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I abandoned ruby way for find_by_sql and still can''t get this... @myplacement = Placement.find_by_sql( "select * from placement where :intake_date >= beg_intake_date and :intake_date <= end_intake_date") just a simple date range...it''s killing me - If I knew how to load placement controller into irb, I could probably try out finds interactive mode... Thanks

I have a simple case statement in one of my views. This works fine on my windows machine. Move to the mac and I get: "parse error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting kWHEN". I have not changed anything but cannot resolve the issue. my view has this in it (simplified for test) <% case controller.controller_name -%> <% when "accounts" -%> <h3>worked

Hi I have a rhtml documment in views/account/login.rhtml I want to include the contents of login.rhtml in views/welcome/index.rhtml any suggestions on how this can be done? Thanks Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to figure out how to change the order of a list view and it''s obvious to me that I don''t understand what I get from a simple scaffold to know enough to alter it. If someone would be so kind to tell me what this means ... def list @placment_pages, @placements = paginate :placements, :per_page => 10 end @placement_pages, # I am guessing that this

Hi, Thest are two methods:- 1) redirect_to :action => ''list'' 2) render :action => ''list'' what is difference between these two methods?????? Thanks. Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey guys, I''m having a little trouble working out partials. I have successfully made a partial work in my list.rhtml, but as I see it on the 15min introductry video. They guy uses one partial on multipul pages. At the moment I am trying this in my show.rhtml, I write <%= render :partial => "journal" %> and I get this. NoMethodError in Write#show > > Showing

Hi there, Im reading a date out of a database and I need to subtract exactly 1 month from that date? It needs to be bullet proof so that if the date says 31 and the previous month only has 28 days it wont just subtract 1 from the month and make an illegal date. Thanks Petr -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this

I''m using the date_select and datetime_select helpers in my view, and they return Date classes from the params hash. But how do I work with Date classes, they don''t print human readable dates or times, Time classes work well I can use strftime("%H:%M") to print to the screen. Is it possible to convert a Date to a Time, Ive been tinkering in irb but have got

i know it''s probably really simple, how do i work out someone''s age if i have their d.o.b. stored as a date in my db. cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi All, has anyone ever seen it when they vist the URL in the applicaion that it just tries to download the FCGI dispatch file? Im running FC3, Lighttpd1.4.11, Rails 1.1.2 and FastCGI. i run IRB and get... irb(main):001:0> require ''fcgi.so'' => true irb(main):001:0> require ''fcgi'' => true On the default rails install page ''riding on

I have come across this neat Javascript table sorter at http://kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/ It seems straigh forward to use but i cant get it to work. I have included in the head <script src="javascripts/sorttable.js" type="text/javascript"></script> In the View <table class="sortable" id="anyid"> <thead>

Admin Controller - def show @wizard = Wizard.find(params[:id]) end View - <td><%= link_to ''Show'', :action => ''show'', :id => wizard %></td> URL - http://localhost:3000/admin/show/1 I want user_name (one of the columns in the database) instead of the id to show For example:

Hello, I installed puppet-server, passenger and dashboard. I have tested every step in between to make sure all is running well and not errors are carrying forward. Dashboard worked well with my test in WEBrick. After configure the dashboard with passenger I got the message” The environment must be purely alphanumeric, not ''''” instead of the dashboard. I verified the

suppose users have a favorite colour, linked to with a color_id field. suppose also they have a pet rock, which is one of many possible colors... is there a ''best practice'' in order to avoid having ''blue'' appear in the Color table 100 times. can validates_uniqueness_of be twisted into handling this case? should i be adding something to the initialize()

I need to make a category browser that would allow nested categories. Is there any receipe on that? Currently, I use the :onchange event from one of the form element to update the first select (out of 4-5 selects), but I dont know how to elegantly reset all the child selects if I change the value from the first. All the categories are fetched from the DB and I would like a

In asp you have an Application built-in object, which works just like the Session hash, but it lets you share information among all users of a given application. which is the rails equivalent??? and if there isn''t, how would you implement such a thing ? (there would be concurrency issues to take into account, in fact asp''s application object has some lock and unlock methods

Hi everyone - sorry if this is a bit OT, I''m not subscribed to the ''ruby-talk'' list, but if anyone wants to cross post this over there... This is just a quick announcement to let people know that I''ve built a basic RDoc Dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger. It''s still beta-ish, but seems to work okay for me - and it''s a convenient reference

I have the following code in my index.rhtml: <div id="how_many_images" style="background-color:#eee;"> <%= render(:partial => ''form'') %></div> ...and the following in my _form.rhtml <%= form_remote_tag(:update => "images_div_main", :url => { :action =>

Hello, I tried Cody Fauser RJS tutorial (http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates) on my railsplayground dev site and got it to work when using Firefox, but when I tried it on Safari, nothing happens. Then I tried this tutorial - http://rewrite.rickbradley.com/articles/2006/02/06/rjs-templates Similarly, it works fine on Firefox... but with Safari the list is not

This patch creates the shell for much of what the cloud ui will become. It is focused on layout (lightly fedora themed), accessibility, and 'bookmarkability'. This layout uses no javascript (that will be used to enhance interactivity in a future patch). It also introduces the idea of using a simple table rather than the more conplex js/json we use in the admin side. Plan here is to