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Hi Just wrote myself a Date.extract_from_rails_hash to handle parsing the "date(1i)", "date(2i)" parameters created in the controller params. I''ve got a method that needs to call this either once or twice, depending on the contents of the form (one section of the form is rendered conditionally). So I had two specs for the case where the second form section

Hey guys How do you upcase the special characters (????)? I use latin-1 and not utf-8. How did you solve this problem? (nice ruby way or ugly hack doesnt matter) Daniel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. I have data of potatoes production in EU during 1998-2009 from EuroStat where the first column consists of the names of EU countries, the following columns consists of appropriate data in each year. Let's say, I investigate Lithuania. For example, I have a row containing potatoes production in 1998, 1999, ..., 2009 in Lithuania. I can easily find the maximum value in this row but...

Odd question here but if I have asterisk running on PC (and mplayer installed). and a video phone calls up the asterisk PC can that video image be played on mplayer? If so how do I do that? How can asterisk pipe the video into mplayer so as to display the video image on screen? Thanks, Jerry

I have a class Day with field date that represents a my sql date type, YYYY-MM-DD. The Ruby type Date class has method, cweek, that returns the calendar week that corresponds to a particular date. Ruby knows cweek, but MySQL has no knowledge of this value. How do I run a find on class Day, (Day.find :all ... ) with condition [date.cweek = ?, week]? This is not a sql search but a Ruby

Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific action, for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same action? I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed? Thanks, Andy

Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even better... I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through questionnairres - findind corelations between variables, relations between different types of data, etc. Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www

I am trying to debug the RSYNC client and server by single stepping through them. The server seems to ok up to the point where it is waiting for the client connection. On the client side, I am having trouble finding the right options so that it will connect up to the local server with out fork() a copy of itself or trying to exec the rsh command. This is on RSYNC 2.5.5 on OpenVMS Alpha. If

In the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book it runs through making an example application, a shopping cart. In one of the views files, there is one line of code I dont understand (below), I dont know what the "h" is for, also I took the h out, and it did not affect the application (as far as i could see). <%= h(product.title) %> Can anyone shed some light on this

hi all i want to run project at local system ..see this i m getting some error http://pastie.org/843746 and when i run server http://pastie.org/843748 plz tell me how to install rmagick on fedora Regards, Shyam +91-9716-18-9650 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, We are thinking about choosing Rails as our weapon of choice for our next project, which is basically a text editor on steroids, whith some functionality that need an Internet connection. In the first step we are going to develop it as a plain web app (AJAX-ified, yay!), however, in the next step we would like to port some of the functionality (such as the editor) to a desktop app (which can

Hi friends in PHP there is a direct function GetImageSize(), with it I can easily determine the dimentions of an image file. How can I do in RoR. Please help me out Thanks in advance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060505/13ba1640/attachment.html

I have tried to put a flash movie inside of my RoR page and it shows up with nothing on IEPC. It does very well on every other type of browser but does not work with IEPC. I made a folder - "flash" in my public directory and have had the one instance of it point there. Thus my flash directory is www.rails-app.com/flash/flash.swf Is there anything that anyone knows to help out?

Is there a built-in way to determine if a model object has just been created (ie. this object was the one that was originally persisted)? I can''t see it anywhere in the AR code, but thought I''d check. I want something like: p = Person.create p.original_instance? # true Is this built-in or should I just patch AR? -Jonathan.

Hi, does anyone know how to plot 3D parametric surface,e.g ellipsoid: x=a*cos(s)*cos(t), y=b*sin(s)*cos(t), z=sin(t); s in [0,2*pi], t in [-pi,pi]. Vytautas Maniusis, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Hello, I have the following: image_tag(''show.png'', :alt => ''show article'', :title => ''show article'', :border => 0) Is it possible that I don´t need to have "=> ''show article''" twice in this row? e.g. something similar to this pseudo code: (:alt, :title) => ''show article''.

Hi all, i would like to add the .html extension by default to all my resources. What is the best way to do that? The reason for this is that i need to download the generated sites via wget and i need the .html extension for the downloaded files. Also it would be nice if the link_to would automatically generate the links with .html... Thanks, Gerold

Hi, I have the following routes map.connect '':controller/:id/:action'', :id=>/4/, :defaults=>{ :action=>''show''} map.connect '':controller/:action'', :defaults=>{:action=>''index''} and when I point my browser to "localhost:3000/departments" I see an error because the show action cannot find a

I''ve got a problem with some tables that don''t follow any RAILS standards. how do I define the join in the model when all three tables have wacky names? class Machine < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Host" set_primary_key "Id" end class Pool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Pool" set_primary_key

Hi all, can someone explain to me how the options for helper text_field_tag supposed to be written. I really tried a bunch of stuff without success. For example I need a field with id "query", so I write <%= text_field_tag :query %> which works fine. But what if I want the field only 5 characters big? I tried among other <%= text_field_tag :query ,