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Man, I can''t wait to get my hands on the capistrano book when it comes out :-). I have the following task in capistrano.rake (any task in deploy.rb just does not want to be called) ========= desc "Restarts the lighttpd server" task :restart_server do run "/users/home/jkopanas/bin/lighttpdctrl restart" end ========= When I run rake restart_server I get the

Does it make sense that if I type cap show_tasks it works but when I type rake show_tasks I get: rake aborted! Don''t know how to build task ''show_tasks'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:1287:in `[]'' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.0/lib/rake.rb:300:in `[]''

When I create a task within capistrano.rb I can call it using rake. When I create a task and put it in deploy.rb I can call it. Neither with or without the remote: namespace. Anyone have any insight into why it does not work? John Kopanas

SwitchTower is a utility that can execute commands in parallel on multiple servers. It allows you to define tasks, which can include commands that are executed on the servers. You can also define roles for your servers, and then specify that certain tasks apply only to certain roles. Manual: http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/17 Project:

In one of my migration files I have the following: =========== def self.up User.create :name => ''John Kopanas'', :email => ''john@kopanas.com'', :password => ''test'' end =========== When I run it I get the following error: =========== undefined method `create'' for

I have the following: MODEL: def self.get_tag_cloud Rails.cache.fetch(''fetish_tag_cloud'', :expires_in => 1.hour) do find(:all, :conditions => [ "approved_for_tag_cloud = true"], :order => "LTRIM(name)") end end CONTROLLER: def index @fetishes = Fetish.get_tag_cloud end VIEW: .... <% @fetishes.each do |fetish| -%>

A couple questions: 1) How does rails no if you are in your test, dev or production environment? 2) Does anyone have an actionMailer server settings that will work on your standard local machine? I will use the one provided for my textdrive account but for testing on my machine I am getting connection refused. Thanks. Your Friend, Jonathan Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

I am trying to use acts_as_versioned and acts_as_taggable (plugin) on the exact same model. Has anyone successfuly done this? I think what I need to do is make model_versions acts_as_taggable instead of my main model. Anyone have any other suggestions or any suggestions how to do this? Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

Is there a way to get rid of the divs around an error field. These divs are causing me headaches. Any suggestions :-)? John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

Been a while since I programmed in Ruby and Rails and some of the basic concepts I just loose so quickly. This one I can''t find any examples of. I want to pass two pieces of information in my URL. The :id plus I want to pass my user_id. How do I pass it using the link_to? Stupid question I know... but I can''t find the answer. John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

If I wanted to override the error_messages_for method where within the rails structure would I put it? Which file? Thanks :-) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

I want to create a random string of length n that is made up of characters and integers. Is there a function in rails or ruby that allows me to do this? Thank you my friend :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net

Good Friday Everyone :-). These are my models: Problem -> has_and_belongs_to_many :tags Tag -> has_and_belongs_to_many :problems Now if a tag does not exist and I create it and associate it to the problem it works self.tags << Tag.create(:name => tag) But if I have the tag already in the DB and just want to link it to another problem it does not really like me. I do it

The DB load on my site is getting really high so it is time for me to cache common queries that are being called 1000s of times an hour where the results are not changing. So for instance on my city model I do the following: def self.fetch(id) Rails.cache.fetch("city_#{id}") { City.find(id) } end def after_save; Rails.cache.delete("city_#{self.id}"); end; def

I am running into a problem with two of my tables and the "uninitialized constant" error when using migration. I get the "uninitialized constant Note" when running the following code in my migration file: create_table :notes do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :title, :string t.column :covered, :string

Is it me or is my model getting the created_at from the wrong model! I have a HABTM relationship between Problems and Tags. In one of my controller I do the following: def view @tag = Tag.find_by_name @params[:id] end In my view I do this: <% @tag.problems.each do |problem| %> ... <%= problem.created_at %> ... <% end %> Now, how come the created_at

Are there any best practices for implementing a back/cancel/return button... even when the page you want to return people too is 2 pages back (when people submit form and then want to return)? Thanks :-) Your Friend, John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering

Looking for a quality alternative... if there is one :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info - software engineering conference

Fragment identifiers, it took me 30 minutes just to figure out what they are called. I would like to be able to create url that looks like this: post/view/id#comments How do I do that with a link_to function? link_to "Comments", :controller => "post", :action => "view", :id => post.id ??? Thanks guys! :-) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

Instead of using sequential integers for IDs for my objects I was wondering if I could easily make it so that my IDs where longer auto- generated random strings/integers. So instead of: http://www.mydomain.com/user/view/1 Would be: http://www.mydomain.com/user/view/d81096b87a7c5565f On top of that... is there big benefits for security reasons to use non-sequential numbers? Is it worth