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Hi all It like my visitors to be able to upload a zip file (or any other possible compressed file archive) to my server. After upload, my web app should extract the content to the server and delete the zip file. Is this possible somehow? I''m very thankful for help. Have a nice weekend, Joshua -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to move my application from Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3.1 which is a challenge. In my application, require ''zip/zip'' fails with ''no such file to load -- zip/zip gem list --local shows rubyzip (0.9.4) I see zip.rb in d:\ruby192\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\rubyzip-0.9.4\lib\zip\ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message

Hi ! I''m attempting to write a simple gallery in Rails. The thing is I''d like to be able to upload a lot of pictures at once with a zip file. I''ve so far managed to upload the zip file (containing pictures) to the server. But how do I unzip the file to have access to the pictures ? I haven''t been able to understand how to use Zlib to do this. Any tips or

I am using rubyzip and am trying to put a huge csv file with 1.4 million rows into the zip file. Using jruby I get a out of heap error. I believe the error happens in the block below: Zip::ZipOutputStream.open(zip_path) do |zos| zos.put_next_entry(File.basename(csv_path)) zos.print IO.read(csv_path) end -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Just wondering if and how I can access the referer from the controller. Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have installed rubyzip successfully(see output below) Successfully installed rubyzip-0.9.1 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for rubyzip-0.9.1... Installing RDoc documentation for rubyzip-0.9.1... if I put config.gem ''rubyzip'' in environment.rb and then run rails it fails to load rubyzip .. see below george@geolaptop:~/Dropbox/git/paua$ ruby script/server =>

The ActionMailer/ActionPack gem release is still screwed up. Does someone test the gem releases to ensure that they work? Just an idea. Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This novice coder roughly understands the difference between instance and local variables thanks to David Black''s excellent book, but I''m still unclear as to when and why a either is more desirable to use. In general, I use instance variables in my controller and local in my views, but I''m not sure as to why or if this is correct. Thanks Joe Kowalski

I''m kinda newbie in RoR yet and I''m having a hard time trying to figure out how should I implement this. I''m writing an application to store and display information about insects and their distribution. Currently I have almost all functionality implemented, except for a **very** important one: The application must be capable of "crawling" itself and generate a

Hi everyone, I am working on a Rails application with photo upload capablility and I need to add some bulk ulpoad tool. I decided for using a zip file with JPEG pictures inside. The zip would be uploaded, then extracted into some temp directory with the help of rubyzip extension. Then all the photo files should be copied into their final places in the file system. I am interested in your

Eribium, a content managing system built with rails has been released completely free under the MIT License. http://www.eribium.org/eribium/?p=21 You can find a demo here: http://alexmaccaw.no-ip.info:3000/admin (user and pass are ''demo''). Some of the features include: * Completely Unobtrusive Javascript. * Liquid View, works with pretty much any screen resolution.

I''m trying to display a list of pages in xml. I want to change page.update_at to distance_of_time_in_words_to_now. However whenever I run it I get an error saying: undefined method `distance_of_time_in_words_to_now'' I know I can just go the rails api and copy the source, but there must be another way. def list @page = Page.find(:all, :order => "updated_at desc")

I have a matrix, I would like to use it like I use where query on an SQL table Let's say my matrix is > wok who task 1 joe task1 2 joe task2 3 joe task3 4 jack task1 5 jack task2 I want to extract a matrix that contains only rows where who = "joe" and task != "task2" The result would be the following matrix 1 joe task1 2 joe task3 How can I do

Situation: * New Install of Asterisk * 7960 w/ SIP 7.4 Image * 7912 w/ SIP040406A * 3 Lines Defined on the 7960 (5104,3100,2100) Questions (configs are below): * Why won't the MWI light on the Cisco? I've tried: * mailbox=2100 * mailbox=2100@default * mailbox=2100@wvlandsales-voicemail * Does anything look goofy overall? :-) Thanks, George Sip.conf [2100]

I''m trying to access the session in a rails plugin, so as to set it as below. 1. module Juggernaut 2. 3. def self.set_channels(chan) 4. session[:juggernaut_channels] = chan 5. end 6. end 7. 8. module ActionController 9. class Base 10. include Juggernaut 11. end 12. end At the moment I get: undefined local variable or method `session'' for

I have a Rails app that needs to create a Zip archive of a folder and send it to the client''s browser for download. I have no need for the Zip file on disk, so ideally, the Zip is created and streamed "on the fly". Is this possible? If not, I''ll create a temp file and send that via xsendfile, but I''d rather avoid the extra (unnecessary) step if I could. --

If I wanted to use a friendly url, say, http://www.something.com/my-url, how would I go about doing that? I can''t define an action my-url, and I don''t want to clutter my routes up... Is there a way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi! I''m a newbie at Ruby. I''m trying to run rspec tests using rake. In my rake file I include spec/rake/spectask. It fails to load giving me the following message: rake aborted! no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2383:in `raw_load_rakefile'' I''m using version 1.8.7 of Ruby. I have installed rake

I made a mistake when making my first app. I did not use the: ruby script/generate model <modelname> method for creating my models. I more or less hand crafted each og them. Is there a way to go back so I get my db migration scripts to populate? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi... I'm working through the book, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by Everitt, and I'm trying to do the following (p. 19 of his book): boxplot(log(marketvalue)~country, data = subset(Forbes2000, country %in% c("United Kingdom","Germany","India","Turkey")), ylab="log(marketvalue",