similar to: Upgrading to Rails 1.1 in InstantRails

I have to do user authentication for a project i''m working on. The trick is they want me to use the existing LDAP database for it. Does anyone know how to authenticate using LDAP in RoR? ~Rahul

Subject says it all. Anybody taken a look yet? http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/railsckbk/?CMP=ILC-GG7423313304&ATT=railsckbk After buying the Ruby Cookbook and the other Rails book, I''m pretty gunshy about another Rough Cuts purchase. Sean

Dear all, If you thought Instiki was a dead project, you were right. Since I''ve got a day job that doesn''t suck (Official Ruby Zealot of ThoughtWorks Canada), my motivation to do open source greatly sufferred :) But... but... but! Here is Instiki 0.11.0, and in this version Instiki is (finally!) moving to ActiveRecord backend and (finally!) has the File Upload feature.

For a company study I am trying to come up with what would one need to replicate *grosso modo and at the functional level* what we get in Rails. This does not need to be an "equivalent" solution, just what a Java programmer would build upon, the canonical aggregation of components, the usual tools. My first fraft is: Struts -> C layer Hibernate -> M

I have a partial, it''s a shopping cart display, it''s designed to appear on several different pages of my site. One of the buttons on the shopping cart empties the cart, and then I want the calling page to redisplay. In other words, the cart controller needs to return the visitor to the same page -- however since the cart could appear on any given page, this has to be

Someone got ahold of my information (actually, I know who they are - t2net.net - just not how to get back at them) and now I'm getting 4 phone calls a week upwards of 20 spams a day. I'm trying to put an end to the spam at least and the built-in stuff for Evolution isn't working as well as it should I did some Googling on procmail and fetchmail and spamassassin config files and much

Hello to all those of the list, I introduce myself: My name is Lester Espinosa Mart?nez, I live in Cienfuegos, a city of Cuba. I am interested in helping Wiki of CentOS working in translating from English to Spanish. I met the Wiki of CentOS thanks for a great one my friends called: Alain Reguera Delgado, and I also collaborated in translating articles of last Wiki of CentOS in Spanish. My

RadRails requires Ruby and Rails to be installed first. Will it work ok with InstantRails providing the Ruby + Rails part? Or do people recommend avoiding InstantRails when installing RadRails? lex

Hi. I would like to hear how/what other users are installing for development and reference support. I currently have both InstantRails and the Ruby One-click Installer installed. I don''t like telling co-workers to install both (the OCI has lots of nice documentation useful to Rails developers). Also, the Ruby OCI helps when needing to run Ruby scripts outside of the InstantRails

To the R development team; I found an unusual behavior in zoo when I upgraded to R 2.11.0 - it abruptly terminated when I performed certain operations on large zoo objects. I sent an e-mail to Achim Zeileis and he said this was a potential bug that I should report to the R development team. The details are given below in the thread below. Basically, I can crash R with this code: library(zoo)

If I browse to \myRoRApp, I get the "Welcome aboard" screen. I''ve done the ruby scripts/generate controller MyTest, and "Rolling with Ruby on Rails" tells me I should be able to browse to \myRoRApp\MyTest and see an error page, but what I''m actually seeing is a fastcgi config file! I have installed fastcgi, but apache can''t "see" the

My rails web app (rails 1.2.1) uploads an image from a Java applet by encoding it into the URL. This works fine when I''m using Webrick. I''m trying out Mongrel today, and I''m getting an error in Safari that says ?lost network connection? (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005). I get something similar in Firefox. Is there a way to make Mongrel accept a really long URL like

Hi, I''m trying to install and use activewebservice on Rails 2.0.2(using instantrails) the gem install activewebservice finished succesfully. walked through the steps listed at: http://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rails-20/ when I try to start mongrel I get the following trace ** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Starting Rails with development

Please help me I am brand new to this. I have been following this tutorial from OnLamp http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html which tells you how to install ruby, rails and mySQL and get going. Doing this tutorial convinced me RoR was the way to go for me. So I got hold of this e-book: Agile Web Development with Rails - The Pragmatic Programmers The book tells me to install

Hi, I am trying to access folders on a windows system on a linux system using the command, smbmount '//a.b.c.d/CCViews/abcd/abcd_Linux_dev' '/root/pqrs/LinuxDev' -o username=abcd/<domain>,uid=abcd,gid=abcd This prompts for a password and I give the correct domain password here. It gives me the error: 21896: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an

Hi all, I''m trying to setup instantrails to serve a tiddlywiki web page. This web page has the ability to upload the edited file back to the server and overwrite the original. This requires a ruby .cgi script to be run and this is where the problem lies. I cannot get the ruby script to run although the page is served fine. I was using easyphp before and this was working fine but

I have an app that I''ve been developing for some time with RADRails and WEBrick locally. I wanted to take it to Apache and following the following steps: 1) Downloaded and extracted InstantRails. 2) Started and tested cookbook with SCGI. Works great. 3) Copied my app over to rails_apps directory. 4) Added a virtual host to Apache identical to cookbook (just using port 9999 with

Hello, I''ve been using InstantRails 1.0 that has ruby 1.8.4 and rails 1.0. Some of you might know that the RMagick package does not work with ruby 1.8.4. I''m now trying to downgrade to ruby 1.8.2 within my InstantRails 1.0 install. Is there a clean way of doing this? I basically downloaded ruby 1.8.2 and replaced the ruby directory with the newly created ruby directory. As

Hi, I was able to successfully Install InstantRails-1.3a and run cookbook throgh Apache and WEBrick , however when I try to create my own app. cookbook2 following tutorial ( http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/tutorial/index.html) , it gives me below error whle creating MyTest controller Cannot find gem for Rails =1.1.2: Install the missing gem with ''gem install -v=1.1.2

Hi, I sucessfully got InstantRails installed on my WinXP Home pc and the demo applications ran fine. I noticed that the MySQL root was the user accessing the MYSQL Server and that there was no password used. Due to security concerns I have added a password to the root user but this has now broken my Rails applications. I believe I have found the config file but am unsure how to edit it. Do I