similar to: upcase special chars (åäöü...)?

Hi there, Is there a neat and easy way to implement pagination with letters rather than numbers eg : A B C D ... Z Rob

Hi all Is there a function that makes the first character of a given string upcase? first_to_upper "canada" Thanks for help. :-) Joshua -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m testing ruby-head through rvm but can''t get ''ação''.mb_chars.upcase == ''AÇÃO''... I get ''AçãO'' instead... This happens both for Rails 2.3.5 and Rails 3 beta 3... How can I get upcase to work correctly? Thanks in advance, Rodrigo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby

Hi all, I wanted to turn off the messages `creating lame upcase table' or `creating lame upcase table' during getting files from a shared directory using smbclient command. I google'd around and could not get pointers to this. Can I do that? If so, how? Thanks & Regards, Ramprasad B

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

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

Hi, I''d like to upcase a variable before it is saved, but I''m not sure how to access the incoming param or where this work should be performed: In my update method, I have: @device = Device.find(params[:id]) params[:device[macaddress]].upcase <-- problem code if @device.update_attributes(params[:device]) ....usual stuff here ''macaddress'' is the

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

Hi all, In response to Rodrigo Rosas''s message about mb_chars.upcase not giving the expected result on 1.9, I''ve done some work in a fork to make String#mb_chars always return an instance of a proxy class, both with Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9. The end result of the patch is (hopefully) to make Rails'' multibyte functionality behave the same way in 1.8.7 and 1.9.x.

Hello, how do you solve the problems with czech characters? Do you use unicode or ISO-8859-2/WIN1250? How do use methods like String:upcase etc. that dont use czech characters? I would appreciate any hints for this. Thanks, David Marko -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Clement <aclement at linagora.com> --- src/host-browser/host-register.rb | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/host-browser/host-register.rb b/src/host-browser/host-register.rb index 693a6f2..5ff6a90 100755 --- a/src/host-browser/host-register.rb +++ b/src/host-browser/host-register.rb @@ -393,13 +393,18 @@ class

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 ,