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Hi I''m about to attempt to setup RoR on an iMac powered by an Intel core duo. Before I start, is there anyone who would have some feedback about a similar setup (and likely, the caveats hidden down there) ? thanks! Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

A client of mine has a ton of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. I''m building a web application for her (backed by a real db of course) and want to import all that data. Is there a library available to read data from Excel? Is there an easy way to upload the spreadsheets and then read the data? Thanks, Ken Kousen -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc.

Hi I''d like to have a varchar primary key named id instead of the default int id. Does anyone knows how to specify this from migrations ? Should I also specify something in the model class ? thanks! Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060312/797bca4b/attachment.html

Could anybody told me how to set the rdoc and ri for the radrails? I am using Windows XP, RadRails 0.63 and Ruby 1.82 I cannot set the rdoc and ri to a directory. Which file should I set for that under the ruby''s path in the preference in radrails? Thanks. -- Best wishes, Xu Wenhao

Hi! well the subject is telling everything - I''m just curious to know how other railers handle this (for me the answer is yes, clearly!) cheers Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060512/0b59b57b/attachment-0001.html

i have a problem with the datetime format of rails. i am unable to save a dataset to the db. here''s the error message -- the original error message was in german, so i translated it -- i get: DBI::DatabaseError: Execute OLE error code:80040E07 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Couldn''t convert a char-Datatype to datetime HRESULT error code:0x80020009

Hi sorry for the slighty out of topic question but I''m sure someone here will be able to answer. Does anyone use some kind of remote connection to connect to MacOS ? I''m thinking of using VNC but I''d love to hear from other (especially secure) alternatives. I''m just fond of textmate, I have a dell laptop which I''d like to use as a terminal. kind

Hi guys, got this problem with creating such a thing... hope anyone could help.. the problem: ok, now i have this mock object that would simulate a external rpc call. eg require ''models/xmlrpc_agent'' class XmlrpcAgent def create(params) 200 end end but the value of the value returned is fixed. which is quite hard for me to test the controller when different

Hello, AV::paginate query first by a count, how access this value in the controller or view ? Why ? Because I''ll like to display the total number or records found w/o doing another expenssive Count. Thanks,

I want to develop a web application that allows a user to input data into a set of forms and then save that data in an XML file format to their hard drive. Can anybody point me to a Ruby\Rails tutorial that would help? Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Given two models: User :name :email :address_id # foreign key Address :line_1 :line_2 :city etc. I want to have a form allowing a user to register, in which she''d enter an address as well, but how do I go about combining both objects into the one form? I''m new to this and following along with the Agile Rails book from the Pragmatic Programmers, but it

Hi! I''ve been using parallels, vmware player, or virtual pc (did not try xen yet) for development, testing and experimenting with new platforms (and I must say I love them - copy paste a few files, and I have a clean deployment box etc) Since the RailsConf and various talks I''ve seen (like Jason Hoffmann''s http://svn.joyent.com/public/JasonHoffman-EuroRailsConf.pdf ,

hello Friends, I am a newbie to "Ruby or Ruby on Rails". A J2EE application architect at my day job. A fairly experienced PHP web-developer as well. After reading into the many articles on Ruby/ROR, have to admit looks pretty good so far. Really serious about getting into this and possibly developing some good Web 2.0 applications. Just wondering the best way to learn Ruby on

I have a customer that I''m developing a solution for on RoR. They have IIS today and use Sharepoint for their intranet. Is it possible to have some kind of single sign-on between these systems? So when a user is logged in to ther Sharepoint she will also be logged in to my rails-app? We haven''t decided yet on what to deploy rails on so I''m open to suggestions... If we

I''ve defined a table with these columns t.column "some_date", :date, :null => false t.column "some_time", :time, :null => false The result in schema.rb is t.column "some_date", :date, :null => false t.column "some_time", :time, :default => Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT Standard Time 2000, :null => false The time column generates a

Hi all. I have never implemented online payment and it''s the only thing that keeps me from accepting a project for a UK based client. (I must reply quickly!) While I can afford spending an extra week - or 2 - to learn/try/tune the payment system, I must be sure to succeed before I accept the contract. If you''ve already been through that path, any hints, links and/or

I''m trying to grab a CSV file from a user and let them upload it directly to my database, but doing some minor checks on the data before saving. Which is the easier way to implement this? CSV or FasterCSV? I saw that perhaps there were some issues with FasterCSV and csv files created from Mac versions of Excel. Anyone have any experience with this and can recommend a newbie friendly

Hi Does anyone know of a ruby wrapper for Reuters source sink library (like the perl one http://search.cpan.org/~cbarkey/Reuters-SSL-0.52/ ) ? any pointer welcome! thanks Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060427/8ec394ad/attachment.html

Hi, I'm writing code to generate a plot, in which I draw a series of rectangles. So my code is of the form plot.new() plot.window( ... ) draw rectangle draw rectangle ... Is there a way for me to insert a PNG or PDF graphic at a specific position in the plot (ideally in plot coordinates)? I realize that this might probably be better done in a separate image editor, but if it could