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Hi, I''m having an issue with calling a function that I''ve defined in ApplicationHelper called format_time: module ApplicationHelper def format_time(time) time.strftime("%a %b %d, %I:%M%p") end end I use this function in my views to format the Time.now that I would have stored in my tables as a DATETIME. I''m able to use this function, without any

Hello, I have the following structure: model foo has_many :bars:, :dependent => true end model bar belongs_to :foo end In my action, when i try to save foo: def save begin f = foo.new f.a = 5 begin b = bar.new b.a = 10 f.bars << b rescue Exception => exc ... end f.save! <-- This does not happen

Hi, I was wondering if anybody knew what ''<some type> expected, got Fixnum'' means? My code looks like the following: begin anevent = Event.new anevent.title = params["event"]["title"] anevent = session[:user_id] com = Community.find(params[:id]) com.events << anevent rescue Exception => exc ... end But I get an

Hi, I''m able to upload files onto my webserver filesystem but I had a question regarding how I''d go about accessing them using the <img src="..." > tag. If my files, i.e pictures, are being uploaded to public/images/<dir>/filename.jpg, then should I store the entire path, or just the picture name in my database table? I would imagine storing just the

Hi, I''d like to be able to store the absolute path for a file so that I could use <img src = "...." > and give it the path to the file I''d like to display. I was wondering if there is an easy way to do this and whether there are any issues with this on Windows. thanks in advance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I have one minor issue. I''m trying to check whether a directory is empty given some path to the directory. My code does the following: if(File.directory?(dirpath)) # dirpath = public/images/1 if(File.zero?(dirpath)) FileUtils.rm_rf(dirpath) end end The problem is, while testing this, if I put a file in the directory and run the above code, it still ends up deleting the

I want to print my timestamp objects in a specific format. I want to print a date like this: Sunday, January 8 2006 I don''t want it to print January 08. For the time, I want it to look like this: 9:08 pm Not 09:08 and lower case PM. I created these methods: def format_date(date) date.strftime("%A, %B #{date.day} #{date.year}") end def format_time(date) if

Hi, How do I pass a variable from my action into a model before saving the model. I''d like the model instance to have access to this variable to do some work before saving the model instance but the variable is not part of the model itself. Thanks, Sam -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have to use some API''s from some outside vendor to incorporate some of their video functionality, in particular, I have to somehow incorporate VideoEgg''s video publishing api''s. They don''t currently support Ruby, but I''ve heard that there are ways to hack up ruby code with their Perl API''s to get it working. Would anybody have any idea

Hello, I''ve been using InstantRails 1.0 that has ruby 1.8.4 and rails 1.0. Some of you might know that the RMagick package does not work with ruby 1.8.4. I''m now trying to downgrade to ruby 1.8.2 within my InstantRails 1.0 install. Is there a clean way of doing this? I basically downloaded ruby 1.8.2 and replaced the ruby directory with the newly created ruby directory. As

Hi, I''m using InstantRails 1.0 (rails 1.0 and ruby 1.8.4). When I try to upload a video file ~11MB, IE just hangs on me. Seems like WEBrick hangs too and I can''t connect from another IE. I end up manually killing WEBrick. Would anybody know the problem here? I had to increase my mysql max_packet_size parameter in order to upload in the first place so mysql doesn''t

Hi, I''m on Windows and getting the following error while trying to use file_column with RMagick, uninitialized constant Magick C:/INSTAN~1.0/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:123:in `const_missing'' #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins/file_column/branches/kyle/lib/file_column.rb:621:in `file_column'' I installed file_column by

Hello, My question has to do with a form resubmit problem. Say for example a form is submitted and within that form, a picture is uploaded. If the user presses the Back buttom and gets back to the form submission sheet, and then clicks on resubmit, once again, the same data is populated into my tables wasting space (another picture upload for no reason in a separate row). Now, I know there are

Hello, How does Rails deal with the pluralization of community. I have "community" as my model name. Will Rails automatically look for a table name "communities" or do I have to name the table "communitys"? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I want to be able to have several layouts within each other so that I don''t have to keep repeating the layout code for one, in another. An example would be having a layout for the title of your web page and then having an embedded layout for the body portion in which the HTML for whatever view gets displayed. Is this possible? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An

Hi, We are building a rails application that''s sort of a CRM + room/course booking. Among other things, it provides a centralized database of all the people the company has been in contact with. We want to provide the possibility of sending customized email messages to groups of contacts, for example a newsletter to 500 people starting with "Hi [:name:]". The naive approach

Hi, I am having trouble using before_create when I have an specialized setter method: before_save :set_campaign_start #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- def set_campaign_start self.campaign_start = Time.now end # We want the date to always start at midnight

Hi, I wish to know it is possible to use a helper which is not inside the folder ''app/helpers'', if it is possbile, what should I do? Thanks you very much!!!! Saiho __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Hi, I was wondering if there''s an RSS reader plugin of some sort available that will basically get the RSS feeds for me and then allow my Rails application to take those feeds and present them on my website. Would anybody know how I could get this to work with a rails app? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I'm working on using the LLVM JIT for a little project of mine, amazing work first off! I have a question about optimization passes. I initially have this function I've created, in python it looks like this: OS_end = 50OS_start = 0OS_timestep = 1birth_rate = .3population = 30.0for time in range(OS_start, OS_end, OS_timestep): births = birth_rate * population deaths = 0.1