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Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Is it possible to determine which action call the function ? In example, func_test in ApplicationController could determine which action from SiteController is calling her ? in class ApplicationController I have def func_test if ( calling from index ) return "1" end if ( calling from contact ) return "2" end end and in class SiteController def

each loop inside a mixed hash I need to determine if the value is an instance of String How ? hash.each do |k,v| if v ( instance of ) String hash[ k ] = v.capitalize enf end

Hello, I have 2 navigations ( mainnav and subnav ) with 2 lists List have same names ( li0 li1 li2 ) What is the best way to select li1 of subnav with prototype 1.4 in this case ? I just want to hide/show it Thanks <div id="mainnav"> <ul> <li name="li0"><li name="li1"><li name="li2"> </ul> </div> <div

Hello, There is an link_to option or an helper that generate a link like : <a href="javascript:history.back()">Back</a> Thanks

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I try to find an function to convert characters in html chars. "é" become "&eacute;" There is something in RoR 1.0 to do that ?

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Simple question. Is it possible to generate a link like <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" >google</a> with the link_to function ? Thanks

Hello, I try this : in application_helper.rb ----------------------- def lnk bla return link_to bla, { :controller => bli , :action => "blo" , :id => "blu" } end in file.rhtml ----------- <%= lnk "yo!" %> This return an error. There is a way to do this or something similar, or this is completly impossible ? Thanks

Hello, Can someone kindly tell what the heck creating a relationship does in active record? I understand the idea of joining the tables and such. But how do I use it? Is it available in a scaffold? How about when I want to view a record and want to see all the joined data from the other table? Do I have to manually code the data I want from the other table? Does this automatically make the

hello freinds... I m very new to ruby on rails and i m facing a problem... whenever i add Scaffold table and try running in that broser it shos error that the particular tbale doesnot exist.... also it changes the name of the table , for eg.table names Recipe gets changed to Recipes and in order to get ountput i need to change the name of the table TO Recipies........is there any reason to

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

Hello, I want to put my app in production mode. So I write this line in environment.rb : ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] = "production" I restart webrick. If I write <%= ENV.inspect %> I have the correct "RAILS_ENV"=>"production" But browse my site and look the log, the development.log is still growing and the production.log stay to 0 ko

My "application_helper.rb" become to large. I have basic functions that I use for all projects. Is it possible to define thoses functions inside an external "basic_helper.rb" and include it in "application_helper.rb" ?

Hello, I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is it possible ?

Hello, I try to use url_for from a class inside the lib folder class Test    def self.mytest options        url = url_for( options )    end end But I have this error : *undefined method `url_for'' for Test:Class* How can I use it ? Thanks _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org

Hello, I try this : redirect_to :action => ''infos'' , :id => params[:id] , :show => "comments#a" i want this : .../infos/15?show=comments#a but I have this : .../infos/15?show=comments%23a Someone could tell me how generate an anchor link ? Thanks