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Hi, Can anyone tell me how can I achieve this: Say if I have a e-commerce site, I want to list all the products when user type in www.mysite.com Not www.mysite.com/products Please note there is no controller in the URL, how do I replace the default Rails index.html and display my products page. Hope my question makes sense. -- Best regards, Ming Ma

Hi, I am creating a form that a user can post a message based on his selection on category and subcategory. (A category has many subcategories.) How do I dynamically populate subcategory dropdown list when user chooses a category from category dropdown list? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Ming Ma

Hi all, I''m a Ruby/Rails/web development newbie, so this may be a stupid question. I''m putting some links using link_to into my rhtml page, creating the layout using the DIV tag: <div id="description"> <%= link_to h (item.description), :action => ''show'', :id => item.id %> </div> ... div#description { float: left;

Hi All, I am attempting to use a link_to helper to perform a form post using the following construct: <%= link_to ''Save'', {:action =>''create''}, :post => true %> What I find is the parameters passed to the webserver are empty. My model validation stuff triggers indicating the fields in question are empty too. This is to create a new DB entry so no

I recently dived into Rails and am having trouble with the link_to method. I''d like to pass some parameters to the action being called and am not sure how to do it. Essentially, I want to hyperlink a total count of bugs queried from the database to a method that will return the bug numbers when clicked on. I have a method, bug_total, that returns the total number to display in the

I am just diving into Rails and I am a bit puzzled by the link_to function. am writing an app to display my photographs in categories. My application layout has a sidebar to show a menu with categories from the categories table in the database (like in taken from the tutorials), to be shown on every page. I managed to get a global @menu_categories object that keeps track of all the categories

Hi All: I''m writing my 1st Rails app and I can''t seem to find the answer on the web or in the book. I''m making a table, and I want to be able to expand a filename. The code is basically as as follows below. In the last <td> entry, I want to call an action and pass in the test_results_path, which I will go and read a file and munge the data for a separate

Im trying to use the link_to helper to open a blank window which is basically just a framed window to display user info without all the extra distractions that come along with opening this window. Here is what I got: <%= link_to ''Airline Preferences'', {:action => ''airline_preferences'', :id => @user.id, :method => ''post'' }, :target

This error seems pretty bizarre. I''m using ActionMailer and am using a template in app/views/welcome_mailer/join.rhtml which has this line: <%= link_to :controller => ''group'', :action => ''join'', :group => @group.id, :ic => @code.code %> The error is: undefined method `url_for'' for #<WelcomeMailer: 0x2aaaad4fb470>

Is it possible to pass parameters through link_to that will be used by the controller that link_to directs to? Specifically I have this code: <% for user in @users -%> <%= link_to user.screen_name, {:action => "index", :controller => "users", :user_id => user.id } %> <% end %> Is it possible to use the parameter at the end of link_to(:user_id

How do I include all incoming URL parameters (i.e. list_content.rhtml?content_id=23) in my link_to statements? I know I can include specific parameters in the link_to, by using ":variable_name => 123" in the link_to statement... But what If I dont'' know what the incoming parameters will be... and I simply want to include them along with any other specific variables I

I have a side navigation bar with links embedded in it like the following: <%= link_to( ''Create Job'', { :controller => ''eSimply'', :action => ''upload'' }) %> This link now shows a routing exception Recognition failed for "/eSimply/upload" This link has worked for over through Rails

please help me with my code: im calling a helper, which has to return different links. --list.rhtml ... <% for message in @messages %> <tr> <td><%= message.author.send(''name'') %></td> <td><%= message.send(''date'').strftime("%d.%m.%y/%H.%M.%S") %></td> <td><%=

Hi, This is the "img" class for anchor element inside my stylesheet. ===================== A.img:link { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; } A.img:visited { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; } ====================== I can easily apply this tag inside my html document as follows:- ======= < a href="goodbye.html" class="img"> ======= Now I want to

Hi, In my app/views/admin/clieint/_searchresults.rhtml partial, I have ... <% for user in @users %> <tr> <td><%=h user.ship_to_first_name %></td> <td><%=h user.ship_to_last_name %></td> <td><%=h user.email %></td> <td align="center"><%= link_to ''Show'', {:action =>

I have a model Document that shares the same primary id with another model Upload, I would like to put a link on _list.rhtml of my document to edit the upload of the same id. I tried something like <%= link_to ''Edit'', {:controller => upload, :action => ''edit'', :id => document} %> but obviously that''s wrong. Any idea how to make it right?

I have following code in my controller: class AlbumsController < ApplicationController def list_by_year(year) @album_pages @albums = paginate :albums, { :per_page => 10, :conditions => ["year = ?", year] } render :action => ''list'' end end Now I want to make a link to the list_by_year action in

Hello, I try this : in application_helper.rb ----------------------- def lnk bla return link_to bla, { :controller => bli , :action => "blo" , :id => "blu" } end in file.rhtml ----------- <%= lnk "yo!" %> This return an error. There is a way to do this or something similar, or this is completly impossible ? Thanks

Hello, I''m trying to use the rail link_to to open a popup window and then print the popup window at the same time. Is there a way to add another "onclick" option to tell the popup to print? I know how to do this in javascript but not sure how to use the rails help to do it. I also am aware that the link_to_function method is used to call a javascript function.

Hi, I have a basic question. when i use <% link_to show_city, :action => ''my defined action'' :id => ''something'' %> //what is ID here? is this the parameter in my mysql db? basically how can i put a parameter into the link that when it hits my function, it can tell my function what to use as a condition to search. for example i have a table of