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Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific action, for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same action? I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed? Thanks, Andy

I was able to create a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship for my app, but now I''m not too sure how to write queries for it. Basically, I have a table ''courses'' that has_and_belongs_to_many ''categories'' and vice versa So I''m trying to figure out how I would find only the courses that belong to a category that I specify. Let''s

In the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book it runs through making an example application, a shopping cart. In one of the views files, there is one line of code I dont understand (below), I dont know what the "h" is for, also I took the h out, and it did not affect the application (as far as i could see). <%= h(product.title) %> Can anyone shed some light on this

hi all i want to run project at local system ..see this i m getting some error http://pastie.org/843746 and when i run server http://pastie.org/843748 plz tell me how to install rmagick on fedora Regards, Shyam +91-9716-18-9650 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hi, We are thinking about choosing Rails as our weapon of choice for our next project, which is basically a text editor on steroids, whith some functionality that need an Internet connection. In the first step we are going to develop it as a plain web app (AJAX-ified, yay!), however, in the next step we would like to port some of the functionality (such as the editor) to a desktop app (which can

Hi friends in PHP there is a direct function GetImageSize(), with it I can easily determine the dimentions of an image file. How can I do in RoR. Please help me out Thanks in advance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060505/13ba1640/attachment.html

I have tried to put a flash movie inside of my RoR page and it shows up with nothing on IEPC. It does very well on every other type of browser but does not work with IEPC. I made a folder - "flash" in my public directory and have had the one instance of it point there. Thus my flash directory is www.rails-app.com/flash/flash.swf Is there anything that anyone knows to help out?

Is there a built-in way to determine if a model object has just been created (ie. this object was the one that was originally persisted)? I can''t see it anywhere in the AR code, but thought I''d check. I want something like: p = Person.create p.original_instance? # true Is this built-in or should I just patch AR? -Jonathan.

Hello, I have the following: image_tag(''show.png'', :alt => ''show article'', :title => ''show article'', :border => 0) Is it possible that I don´t need to have "=> ''show article''" twice in this row? e.g. something similar to this pseudo code: (:alt, :title) => ''show article''.

Hi all, i would like to add the .html extension by default to all my resources. What is the best way to do that? The reason for this is that i need to download the generated sites via wget and i need the .html extension for the downloaded files. Also it would be nice if the link_to would automatically generate the links with .html... Thanks, Gerold

Hi, I have the following routes map.connect '':controller/:id/:action'', :id=>/4/, :defaults=>{ :action=>''show''} map.connect '':controller/:action'', :defaults=>{:action=>''index''} and when I point my browser to "localhost:3000/departments" I see an error because the show action cannot find a

I''ve got a problem with some tables that don''t follow any RAILS standards. how do I define the join in the model when all three tables have wacky names? class Machine < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Host" set_primary_key "Id" end class Pool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "tbl_CodeMgmt_Pool" set_primary_key

Hi all, can someone explain to me how the options for helper text_field_tag supposed to be written. I really tried a bunch of stuff without success. For example I need a field with id "query", so I write <%= text_field_tag :query %> which works fine. But what if I want the field only 5 characters big? I tried among other <%= text_field_tag :query ,

I''m having a problem getting the text area the size I want it to be. In my view at the top I have this init calls <script type="text/javascript" > tinyMCE.init({ mode: "textareas", theme: ''advanced'', theme_advanced_toolbar_location: ''top'' }); </script> Then in my form: <%= text_area

Hi, The default way we handle an array of checkboxes is like this: <% items.each do |item| %> <%= check_box_tag ''item[]'', "#{item.id}" %> <% end -%> this returns an array item[] that holds the ids of all the items. Now the real issue: 1. The above loop will same ids to ''n'' items 2. All ids will be ''item[]''

Hi everybody, we are currently running a small network with a samba server and a few Windows _95_ workstations. The server stores roaming profiles for all users and provides authentification (logon scripts, policy file, ...) Now, we are planning to add a Windows _98_ workstation. Q1: Will Win95 and Win98 be able to work with the same user profiles, policy file etc? If not, what can I do? Q2:

Hey everyone, I have a philosophical question here. Say I have a website that uses two models for accounts: Person and Company. Normally I would just have /accounts/new for user signup. However, the RESTful way to do it is to have /people and /companies. Unfortunately, this doesn''t account for a situation where you''d have a one-page signup form. I wouldn''t want

Hi there, I''ve tried to add a m:n mapping table using the migration mechanism. ruby script\generate migration add_categories_notes_mapping and filled the migration file with: class AddNotesCategoriesMapping < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :categories_notes do |t| t.column :category_id, :integer, :null=>false t.column :note_id, :integer,

Hi, Anyone know where the "record" method is defined. Its used in generators like in the scaffold generator. An extract from it is below (taken from scaffold_generator.rb): def manifest record do |m| # Check for class naming collisions. m.class_collisions controller_class_path, "#{controller_class_name}Controller",

Hi, I want to allow users ti search my blog. I have the following code below to initiate the form. <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'', :search => search %> <p align =center><%= text_field ''search'', ''search'',"size" =>"20" %> <%= submit_tag ''Search'' %></p>