similar to: where to put utility code.

Googling for acts_as_taggable is a little confusing: gem, plugin?! What are the differences? Which one to choose? Where is the best doc? Alain

The Rails Plugin Directory now has over 150 plugins and RDoc support too: http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2006/05/150-rails-plugins/ -- Benjamin Curtis http://www.bencurtis.com/ http://www.tesly.com/ -- Collaborative test case management http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/ -- Resources for the Rails community

I have a page which validates "tentatively," because the validator uses the default character encoding. None was specified apparently, so it falls back to UTF-8. How and where do I specify the character encoding? Pat

I can''t think of a good reason, other than it''s legacy code which hasn''t gotten around to being changed to RoR. http://rubyonrails.org/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 http://37signals.com/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 http://basecamphq.com/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 http://backpackit.com/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42

There must be a better way to write this code: @project_pages, @projects= paginate :project, :per_page => 10, :conditions => ["account_id = ?", account] ?! If only I could pass the sub-collection account = ... @projects = account.project to paginate, instead of letting it extract it with a find :all + sql conditions Alain. -- Posted via

Hi all, I''ve just added d&d sorting to a list where each item is a link_to .. Problem: when I drop an item to its new location, the browser think I clicked, and follows the link. Any idea? TIA. Alain

Hi, I have a little .swf movie I''d like to have in my page. Is there a rails way of linking it? Thanks, Peter

I have the following quick-and-dirty hack in my model: def after_destroy # search for orphaned tags and delete them orphans = Resource.tags_count :count => ''= 0'' orphans.keys.each {|tag| Tags.find_by_name(''tag'').destroy} end It''s nice from a readable code perspective, but it seems inefficient - is there some way to do this with only one

I''m having trouble with rails and a table named ''dives''. It seems to work fine if I try it with another table name. I''ve generated the scaffold with the script and have not made any modifications to it. When I try to run the dives controller it starts looking for ''dife.rb'' and fives me ''uninitialized constant Dife''. Is this a

Hey everyone, Is there Rails support for something like Google Maps, but using my own images/maps? Basically, I''d like to have my own maps/images, be able to drop markers on them, center on certain attributes etc. - Nic

I''m just getting my hands dirty with caching. The pages I want to cache have some user specific data on them (for example "log out"). That sent me down the route of fragment caching. One of the things I want to pagination is a paginated list. My question is how is pagination and query strings handled with fragment caching? Does each page get its own fragment and query string

Can someone recommend a good web host for ROR? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dave, on another topic, might I recommend that you and DHH publish an updated version of the Agile guide right away when 1.1 comes out? You could reuse much of your material and it would do a lot of good to help make sure there is still a good centralized source of reference for Rails. Without that book, there really is not a good one-stop source of information for people to learn how to use

I''ve updated the Scaffolding Extensions Plugin[1] recently to add a couple new features: 1) Scaffold all models and associations with one command 2) Show all associated objects on the edit page Example of usage: In an existing Rails application, create a controller (i.e. "script/generate controller crud"), and modify so it looks like: class CrudController <

Hi all, Is there a way to have searches no use some indexed fields, when processing a query? context: I have a model Foo that holds some information in two languages : - text1_nl, text2_nl, text3_nl and - text1_en, text2_en, text3_en Some other fields are common to both languages and indexed as well - first_name, last_name Depending on the visitor language choice I need to exclude the

Hi: does button_to_function allow the use of an image? I tried it in place of the text with "image_tag" and it doesn''t work. Maybe some form of button_to? Any direction you can give would be great! Mike -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

are there any compatible issues that exist when trying to use both prototype and dojo at the same time? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this

Hi: I had some issues and so switched to locomotive. I find it awesome. 1 click and its done. My question - what disadvantages are there, if any? What do I lose by using such a convenient solution. speculation as well as facts are welcome but please define which you are putting forwards. Thanks in advance, bruce

Greetings all, To all the good souls that happen to know NTLM and Rails.... Short version: -------------- - I''m looking for server code to extract credentials through NTLM dialog with the client (IE) - I found nothing usable/useful (as they both implement the client side code) in - rubyntlm on rubyforge - lib ntlm-ruby by Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrau LONG version:

I wanted to add a login string column to an existing table => I created a migration : ... def self.up add_column "members", "login" , :string, :null => false end ... remark: it shouldn''t work, as the table is not empty (=> ''login'' would be null in the existing rows.) problem: rake migrate didn''t complain