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I am working on an application where there are many different screens to access the data in a particular record/row. I have links to each data entry screen at the top. Is there a way to detect whether the current hash has been changed from the stored record so I can prompt the user if they attempt to change screens without having saved their changes to the data? Craig

Let''s say I''m building a "to-do" list application using Ruby on Rails. I decide to sell it to a customer, and distribute the source code files to him. Can I then restrict the user from distrubting the files by creating a license that prohibits distribution? That is, is it possible to create a "single-user" license? Or, am I limited to distributing the

I think they are called tool tips... I have view code that looks like this... <%= link_to ''I'', :action => ''edit_innoculations'', :id => personnel %> Is there an option (I don''t see it in api) to have tool tips for a link_to ? Craig

I don't ever do this... Shouldn't this be enough to set up a virtual server in apache? I did create an entry in /etc/hosts and in dns for this fqdn it still gives me the contents of /var/www/html and not /home/craig/ruby-db/th-db/public <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot "/home/craig/ruby-db/th-db/public" ServerName app-server.tobyhouse.com <Directory

This seems rather ugly. I am thinking that this needs to be in the model but I am looking to obtain the date for a tb test... >> @tb = Innoculation.find(:all, :conditions => ["personnel_id = 1 AND innoc_type = ''TB''"], :order => ''innoc_date DESC'') => [#<Innoculation:0xb77ed234 @attributes={"id"=>"1",

Obviously I am missing something and I don''t know what it is... I am following the instructions at http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/381/114/activeldap_rb.html and also here... http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateViaLdap my model looks exactly like this... class LdapUser < ActiveRecord::Base ldap_mapping :dnattr => ''uid'', :prefix

I am in a holding pattern while client decides upon changes and so I am working some things out internally so it seems to me that indexing frequently searched table fields might be useful. I am using postgres and via postgres, I have added an index to one of my tables whose index is the same name as the column name. The ''find'' screen I am using this to judge populates a number

I would swear that I am tracking exactly the method used in Agile book... TypeError in Placements#edit Showing app/views/placements/_form.rhtml where line #33 raised: wrong argument type String (expected Module) Extracted source (around line #33): 30: <tr> 31: <td><label for "type">Type</label></br><%= 32: options = [["Select

I didn''t get much traction on this so I am trying again... I am working on an application where there are many different screens to access the data in a particular record/row. I have links to each data entry screen at the top. Is there a way to detect whether the current hash has been changed from the stored record so I can prompt the user if they attempt to change screens without having

I simply can''t figure this out. I have been reading and re-reading Agile book and wiki.rubyonrails.org - all sorts of validation methods and still, it doesn''t work. Controller code def create @client = Client.new(params[:client]) if @client.save! flash[:notice] = ''Client was successfully created.'' redirect_to :action =>

I want to create table called roles and then populate it with some new records...This doesn''t work. Is there something I''m missing? Craig class AddRightsAndRolesTables < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :roles do |t| t.column "name", :string end Role.reset_column_information Role.new :name => "Users Admin"

because I am a grasshopper... Now that I can sort my ''list''...is there a logical way of not repeating myself to having essentially the same list view with multiple sorts? i.e. def list_cl # ordered by clients last name @placement_pages, @placements = paginate( :placements, :include => [:client], :order_by =>

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I have some nice forms done using stylesheets. I currently have them displaying on screen and the user could simply just print. This works when there is only one form (facility) to be viewed/printed. I have created the looping code necessary to print for all facilities but that doesn''t work for me because each page uses stylesheets with <div> that do absolute positioning and thus

I created a controller called reports, for which I didn''t have any model or tables. I wanted to use a menu/layout structure similar to all my other models/controllers and added a layout named reports which then gives me the menu/layout structure but is also now part of all my reports. That isn''t gonna work so I renamed reports.rhtml to reports_forms.rhtml (still inside my

In my controller...this code works def list2 first_name = params[:client][:first_name] @myclients = Client.find(:all, :conditions => ["first_name = :first_name", {:first_name => first_name}]) end this code doesn''t... def list2 first_name = params[:client][:first_name] if first_name searchstring = ''["first_name =

Is there some easy way to rewrite just the base URL to another URL but leave all other URL's unmolested? i.e. http://www.example.com = rewrite to another URL http://www.example.com/files = deliver from the assigned subdirectory obviously this... Redirect / http://www.other_url.com redirects everything and I don't want /files to be redirected Craig -- This message has been scanned

no, i did it but, i think if i didn't it, I cannot join Machine while addind machine account on the fly with Samba... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com> To: <s.jousse@free.fr> Cc: <samba@lists.samba.org> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3 PDC with LDAP - Error when changing userpassword

Let's keep this on list please... See if you can connect as samba user from samba box... smbclient -L WHATEVER_YOUR_SERVER_NAME -U Administrator smbclient -L WHATEVER_YOUR_SERVER_NAME -U Michael but note - casing is rather odd and might be your problem. UNIX is case sensitive but Windows/Samba is not case sensitive... therefore Samba will see 'Michael' as 'michael' and

Trying to find this documented in the Agile book and don''t see an appropriate example so I am confused. I have a method in my controller... def performfind myfind = ["Select * from clients where ..."] even more...complicated find here end and within the controller, I want to use the ''myfind'' string How do I get the string back from the method