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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

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

Hi, I''m using scriptaculous to provide an auto complete textbox - and it works perfectly - but I was wondering if there was anyway to let users navigate the choices using the keyboard i.e the curor keys as opposed to having to use the mouse? Apart from that it''s perfect! :) Cheers, Pete -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

Having problems with the autocomplete on my linux box and firefox. When I use form tags it breaks, without form tags everything works fine. Exact copy of the example provided, but I added form tags.. The initial search and select works but then the box sort of "locks up" and I can''t change it at all, If I do try to type something nothing changes but a second later the whole

I am going nuts here.. I have a form where users can write a city name (used with auto_complete) - and once they click on the desired city in the dropdown menu - I would like to have the Country field filled automatically as well... Is this possible at all ? If so, can somebody please tell me where I can find some documentation on the subject, or preferrably an example ? Many thanks in

Hi folks, I''m curious how a lookup with a large group of values would be handled in Rails. For example, I have a (contrived) AnimalType filtering a list of many Animals--more than can be presented comfortably in a dropdown box. Therefore I need to either redirect to another screen to select an animal (returning after the selection is made), or show a dialog--modal or otherwise--to

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/.

Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers

I think I may have found a bug with the auto_complete feature in rails: My controller has a before_filter with an except clause preventing the filter from running on a specific action. The action renders a view with a text_field_with_auto_complete field. Much to my suprise, the filter appears to run when I type data into this field! The filter is part of my security regime, so I end up with a

What i''m trying to get working is I have a controller called "permissions" and a view "permissions.rhtml". This view has a hidden div that contains a form for adding new roles. Its just a single textfield. Also on the page I have a dropdown list of roles and then underneath that a div that contains a list of permissions for the role selected in the dropdown. I

I am implementing a messaging system, which requires broadcast to group feature. Instead of a relatively clunky habtm group structure, I am using tags. Form a usability standpoint, it would be helpful to avoid redundant tags. Like, friend vs friends OR client vs. clients. Is it practical to filter tags, before entry, to avoid duplicate tags like plural vs. singular? -- Posted via

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I currently have 4 of these on my page but only the first one will trigger. When I change the order sequence, still, only the first one will work. Help! Many thanks in advance, Doris

Hi, I''ve started reading some Java books. Gasp! What makes website development with Java so bad? I haven''t looked at Struts but I''m reading about Hibernate. Compared to ActiveRecord, Hibernate seems like some extra typing to explicitly define the model fields, getters and setters. I know that these are things that you can do in ActiveRecord when things get complicated

Guys, I think many of us on this list would consider ourselves entrepreneurs. I''m willing to bet at least 40% of you are working on ideas for startups...hoping that you just might have the next Flickr, Oddpost, del.icio.us, etc. Me too, for what it''s worth. Rails is good for this, in that it enables you to move quickly (after the learning curve) and it''s

What is the best way to create a drop down where the viewable text in a concatenation of 2 or more columns? For instance, I hane a lookup table with these columns. Model FOO columns: id , name, phone In my drop select tag, I''d like the user to see: "name1 phone1" "name2 phone2" etc.. I know I can do this using find_by_sql . .. But, isn''t there a more