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I need to process some text files quickly. I''ve not been able to find the answer in the archive. The Ruby Standard Library site times out. Can someone tell me where to find info on how to: 1. Get a list of filenames in a directory. 2. How to open a file. 3. How to read it a line at a time. -- Thanks in advance for the help, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

I read somewhere that the correct naming of bridge tables is in alpha order. For example. I have two tables: houses, and colors. If I want to create a bridge table to associate colors with houses, I would name the table: colors_houses The associations work fine. But, if I have a table named: track_houses. Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model associaton errors.

Recently discovered Markaby. Before I use it on a production system, I''d like to know if it is still being maintained? According to the change log, the last change was in February of 2006. Does this mean that the project has been abandoned? Or, at version 0.3 it was considered production stable and complete? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Ruby script/console takes 30-secs to start on the Windows 2003 servers in our shop. Has anyone found a way to speed that up? ( I know Linux is much faster, but that''s not an option, in this case). -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

Installed Fedora5. Installed Ruby 1.8.4. Installed rubygems. Installed rails. Created test app to verify that ruby and rails were working. When I attempted to install mongrel via: sudo gem install mongrel I get this error: Install required dependency daemons? [Yn] y Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn] y Building native extensions. This could take a while... can''t find

Does anyone have any experience getting ODBC to work? I could really use some help here. I''m having trouble accessing a db2 database via odbc using rails. It''s an external database, that I import data from. I have placed the connection code in my model : unless connected? establish_connection( :adapter => "odbc", :dsn => "<dsn

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

I''ve decided to take the plunge and go with Gentoo for my rails development and test box. I figure the easy of maintenance is worth the setup hassles. Anyway, I''m followin the instructions on the Gentoo web site. I''ve selected the ..''i686'' 2.6 kernel for my 700mhz amd processor, and choosen stage3 install option from CD. I''m now at the the

I''m coming from an Oracle and SQL Server background. I''d like to use OpenSource for my next RoR project. MySQL5.x and Postgres8.1 seem to be the most popular. I''d like some comments on which would be the better choice for a production environment and why. Here are my initial concerns in order of priority: 1. Works well with RoR. ( migrations, etc) 2. Stable enough

I know this is off topic, But, my boss has tasked me with finding a better ftp client than the one in Windows XP. Is there a Ruby client that can recover dropped connections, ( a resume feature)? Would be nice if it could handle secure/ encrypted transmissions as well? Failing that, can anyone recommend a good scriptable ftp client for the Windows plaftorm? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work,

When I run ./script/plugin discover to register new plugin sites I get stopped at this point with the following error. ... http://svn.northpub.com/plugins/ http://rhnh.svnrepository.com/svn/public/rails/plugins/ (eval):3:in `each'': undefined method `[]'' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/plugin.rb:658:in

I have to extract data from an odbc connection to another database and put into a MySQL database so that my rails app can manipulate it. What would be the best way to set that up? Would I put the connection info in a controller, so that the controller method with open and close the connection? Any thought? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Here''s my problem. I have an ''Item'' model with a date column called "inserted_on" formatted as "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:t". I want to find all records that were inserted more than 30 days ago. How would I say that using the Item.find ( :all .....) method? I don''t fully understand the syntax. I tried @result = Item.find( :all, :conditions =>

Have installed ruby-one-click installer 1.8.4-16 and rails. Am unable to get an app to talk to by SS2000 database using adapter: sqlserver. Is Sql Server support built-in, or do I need to install something else? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

How to I display the binary equivalent of a number? I tried this: b = 0b1101 puts b # returns decimal value ( 13 ) b.to_bn # generates "unable to convert FIXNUM to STRING.." error. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

I want to create a new scaffold. Would it be best to implement as a plugin? Any tips on how to get started? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I discovered Markaby recently, and am loving it! I''m generating scaffolds, then converting them to Markaby ''.mab'' files. It got me wondering... Has anyone written a plugin to generate scaffolds in Markaby, yet?? That would be truly awesome if there was on out there already. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

I have an app that needs to retreive data through an ODBC connection on a windows platform. Has anyone done this? Would someone be able to walk me through it? or point me to the relavant docs. My searches haven''t turned up any usefull information so far. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson

How do I run SQL scripts from rails? I have a testing menu item called "import data". How can I get it to call a SQL script file that will import the data into a MySQL table for me? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

The Hieraki website says that it version 2.0 will be included with Rails 1.0. Is that true? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails