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I have chunk of data that I need for the life of the session. I am going to use it for selects through out my app. Is the best place to keep this data in the session? Is the session easily spoofed or cracked? While viewing the data is not critical in itself, spoofing it could cause me massive headaches. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''ve upgraded my system to Rails 1.1.1 successfully. After much looking I haven''t found out how to migrate an existing application to a new rails version though. What is the procedure, if any, for upgrading the application I''ve developed in 1.0? Is there a script I need to run? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If I browse to \myRoRApp, I get the "Welcome aboard" screen. I''ve done the ruby scripts/generate controller MyTest, and "Rolling with Ruby on Rails" tells me I should be able to browse to \myRoRApp\MyTest and see an error page, but what I''m actually seeing is a fastcgi config file! I have installed fastcgi, but apache can''t "see" the

I was up late last night trying to find the cause of this, but I''m stumped. I have this relatively simple controller to load up a bio. It''s basicly id, name, desc, type (I use STI). class BioController < ApplicationController layout ''layouts/singlepanel'' def index @bio = Bio.find(:all, :conditions => [''site_id = ?'',

Alright, I got this table with lots of entries for menus. There''s several menus (with their own model since each menu got some special information). Now, I want to be able to specify the order of the menu entries inside the menu. acts_as_list seems to not quite do the trick since it does ordering "globally" on the whole model and acts_as_nested_set seems like overkill since

Hi: Sorry if this is a painfully stupid question... I have some data I need through the life of someone''s session. In the application controller, I grab the data and store it like so: session[:foo] = @foo Now, whenever I need to access data about foo I don''t need to cause any DB io, I can just grab foo from the session (it''s very small fyi). Here''s what I

Hi, I am trying to convert a hash to JSON using ActiveSupports built in .to_json. I am doing similar to the example below but are there certain strings that could go in place of ''bar'' or ''rez'' that will break the to_json method? I am using a very long string from rjs output in place of ''bar''. Perhaps .to_json is not ready yet? Thanks, Peter

I have an arbitrary program written in any language, and it is a binary (ie foo.exe), that will print out output to stdout constantly every 3-5 seconds. Is there a way that I can have a web application designed in rails that will print the output of this program to the browser every 3-5 seconds in realtime, preferably even in an ajax manner. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all We all know the model-controller-paradigm: I have a model "News" which has a corresponding CRUD-controller "NewsController". But now I''m quite unsure about the following... Guess we have normal visitors that visit our site www.??.com/news and we have administrators that create and modify news items. The admin should see an "Edit" link and a

Hello, I am trying to make the "switchover" to programming my apps in Rails and have a question about database structure. In the past i would structure a many to many like this: categories ---------------------------------------------------- | id | name | ---------------------------------------------------- 1 Some Category 2 Another

I have the following form <%= start_form_tag :action => ''rejectQuoteSave'', :id => @project %> <p><label for="offer_reason_rejected"><span class="required">* </span>Reason</label><br/> <%= text_area ''offer'', ''reason_rejected'' %></p> <%= submit_tag

Hi, I want to calculate difference between Current date & previous date (stored in database). The difference should be in days. Hhow to do that?? PLs tell me. Thanx in advance. Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two tables I am using single table inheritance with: Page and Item. "Page" has many "Items"; "Item" belongs to "Page". Item Model: class Item < ActiveRecord::Base end class Article < Item belongs_to :page end Page Model: class Page < ActiveRecord::Base end class Issue < Page has_many :articles end In my controller, when I

hi, Im looking to build a live data grid, where you can add delete rows using dhtml. and was just wondering if anyone is aware of any plugin''s taht may help me. Ive found this example but if anyone is aware of any other plugin''s please let me know http://unspace.ca/datagrid/update thanks scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I have a question regarding the security of my new web zine. The idea is that I have editors that can log into the site, and then upload comics in the form of a jpg. The way that I have this set up right now is that the jpg is submitted through a form and then placed into the authors sub directory in public/comics/. The record of the jpg is stored in a pendingcomics table

I made a mistake when making my first app. I did not use the: ruby script/generate model <modelname> method for creating my models. I more or less hand crafted each og them. Is there a way to go back so I get my db migration scripts to populate? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I need a relatively simple image api for the app I''m writing. I need to copy photos, rename them, and re-size them to put them in a standard format. I tried using RMagick/Imagemagick, but the photos would be corrupted on re-size, so I''m looking for some suggestions. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have three tables, a domain of Sites, a domain of Users, and a junction of Sites_Users with the tables named as such. My RoR application has a model and controller both User and Site. I tried to add a controller and model named Site_User but I can''t reference any functions in the controller, I get an Uninitialized Constant error. I''m very new to RoR, but not to

Does anyone know of a good open source event calendar done in RoR? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am getting the following error when running my app on the server: mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: <some SQL here> The SQL is usually a SHOW FIELDS statement, but after scouring the log files I see that it occassionally happens with other queries as well. I did a little research, and one topic I found suggested that I edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf and increase