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I got a new 20 inch iMac dual core today and am busy getting it all setup. A couple of issues though: 1. Is the Ruby 1.8.2 install by Apple still botched or has that been fixed? I recall someone had fixed the rbconfig.rb to get it working. Is this something I still have to do? 2. Does anyone know if Locomotive is using the uniersal binaries, or is it targetting PPC yet? I couldn''t

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I

Hi I''d like to have a varchar primary key named id instead of the default int id. Does anyone knows how to specify this from migrations ? Should I also specify something in the model class ? thanks! Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060312/797bca4b/attachment.html

Hi all I''m learning to use Rake for migration etc. I wonder if there''s a way to determine the currently used Rails version, so e.g. when installing a new engine using Rake I could check if there''s a version used that''s older as needed and so abort the installation. You know what I mean? ;-) Thanks and greetings, Joshua -- Posted via

Could anybody told me how to set the rdoc and ri for the radrails? I am using Windows XP, RadRails 0.63 and Ruby 1.82 I cannot set the rdoc and ri to a directory. Which file should I set for that under the ruby''s path in the preference in radrails? Thanks. -- Best wishes, Xu Wenhao

Hi! well the subject is telling everything - I''m just curious to know how other railers handle this (for me the answer is yes, clearly!) cheers Thibaut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060512/0b59b57b/attachment-0001.html

I am pleased to announce the newest release of Locomotive! http://locomotive.sourceforge.net Mostly a bug fix release. If you are using Locomotive on 10.4 you should definitely upgrade. New in 0.2.4 ============ * Rename application entries in status window * Run/Restart/Stop buttons now immediately update * Bundle choosing is fixed for Mac OS X 10.4 * Missing gem dependencies in Rails 0.13.1

Hi All, I''m very happy to announce the release of Locomotive 1.0.0. Locomotive is a one-click development solution for Rails on Mac OS X. See more details at http://locomotive.sourceforge.net Get it at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/locomotive/Locomotive_1.0.0.dmg?download What''s New? =========== * Server bundle updated to lighttpd 1.4.8 * Server bundle updated to

Hi: I love Locomotive and use it exclusively for my rails projects. I''d like to install GRUFF and give it a try (a graph image creation package). I know I can do sudo gem install gruff from the command line for normal ruby and rails. How do I make gems available to Locomotive? bruce

A client of mine has a ton of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. I''m building a web application for her (backed by a real db of course) and want to import all that data. Is there a library available to read data from Excel? Is there an easy way to upload the spreadsheets and then read the data? Thanks, Ken Kousen -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc.

Does anyone know how to use a gem without installing it to the rails installation? For example, I can download the Money gem package from http://dist.leetsoft.com/ but if I don''t have the ability to install a gem at my hosting provider, how can I use the gem in my app? Cheers, Dan

Last login: Fri Dec 30 15:34:43 on ttyp1 source /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/Locomotive. 1135999534.992790-16807 Welcome to Darwin! frank-roccos-powerbook58:~ farocco$ source /private/var/tmp/folders. 501/TemporaryItems/Locomotive.1135999534.992790-16807 frank-roccos-powerbook58:~/Documents/receipts farocco$ script/ generate scaffold receipt receipt

I''m on Mac OSX and I''m about to rip my hair out over how hard it is to install rails. I''ve installed rubygems and am typing "ruby setup.rb" in the command line and get "No such file or directory." I''ve never had to use command lines before so this is alien to me. Can''t they just make installation GUI-based for non-geeks like

Hi sorry for the slighty out of topic question but I''m sure someone here will be able to answer. Does anyone use some kind of remote connection to connect to MacOS ? I''m thinking of using VNC but I''d love to hear from other (especially secure) alternatives. I''m just fond of textmate, I have a dell laptop which I''d like to use as a terminal. kind

Good evening list members, I have the following model: class Author < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :authorships has_many :books, :through => : authorships end Should I be able to do the following? Author.find(:first).book_ids = [1,2,3] I ask, because it doesn''t. The docs state that it should, but it doesn''t specialise in the case of a :through This

Hi All, The base Locomotive download now comes with Rails 1.0. http://locomotive.sourceforge.net If you already have a current version of Locomotive (0.4.1), all you need is a new bundle. Rails 1.0 Min: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/locomotive/Rails_1.0.0_Min.dmg?download Rails 1.0 Max: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/locomotive/Rails_1.0.0_Max.dmg?download Cheers! -r -- Ryan

I havew installed Ruby and gems on Mac OSX but when i try ti install Rails i get messages Local gem file not found: rails*.gem Attempting remote installation of ''rails'' Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) syntax error on line 23, col 0: `<p>'' Can anyone advise as to reason ? I an using OS 10.4

Hi guys, got this problem with creating such a thing... hope anyone could help.. the problem: ok, now i have this mock object that would simulate a external rpc call. eg require ''models/xmlrpc_agent'' class XmlrpcAgent def create(params) 200 end end but the value of the value returned is fixed. which is quite hard for me to test the controller when different

Hello, AV::paginate query first by a count, how access this value in the controller or view ? Why ? Because I''ll like to display the total number or records found w/o doing another expenssive Count. Thanks,

Hello, I have been following the STI example in AWDWR and have a question about presenting the output. I want to output a list of Person objects that are grouped by their type. I have an array of all the Person objects and I would like the output to be as follows. Employee x3 <ul> <li>Employee 1</li> <li>Employee 2</li> <li>Employee 3</li> </ul>