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I have my app up and running at www.domainname.com/controller/ ... but need to get it set up at just www.domainname.com I see that by default, rails is loading the pre-made index file in the /public dir. How can I override this without changing any directories around in my app? Thanks! -stirman -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Just wanted to send a quick thank you to the contributers on this forum. Today, with the help of many around here, I launched ohdontforget.com! Ohdontforget.com allows US visitors to schedule sms text messages for a specific date and time, for free. Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on Rails and

I would like to set up a global variable to count how many times a specific method is executed, but I would like the variable to keep counting regardless of sessions, restarting the app, etc. Is this possible? Or... I could just do a simple read/write to a text file on the server, but I''m not finding any good tutorials or examples about simple text i/o... any suggestions? Thanks!

I have a simple method in a model, to send out e-mails via the script/runner. def Reminder.dropoff @messages = Reminder.find(:all, :conditions => [ "time < now()"]) @messages.each do |mes| Mailman::deliver_send_message(mes) end end However, it''s not sending e-mails. When this exact code was dropped in a controller, it worked great... is there

I have a little javascipt script to determine a users GMT timezone offset... is it possible to use that variable in ruby code, in the view? js script: <script type="text/javascript"> Now = new Date(); tzOff = Now.getTimezoneOffset(); tzOff = tzOff/60; </script> Thanks! -stirman -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am building a small app that reuires some clever text pattern matching... In my controller, I''ll have a string that I will want to parse out to a datetime and a message, a la Google Calendar Quick Add. Examples: 10/30/2006 7pm message 10-30-96 7:00 pm message 10/30/2006 19:00pm message ... You see what I''m getting at. For a v1.0 release, I CAN publish some standards for

Hello there, So I''m still struggling with this fastcgi stuff. I''m trying to upload and process a decent sized ZIP file, but the request dies before it finishes and I get the following error: FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/Users/ryan/Workspace/rails/photos/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (30 sec), referer: http://photos/album/new/4

I''m a java/php programmer trying out Ruby/Rails on my Dreamhost account. I followed the wiki steps to the letter (2x now) and am still getting a 404 when I hit my dispatch.fcgi. http://mydomain.com/public/dispatch.fgci Can someone give me suggestions on how to debug this problem? Here is my dispatch.fcgi file: #!/usr/bin/env ruby # # You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log

Ok, So I followed the directions.. I did a ''gem install markaby'' (which sounds like its enough to get me going for rails), but I wasn''t sure, so I tried to install the plugin as well. Plugin installation fails looking for a file: Script/plugin install http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/svn/markaby/trunk Outputs this error: + ./trunk/svnindex.xsl

Hello, I am the developer of a fairly major PHP app. It has the full compliment of web application goodies -- email, batch processes, cc transactions, multi-level authentication, security, content management, curl-type interaction with other applications, etc. I am obsessed with the idea of re-doing a year and a half of work in Rails and the more I learn the worse my itch gets. I feel

I have been attempting for days to configure Apache for Rails. I have read forums, followed How-To''s all in vain. I am hoping someone can help me out. I am getting the Rails Welcome screen, but when trying to go to any other url, I get the 500.html message. Take a look for yourself at http://66.139.78.237 and click on "about your application''s environment".

I have a problem with lighttpd on OSX. Everything builds fine (and webrick runs just fine) but lighttpd barfs: edward-kenworthys-computer:~/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk edward$ script/server => Booting lighttpd (use ''script/server webrick'' to force WEBrick) => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown

I just got a Google Groups notification that I had been subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk. Looking at the page, it appears that about 4300 folks have been subscribed. However, I saw nothing about this on rails@lists.rubyonrails.org. Wazzup? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com

Greetings, Does anyone have experience with Rails VPS hosting? I''m basically looking for a hosting reseller option so I can have control of my clients domains and hosting. I''m looking for something easy to use; although I like learning it all, and am learning a lot, I am most definitely not a command line linux user type as of yet. The one that I''ve looked at

Hi all, I''m trying to use Apache 2.0.52 and FastCGI on Mac OS 10.4.6 and I''m having some trouble. The server starts up fine, but I get the error at the bottom of this post once I make a request to the rails app. I was curious if anyone had an idea as to why it wasn''t working. I have everything installed correctly (rubygems, fastcgi, ruby bindings, etc). I had this

I there We are making an app using barcode readers and it would be great if we did not have to hit enter or click each time an product is scanned, does anuybody has eny idea about how to achive this? Thanks in advance

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

Help me!!!Lol I''ve been working with RedCloth but it''s runed my layout because it put the <p> and </p> is there a way to remove this without gsubing it up or if I do what the prettiest I can make it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Could anyone point to some TextMate resources ? I found a few bundles, but they were all corrupted... JEtienne -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I might be buying a Mac tomorrow. I checked out the new 13.3in MacBook at the new Apple Store on 5th ave in NYC. I''m torn between the smaller MacBook and the MacBook Pro. We have a pro at work and I''m not that thrilled with the way it feels. I like the keyboard much better on the 13inch. However, I think doing development on that small of a screen could get frustrating. Any