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What do you do when the ftp login username is different then the svn username? Every time I try to deploy it gets stuck right here: [kopanas.com] executing command ** [out :: kopanas.com] Authentication realm: <http://kopanas.com:80> kopanas.com ** [out :: kopanas.com] Password for ''jkopanas'': ** [out :: kopanas.com] subversion is asking for a password ** [out ::

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

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

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

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

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

Does ruby 1.8.2 of ruby work with edge rails or do I need to upgrade? 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

Another question about migrations. When I type: =========== rake migration VERSION=1 =========== The value in the schema table change to ''1'' but none of the down commands are issued to drop the respective tables. Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks :-) John Kopanas

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string

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

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 `[]''

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

I created a method to do additional validation on my model. How can I have that run whenever a model is being saved? (For now I don''t want to extend AR.) John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net http://cusec.soen.info -

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

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

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

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