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Hello, I''m a total newbie, so please forgive my ignorance. I am trying to port an application from java to ruby. In order to do that, I need to put the object containing all the business logic into something like application scope. The nicest solution would be just to have an application wide hash, where I can put all kinds in of objects. Where and how would I instantiate such an

Hello, maybe someone on this list can help me. I am trying to implement a sort of long database search. In order inform the user about what''s happening, status messages should be displayed to the user while the request is working. e.g. - starting search process - currently searching through database A - found 10 results - currently searching through database B - found 25 results -

Hello, I need to put a script in place for updating a local database with a remote resource periodically. It should be started alongside the server (or inside it, whatever) and be run as long as the server running my rails app is up an running. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this? I have thought of editing the environment.rb file and placing the call to the script trigger there, but I wonder

Hello, I have been struggling to get fixtures to work here with no success. They just Do Not Work For Me (tm). I have created a model named Headline with the `generate'' script and modified the test/fixtumes/headlines.yml as follows ---------- gita: id: 1 author: raulseixas title: gita happened_at: 2005-01-01 00:00:00 description: gita This is the CD reissue of

Not much I can say except that I am very excited to enter this new world(solely for me of course, kind of late) of rubyonrails.If anyone has any patience or just plain kindness to help me on my first steps (leaps?) , I would greatly appreciate any links, references, tips, hellos, or whatever else is offered. Thanks ahead of time, Shai Rosenfeld Octava I -------------- next part

i was wondering if anyone can help me form a very simple "if" statment in the controller... i did a usual scaffold for table ''pages'', and everything is working out well, i did the main site ''backbone'' and all, and everythings good....the thing is, now i need to make sure that the site-admin does not have the possiblity to destroy page 1 or page 2.

Hi All , I been trying out RoR and reading the mailing list for sometimes and wondering if anyone of you guys from Singapore ? I am thinking of a meetup or something for RoR fans here. If you are , pls contact me by my email ? Thank you very much. regards billy PS : Apology for sending non-ruby question email in the list.

hello all, I need any framework that generate models using the database structure.... Anyone knows if have this framework???? Thank''s -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I am looking for a user test automation tool. When I say ''user'', I mean it should mimic the user interacting with the app. That ultimately boils down to a tool that drives a browser or is able to make http requests and allow us to deal easily with the responses. Our requirements are to be able to write the tests in Ruby (no need to switch to other language for test

I have noticed that the image_tag helper method now appends a request parameter to the generated src attribute. With Rails 1.0/actionpack-1.11.2 I had <img src="/images/rss.gif" /> Now (1.1/1.12.1) I get <img alt="Rss" border="0" src="/images/rss.gif?1142366545" /> Is there any use for that number? Where does it come from? This is very far

i built my own login system, but unfortunately, i am having problems (ie, can''t really figure out how) to redirect a person back to the page he was requesting before logging in...say, as the admin i want to edit a certain message/logo, whatever, so i click on it, and i get redirected to my login page. after the admin logs in, he gets redirected to the homepage - i couldn''t

Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this purpose ? Thank you _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

Hello, I have this cucumber step definition: Given /^the site has pages "(.+)" and "(.+)"$/ do | page_1, page_2 | Page.create :title => page_1 if Page.find_by_title(page_1).nil? Page.create :title => page_2 if Page.find_by_title(page_2).nil? end This works, but obviously I would like to DRY it up. I was thinking along the lines. Given /^the site has pages

Hello, I wonder what would be the most stable production runtime environment for a rails application on Unix/Linux. I am not very fond of FastCGI indeed, since it''s not seen any further developement lately. What are your experiences e.g. with the mongrel server? Has anybody used it for production? What are the alternatives? May be some fine lad could just point me to web site

Motiro is a tool for tracking software projects. It has borrowed its name from an ancient tupy word meaning a work gathering. Motiro is a time when people get together to collaborate on a common goal such as harvesting food or building houses. I have been working on this little thing for some time now on my spare time. Version 0.4.2 is the seventh release, it features a Subversion front end, an

Hello, maybe someone can help with backgroundrb. I''ve written an application, which makes use of backgroundrb. Everything works fine on my development machine, but it crashes on my production server. Something seems to be wrong with backgroundrb, but I don''t know the cause. All I get is the error message attached below, which is extracted from the production.log. I

Hello, My tests are messing with one another because it seems that they aren''t cleaning the database after execution. I have the tables headlines and articles. And the articles table has a foreign key to the headlines table. My schema structure is created by this script ---- drop table if exists changes; drop table if exists articles; drop table if exists headlines; create table

Could someone please point me to the proper url to register for a fwd acount and get a fwd number. I couldn't find it at www.freeworlddialup.com or fwd.pulver.com Thanks, -Galt -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Hi, I have a Rails site that uses a before_filter in the application controller that does some authentication and authorization work. I also have a bunch of HTML in folders in the application''s public directory. Before a user can view anything in the public directory, I''d like to authenticate them. How could I do that? I''m using mongrel, if it matters. Thanks, Joe

i want a daemon will check somthing every 10 minute how do this in rails? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.