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Here''s the situation: I have a "people" table whose "id" column serves as a foreign key to several other tables (authorships, editorships, members, users, etc.). Every now and then I will find two distinct records in the "people" table that represent the same human being. They generally differ by small differences in spelling but should really be the

Hey everybody, I''ve got a model that represents kind of a turn-based games. Certain actions can only be made unders certain conditions. For simplicity, we''ll say that the only condition for a particular action is that the weekday be Tuesday. def add_vote raise ''You cannot vote today'' unless Date.today.wday == 2 ... end In my controller I want to show a

Hi Railsers, How do you design your applications? Do you start coding HTML? Start with the controllers/models? Start in a program like photoshop/gimp/illustrator/inkscape? I start in inkscape, it''s a SVG editor. I sketch all the views of my application, and then I create the views that belong to one controller in RHTML. After that, I do the models/controller, and move on to the

Am i a total idiot to try and parse out a rails object for javascript in this way? <% for i in interface_items[0].attributes %> var <%= i[0] %> = "<%=h( i[1] )%>" <% end %> Am I missing something really obvious? Thanks, Mark -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Mark Daggett and I approve this message.

Hi! I try to get AJAX running on a mobile Windows Mobile 5.0 based device and failed. There should be a JavaScript support but nothing happens. Have any of you experience with the rails javascripts on a this platform or are there any hints, documentation on the net? tia, -- Daniel V?lkerts Protected by Anti Pesto.

In the new / edit screen for an "item" I''d like to be able to add/remove "sub-items" on pressing an add button below the "sub-items" a bit of a form shows up with the html looking something like: <div id="uniqueid"> <!-- label etc here --> <input type="text" id="sub_items[]" name="sub_items[]"

Hello. I installed under Ubuntu (Dapper) Park Place. I followed the instructions given at the RedHanded site. I get the following mongrel error when launching the application: ** Please login in with `admin'' and password `pass@word1'' ** You should change the default password or delete the admin at soonest chance!/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.5/lib/mongrel.rb:584:in

I''m trying to find events created after an initial date. I''m sure it''s something obvious, but I''m not sure why this isn''t working: def self.find_recent find(:all, :conditions=>"created_at > #{Time.local(2006, 4, 27, 22, 0, 0)}") end Time for more caffeine for me...

I have a an STI table which acts_as_tree, that has a large number of classes/types. My common fields are: id parent_id name description with 4 more text fields, I could cover most of my classes if I could redefine the name of the field like this. text1 AS address1 text2 AS address2 text3 AS zipcode For one class and text 1 AS model_number text2 AS vendor Is there a construct that will allow

Not terribly exciting, but I was happy to think of it. I needed a div with a fixed height that could vary depending on page content. So I did this: <div class="listcntnr" style="height: <%= @users.size / 2 * 125%>px"> Whee! --Al Evans -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ok, I''m missing something obvious but after some reasonable looking in _The_ Rails book (sorry haven''t gotten the cookbook yet) and these archives I don''t see a solution to my question. Question: What is the cleanest way to load a div via AJAX when the page loads - no user action necessary. I don''t really want to hack in a hidden remote form or link that is

Hi, I have a VM with a git repository whose origin is on github. I have several keys known to github, so I needed to set git's core.sshcommand config parameter in the repository to something like this: ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_github2 But it meant that I needed to copy that key to the VM. The same key is available via my forwarded ssh-agent connection. Is it possible to tell ssh to use

Hello lsit, I''am new to rails (about 2 hours) and after the first lines of code I must say: Great! I love it! Can someone recommend me a editor? I run Ubuntu Dapper. Th?ngs -- Jochen Kaechelin, fvgi242ss, wlanhacking.de http://mail.wlanhacking.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo http://www.gissmoh.de - Mein sonstiges Leben!!

Hi, My results are getting out of order after I do the following command: count = result.inject({}) { |hsh, row| hsh[row[''name'']] = row[''count''].to_i; hsh } Why? Here are more specifics: My complete method is this (based off of acts_as_taggable code - not'' DHHs, but the original one): def self.sql_to_count_plays(lookback) sql =

It seems like half the people on this list are writing a book on Ruby or Rails. For all the hints I''ve seen strewn across the list I have yet to see one that will focus on test-driven development for either Ruby or for Rails. If anyone is looking for a topic, please consider this. I''ve been trying to wrap my brain around the TDD process, but its way of thinking is

Hi, I''m a little confused about sessions. I have two objects, object "Apple" and object "Banana". These two objects have an N:M relationship. What I am doing is listing All of the Banana objects that are associated with a single Apple, then below that listing all of the Banana objects not associated with that same Apple. The user is then allowed to change the

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Hi, I''m trying to write some methods which use a parameter to represent a Class name. A very simplistic example: def foo(class_name, conditions) x = class_name.find(:all, :conditions => "#{conditions}") end Unfortunately, this does not work. The only way around this problem that I can think of is to use eval: def foo(class_name, conditions) x = eval

right now im writing a weblog as my first project in rails. Most tings seems to be working great :), but there is (a least) one thing left i can''t figure out how to do. As most weblogs i would like to have an archive, whick looks like this: January 2006 (42) December 2005 (60) November 2005 (2) October 2005 (101) September 2005 (4) August 2005 (2) July 2005 (101010) where (x) is the

Hello, i''m new in ruby rails framework. I have the following problem. I try to create a scaffold for a certain model of my db, but since ruby rails doesn''t assume the table name corectly (its incidents_reported ) i get errors .... Besides renaming the table :) is there a way to ''tell'' ruby rails the name of the table? I haven''t been able to find any