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Hi, Not sure where to address this question ... but I guess this is a good start. I am a freelance Rails developer - and have been developing Rails apps professionally for about a year now. I just want to get an idea of what you other freelancers charge yourselves out at. I have been charging the equivalent of about $28/hour, but get a sense that I could/should charge a whole lot more. I am

Hello RoRsters'', I''ve just started my first project with ROR, and frankly it''s pretty amazing, there are many things that still haven''t "clicked" for me yet but essentially it''s all coming together. My first project is a basic blog application to replace a current Moveable Type based blog. I''ve managed to get the basic functionality

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 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/.

I built my rails app locally, and just today put it all online. Getting a "Application error (Rails)" when trying to submit some form parameters to the db. What needs to be done with going from local development to live? I''m not sure if/where I need to set my app to "production" status. Also, is there any way to debug "Application error (Rails)"??

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

Hi, for those of you who haven''t read: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/05/08/flummoxed-by-frameworks/ ""Oh", they gush, "you should absolutely try Ruby on Rails! It''s so easy! It''s almost like writing regular English!" Which means they''re clearly on crack, because Ruby on Rails is so very different from a human-written language

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

With Rails 1.1 the output_compression[1] plugin was broken. Once I upgraded to 1.1, I had to tweak it a bit to make it work. Mainly it''s removing the code dealing with component requests, as that''s part of rails now, and changing one function call. Get the modified output_compression.rb file from http://devblog.famundo.com/output_compression.rb and give it a try. It''s

I''m trying to create a modules based system where my controllers are all under modules. So the structure looks something like: app/ controllers/ message/ news_controller.rb email_controller.rb library books_controller.rb pictures_controller.rb home_page_controller.rb Each of those controller has

Hello, I need some guidance. I have a need to: a) Login, validating against a "system-level" user database - no big deal, then b) Depending upon the login, select a customer database for processing. For instance, assume that my login profile lists an area of interest: cars, motorcycles or boats. Each of these has a database, with identical table formats. If my login shows my area of

I''ve looked for DIFF tools for OSX but haven''t found anything good yet. Tried guiffy (http://www.guiffy.com) but it''s very slow and the folder comparison doesn''t indicate a change until you drill down to the level with the difference which kinda defeats the purpose. I''m missing TortoiseSVN and the diff tool that comes with it. Any suggestions for

So, I''m trying to write a nice bit of regex to handle finding anchor tags in a bit of html. This is what I''ve got.... /<[aA][^>]*>[^<]*<\/[aA]>/ I''m planning on using this with a gsub!. Here is what it has to do.... <html><a href="http://stuff.com" class="link">Anything in here.</a></html> As you can

What is the best way to implement a ''Down for Maintenance'' page across your Rails app? Ideally I would like to have a button in my admin section that toggles the display of a ''currently under maintenance'' page to every public request to the app (possibly with some dynamic content like estimated down-time) except for: - - requests from a specified IP

I''m attempting to auto deploy a rails application to a development server periodically during ongoing development. I''ve setup ssh keys to allow the proper user auto login permissions, but have ran into 2 issues. 1. When the script is run from a cron job as the same user as I currently manually deploy from I receive an error when reaper tries to execute - "can''t

I''m moving my Subversion repository to a new server. The old server uses Berkeley DB/Sleepycat and if memory serves, it was a lot of effort to set that up -- so I think I''ll try FSFS. Does anybody use BDB and prefer that over FSFS? Or had any problems with FSFS? (I never had any problems with BDB, performance or otherwise, btw.) Thanks, Joe -- Posted via

Hi Guys, Does anyone know how to restrict access on files that you upload in file column to certain users only? I notice that files being saved by the file_column by default are being saved under the public folder and can be accessed just by typing the URL directly. Let''s say you have a Login system where you restrict access to some pages and allow those users to upload their own

I was working on deploying an app with switchtower, and I really dislike the way spawner is implemented. The way it will relaunch the dispatcher all the time just to let it die if the port is in use is too brute force for my taste. As we''re in a ruby script, why not let ruby find out if the port is in use? Using the TCPServer class we can try and bing to the port. If we succeed, it means