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Friends- I''m happy to annouce the first alpa release of BackgrounDRb. This is a small framework for managing long running background tasks that allows for ajax progress bars and more. It also serves as an Application wide cache and context store for when you need something like sessions but shared between users and multiple backend processes like fcgi''s or mongrels.

Hey all, I need to launce a rather lengthy process from a small Rails application. It''s the sort of thing (sending out an email newsletter) that would need to be launched from a browser window, but the browser doesn''t need to stick around to see it through. I played around with Thread.new, but I think, based on limited testing, that the threads need to complete before the view

** File uploads with AJAX mojo ** Respond with RJS to your parent window with a form action targeted to a hidden IFRAME. Handles all the painful situations like scoping your JavaScript to your parent window generating the script block for execution and clearing the IFRAME after execution so the back button doesn''t re-execute the action. `plugin install

Hello, I want to create a progress bar for the exececution of a particular function. I found a solution at http://brainspl.at/articles/tag/background but one need to create a separate server that communicates the progress of a job. Is there anyways to change a global variable or so and have the user see the execution stage of the function? I tried playing with Thread but no success because

First off, I''m fairly new to ruby on rails so this may appear simple but I''m just learning the ropes :) So I have a simple blog app where a post has many comments. The ''show'' view for posts renders a partial for each comment the post has. The css class of the containing div element is cycled using cycle(). The partial code is, <% div_for(comment, :class

Hello, I''m looking to add comments to records in my app like Books. So a user can view a Book and then comment on it... As a newbie, is this something that I should build from scratch, or are there any popular Commenting Plug-ins, (Ajax implemented) that might be worth utilizing? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hi all, I have a layout that''s evolving, but it looks like there will be several divs. I''m trying to keep everything AJAX-y and avoid full page reloads. My problem is, if I have the login box in a div, I''m going to want two other divs to effectively "refresh" themselves to get data from the server now that there is a user logged in. I''m trying to

Hi all, I can't seem to make assert_select work for the more complex cases for me. Here's a sample: # View <%= link_to_remote 'Add new', :url => new_phone_url, :submit => 'phones_head' %> # Generated code: <a href="#" onclick="new Ajax.Request('http://test.host/admin/parties/phone/new', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true,

Hi, I''m looking for a star rating component for RoR, a bit like Votio (http://redalt.com/downloads/ - find the votio heading) or the star rating used on Amazon. I don''t really need the AJAX capabilities, just the ability to bind the results to a hidden drop down, or radio inputs. Multiple raters per page is also an issue. Any recomendations? -- Posted via

Hi, Very new to RoR; have been a flash developer for four years or so. I have an urgent question -- in the list.rhtml file, I only want to display certain columns instead of dumping out all the columns in the database. Could someone shed some light this topic? Thanks!!! Sam -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, maybe someone on this list can help me. I am trying to implement a sort of long database search. In order inform the user about what''s happening, status messages should be displayed to the user while the request is working. e.g. - starting search process - currently searching through database A - found 10 results - currently searching through database B - found 25 results -

Hi, I recently won the Railsday contest and the response has been overwhelming. I''m currently looking for: 1) Rails programmers with at least A FEW COMPLETE Rails applications under their belt 2) Front-end XHTML/CSS developers who are comfortable working with Rails and all the Ajaxy goodness to help me finish up several of my current projects and stick around for the next

Hi, Love Rails... I''m looking for a Production Quality Server that brings the same ease of use as Rails does to web development. I''ve tried TextDrive, and never got it to work. I''m sure there are good reasons why it didn''t work but they are beyond me. I''ve contacted tech support there several times, and it seems that there are so many setups that

Hi, I would like to make a simple html which displays the contents of a table from a database. So I put radiobuttons near the titles of the columns to note and do a sorting by that column. But I don''t know how to implement that the clicking on one of the radiobuttons make the sorting. The problem is the view part. How to give a radiobutton to make some action on a click by the helper?

Hi there I''m planning to build "The Perfect Rails/Debian/Lighttpd Stack", published by Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Sean Schertell at http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html I''m wondering what sort of constant maintanance that setup would incur. What actions have be regularly performed to keep this setup healthy and secure under normal conditions? Alder

Bradley Taylor shot me this *goldmine* of ugly ugly ugly dogs: http://www.sonoma-marinfair.org/uglydogvote.shtml I *have* to use one of these for the Mongrel BUGS Mascot. He''ll go on our bug list page and replace the little beetles on the left. Pick the dog you think best represents a lovable but defective pooch and reply to this with your +1. Let the voting begin! -- Zed A. Shaw

I have a question on how multiple b/g processes that are kicked off get handled in terms of sequence/schedule. On my site, a user enters an RSS feed to be processed and since this takes about 5-10 secs, I pass the process off to a background job and meanwhile do some Ajaxy spinners and tap-dancing until the job completes and then redirect_to the appropriate page. This works great. I also need to

I have two issues that I hope someone else has encountered and has a solution for. First: I have several autocompleters on my site, and they function as expected in Firefox, Opera, IE7, but when I use them in IE6, I get no javascript errors for my local autocompleters, and all ajax autocompleters functions are firing as expected and returning the correct search results. The only problem, IE6

Hi all, I have a select helper form on a web page which contains a list of dates. When the user selects a date, one of the other forms on the page needs to be updated based on the newly selected date. Is there a way to catch this event in Rails? Are we talking Ajax here? Or is there a simpler way? Thanks, Dan

Hi, I want to have a page in my Ruby on Rails application that is like a dynamic / updateable data grid. Like a matrix or spreadsheet segment (x rows, y columns) which one can click in any of the cells and make an update, which triggers some AJAX code to fire off the update, and then the responses come back and update whatever else needs updating based on this change. Is there a prototype