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Hi, a Javascript in one of my Rails templates needs to load a static XML file. I tried several places to put the actual XML file, and I also tried to make the file a rails template (tried both .rhtml and .rxml) and access it via a controller action. None of these ways worked. Does the lighttpd server know how to serve XML files, or do I need to configure it first? Or, is there a good workaround?

Hi, does anybody know of any good HowTo for consuming XML-RPC and/or SOAP web services in Rails? I found some for Ruby (via soap4r/xmlrpc4r), but I was wondering whether there is something built into Rails already. So far it looks like there are methods to create web services, but not to consume them. Ingo Weiss

Hi, when the "Agile Web Development" book talks about routes, there are what looks like console transcripts like the following: URL> store @params = {:controller => ''store'', :action = ''index''} Is there something like a console for testing routes (where you could put in a url and see how rails would route it)?? Ingo -- Posted via

I''ve got a couple of helper functions in my application_helper file that I would like to run from the console (for debugging). What is the correct way to invoke a helper from the console? _Kevin -- Posted with http://DevLists.com. Sign up and save your mailbox.

Hiall, Unfortunately I just can''t find out how to setup a default selected value when using collection_select. My call is like so: <%= collection_select(:consultant, :lastname, @consultants, :id, :lastname, { :selected => @current_consultant.id } ) %> which is not working, I debugged so far that I know that @current_consultant.id contains the correct value. Any tips? cheers

Hello, Let''s say I have a model for a "house". Each house has_a "city", which in turn has_a "state" which in turn has_a "country". The objective is to retrieve all houses in a given state, say "Massachusetts". Being new to Ruby on Rails what I like is that things that should be simple usually are simple, and since we have easy access to

Hi, I am looking for a way to compare to pieces of text, and mark up the differences with html. Basically the way Basecamp Writeboards do it. I was wondering whether this is available as a plugin (my initial search didn''t turn up anything). Ingo Weiss -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have a form generated with form_remote_tag that contains a selection list. I would like to auto-submit the form when the user makes a choice in the selection list, so I added an option :onchange => ''this.form.submit()'' to select_tag Now what happens is that when I make a choice, the partial template get''s rendered as expected, but not replacing the

Hi, I''m using scriptaculous to provide an auto complete textbox - and it works perfectly - but I was wondering if there was anyway to let users navigate the choices using the keyboard i.e the curor keys as opposed to having to use the mouse? Apart from that it''s perfect! :) Cheers, Pete -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying desperately to get visuall effects callbacks working in rjs templates to no avail What I''m trying to do is fade an image, change the div with the image to a new image, and then fade the new image back in. How would I go about this in RJS Here''s a simple line from my rjs that I can''t get to work. It is not using callbacks so the

Hi, I have a bunch of utility functions. If I put them in "controllers/application.rb" then they will be accessible from all controllers. If I put them in "helpers/application_helper.rb" then they will be accessible from all templates. But what if I need to access them from everywhere - controllers, views, even models? Where do I put them? Ingo Weiss -- Posted via

Hi there, I''ve been trying to paginate over a list of members that all share a tag in common using the acts_as_taggable plugin. The regular way of paginating over a collection doesn''t seem to work with acts_as_taggable. Here''s what my method looks like that takes in a tag name, finds all the members that share the tag and then displays all the members. Nothing too fancy

Hello, how can I check if a destroy was successful? Is the object only frozen if deleted or do I have to do an additional find to see if there is a record left? What happens if an after_destroy callback returns false? Is there always a rollback? Markus

Hi, I have the following problem that I can''t seem to figure out. I want to able to fetch some text from my database record in my controller, and then add two links within the text and then send that back to the view to get rendered so that the two links appear as links and when clicked on, they''d basically call the corresponding action for the link. Would anybody know how to

Hi, When I turn on action cashing for actions that render as XML using builder templates, the files are cashed with an .html extension, and subsequently served as html which breaks things. Is there a way to cache files with an .xml extension? Ingo Weiss -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When creating "< previous|next >"-type navigation to browse through records from a list of search results, what is the most efficient (best practices-) way to determine what the previous and next records are for a given record? Should I store the search results array and the position (index) of the current record in the session? Or restore the results array each time (running

I am having a problem with ruby''s sort_by function. I want to sort a list of parent model objects based on the children of the parent models. Normally you might say sortedList = modelList.sort_by { |model| model[''someAttribute''] } What I am tring to do is sortedList = modelList.sort_by{ |model| model.children.find(:first, order=>"price desc" ).price}

Announcing RJSCallback 0.1 The RJS Callback plugin is being developed to provide Ruby On Rails with the ability to easily call RJS templates for the various callbacks associated with AJAX function calls (e.g., :before, :loading, :complete). Currently this plugin automatically detects, loads, and renders RJS templates with specific names and inserts them in the appropriate spot in

Is there some standard way to test migrations? It seems to me that an additional safeguard for migrations would be to test and see if applying the migrations to the test database allows one to reconstruct the structure of the development database. If you can''t, then there is an error in your migrations, most likely because someone hand-modified the database without generating a

Hi, I am looking for ideas on how to remove the last item from a paginated page when a new item is inserted, thus leaving only 10 elements on the page. Currently I have a form that inserts with AJAX, but as expected, each post added to the page just increases the number of posts leaving 11 on a page that should only be displaying 10. I have unique ID''s for each post (e.g.