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Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

Hello all, I was wondering if any of you know some good documentation that points out how to implement the Globalization plugin in your existing application. Also some text on how to use a cms like system with Globalization (how to handle the population of the translated texts per item for example) With kind regards, Gerard de Brieder. Govannon. tel : +31624739047

Has anyone come up with a list of best practices for App design using Ruby On Rails? John McClain Senior Software Engineer TCS Healthcare jmcclain-RI2jYlfFOOy2dUpmj6OxPQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org (530)886-1700x235 "Skepticism is the first step toward truth"

Hi, Normally I''m using Rails with mySql but for the moment I''m trying to make a Rails/Oracle solution using oci and instantclient, but I''m having a problem I receive the following when doing a select Exception string : undefined method `empty?'' for 1:Fixnum does anybody know a solution to this. kr Torben

The second beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s killer book or writing real-world Rails, is now available. It features seven new recipes: * In Place Editing * Making Your Own JavaScript Helper * Many To Many With Attributes On The Relationship * Dealing With Time Zones * Living On The Edge * Making Your Own Rails Plugins (contributed by Rick Olson, aka technoweenie) * Polymorphic

Hi All, I am a java developer. I wanna learn Ruby on Rails. Can anyone suggest some good books on Ruby or some url where can I learn the basics of Ruby. Thanks, Prabhu. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2?/min or less. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

Can anyone help me out with a SQL query to pull related entries based on tags? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and

hi, is it possible that gettext don''t work with rjs templates? i''ve just tried this simple example blog_controller.rb : class BlogController < ApplicationController def index end def dosomething end end index.rhtml : <html> <head> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> </head> <body> <div id="test">Some text to change

Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

Hi, I am creating a form that a user can post a message based on his selection on category and subcategory. (A category has many subcategories.) How do I dynamically populate subcategory dropdown list when user chooses a category from category dropdown list? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Ming Ma

Hi folks, I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I would like some recommendation from users on this matter. I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages outside of .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started with end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different book they found useful? Many thanks,

I''m using a dropdown on my form for a simple cms which displays the pages from the database. I want to add some options to the dropdown that are not in the database. Is there a way to do this? Here''s my code so far: <p><label for="navigation_link">Link</label><br/> <%= select("navigation", "link",