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Speaking of hosting, have any of you used a VPS provider that offers gentoo as the VPS OS? All of the ones I know of use fedora, debian, ubuntu, or CentOS. -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.everylastounce.com ] [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [

I''m calling render_component in a helper. render_component :controller => target_controller, :action => "show", :id => target_id This works fine, except that passing the id in :params didn''t work and I had to pass in an explicit :id parameter to get the target controller to override the id - is that documented anywhere? That''s not my question. My

Suppose I have a multiple select form on an initial page called things[], and two target actions. The initial page submits to target action 1, and target view 1 submits to target action 2. When I submit the form on the initial page, I can access that set of values in target action 1 and turn it into an array of objects by doing something like this (assuming that the option values are object ids,

Is there a development guide for best practices when making reusable components? For example, none of the login generators fit my requirements, and I want to write my own. But after I''m done, I''ll want to share it with multiple applications. Is there documentation for the right way to go about doing this? -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management ****

Say I have a long block of text that has no line breaks. What''s the right way to wrap it at a column barrier? Obviously, I can write the logic for this, but if there''s some way written already, I''ll use that. Suggestions? -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [

It seems that helper methods defined in application_helper.rb aren''t available in ActionMailer views. Is that intentional? -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.everylastounce.com ] [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience [

>From the rails helper, there''s a text wrap method that does this (I''ve removed the trailing .strip): text.gsub(/\n/, "\n\n").gsub(/(.{1,#{line_width}})(\s+|$)/, "\\1\n") The way I read this, it''s "replace every newline with two newlines (and it''s not clear to me either what this first part is supposed to accomplish), then replace

I want append custom query parameters to my pagination links, like ?page=1&foo=bar. I can''t quite figure out how to do this with the pagination_links helper, although I believe the API says you should be able to: pagination_links(paginator, options={}, html_options={}) options are: :params: any additional routing parameters for page URLs Has anyone tried this? thanks, jeff --

When I explain RoR to someone I don''t have a convincing argument that explains why everything is so automatic and transparent, but relationships have to be encoded by hand in models. That shows I don''t understand well that part of AR. There''s the argument that says that not all databases offer metadata about foreign keys, but the natural question then is that,

Capistrano is a utility for executing tasks in parallel across multiple remote hosts. It was formerly known as SwitchTower. Installation: gem install capistrano Manual: http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/17 Version 1.1 introduces a few changes: * Renamed! Due to the trademark infringement debacle of last week, we had to change the name. Moving forward it will be known as

Ok first i am running linux with lighttpd and apache proxy''ing to the lighttpd process. ruby version is ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] def test @count = Question.count if(@params[:id]) then breakpoint() if (params[:id].to_i > @count) then redirect_to :action => ''finish'' end end end this is a stripped down version of

Hey Everyone! I have a newsletter system that contains a multitude of different newsletters. In this case three but the system allows the user to add more. Every user can be subscribed to any amount of given newsletters. So what I did was I created a user model, newsletter model, and subscription model. The subscription model belongs to one user and one newsletter. However,

I''m a developer working on an application that will potentially be used by around 500,000 users on a daily basis. Plus some internal apps communicating to it via ActionWebServices with a potentially high demand. Our Operations team is helping us define the necessary system architecture, and I have one remaining question: What is the best way to scale the database? I have no expertise in

Than my question is this? Now that I have switchtowerized and migrate enabled my app I can start down a new path if need be on a different OS as the base of the system. We have already tried CentOS and found it to have more issues than those mentioned about fedora and through it away faster than one could shake a stick at. Here are our requirements for a stage/dev box and production:

i know rails log is very good, detailed. but find useful infos from big log is terrible. any one have good idea. regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello everyone, I just showed a friend a prototype of a site offering a service I''m trying to sell (sorry, not on the Internet yet - he saw it at my house). His comment: "Looks like it does everything, but also looks pretty ugly. You''re not going to wow anybody with that". Sitting back and thinking about it, he''s dead right - it needs some bling to make it

I''m having a bit of difficulty when testing my models, I''ve read a few times the testing chapter in Agile web development with rails and at http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/27 but i''m still unsure of what I should be testing. Firstly I''d like to be able to test things like my email validation using lines such as assert User.new(:email =>

Hello, I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is it possible ?

I didn''t get a chance to go to this meeting debating WebObjects Vs Rails, but here''s a report about it: http://desperatepundit.com/blog/cremes/technology/2006/02/15/WebObjects-versus-Ruby-On-Rails.html I don''t get what he''s saying, hand coding the model? yeah, you COULD ... but what about script/generate ??? And is that so what he said about security? --

Dave, on another topic, might I recommend that you and DHH publish an updated version of the Agile guide right away when 1.1 comes out? You could reuse much of your material and it would do a lot of good to help make sure there is still a good centralized source of reference for Rails. Without that book, there really is not a good one-stop source of information for people to learn how to use