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Friends- I am almost finished with a custom live cd called Rubuntu ;-) This is an ubuntu live cd variant that comes preloaded with ruby and rails developers in mind. I already have it working with all the basics but I was wondering what extras people would like to see on this distro. What editors with what configurations? What other tools do people really like for rails development on a

I''m setting up a new Rails project that is a nice front end for a company''s personnel database with a legacy schema. Unfortunately, the table that contains all the standard information (first name, last name, email address) has some 20+ columns, one of which is a BLOB of a picture of the person. Loading all this takes a while, when the application really only needs the

Has anyone experienced "hangs" with the WEBrick/OCI8 combination? The sequence of actions I perform to consistently get WEBrick to hang is: 1. start WEBrick 2. list a table form my Oracle 10g DB 3. startup sqlplus and update a few records in the table 4. go back to my browser and reload the table Here none of the chances I made directly to the table are reflected in the listing.

Does anyone know a good way to hook into the AR to_xml() method to allow for adjusting datetimes to a user''s timezone? Basically I want a user to be able dump all their data before cancelling an account. I store all datetime info as UTC as per the recommendations of Jamis Buck and Scott Barron in the Rails Recipe article "Dealing with Timezones". Come to think of it I bet

hello, The "render :xml => myFriends.to_xml", return something like: <people> <person> <id type="integer">2</id> ... <person> But a Person has a "has_many" relationship and they are not in the xml, => so is it possible to change the depth of the marshall process ? if it not possible, what are the "rails

Hello, I'm seeing this in my dovecot log file: imap(blair): Dec 16 13:53:06 Panic: file istream.c: line 93 (i_stream_set_read_limit): assertion failed: (stream->v_size == 0 || v_offset <= stream->v_size) I get this consistently when I search for the string "unknown C primitive" across 10 mailboxes using the Windows Netscape 4.80 client. If there's any more

Hello Everyone, I''m pleasant to announce the release of ruby-debug 0.1.3. If you think that ruby-breakpoint is too limited for your needs and debug.rb brings your application to its knees, you might find this small extension useful. INSTALL It''s a usual procedure: $ gem install ruby-debug DOCS This library has almost identical interface with the standard debug.rblibrary.

Hello, I'm running an Debian etch box with unstable and ever since the last upgrade to dovecot, I've seen odd things. At times, I would see emails would go missing from the Inbox or other folders, and I couldn't move emails that were moved from the Inbox to another folder back into the Inbox. These have seen gone away since I removed all dovecot.* files and .index* files from my

How do I upgrade my rails to 1.1RC - running Ubuntu breezy and I had installed rails using apt-get in universe. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Say I wanted to know what svn revision a given site was using, simply from looking at the site. How could I embed that information into the page (into maybe a html comment or in the page footer)? A switchtower task? Joe

I want append custom query parameters to my pagination links, like ?page=1&foo=bar. I can''t quite figure out how to do this with the pagination_links helper, although I believe the API says you should be able to: pagination_links(paginator, options={}, html_options={}) options are: :params: any additional routing parameters for page URLs Has anyone tried this? thanks, jeff --

I''ve seen that Rails 1.1 is not reliable with Ruby 1.8.2 so you should upgrade to 1.8.4 I''m running ruby 1.8.3. What''s the story with it? Do I need to upgrade before I try Rails 1.1? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

Okay, so I just realized there seems to be two acts_as_taggable modules, the gem and the plugin 1. which came first? 2. what''s the difference? (internals, not ones a gem and ones a plugin) 3. which one is better? ;-) -- Craig Beck http://www.luckybonza.com AIM: kreiggers

Ryan McMinn as well as myself from Unspace Interactive are going to ETech next week. We know fellow Torontonian David Crow will be there with bells on. And clearly DHH is coming to do his workshop. Who else is coming, and is there any interest in trying to do a Rails BOF during the main conference? Obviously a lot of folks are going to do the workshop, but most people don''t arrive

I am trying to find the count of rows on a table. If I do a result= Table.find_by_sql ("select count(distinct id) ...... It returns an array of Table with Hashes of "select count(distinct id)" making accessing it a pain result[0][''select count(distinct id)''] It seems easier to return all the rows and do a .length on the result Array.

Hi I've been trying to figure out how to make dovecot read the system standard /var/mail/user, which is in mbox-format, while at the same time using Maildir as the preferred method of storage. When in Maildir-mode, I can store mail on the server without a hitch, but I don't receive mails. When in mbox-format, I can read and write, but the risk of corrupting mails is to high for me to

I''m writing my own plugin and all the plugins I''ve seen use class_eval in the method that is called in the including module. For example: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToWriteAnActsAsFoxPlugin module Foo module Acts #:nodoc: module Fox #:nodoc: def self.included(base) base.extend(ClassMethods) end # declare the class level

What are the practical differences between using postgres and postgres-pr to connect rails to a postgres database? I realize the -pr version is pure ruby, while the other is a set of c bindings, but, does that result in performance, reliability, or feature differences? Any information appreciated. Colin Freas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello friendly Rails community, I''m sorry for this OT post, I''ve just switched to Mac and as I see there are so many friendly mac users here, may I ask is there another good/nice Subversion installation tutorial instead of this one: http://developer.apple.com/tools/subversionxcode.html? Is there another way to install it without compiling Subversion by myself? For example via

Has anyone come up with a list of best practices for App design using Ruby On Rails? John McClain Senior Software Engineer TCS Healthcare jmcclain-RI2jYlfFOOy2dUpmj6OxPQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org (530)886-1700x235 "Skepticism is the first step toward truth"