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Hi there, I have a database with phonenumbers, and I want to make a function that runs a command for each of these numbers, with the number as an argument Something like this in Perl: system("/bin/command $number"); mysql> select * from numbers where list = "one" +----+----------+----------+---------------------+-----------+ | id | number | name | email

Hello All, I have a little challenge and I am not sure if this is even possible I am working on a dating/event site and few functionalities are similar that I want to centralize them. We have users which can have - favorite users - interest list - blocked users All these relations are like; User <-> Relation <-> User I was thinking I could have a class called Relation (with a

Hello All, Any one using acts_as_enumerated? I need help using (I like that it caches values in memory) I am working on a dating website and there are lots of options I want to store as enumerated like Status; divorce, single, Sex: male, female Eye color; blue, brown, green.... and lots more.... But I do not wanna keep them in seperate tables, and wanna keep them all together. Anyone has a

Does anyone know if it''s possible to set constraints to the size & type of file that file_column will accept? I''d like to limit to image files of less than 2MB. If this isn''t possible with file_column, is there a graceful way of getting the controller to handle it? thanks dorian -- -- I do things for love or money

Is it possible to override has_many''s :order attribute at run-time? e.g. something like: <% for category in @site.categories(:order=>''name'') %> ... <% for category in @site.categories(:order=>''rank'') %> ... thanks csn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is there any special requirement for validates_confirmation_of ? I am trying to make sure 2 passwords are equal (cleanly the rails way).. In my view i have two fields with id user[password] and user[password_confirmation]. in the model i have validates_confirmation_of :password, :message =>"Passwords do not match " Am i missing something here ? thanks adam

Hi all, I''m using Capistrano and SVN to version control and deploy, but I''m not sure what to do about my images directory. I use file_column and RMagick to save images to the disk under a model called "Image", and they''re saved in public/image/... etc. Each time I deploy a new version, my image folder doesn''t exist anymore. I don''t want

Hello everybody, I have been developing small applications in Rails from quite some time. But lately, I came across a bug which I have not been able to correct. If anybody could help me with it, would be of great help thankyou. Actually, the problem is that I have a form in my application with some set of fields. Now what "validates_presence_of" should do is that if I submit the form

I am just going through the book and I come across a problem with the code in the app/models: validates_format_of :image_url, :with => %r{^http:.+\.(gif|jpg|png)$}i, :message => "must be a URL for a GIF, JPG, or PNG image" It seems to moan when it''s empty even though I removed :image_url from validates_presence_of. How should I make it optional?

I have a project under Subversion, deployed by Capistrano. When it is deployed, obviously I need to deploy "real" copies of database.yml, deploy.rb, and maybe a couple of other files. But if I offer it for public checkout, I obviously do not want these files as part of the checked out code. What''s the best way to handle this? --Al Evans -- Posted via

How can I get mt RJS template to accept a variable as the ID value? Doing this works: page.replace_html ''1'', "some text..." This does not: page.replace_html @employee.id, "some text..." Looked and searched but little documentation at the mo especially in RDocs. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

So I am now able to set/upload an image to my app using file_column, with a little bit of a change to the code. I can change the image using an Edit page, but I''m trying to figure out what to do if the user wants to remove the image. I tried adding a Remove Image link in my list, but I''m not sure what to do in the remove_image method in my controller. I tried setting the

Hi, This is the "img" class for anchor element inside my stylesheet. ===================== A.img:link { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; } A.img:visited { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; } ====================== I can easily apply this tag inside my html document as follows:- ======= < a href="goodbye.html" class="img"> ======= Now I want to

I just installed RoR on my server and I can access it using port 3000, but it''s not very nice to have it in the URL. How can I hide the port from the URL? Thanks, -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello! I m new to rails. I m playing around with it on a SuSE 10.0 box with ruby 1.8.2 and gems and rails and postgres. rails xyz creates a nice rails application, with its directory and ruby script/server runs webrick nicely and lets me see the page on localhost:3000. I went with some tutorial to create a Hello page showing the time and a Bye-Link to link to an Bye page. cat

Hello all, I use lighttpd 1.4.8 and I have a problem with image uploads. I tried file_upload plugin, but it is strangely working sometimes and refuse to work sometimes. Function in the controller is (@user is loaded in before_filter) def update_watermark @user.watermark = params[:user][:watermark] @user.save redirect_to :action => "index" end Model is

Hello guys, I am building a photo website and I have some questions before I really start programming the site. My system will be Debian + lighttpd + mysql +fastcgi + ImageMagick I plan to use file_column for image handling/verification and thumbnail creation. My question is; I need to store images in a place outside of webroot so only registered members can see them. To serve them secure

Hi, which is the best way to upload an image, keep that and also make a thumbnail? The images should not be stored in the database, but as normal image files in a specific directory. I think that for the thumbnail i should use rmagick, but for the upload ? (something which work with and without javascript, in every browser) Thanks :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I want to allow the downloading of specific file only to authorized user, lets say an MPEG. where do I start? ;-) Thx, Dor. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I added :accesskey=>"D" to the html options hash of my link_to tag but nothing happened. Should I keep trying or is this not an option yet? bruce