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How is the performance running RoR with Apache2 compared to running it with PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

And compared to PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is so frustrating. Is RoR that easy to learn or is it hype or is it just me? I wonder how many newbies like me are surfing the docs trying to get a clue of the basics. Every tutorial I find is much the same, and seems to skip the fundmental parts. How should you understand the Ruby API http://api.rubyonrails.org/? What is < ActionController::Base? Can''t I set a cookie under

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/.

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''m a web designer/-developer. I found Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and as I can understand (for now) this is what I''ve been looking for. I''m really exited about this. Prior to this I''ve used Lasso and PHP. But a few questions (sitting on Mac OS 10.4.6). I tried to install according to this:

In an migration file there is one up and one down method. Below is from Agile Web Development with Rails: class CreateOrderHistories < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :order_histories do |t| t.column :order_id, :integer, :null => false t.column :created_at, :timestamp t.column :notes, :text end end def self.down drop_table :order_histories end end Why is there a drop

When creating a scaffold you get a layout file. How does it work? I thought I would find the var @content_for_layout in the controller, but I didn''t. Where is layouts defined or controlled? -- 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/.

Could someone please explain the relationship, if any, between the RoR application directory / name (generated by ''rails appname'') and the internet domain name it will be hosted under? If my web site is www.mydomain.com, does my RoR appname need to be ''mydomain''? Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Can I use the table name "adm_users" (mysql)? Will that give the model name "adm_user"? Or should it be "admusers" and "admuser"? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, After following advice from you good folks, I gave mongrel a try in a cluster design based on the example on the Mongrel website - and it worked right out of the box which is great - and it''s very fast :) I have got a bit stuck though. I have two MS Word files in /public/files/. I can pull back these files no problem but it isn''t sending a mimetype. I think I have two

Folks: I''ve posted a really basic e-mail address verifier to http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/VerifyEmailAddress I''d appreciate folks who understand DNS and SMTP having a look at it to see if it looks reasonable. You could comment here or, possibly more usefully, comment on the wiki page itself. Thanks Dave

Hello, I am new to Ruby but not to programming. I have a domain name and server space with a host who said that ruby on rails should work on the server. All I want to do is make sure that a test ruby application works online so that I can begin development on an app. I am able to get the test program to work locally but not online. In C:/ruby/projects/test/controllers/TestController.rb:

How can I modify the style of a RoR field like text_field or password_field? I can use input in css, but how do I add a class? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dear all, Please help me in this regards, I am using models to access LegacySchemas using set_table_name and set_primary_key... [code for model] class CdDetails < ActiveRecord::Base def self.find_data set_table_name ''cd_details'' set_primary_key ''cd_label'' find (:first, :select => "cd_label") end

Hello, Rather new to RoR, so I''m not sure about the terminology and such :-/ . My question is: how could I know the model which is associated to a controller? For example: - controller class is TestController, which is a subclass of ApplicationController - associated model class is Test How could I write some code in a method of ApplicationController to dermine the current

Is it possible to somehow send an email containing the user password if it is stored as a md5 hash in the database? Is it stupid to save the passwords as clear text strings in the db? Its a web shop. A workaround would be to generate a new password and send it to the user. If the user then want to, he may change to another password. Any other thoughts on this? //D -- Posted via

(Hopefully) a quick question about variable scope issues. In one of my controllers, I have a class variable: class TestController < ApplicationController @@testClassVariable = 0 ... The problem is, in my "list" method I''m trying to increment this variable by one each time, printing it out, but it seems to reset to 0 every time the list method is called: def list

Hi All, I am fairly new to Ruby and backgroundRB. I am trying to run a simple example in Windows to get my feet wet with backgroundRB and am running into an ''uninitialized constant'' error when I invoke the controller on my rails app. In ''MyTest'' Controller ------------------- def longrun session[:job_key] = MiddleMan.new_worker(:class =>