similar to: Rails on 2003

Hi everybody At work we''ve finally convinced the chief to develop some small project using open source technology. Unfortunately we are deeply involved with Micro$oft technology. That means, windows 2003 server, IIS, MS SQL 2005 and asp. I was thinking about recommending ruby on rails instead of asp, but I''d like to know how well it goes with IIS and MS SQL, because for the

Erwin: We found it''s not worth the time to do this. It won''t work reliably. You''re in for a world of hurt. We''ve given up on the idea after several months of trying (and some great feedback from this list). There are some on this list who claim to have gotten it to work, but that might just be luck. We''re now using Apache on a higher port, and using

I work at an organization that is very wrapped up in Microsoft products. I am trying to get a test application put in however I''m not sure what to do about the infratstructure. If it were up to me we would put in MySQL and Apache or Lighty, however its not up to me. The easiest way to get an application into production at our company would be to use the existing MS SQL server and IIS

I just spent the last two days trying to get Rails on IIS to work with Windows 2003/IIS 6.0. I think I''ve finally got it working, but it took more googling than I care to describe. Now I''ve got a few questions: 1) Is there some ''official'' Rails on IIS guide on this site on another official ruby site that''s known to work well? 2) If not, can someone

All, Mongrel 1.1.3 Rails 2.0.2 Ruby 1.8.6 Windows XP SP2 When I issue the command "ruby script/server" from any of my Rails projects on v. 2.0.2, I get a Windows dialog with the error: "The application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." I''ve gone through the process of attempting to introduce

Hello Folks, This is the long awaited release of the Mongrel HTTP library that supports *Ruby On Rails*. I know tons of people have been waiting for it, so I''ve got a few things to lay down first before you get all excited: 1) It''s very very ALPHA support for Rails. It will run a Rails app, and runs my simple apps, but it''s not fast or correct as it needs to

Hi folks. I have a very small problem which is probably very simple. But I''ve scoured the api and the rails book with no luck. I''m trying to get information about the database definition out of active record. When I go into console and say ActiveRecord::Base.connection I get a MysqlAdapter object, with an instance variable called @config that''s a hash containing all

Hi, I''m trying to execute something like this method in a model: def self.sql_for_rankings() sql = "SET @counter:=0;" sql << " SET @counter:=0; SELECT *, @counter:=@counter+1 AS rank FROM testscores. " find_by_sql(sql) end Where the new rank column is a kind of autoincrementer inside of

I have no idea why this is happening but it seems like every method on my controller gets called twice. Here is what it looks like when I call a list using the scaffold code ========================== Processing DepartmentsController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-02-24 01:05:00) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"departments"}

Dears, Got a controller witch do a send_data for displaying a chart. like : send_data(g.to_blob, :filename => "any.png", :type => ''image/png'', :disposition=> ''inline'') I actually do a <img src="http://myhost:3000/stats/make_graph" /> Is there any way more clean to do that ? At minima don''t hardcode the beginning

Hello, AV::paginate query first by a count, how access this value in the controller or view ? Why ? Because I''ll like to display the total number or records found w/o doing another expenssive Count. Thanks,

Interesting read...apologies if it has been posted already. http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/saternos-rails.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060706/619e650a/attachment.html

Dears, My railsapp run using ''/layout/application.rhtml'' and under some conditions ( Authenticated user, url parameter) I like to switch globally to another layout, let''s say custom.rhtml Like : class AppController < ApplicationController before_filter :context_layout def index end end # application.rb def context_layout if <context_condition>

Dears, My Ror setup works.. but I can''t guess why <%= stylesheet_link_tag ''style'' , :media=> ''screen''%> is rended as <link href="/stylesheets/style.css?1154009736" media="screen" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" /> What is that number.. any usage ?? Or I misconfigured something ? Thanks

This must be really simple but I have looked everywhere. I have a <%= item.description -% in my view and I want to trim it to 10 words. The description can be long and I want to trim this in my preview? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

the compiler tell me it: invalid column name: INSERT INTO ago.prova_stats (cognome, nome, id, telefono) VALUES(''Medda'', ''Ivan'', :id, 70565611) where ago.prova_stats is the table used by me and that have only the columns ''cognome'',''nome'' and ''telefono''. My table hasn''t the column

Hi all, as part of adopting Rails in my company I had to go through the hassle of setting up a Rails production environment on Win32 system since we mostly use MS SQL as our database back end and also because we mostly dealing with customers who become green-blue-purple as soon as you mention Unix/Linux and run for the door. I also need to mention that most of our web applications are internal and

Dears, For obscure reasons I''ll like to reset a session key when request/action is outside a specific controller. Is there a common place in the app where I can put such code, instead of adding statements in each controllers ? DRY Thanks, Mathieu

I''m running Apache2 on windows and I have a controller that issues a popen. class FileController < ApplicationController def index f = IO.popen("dir") @files = f.readlines end end This works using webbrick but on Apache produces... ---------- Errno::ENOENT in File#index No such file or directory - dir RAILS_ROOT: C:/www/teensymud/public/../config/..

Hi, Are the active database.yaml attributes for the current environment (dev, prod, test) available inside a controler ? adapter, host, db, socks, etc. AFIK Class#connection don''t give back theses infos. Thanks