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I want to append "#comment-1" or whatever, depending on the id to the end of my xml.link(" ... /#comment-1") attribute in my generated xml. Well, when I put: xml.link(" ... /#comment-" + comment.id) I get an Application error (rails) message when I look at the generated XML. This is what I''m doing without the id on the comments (its working fine):

Hello ~ I have an email that I need to attach a PDF to. The email is being sent, and a file is attached but it is not the original file. I am following the example: attachment :content_type => "image/jpeg", :body => File.read("an-image.jpg") changing it to: attachment :content_type => "application/pdf", :body => File.read("pdf/my.pdf")

I''m looking for a good web-based to do list app. Essentially, I''d like to use Basecamp''s todo management system, but that''s not an option since I can''t install Basecamp on a server I own. The information being tracked in the list cannot be sent out of my intranet. I would imagine that there are a couple of open source rails apps that would meet my

Hello ~ I am using the Capistrano recipe outlined in this post to restart my backgroundrb server: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2007-February/000718.html My Version: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ task :before_restart, :roles => :app do restart_backgroundrb end task :start_backgroundrb, :roles => :app do sudo "nohup

I have the following view template: <%= form_remote_tag :update => "new_item", :url => {:action => ''create''}, :before => %(Element.show(''spinner'')), :success => %(Element.hide(''spinner'')) %> <div id="new_item"> </div>

Unable to connect to mySql localhost I installed MySQL 5.0 community version, without opening an account and leaving the password empty with the Path included in the environment variable. In the post-installation testing, I typed C:\mysqlshow, the error message is Mysqlshow: Access denied for user ?ODBC?@?localhost? <using password: NO> Next, in RadRails 0.6.3, when I double-clicked

Hello Everyone ~ Recently I have been moving Rails files between Mac, Linux, and Windows. As many know the Windows Ruby version 1.8.4 doesn''t like tab characters. I know in TextMate on the mac you can replace your tabs with spaces from the Text > Convert menu, but is there a way to set it to do tabs with spaces instead as you work? The preferences do not seem to have such a

Hello Rails Community ~ Today I added tagging support to one of my Rails apps following this Wiki page: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActsAsTaggablePluginHowto/versions/32 It outlined adding the necessary database tables with a schema description in table format. I altered the article to use a migrations approach with the code from the migration I created to add the two tables,

Hi, Going through the archive, and just keeping a general watch on this list seems to indicate that there are some issues using scheduling with backgroundrb. I need a worker that will perform some actions on an hourly interval. These actions will require access to several of the models in my application. I am currently using backgroundrb to handle processing of files, where I spawn a worker to

I''ve been banging my head against the following for about 8 hours now, and have exhausted my web research options: /usr/home/matthew.feadler/rails/avclfc/public/dispatch.fcgi:21:in `require'': no such file to load -- /usr/home/matthew.feadler/rails/avclfc/public/../config/environment (LoadError) from /usr/home/matthew.feadler/rails/avclfc/public/dispatch.fcgi:21

Right now I have partials in a view folder corresponding with my controller. ie: controller: example, view: example/_partial.rhtml and I call it with render :partial => ''partial'' How do I add the partial to another folder and call it? ie: controller: example, view: example/new_folder/_partial.rhtml render :partial => ''new_folder/partial'' # does NOT work

I have an app that uploads files into the directory RAILS_ROOT/documents/ I tried to access the file for downloading using <a href="#{RAILS_ROOT}/documents/file_name">my file</a>. Rails prepends the controller name to the link so I get <a href=" http://localhost:3000/tasks/show_document/config/.../documents/file_name" What''s the right way to do this?

Folks, I have a rhtml page (page A) that links to another page (page B), and I want to pass some parameters from page A to page B. Here is the link code (on page A): <%= link_to ''Edit'', { :action => ''edit'', :id => permit }, :post => true %> If I want to pass a parameter "name" and a value "marcus", and pick it up on page

Is anybody working already in a gallery2/rails integration? I need to use it as part of my project, so, before start from scratch with it I''d like to know if already is something out there. Thanks.

Hey I just ran this "ruby script/generate login loging_in" here is my SQL: CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `user_name` varchar(80) default NULL, `login` varchar(120) NOT NULL default '''', `last_update` timestamp NOT NULL default ''0000-00-00 00:00:00'', `last_attack` timestamp NOT NULL default ''0000-00-00

Hello ~ I have a working ActionMailer Action that takes the template to use as an argument so I have one action that handles multiple emails. The email sends just fine, and the correct email templates are used, but ActionMailer is throwing in its own text/plain section in addition to the one I specify. Does anyone have any ideas on why this might be occuring, when I am specificially specifying

Does anyone know how to get going with the flickr api WITHOUT using the ''flickr.rb'' gem? I''m wanting to just use the REXML and ''net/http'' stuff. I''m just wondering how to send requests to the api and handle the response. Any tips would be great! Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m having an odd problem. I''m trying to create an RSS feed (working off the Recipe), but "xml.link" generates error about "Can''t convert Hash to String". From the error trace, it *looks* like it''s calling the a fileutil ''link'' method (as in, filesystem symbolic link) - even xml.tag! generates this error. Er, how do I make

I''m working on uploading my site to dreamhost. I just setup my production database, and gave it a host name. It said that it was successfully created. Now, it''s been like 25 minutes, and I still can''t connect to it. Is that normal? How can I get my tables created? Just wait it out? I''m trying to load it in the browser, and it says "server not

Caveat: this is not a discussion about *hosting* a rails app on windows. Anyway...Macs are everywhere you look when researching rails (demo vids, tutorials, and pictures from rails training classes). I''m interested in what the pros to using a Mac for rails development are (besides textmate). Is it more of a cultural thing, a what would 37 signals do thing, is it a unix thing, or