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In a servlet J2EE application, there is an init style method that gets called after that servlet is loaded. Is there something similar within a rails controller context. I am looking for something where I can load and setup a particular object. Also, what about with sessions as well. I would like to call some library when a user session begins and possibly kill that object when the

This is another simple rails application. I am just putting them out there; doesn''t really add to any of the other depot applications out there, just another. From type ''rails XXXX'' it probably was a hour or so to setup and design the layout and what-not. http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/helper_numbers_idea/

I want to update my application which was generated with rails 1.0.0 to the new version. My question. I have already updated the ruby gems library and things seem to work. Do I really need to update the actual code. Can I update the code? For example, I noticed that prototype is a lot newer version. I would like to update that. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode)

I am not the Ruby aficionado yet, if I have created_on ...timestamp. What is a ruby way of getting the hours/minutes/seconds ago. is there some class that has this implemented. For example: Posted on 3/28/2006 Show a time with: posted: 1 day ago ... something along those lines. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

Is there a way to use the same code accross multiple layouts. Normally, I am associating a layout with a particular controller? Is there a cleaner way. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com http://www.newspiritcompany.com/newforums also checkout alpha version of botverse: http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/universe_home

I have a library that is basically used on the command-line. I am trying to fit it in for my rails application. So far it works, but I was worried about how rails does caching or anything else. Basically, is this an ok approach. So far, I put the library in RAILS_APP/lib/bot.rb And ''bot.rb'' contains a class ''VM''. I have a controller: BotController..

I am working with ruby(activerecord) and want to save a ''hash'' of URLs such that a key is the URL and the value points to a count of how many times it occurs after processing a csv file my question; all I know of is right now is to attempt to save, get a unique error and then when handling the exception increment the hash value (really a column in a table) Is this bad? Or

with this post; with a query with multiple tables, I am trying to return results that are null in one table; I am trying to do something like this; class NumbersFeedLink < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :numbers_sent_feed_link end class NumbersSentFeedLink < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :numbers_feed_link end sent = NumbersFeedLink.find(:all, :order => [

Did rails due this to the final output of my document. I had a div that had a style: <div style="color: #FFF; background-color: #537677l; "> fsfs </div> This was the final output? <div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> fsfs </div> -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

Whenever I log-off of windows xp. I dont lose my mapped drive connection but I get an error message stating an invalid password. I enter the exact same password for the reconnect but it wont stay. It is not a problem just strange that I have to enter my password everytime even though I set it through the mapped drive settings. Anyone seen this before? -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode)

I am getting an error when trying to install rails on dapper. It looks like it partially installed something. Mainly the issue seems to be with ''gems''? I am using: ruby-1.8.4 gems 0.8.11 Is this bad? bbrown@england:~/rubygems-0.8.11$ sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies Attempting local installation of ''rails'' Local gem file not found: rails*.gem

Has anyone had any experience with RedCloth for rails. It is a textile system. I haven''t spot checked the code and was wondering if it caused any lockups or other issues. http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/ -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse: http://www.newspiritcompany.com:8086/universe_home

I am having an issue of deciding where I should put the business code for example the more complex code coming off the controller. Right now, I am just thinking to put it in the ''lib'' directory and the do something along these lines: require_dependency "system_process" class SystemMessageController < ApplicationController include SystemProcess ... ... Where

This isnt totally a rails question; I am using ActiveRecord for storing some simple values into a database. My problem; I keep gettign MySQL Errors. On the Win32 machine it was off and on. Now on the linux machine (ubuntu) I can'' t connect at all. I have all the password settings correct. My only thought, I am working with Threads and thought that might cause the issue, but I

I know this is kind of a generic question. But, when hitting my lighttpd/rails site on some of the first hits, the site hangs. I think it has something with the lighttpd configuration, possibly something I am missing with rails or ruby? Any ideas or how to track this down. fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" => ( "0.0.0.0" => ( "socket" =>

i want a daemon will check somthing every 10 minute how do this in rails? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi. I''m using RoR 1.0 with FastCGI and lighttpd on a Debian 3.1 box. I have configured lighttpd to do adaptive spawning of the FastCGI processes. However, after shutting down lighttpd the FastCGI processes remain running. Did this problem occur to anyone of you? Is there a fix? I''d be really grateful for every answer. Regards, Manuel Holtgrewe

Geoff is interviewing me about RSpec and continuous integration: http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/ The interview is a month old, and there has been a lot of great development in RSpec''s mocking/stubbing and Rails controller/view area in the meanwhile. I''m not so sure we''ll ditch our own mocking yet :-) Cheers, Aslak

Hi, we made a very early version of a tool that we want to evolve into a full ''virtualized data center management tool'' available[1] - one of the reasons I post here is that it uses puppet under the hood quite heavily to control the virtual guests and hosts, and integrates provisioning of puppet into guests out of the box. We''d love to hear feedback/comments/feature

Apologies if this is out of place. I just wanted to mention to the list that I''ve completed my first Rails app and wanted to show it to you guys. The site is The Best Stuff in the World! which you can reach here: http://www.thebeststuffintheworld.com/ Any thoughts would be great, I can be reached at adrian@mindjar.com. I''ve been lurking here for a little while, and well,