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after almost a week of trial and error, i''ve finally got a hold of creating a web service in rails. after all this time though, i''m still not quite sure if i can make it work the way i want it to. i was basically trying to create a login portal so that the users at our company can have one place to login for all of our internal applications. well, right now - i can have each

Has anyone implemented a captcha with ruby on rails and rmagick? I tried this example: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSecureFormsWithNoisyImages but I got an error: undefined method `size'' for #<NoisyImage:0x34d8070> Thank you -------------------------------------------------- Rodrigo Dominguez ? Iplan Networks ???????????????Datos Personales

Can you give me some links where transactions in rails are explained in depth? Thank you PS: I''ve looked in google, but I just couldn''t find good articles, I''m working with postgresql Rodrigo Dominguez Iplan Networks Datos Personales rdominguez@iplan.com.ar rorra@rorra.com.ar www.iplan.com.ar <http://www.iplan.com.ar/>

I''m working in a web service, actually, I have: class UnifiedLoginApi < ActionWebService::API::Base class CLL_Metadata < ActionWebService::Struct member :key, :string member :type, :string member :value, :string member :webapplication_id, :string member :user_tenfold_id, :string member :login_username, :string

Some blog sites and others (ticketmaster, for example) require you to read a graphical representation of a word or number to prevent a form from being submitted programmatically. I''d like to do something similar on a new site I''m building. Two quick questions: 1. Is there a standard term for these graphical representations? i.e. how would I do a google search for this

I''m doing a fotolog for a company. It''s expected to manage about 100k of connections per day and about 1500 concurrents connections. What hardware should I buy to manage those numbers of connections? I''m planning to use slackware + lighttpd + fastcgi, but perhaps we will have to reuse some scripts in php, in that case I would use slackware + apache + mod_php + fastcgi

I would like to validate a number within a certain range. To first test that a entry is a valid number i use validates_numericality_of :my_number, :message =>''sorry, not a number'' to test if the number is within a certain range i use validates_inclusion of :my_number, :in => min..max, message => ''outside range!'' If the numericality test fails, I

I''m working with ActionWebService, building a SOAP Service. I realize that I can returns various values, in example: api_method :foo, :expects [ { :value1 => :int }, { :value2 => :int } ], :returns [ { :return_value_1 => :int}, { :return_value_2 => :string}, { :return_value_3 =>

I''m doing a registration form. I saw many registrations forms which asks you for a country and it lists all the countries of the world, and when you select a country the form is actualized with all the states or provinces, and when you select a state/province then the form is actualized with all the cities. I''m looking to do something like that, is there a free service or pay

hello my name is reynaldo my question is the next. i want change the text of the validations error messages generated by ruby when you don''t wrote properly the data in the form. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am having a bit of trouble with the error. I hava a product and category table and wanting to display the categories in a drop down list. Below is the error I get. Any suggestion on how I can fix this. undefined method `name'' for #<Category:0x3652448> 9: <select name="product[category_id]"> 10: <% @categories.each do |category| %> 11:

Is there a easy way to add components like: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/ http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true in ruby forms, by plugins or whatever? Thank you Rodrigo Dom?nguez Iplan Networs www.iplan.com.ar <http://www.iplan.com.ar/> ? rdominguez@iplan.com.ar www.rorra.com.ar <http://www.rorra.com.ar/> ? rorra@rorra.com.ar --------------

I need to send a POST request via a link, along with paramater data for an action, and the page needs to reload. link_to_remote worked great when I was updating a DOM element but obviously won''t work when I need to reload a page. Is there an option -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello for my password recovery system I want to recover the users password and send it to them. In the DB its saved via SHA1 (login generator) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Not sure where to address this question ... but I guess this is a good start. I am a freelance Rails developer - and have been developing Rails apps professionally for about a year now. I just want to get an idea of what you other freelancers charge yourselves out at. I have been charging the equivalent of about $28/hour, but get a sense that I could/should charge a whole lot more. I am

does anyone know much about resizing different versions of images with file_column? i tried it and everything works fine, but my question is can you do more than just make sizes with a version of image? i''m working on a photo album and i would like to resize the image to a medium size, but create a thumbnail as well and crop anything left to make the thumbnail a perfect square. --

I have an ActiveRecord class class User < ActiveRecord::Base end and I want to define an attribute, in example "links", links will be an array. class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr :links end and now, I want links to be an array, so I do class User < ActiveRecord::base attr:links def initialize(attributes) super(attributes) @links =

i''m still pretty new to rails, and while i''ve been able to hack my way into having it do what i want so far, i''m not happy with the way my code looks. on top of that, i''m sure that what i''m doing prlly isn''t the most efficient either. one of my biggest problems is probably to do with using relationships and forms together. i''ve

i used the hivelogic article to install ruby on rails to my mac: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger everything works great using the script/server command, but isn''t that still using WEBrick? how do i server my apps with lightTPD? i tried following the instructions given here: http://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsonlighty but have had no

I''ve been working with ActionMailer for a few days and finally have a pretty good grasp of it. In the book I''m reading, it shows how to send to multiple users or an array of users. Is there a setting or some configuration I can do to send the email to each person separately, or would I just need to loop through each user and send one email at a time? What is the best way to