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I''m using the subdomains as accounts method fine on a project, but I''m wondering what is the best way to differentiate between account subdomains to access the app using an account, and www.domain.com and domain.com in order to show normal site content. I''ve noticed that on Backpack, it seems that when you leave the information pages and start using the app,

Has anyone done this? I''m not sure I understand how to go about doing it without first going to my app''s server and then over to Strongspace. I would presume the Net::SFTP Ruby lib would be the most direct way to accomplish some of this, correct? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all. I have never implemented online payment and it''s the only thing that keeps me from accepting a project for a UK based client. (I must reply quickly!) While I can afford spending an extra week - or 2 - to learn/try/tune the payment system, I must be sure to succeed before I accept the contract. If you''ve already been through that path, any hints, links and/or

Hello folks- In one particular app, it would be useful for the customers to be able to specify the significance (and presence) of fields. For example, consider a CONTACTs database. User 1 wants to have phone1, phone2, phone3, and User 2 wants to have 4 address fields. Generically, this could be done by having a CONTACT with, say, 10 strings, 10 integers, etc. The user''s account

Hello- I would like to know what the suggested practice is for having multiple submit buttons on a relatively complicated input page. Let''s use the example of a Contact. There is lots of info there, including name, address, phone number. There is also a list of "contact associations" which can be modified on the same page. Ideally, the user could have one

Hey folks- If I wanted to distribute my code to users that would run the code on their own machine, how could I go about encrypting the source to run on a user''s machine? PHP has the Zend Encoder among others, I believe. Is there anything similar for Ruby? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi there- What''s the easiest/most efficient way to perform a zerofill in Ruby? i.e. Given the value ''val'', I would like to do something like: val = 43 puts val.zerofill(8) ---> "00000043" gsub? sprintf of some sort? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello- With a database filled with several customers'' datasets, I thought it would be a nice feature of my app''s backend interface to be able to extract (and optionally delete) the data from a single customer. It would then also be nice to rebuild that data from the stored info. What''s a good way to do this efficiently? If all the ":dependent => true"

Let''s say I create a "ticket system" that has a support ticket with a status attached to it. (Say, OPEN or CLOSED for now, but more later) The status -could- be another table in the database listing status types, but I think that''s unnecessarily complex and overly flexible for this. (opinions on this point would be interesting) Another alternative would be to

Hello -- I would like to setup a system where a user can generate a "ticket". This ticket will be stored indefinitely. The ticket will be sent to someone who does not have an account on the system and therefore, I would like to ensure some level of security in that ticket number. Basically, the other user would receive an email like: --- Please click on the link below to view this

In my rails application, certain computers were having huge problems. There were certain pages that were exceptionally slow, even to the point of timing out. Other computers did not have a problem. I finally found that Firefox was the difference. When using Firefox on those computers it works fine. The slow pages were typically posting a form with a couple hundred fields. This behavior was

All the examples I''ve seen have the SSH repository accessed via http:// Does Switchtower support svn+ssh:// URLs? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hello- I''d like to throw a little AJAX into a table to allow the user to edit a single row of data inline rather than moving to another page. The row (which has N columns) would be swapped out for a row which has a single column (colspan="N") and the form inputs would be in that row. My question is, is this legal HTML? I can''t find anything that says either way.

Hi all- I just decided to move from my 1.1.0 to 1.1.2. I had previously frozen to 1.1.0 and therefore had all of rails in SVN in my vendor directory. When I finally got rake freeze_gems to work, it blasted (rm -rf) my vendor/rails directory and put a new one in there. This also blasted all my .svn directories. Is there some convenient way to do a freeze upgrade and play well with SVN?

Hello-- I''m investigating the API facet of my site and wanted to ask a couple questions: 1. The Agile book describes adding an API using the web_services generator which adds stuff to app/api. In Rails 1.1, Jamis added some wants.xml stuff to the controller code which also allows API generation. Which is better to use now? Do they mutually exclude one another? 2. In some cases, I

Hello- I have a database/rails design question. I''d like the user to be able to specify a set of fields they would like associated with items. Imagine a shopping cart where each item has a description and price. But a particular customer may choose to associated a color with all her items. (it will be site-wide, so every item listed for this particular user will have this

I''m looking for ideas on how you would implement a controller/view in Rails that needs to show the progress of a possibly 2-3 minute operation. For example the user wants to generate 100 reports that will take about 3 minutes. I would like to have a page that would indicate that the operation is taking place as well as showing progress as to how far along. With basic CGI you could

Hello- I have a Rails web app that is database-centric (go figure). What I would like to do is expose certain parts of this database to an application running on a Windows box (or whatever). For the moment, let''s consider the read-only case, but authentication will be required. Is SOAP what would be used for something like this? Are there better alternatives? The existing

Hi all, I''ve got these company (has) contacts relational tables. I want to make sure a company can''t be deleted when it still has contacts. (because I can now, which results in nil like errors when listing the contacts ... obviously) Are there any helpers to do so, is Rails aware of this? Or do I need to put in a condition before destroying the company record in question