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Hiall, When I try to run script/console from a windows command line like f:\rails_app\ruby script\console I get the following error: F:/Programme/Ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__'': no such file to load -- initializer (LoadError) from F:/Programme/Ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require''

Hiall, I just tried out InstantRails version 1.3a. After a virgin install and filling the fresh mysql db with my app schema, I tried runningthe app with webrick, only to see the infamous "Lost connection to mysql server" for every action. What is it that I''m doing wrong? I also have mysql 5 installed on my machine, but the service is stopped while experimenting with

Hiall, I want to give the action of a form an additional parameters but can''t figure out how to do it. My code looks like this <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'', next_step => true %> <%= render :partial => ''user_form'' %> <%= render :partial => ''community_form'' %> <%= submit_tag

Hiall, If I have say 10 tables that i would like to wrap up in 1 view to manipulate data inside these tables, do I then need 10 model.rb files for all 10 tables plus 1 for the view, or do I just need 1 model.rb file for the view ? cheers Martin

Hey All, very simple question for you folks ;) I have a @commutes object that for each record there is a bit value set (0/1) to denote if an accident occurred. What I want to do is have it display "Yes" or "No" when I view the listing of commutes. I can get it to display the bit value just fine with <%= commute.accident %> but how can I get it so that when a record with

i was looking through the typo code and see that all of the administrative controllers and views are placed in another subfolder. i tried just moving the files just for kicks and it didn''t work (didin''t really expect it to, but it was worth a shot.) so how do you set something up like that? i tried looking in the routes.rb file, but i''im not sure what''s in

I have this challenge of converting a bit of html into an image file and then shrinking it into a thumbnail. The shrinking part shouldn''t be too bad, but what advice can you give on converting the html to the image? My thinking is that I will need to convert it to postscript or latex and then convert it to an image from there. Is there an easier / better approach? Michael

Hiall, Is it possible to organize my model files below app/models into subfolders? E.g. I would like to put admin related models into their own subfolder. This kind of structuring works for controllers and views (scaffolding creates the right subfolder-model mappings), but app/models always stays flat. I''d really like to be able to group my code into logical, well packages :-) Yes, I

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

I have a div with a border around it. I use link_to_remote to change the content, and the border size doubles. Example: <div id="test" style="border:solid; border-width:5px"> <%= link_to_remote("Test", :update => "test", :url => { :controller => "tester", :action => "test" }) %> </div> Even stranger, if I

Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers

All of a sudden I have a wierd error when running script/server on a Windows XP box. Webrick is failing with a bad file descriptor error. I''m sure it''s conflicting with something in my enviornment, but I cannot figure out what. I googled the issue and haven''t been able to find any answer for it. Although, I did find a workaround. If I''m using a port above

I''m preety new at RoR (and programming), I tried a few tutorials, and really like the RoR simplicity, but my knowledge of the framework still isn''t very good (to be true, i understand the basics, but not everything that''s in the tutorials). But still I''d like to create a website which has: - front end interface (with no edit functions) - admin interface

Hi all, I was just made aware of this: <http://www.codeigniter.com> I wonder where the inspiration comes from? Lots of very similar concepts there ;) I''ve only watched the intro movie so far, but very interesting. jt

Hiall, Call me stupid if you like .,) but it seems i can''t figure out how to get a named link using a combination of link_to and image_tag. What I need is basically a link displaying a name along with some image to indicate status (open,working,finished). I found no combination of link_to and image_tag that accepts a name, this seems to be solely used for making whole images into links

I want to write a function that after an ActiveRecord saves successfully, can show me what the before and after values of a particular column are. Is this possible without creating a separate object before modifying the current one? -John

Hi. When you have library foo.rb in your Rails project /lib directory, I notice that on some platforms - e.g. Windows with WEBrick as a server - you can require it by simply: require ''lib/foo'' However on other platforms - e.g. Debian with Lighttpd server via FastCGI - this does not work, and you need to specify RAILS_ROOT explicitly, like this: require

Hiall, I want to make an image_tag from within a controller in order to be able to present a link (with a status image) in a view. Here is my controller method (in file webca_controller.rb, hence WebcaController) def untouched_status_image_tag image_tag("open", { :alt => "Offen", :title => "Offen", :size => "12x12", :class =>

Hello, I''m running Mongrel 0.3.13.3, cluster 0.2.0, and Rails 1.1.6 and I have a problem with a sweeper not having access to the controller instance. NoMethodError (undefined method `session'' for nil:NilClass): /app/models/audit_sweeper.rb:16:in `log'' /app/models/audit_sweeper.rb:9:in `after_update''

Native ERB in ruby, and eruby, seem to lack the -%> feature for suppressing trailing newlines. Thus erb -n script gives errors. Where is Rails ERB so I can invoke it directly? Thank you Hugh