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In http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial there is a string called require ''digest/sha1'' in the model. What does it do? Everything else is well explained besides that. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial there is the string/method protected in the model. What does it do? Can''t find that in http://api.rubyonrails.org/. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Newbie to RoR -- as a long time Java Struts/etc. guy it is an awesome tool! I have implemented some basic login/session stuff with the help of a great tutorial, props to the author ( http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial). I have a trivial instance method in ApplicationController, which just grabs the User object from the session. def current_user session[:user] end

I''m pretty much done with a project I''ve been developing to learn Rails, http://www.happycarpools.com . If you could take a look, that''d be awesome! Feedback would be even more awesome! Probably the coolest thing about making this has been seeing how Rails does *so much* and hardly has any superfluous parts, if any. There are so many features that I initially

I am a the point now where I have to add user authentification to my application. Anyone can point me toward an easy to use / secure library? I know about ActiveRBAC and was wondering if there is anything else that I should consider. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi everyone, I''m having trouble actually running mysql queries. I can connect to the database, I think, but when a query gets run the following shows up in my log: SQL (0.000000) Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW TABLES Any suggestions? Thanks! Daniel Higginbotham

Hi everyone, Is there a time select helper which uses a 12 hour clock rather than a 24 hour one? Also, does anyone know if :discard_year actually works in datetime_select now, or how I could find this out? Thanks! Daniel

Hopefully this isn''t completely inappropriate, but lately I''ve been curious about what books people have found most helpful in their development as programmers. If one of the icons like Dave Thomas, DHH, Mike Clark, Andy Hunt et al could weigh in that''d be awesome :) Here are some of my favorites: Refactoring, Martin Fowler Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl

Hi everyone, It seems like every time I want to evaluate a possibly undefined variable I have to use defined? to see that it exists first, so I can''t simply have -- if params[:range_start] > 3 or something like it. I need to have -- if defined? params[:range_start] && params[:range_start] > 3 I can''t even have -- if params[:range_start].nil? This is really

Hi all, I''m interested in starting a ruby/rails user group in Ireland and I''m trying to gauge the level of interest. So if you''re interested please get in touch (aidanf at gmail.com). I would also appreciate any suggestions/pointers about starting/organizing a user group. cheers, AF ------------------------------- http://www.aidanf.net

Hiall, I want to give the action of a form an additional parameters but can''t figure out how to do it. My code looks like this <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'', next_step => true %> <%= render :partial => ''user_form'' %> <%= render :partial => ''community_form'' %> <%= submit_tag

Hello, I need a HTML rich text editor for a field, and widgEditor seems to be just what I need: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/ I''ve installed it, following the Aidanf.net''s post: http://www.aidanf.net/adding-a-rich-text-editor-to-your-rails-application But althougth it displays well, I can''t write inside; as if it was Read-only!! I can''t

I know this shouldn''t be in the view but to test the code it is. Anyway if I do just session[user] I get back the user id (the id from the user table) which is good. However this code does not work. <% a = session[:user] %> <% uname = User.find(:first, :conditions => id = a) %> <%= @uname %> TIA Stuart

Question, and I''ll preface it by asking if this is the right list to be posting questions regarding anything past Rails 1.1.6 , (i.e. edgerails) ? In the latest revision of AWDWR there is a sample REST based app. During the creation of the controller and actions, there is a foot note that says: "7. By the time you''re reading this, there may well be support build into Rails

Hi all, I have a rails app running on mongrel on freebsd using mongrel 0.3.13.3 with ruby 1.8.4. Mongrel dies every time the application generates an exception. I have the same setup running on a linux box without any problems. Mongrel crashes with the following error: Bus error (core dumped) And the following message in /var/log/message kernel: pid 57638 (ruby), uid 0: exited on signal 10

if I call a helper method from inside a partial, it doesn''t appear to have access to the partials local variables. is there a way to make them avilable without passing them as parameters? here''s a simple example # in the view <%= render :partial => "my_partial", :locals => :value => 2%> # _my_partial.rhtml - raises "undefined local variable or

Are there any other tutorial than "Agile Web Development with Rails" that you can suggest? So far I can''t say that RoR has been easy to learn. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to make use of a form_remote_tag to submit a form asynchronously. Easy done. However, we also want to add an observe_form tag to check for some value changes while the form is being entered. The observe_form tag needs a dom id to work on but I can''t see how to enter an html option for the dom id of the form on the form_remote_tag. Any ideas? Here is the form tag so far...

This is kind of frustrating (but no doubt helpful in the long run) that after following along and coding , and d/l the code the same error is appearing. For those who are familiar with the depot app, I''ve run into a problem after fixing the cart to reflect quanitites. I worked through the intended error messages but now have this appearing: SyntaxError in StoreController#add_to_cart

Hi all, Is there a way in vpim to edit an individual field in a vcard. I have a set of vcards stored in a db and would like to be able to edit individual fields in the vcard and then save the vcard back to the db. I didn''t see any methods for editing a vcard in the api. Do I need to create a new vcard and repopulate it with all the fields except the one that I''m changing and