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I''m using simple_format to format and display posted content from users. This content sometimes has urls in it. The problem I''m having is that if the urls are long enough to wrap, they do, but the url gets split with a <br> tag. Then, if the user clicks on the link, only the first, non-wrapped part of the link gets posted to the browser... and that''s an invalid

I have a model that deals with HTML and I want to use the text_helper.sanitize method to strip the HTML of Javascript. However, it doesn''t appear that I can get easy access to the text_helper methods from within a model. Anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? In general, I think that there are some ActionView helpers which are generic enough to want to use in a model class.

I have a text_area to accept upto 1000 chars, which is stored as a blob in mysql. When I try to display the saved data, I dont see the new line characters - however I could see the newline characters in EDIT MODE. So my newline char is lost during displaying. Any ideas how to fix it. thanks thila -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I''ve contributed a patch which fixes an incorrect example in the documentation for auto_link in ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper. The example uses truncate in the old style of tuncate(text, length) which no longer works, so I''ve patched it to use the new tuncate(text, :length => n) style.

Hello everybody, I''m a new member on Ruby on Rails. I''m friendly on using Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) IDE. The VS IDE supports for Intellisense coding (that mean it will automatically display a list of member variables or functions for a class, struct, union, or namespace; the names and types of parameters required by a function or attribute; and the complete declaration for

I''m writing a bloggish/CMSish thing. I had been using simple_format, but my users requested a rich editor, so I added TinyMCE. Anyway, I was trying to migrate the existing content (since TinyMCE assumes it''s reading HTML-formatted text), and realized that I couldn''t call simple_format (or other helper methods) from Migrations. Can someone enlighten me here?

Hi! How can i do to force an in_place_editor_field to format the text with simple_format while not editing? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060104/bbd141a2/attachment.html

Ruby''s simple_format method is not working for spaces. so how to add and what to add in simple format method code so it also work for spaces? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

I''m trying to find all the unique bill_number, status records in Bills table. I can do it with a find_by_sql statement like this: @records = Bill.find_by_sql( "select distinct bill_number, status from bills group by bill_number, status;") How would I rewrite it using ''find :all

Hi there, I need to: 1. STORE a text of the below format in a (MySQL) database (using a ''textarea''), and then 2. RETRIEVE & DISPLAY it in exactly the same format (meaning: keeping all paragraphs/line breaks). The intended text format looks like this: *** Blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah, blah blahblah. <- NEW

I think I am missing something terribly obvious. Is it possible to have an :expects parameter for a webservice that is an array of objects? I want to have a single webservice that expects all my line items (for an order). Is this something that is possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Ok, I''m hoping this won''t be a forehead slapper, but take a look at this code: physician.name.sub(/''/, "\\''") I''m trying to substitute a single quote with a backslash and a single quote. This seems pretty simple right? Well, someone kick me and tell me why it''s not :) Here''s what I''m getting if the

Hi, I have a strange problem with testing classes which have a HABTM relation. It seems that while running my tests with rake the fixture for the association table is not loaded - as a result I get a failure on a test which simply checks the number of associated elements - it says it''s 0 although there should be one. The weird thing is that when I run the tests with rcov

Hi There, So I was just having some trouble with auto_link and markdown. Specfically auto_link was failing to handle urls with tildas in them (~) e.g. http://www.hawaii.edu/~name/index.html and markdown couldn''t handle an acute accent (`) e.g. Hawai`i It seems that acute accents (or backticks) in Markdown signify code segments, and it seems there''s an open ticket for this:

Hello, this is a typical "how do you do it in Rails" question :) I would like to incorporate fit testing into a RoR app and I''d like to hear your recommendations on how to do it. In the ideal world I would like all the table test definitions and implementations stored in svn together with the app, ability to run the tests with a rake task + a hook to FitNesse, so that

Hi There, so I worked out what I should be doing to try and contribute code to rails (I''m currently working on patches for collection_select and auto_link). I''m following the instructions here: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ and have checked out actionpack. Trying to run the actionpack tests I get this error: D:\User\Code\ruby\actionpack\test>ruby controller/base_test.rb

I''m returning some rows from a tags database that look like this: ID WORDS 1. apple banana pear 2. banana melon 3. apple peach lime What I want to do with that data is use the .split method to divide them into separate values in an array, then use the .uniq method to return a unique list of the words like so: apple, banana, pear, melon, peach, lime So in my controller I

I''m using RedCloth for a forum type app. I want users to have control over the look of their posts, but within limits. For example, I don''t want them to be able to include images or use header tags. The RedCloth documentation is pretty thin and I don''t feel it''s very explanatory. I''m wondering if there''s any easy way to do this? Or do I

Hi, I''m trying to include a partial in an email template but it throws me this: undefined method `controller_path'' for SupportMailer:Class Extracted source (around line #12): 11: 12: <%= render :partial => ''footer'' %> I guess email views are a little different from normal ones as they don''t seem to have a access to a proper controller (?)

Hi everyone, When running tests, I get this error for running auto_link on a set of column data: test_list(PersonnelControllerTest): ActionView::TemplateError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.gsub On line #28 of app/views/personnel/list.rhtml 25: <tr valign="top" class="<%= alternate_rows