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Why does rails keep installing cookies on users machines, even if I am not ussing th session variable for anything? How do I stop this? Thanks, Scott -- Easily help charity when you shop: www.GiveTeam.org I''m a member of the Give Team, are you?

i have a 2 step form which contains 1 file_column field. The second form is just "This is how your post will look" kind of form and the user can click Edit (to take them back to form1) or Submit. If the user clicks edit it takes them back to the first form with fields populated. I have it working with all text fields, I just dont know how to do this with file_column field (showing the

What does everyone on this list think about enhancing scaffolding somehow so that a "has_many" relationship will automatically drop the <select> box into the view to reference the "belongs_to" part of the view? I think scaffolding is great but I am always adding the <select> boxes to reference the parent association. Do you think this would be useful? just a

Does anybody have any issues with the AJAX code inside rails? Whenever i use any sites i have built, or even external sites (such as basecamphq) my internal security device blocks access to the Ajax piece with a 400 Bad Request ( i scoured the net for other ajax examples and no isses anywhere else). I think there is something in the AJAX code of rails that is not implemented correctly. Has

Hey, I have been progressively learning more and more rails each day (from both a current project, reading the agile book, and this list). Does anybody think it would be beneficial to have kind of like a rails "Best Practices" page that lists some of the better ways of handling certain functions of rails (that are common in most apps) that are both more elegant, and efficient. For

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

I am using active record sessions and everything works fine. I am integrating it with phpbb however so i need some extra fields populated in the session table. In application.rb i put a before_filter to update the session table I have a model for the sessions $ more app/models/session.rb class Session < ActiveRecord::Base set_primary_key "session_id" set_table_name

For those who cant access IRC, or just looking for a quick browser based alternative, i started an open jabber powered webchat for rails. Hopefully this will be a nice alternative for people to go to ask questions, get some help, offer some help, etc. I hope the community enjoys it, just trying to give a little back for all the hard work. It can be accessed here http://jabber.dufftech.com

Has anyone successfully integrated (embedded) vbulletin into a rails app? I would be curious to see if/how this worked. RForum still seems quite beta so I am looking for something a little more tried and true. thanks adam

How does one encode URLs in ROR? Thanks Frank --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it''s free and works with Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060130/60280869/attachment.html

is there a way using the file_column plugin to enforce a certain content type based on regex (i.ie, /^image/) and/or filesize (150k) ? thanks adam

Does anybody know how to access the domain of a cookie from inside rails? I am try to integrate phpbb forums into my site and one of the things phpbb does is store a cookie. The forums are at forums.domain.com and the site is www.domain.com so i needed to set the cookie domain in phpbb to just be ".domain.com" so both sites can access it. The trouble is when using cookies[] in rails,

Hello, What is the best way in rails to check a session hash value for nil ? I have a session hash called user (session[:user]) that sometimes I have to check for a certain variable like session[:user].email. however the following always results in an error if session[:user].email and I always have to do if session[:user] and session[:user].email Is there a cleaner way to do this then

is it possible to store a field of type file_column in the session? Rails crashes on me every time i try to do something like the following: @session[:newpost] = @params[:post] however if i assign each field of @params[:post[ except for @params[:post]["image"] i have no problems. Is there something that should be done to allow the file in the session? thanks adam

Hello, I have a hash that contains categories, and each category ID is a hash of subcategories. What i want to do is dynamically load that hash, loop thru it, for each category , subcat run a query against the DB, and render a partial. The issue is i put the render:partial in a for loop but you can only render once per action. What is the best way to loop thru all my categories without a

I would like to have a login box setup so that if incorrect info is submitted, the box "shakes" via Effect.Shake. If the correct information is submitted, I want to redirect to some other page. The only solution I''ve found is the following, which is pretty ugly, as it displays the javascript I''m invoking on the page prior to the redirect. Here is the code: The Form

since webrick does not need to run with FCGI how do you get a rails app in FCGI mode to reload the controller (since it caches in production). Is it simply a restart of apache ? adam

is anybody else having a hard time upgrading to 1.0 via a gem? I have been getting this for a full day now gem install rails --include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ''rails'' Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''rails'' Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org

Has anybody used the Yahoo UI library successfully with rails? I am particulary interested in some of the ratings tools they used (like 4 out of 5 stars thing rating a post). Curious to see if anyone out there has worked with this at all. adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I keep getting this error in rails 1.1, does anybody know what it means? My site will be working fine, i do some more development, get a parse error, and then all of a sudden the page 404''s with the following error Session contains objects whose class definition isn''t available Remember to require the classes for all objects kept in the session. (Original exception: