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Hello, When I am trying to run rake migration tasks, I get the error as shown below. I am using ruby 1.8.4 and edge rails. What am I missing or doing wrong? C:\rails\temp1>rake db:migrate (in C:/rails/temp1) rake aborted! no such file to load -- rails_version Thanks for your help. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, I am using RJS and Edge Rails and I was wondering if the page object should be available in helpers also. For example if I have a helper function def update_flash_messages page.replace_html ''flash_messages'', (show_flash_messages :textilize => true) page.visual_effect ''flash_messages'', :appear end and then in my RJS files I call

Hello, I have created a ticket for an enhancement of the autocompleter to show the options immediately when the field gets focus. Right now at least one character must be typed for autocomplete to kick in. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5435 I have also made some code changes directly in the script Event.observe(this.element, "blur", this.onBlur.bindAsEventListener(this));

Hello, Is there any editor for textile? Something which has buttons, and will auto insert textile code for marking user inputs. (If possible displays a preview also.) Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at: http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/ ,---- | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, | And thin partitions do their bounds

Hello, I am newbie in configuring apache and deploying web applications, and am trying to install rails 1.0.0 application on Godaddy web server. Lets say the application is named `demo'', and it will be present in a folder called `demo'' on the web server. The web server in addition to hosting the rails application will host many other static pages in other folders. When the user

Hello, Is there any function which will parse different sql options and add them to a sql query? I found this `add_limit_offset!'' function, but it is an instance method and I am not able to use it as a class method. Is there any workaround which will let me use it a class method, or is there some other alternate function? Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,

Hello, Rails provide counter cache field for associations, I want a similar cache for totaling up values (say account_balance = sum_of_deposits - sum_of_withdrawals). I was wondering if rails, already has another surprise in store for me, or is there any plug-in or how-to for doing these kind of things. Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read the

Hello, I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me. [1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn''t find anything which I explained how to do logging in models. [2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model, and try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For views the error occurs

As I, like many people, are coming to ruby in the rails era, I''m curious about how Ruby Web Dev was done prior to rails. Any veterans want to share their insights? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060518/20cde24d/attachment.html

Hello, I was wondering if there was any automated (may be scaffolding) way of exposing Model CRUD via web services. I found this ticket for django, but nothing for Rails. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/115 Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions. Regards. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, I want to start my rails application in production mode. But for some reason in spite of uncommenting this line in ''config/environment.rb'' ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] ||= ''production'' when I run ''ruby script\console'' it says loading development mode. Also, the webrick sends log messages to development.log file instead of

Hello, I am learning rails and ruby and I have some questions about how should I go about doing certain things. [1]Many of my models have some functionality which is common, and instead of duplicating it across models, I want to store it in a single file, and then import the file into the models. Should I do this using modules, and then store them in the `lib'' directory? What is the

Hello, When I am writing rails migrations, quite often I make mistake in them which causes the migration tasks to stop halfway with error. This causes lots of problem, because it results in half of the things in migrations changed and other half not. Also, as the schema number is changed, so things cannot be rolled back. Is there any way to make the entire migration action atomic, i.e.,

Hi, I am trying to spec helper methods in a Rails project, but it seems the specs fail with the error: You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.<< if the restful routes helper are used either in spec files, or the helper file. What can I be doing wrong? Or how can I fix this. Thanks! -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,

Hello, I want to know how can I paginate a set of records. It seems there is no direct way of doing this, and I am not able to understand the documentation of paginate, so any pointers on how to do this will be much appreciated. To be specific what I want is that the records returned by user.recipes, the recipes of the particular user be paginated. My attempt to do this failed because

Hello, I needed to add custom cache field for one of my application. I thought I will share the code showing how to do this. This code below creates and maintain a custom cache field, for keeping track of totals. Say, you have accounts, and for each account there are transactions (either deposit/withdrawal), and one will like to keep track of the total balance for an account. So, let there be a

Hello, Earlier in my rails application, I was using the convention of writing the following to refer to templates and/or views in the view folder. "./blah/blah" But in the Edge rail, it doesn''t work and the page doesn''t shows any output there is no error in the development log as well. But changing the above to "/blah/blah" seems to fix things. Was I

Hello, While sending email notifications from ThoughtNotifier, I am getting weird exceptions, which sometimes occur on the production machine, but I haven''t been able to reproduce on my development machine. There should be no error while rendering `thought_notifier/share_notification.rhtml'' template, but if for some reason it is rendering

Hello, Say, I have a pictures table, and there are many objects which can have pictures, so I define a picturable type. Now, to make the query for pictures more efficient I should index the picture table using both picturable_type and picturable_id. Is this the correct approach to indexing the table, or can things be done better? I want the database retrieval operation to be extremely fast (I

Hello, I am pleased to announce the availability of the plugin acts_as_classifier which allows using the ''classifier'' gem in a Rails application. This plugin can be downloaded from http://opensvn.csie.org/sksinghi/acts_as_classifiable/ This plugin is useful in scenarios where you want to distinguish between spam or non-spam comments, Or maybe you want to track the