similar to: Need to use a method without the layout

Howdy all Apologies to the folks subscribed to the globalize list for dual posting this message... I''ve got a project running globalize and rails 1.1.4, and I''ve only recently adopted a strong love for testing. Now my models are 100% tested (I must note that I do not make use of any translations in the database yet), and I''ve now started with functional tests before

I want to make a for loop that concats strings onto a variable: html .= var1 + "this is a test" + whatever What is the syntax that does this in ruby/rails? Also, is there a ''print'' method in ruby? Because when I try to use render_text it will only let me use this once. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to be able to have different layouts in my rails program for different functions. For example, when a person first comes to the site the layout will have a link that says ''home'', ''login'', or register on the menu bar. Once the user logs in however, the layout will change. I want it to show the links ''account manager'',

I''m new to RoR and the tutorials I''ve found on the web, while helpful, aren''t as "complete" as I''d like them. I understand the basics when it comes to layouts and routes, but I''m trying to get them to work together. MY first task was to implement a user authentication system (registration/login/logout/change_password). This works fine with

I''ve a single controller - class ContentController < ApplicationController end in the app/views/content folder I have quite a few .rhtml files I need to be able to choose a different layout template to use in each of these .rhtml files. i''d like to be able to do something like (which doesn''t work..) <% layout ''layout1'' %> Any

Hi, I have a question about displaying digits in Rails. whenever I print the price of an item, if the last digit is a zero or double zeros then it doesn''t display properly. How do I display a number so that it looks like currency? thank you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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hello, I am gererateing a missing template error when I overwrite the list part of the scaffold. it seems to have the wrong path to list.rhtml. Looking at the error path (below) it is looking for in a folder called <public>. This seems wierd to me becausae that path does not exist in the frame work. the path should be /Users/dima/Documents/ruby/rails/cookbook/app/views/recipe/list.rhtml

Hi, I cannot seem to find out how to pass in a value to a partial. Can anyone help me? What I am doing(in the code below) is calling a function in my controller called setobject. This function just redraws the partial. I want to be able to change the value @objectname, redraw my partial and have it be able to use that value. The first the page is drawn it works, but when i call setobject it

Hi, I have a css file with lots of classes. I want different links on my page (which all use the ''link_to'' tag) to belong to different classes so that I can format their font, size, color, etc. Where or how do I use the css class name in the link_to tag? Thank you very much -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do I check if an entry exists before saving? Someone one told me to use the method find_or_create (or something like that) but it didn''t work because I think the version of rails that we have is not the most recent. I need a way to check if an id exists in the db before saving. Any suggestions? Thank you -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''d like to search the archives, but when I click on ''search'', the search page doesn''t show up. When will the search engine be up again? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I feel I am very close to understanding how layouts are used in Rails: Q1. I know one can specify a "default" layout for all methods in a controller by specifying layout ''my-default-layout'' How can this be overridden for individual methods so when those methods are called/executed, the overridden layout will be used. Is this possible? Q2. With no

I downloaded the drivers from: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win 7.4MB Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 - English 5/23/2002 And installed the Generic Driver, shared the printer and went the the print$ share - none of the expected files were in there ... any ideas??? DEFPRTR2.BPD A 12188 Tue

Hello, Here are a few questions that would be useful to get an answer via dedicated functions in utils or tools packages: - When did function foo appeared in R or in a given package? - When did argument myarg appeared in function foo? - When did function bar get deprecated or when did it disappeared? - I wrote a script using functions foo and bar with R 1.9.1. My script does not work any more

Hi, I have an index.html file in the public directory in my rails system. However, when I go to the DNS, the site is not defaulting to the index.html file that I have there. I get the following when I visit it: Routing Error Recognition failed for "/" Anyone out there got this to work? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I want to check it the @session[:user].id exists in an if statement. However, I the user has not yet logged in, the following error occurs. How does one check if this (or any other) cookie exists without getting this error? Thanks! Account#manager Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to ''connect'' two tables AdHour and Ad in the method below. However, the line with the asterisks is causing the following error: "You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.user_id" I''ve included the model for both AdHour and Ad. Why doesn''t the script like how I am connecting the

Friends, Thanks for all the feedback. If you have additional success stories or important issues, feel free to continue the discussion. I've learned a lot from your input. As a developer, I spend too much time in the bug tracker, working with particular bugs, so I often wonder how on earth anyone can use this buggy platform for anything business-like. It really feels good to get

Dear Debian People: Is there a way to run a little script (on Ubuntu Manic Meerkat) every hour, please? I know that this is more of a LINUX/UNIX question rather than an R question. Sorry. Thanks, Erin Erin M. Hodgess, PhD Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]