similar to: Where to put general utility functions?

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

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, 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

Hi, I am using the console a lot to test certain things. However, when I make changes to a model, the only way I found to update the console environment to reflect the changes is to shut it down and open a new console session, which can get quite annoying. Is there a better way? Thanks! Ingo Weiss -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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''ve got following code in GenresHelper.rb def album_list(genre) albums = genre.albums.sort list = albums.collect { |album| link = link_to album.title, :controller => ''albums'', :action => ''show'',

Hi, I would like to use the ''lazy'' style of url generation in my views, omitting parameters from my calls to url_for (and named route methods) that are then filled in from the current request parameters. Example: url_for(:action => ''index'') will fill in (:controller => ''posts'') if params[:controller] is ''posts''

Hi, If I want to have helper method for my rjs, where''s the best place to put it? so for example: --- bla.rjs: page.replace_html ... page.visual_effect ... --- somewhere: (currently I put in application_helper.rb) def replace_with_effect(page) page.replace_html ... page.visual_effect ... end --- bla.rjs: replace_with_effect page and is there a way to define the helper so we

Hey folks. I was looking for the mailing list archive up on rspec.info. I clicked on the "community" link and received the URL "http://ey01-s00414/community/". This isn''t correct, obviously. The hint shows it as, "http://rspec.info/community". Where is the mailing list archive? How far back does it go? I''d really like to read back through it

Hi, I''m trying to stub File.open and whenever I do, rspec blows up with the following error message (undefined method `add'' for nil:NilClass), which seems to happen because method __add in class Proxy is calling #add on global $rspec_mocks, which in turn is nil. Can someone explain what I''m doing wrong, as I can''t seem to stub anything out! Here''s

Hello, Ingo! I''m copying your question to a new e-mail instead of replying to try to keep message threads separate. Have you tried setting up your expectation before issuing the get statement? For example, take this out of the setup block: get ''index'', :locale => ''en'' and move it after:

Hi, in my app, using the error_message_on form helper like this: <label for="user_name">User name:</label> <%= error_message_on ''user'', :name %> <%= f.text_field :name %> generates the following error: undefined method `errors'' for :user:Symbol I am using edge revision 5813 and the simply_helpful plugin. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi, I would like to write a migration that creates a table without auto-generating a primary key "id" column, and then make a integer-column of my choice the primary key. How can I do this? Ingo -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to run some functional (or are they unit?) tests on my application_helper.rb. So far, I''ve not had any success in being able to call the methods defined in application_helper.rb. Here is my app/test/functional/helpers.rb require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper'' require File.dirname(__FILE__) +

Thanks, Eran. I’m not sure how soon I’ll have a solution for you, but it’s on my to-do list now. I’ll also create a bugzilla record for this problem. -Andy From: Weiss, Eran [mailto:Eran.Weiss at emc.com] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:40 AM To: Kaylor, Andrew Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu; Jim Grosbach; Jiong Wang Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Migration from JIT to MCJIT Andrew, I've attached

My "application_helper.rb" become to large. I have basic functions that I use for all projects. Is it possible to define thoses functions inside an external "basic_helper.rb" and include it in "application_helper.rb" ?