literally separate databases

i just went through installing RoR on a cpanel setup and everything seems to work except for deployment. i go through the entire process of setting up a new rails app on a cpanel account and i get: Not Found The requested URL /testapp/index.html was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I installed RoR on my Mac with Tiger10.4. Everything seems to work fine. I installed it on my other mac using 10.3 and at first it worked fine, but when I started using apps with a database, sometimes the server crashes on certain pages. I''ve been trying to locate the source of the problem, but the crashes seem pretty random. I''m wondering if this has anything to do with the

i am trying to generate a pdf of all of the users in an application that i have built. i am still pretty new to ruby and rails so i don''t know the best way to go about it. here is my controller code: require ''pdf/writer'' require ''pdf/simpletable'' class ReportsController < ApplicationController def test _pdf = PDF::Writer.new table =

i have a taskmanager type of project that i am working on, where i need to separate joins on the same two tables. i need one join for users that are assigned to the task, and another join for who has read the task, so they can tell which ones are new. any suggestions on the best way to accomplish this? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i am trying to figure out how file column works so i can play with it a little bit on my site. i have installed it as a plugin to my rails application, copied the snippets on both model and view but when i try to run the page, i get an error saying "undefined method `file_column_field''" did i do something wrong or is something not installed? -- Posted via

I am having a bit of trouble with the error. I hava a product and category table and wanting to display the categories in a drop down list. Below is the error I get. Any suggestion on how I can fix this. undefined method `name'' for #<Category:0x3652448> 9: <select name="product[category_id]"> 10: <% @categories.each do |category| %> 11:

Hi all Is there a function that makes the first character of a given string upcase? first_to_upper "canada" Thanks for help. :-) Joshua -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, i need to construct a link as following "<a href=\"#{CONFIG[''URLS''][''Xyz'']}\#{url}\"#{tag_options}>#{name || url}</a>" But here due to escape character #{url} not give actual value it treated as a string. how to solve this ? if i do "<a

i am working on a catalog for our customers to order printing. i have worked a little bit with imagemagick and pdf_writer. currently i am uploading a pdf and an image for the preview of the file. i''m just wondering if there is a way to convert a page of the pdf to a jpeg so that i only have to upload once. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.