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hi, i have a situation where i have a list of options from which a user selects his options if its not in the list he/she selects Others/Not Present and a new textfield should pop up and the data entered there should be considered instead of dropdown. i have done this using javascript/dhtml but i was wondering how this can be done using pure rails i.e using some of the RoR apis?. i would

I am new to ruby and rails and am unsure how to accomplish the following: I''d like to have a page where the user enters a value in a form field and have results stream into a results div on the page. Additionally, I want to: - Not limit the result set - Allow user to get immediate feedback on what they have entered - Allow user to change field contents as results are appearing - Have

hi, i have noticed that the validations in RoR happen at server side mostly what sites do is using javascript they validate user information there... whats the point of doing it at the server side is it that loading of javascript file in a browser makes a response to client slow and validation at server side offsets that....????? any sugeestions???? is it that i am missing something as

hi all, i have implemented live search using scriptulous and i am getting the list the problem is that when i select an item from the list white spaces gets appended in front " item" of the selection in firefox and in opera front and behind " item " i printed the value in console and saw it gives "item" but in textbox after selection whitespaces gets appended

hi, I recently attended one of the ruby meetings that we have in my city. There one of the speaker said that google,amazon .. are working on RoR but still the performance of RoR is not at par with J2EE others.... he meant that though google,amazon working o it they will not bring it as front applications only parts the reason ruby is slow in comparison to other languages.... and in real time

hi all, if i want to write a query select * from a,b where a.b_id=b.id in active record using joins,condition how can i write that in docs i found for conditions you do by giving "?" and then the parameter eg. a.b_id=? but it takes b.id as string i.e a.b_id=''b.id'' i dont want that any suggestions thanks in advance regards gaurav -------------- next

hi, all i have been playing around with rails for sometime, i have seen most not all of the rails sites have similar look and feel (good one) i want to know how to use the stylesheets provided by the RoR framework if any or is it that we have to define on our own from scratch. basiclly i need information regarding how can i make my view better looking(the visuals) Thanks in advance warm

in my booking / _form I have the following input fields : (startdate and endate) <div> <label for="startdate">Booking Start Date</label><br /> <%= text_field_tag(''startdate'', @startdate, {:class => @startdateclass, :readonly => "readonly", :maxlength => "25"} ) %> <%= observe_field("startdate",

Hi everybody- First time poster, please be gentle. I have written a little rails app where you can create divs and move them around via Thomas'' wonderful dragdrop.js. I would like to be able to fire an AJAX event to update the top and left of the dragged object upon release. I see many AJAX link_to_remote and observe_field. What is the proper way to observe that the position (not

I want to do something like this: <%= link_to "Attack!", :action => "attack", :id => session[:user].id, :op_id => users.id, :update => "attk-div",:postion => "top" %> But, What should I user link_to will redirect on click so what action do I do? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial on visual effects in rails? I''ve searched and I''ve asked but I can''t seem to find any good documentation on ajax visual effects, combining of effects, or queued effects. Charlie Bowman http://www.recentrambles.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hi all, i have been trying to study web services using rails so far i succesful with server implementations in REST,SOAP,XML-RPC but the client code is troubling me. i have done most of the coding as per the rails book agile web development i.e implementations of the servers and when i invoke them they give result but when i try to acces them through another controller it gives time out error

I''m having a problem getting this example from the book to work: class Cookbook attr_accessor :title, :author def initialize @recipes = [] end def method_missing(m, *args, &block) @recipes.send(m, *args, &block) end end cb = Cookbook.new cb << recipe_for_cake cb << recipe_for_chicken beef_dishes = cb.find_all {|recipes| recipe.main_ingredient ==

Hi all, all the form helpers can take a serie for options but I cant find any documentation about them. Any one can point me toward one? Or at least tell me how I can for example add a function that would be call with the onblur event from a input box? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey all, im not sure where to set a default value if a textfield is empty? For now i do it in the controller, and check if the submitted parameter is blank. But this seems not to be the best solution... Thanks for your help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello there, This is my first post to the Ruby group. I am also new to the language and the Rails framework, it is an amazing place to be now. Coming from a PHP/ASP background I am glad something like Rails finally made it into web development. Now to my question. I have been readying a lot about AJAX, and I wondered what kind of support is built-in into Rails for it. I read somewhere that

Hi all, I have a simple app that has an autocomplete textfield in my view. I now want to be able to pass the value of a select to my controller when my auto_complete_for_location_name is called. My goal is to be able to filter the autocomplete results by the value of the select. My view code looks like this: <%= form_remote_tag :update => "search_results", :url => {

Is there a way to have a textfield helper format the displayed field? I''d like to invoke the number_to_currency method on the number that get''s displayed, but I can''t figure out how to do it. I tried: <%= text_field ''product'', number_to_currency(''price'') %> and that didn''t seem to work... Will I just have to use

Hey everybody, I've just merged my TextField hacking into master. It's basically a big refactoring and test addition thing, to get signals and variables report something sane. It's not complete yet, but I wanted to have it in, so we don't get too many merge conflicts when Pekka fixes the HTML parsing bugs. Here's a partial list of what's missing so far: - vertical

Hey, i''ve got a problem using the InPlaceEditor as a textarea with the current version of Script.aculo.us and prototype. I have some formated text (using <br>) in the div. After i updated scriptaculous today it doesn''t convert the <br> to \n for correct formating in the textarea if i click into for editing. Instead of this i can see the <br>-tags in the