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I am new to Ruby on Rails. I have read a lot, and bought several books, and now I have started to implement a modified "shopping cart", following the AWDWR-book, with modifications to suit our application (subscriptions and memberships). Having done up to chapter 7 I have had no real problems, except one: Since our customers are Swedish I need the screen names, texts etc to be in

Is there a "normal" way to override the behavior of validator methods (like validates_presence_of) for updates vs. creation? For example, in the AWDR example store program, the User class validates the presence of the password and its length - which makes sense when the user entry is created. But what if you wanted to provide an update form that updates just certain items

irb(main):035:0> 0xb0 => 176 irb(main):036:0> "\xb0" => "\260" why defferent?

Hi, I just installed Rails 2.0.2 [root@mymachine easyx]# ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux] [root@mymachine easyrx]# gem install rails --include-dependencies Need to update 16 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org ................ complete Successfully installed rails-2.0.2 [root@remandev easyrx]# But I''m getting this error in my restful_authentication

I''m digging around and googling but can''t seem to find what I think is a simple thing. All I''m trying to do is insert data in a migration into a table, using regular SQL statements. LIke this: class AddStateData < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up INSERT INTO states values ('''',''Alaska''); INSERT INTO states values

And compared to PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I moved a project from /var/www/mypro to /home/user1/mypro ... what do I have to change in config? The server does not start anymore. Thank you - Eric -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am putting up a tool that connects to a subversion repository and checks latest revision and downloads the changeset log for all the changes made since last check and puts inside a hash for various uses inside the code. I am just wondering if the code that checks the subversion repo and reads it''s data should bolong to a controller of it''s own or a model of it''s own.

hi guys, just did a search and cant find anything helpful.. suddenly my WEBrick cant start.... omg.... dunno wat''s wrong with it that''s wat i typed : ......$ruby script/server => Booting WEBrick... ......$ that''s all... i dont even know wat''s wrong and when i did a ps -F -C ruby, i also couldnt find anything..... did i jsut corrupt the file or wat???

How to get the name of the computer accessing the application? I mean the computer the user use to access the application. Thanks, Lantis. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello RoR! I''m building a rails app for hosting multi-page surveys. I set up questionnaire, question, and question_component models. Now I''m initializing them with some data. survey.rb q1 = Question.new "q1" q1.quote "Welcome to a test of the new interviewing system." q2 = Question.new "q2" q2.quote "Do you like pie?"

Can a ruby on rails app obtain the ip of the server it is running on? I''d like the application to be able to determine x set of data is for y data, for example: These domains all point to the same ip... mydomain-1.com mydomain-2.com mydomain-3.org I can obtain the domain name from the request by using: @request.domain I''d like the application to grab the corresponding ip for

I want to tail my development.log file, but i only want to show the lines that have the word "ERROR" in. How can i do this?? Doing this : tail -f development.log | grep "ERROR" will filter the log file, but it will not constantly update itself. i.e. newly added lines to the log file that contain "ERROR" are not displayed. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

Hi, Have been pulling out my hair for the last few days wondering what I''m going to deploy my site onto. I currently have FreeBSD 4.7, Apache 1.3.3, PHP 4 and MySQL 4 running a year-old PHP site. Dated stuff I know! The new version of the site will be entirely Ruby on Rails, and I am wondering what order I should be doing things in terms of upgrades and installation. I want to be

Hi all. I''m trying to skip the Rails page cache if the user is logged in: --- # Rewrite index to check for static RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*logged_in=yes.*$ RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*logged_in=yes.*$ RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster RewriteCond

If you installed your copy of ruby via DarwinPorts, the hashbang lines at the top of your dispatch.* scripts says "#!/opt/local/bin/ruby". This is a problem, if you''re deployin via Capistrano to a host with a different path to ruby (which would be practially all of them:-) Here''s a fix. Add this "fix_hashbangs.rb" script to your script directory.

How is the performance running RoR with Apache2 compared to running it with PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If I set a global can it be access from all instances of Rails (on the same application server)? By instances of Rails I mean for each user who use the application? Many thanks, K. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In a functional test, I want to call an action in another controller (a login) before testing things in the current controller. As far as I can tell from the extremely sparse documentation and the AWDR book, this seems to be impossible. The post() functions takes an action argument only, and that''s that. Surely I must be misunderstanding things? -- Calle Dybedahl

hi all, i want my users to enter a date in "ddmmyyyy" format, do someone know how may i transform it in "yyyy-mm-dd" in the controler before i add it to the base please? thks irong -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.