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Another newbie question: How do i convert a float to a string, rounded to a certain number of decimals? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How can i run and get the value from the following sql: select avg(my_field) from my_table where which_year=''0506'' and which_week <= 21 and my_foreign_key_id=10 cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''d like to display a banner on every page. Ultimately I''ll be tweaking which banner is displayed via different controllers but initially I''d just like to set a single banner application wide and display it in my "_header", a partial I include in all layouts. I''ve got a BannerAdvert model, simple. If I''m in my welcome controller index action

Hi all, How do you use :except or :only conditions on a filter block? I can''t seem to work out the syntax! I''m currently doing: before_filter { |c| c.role_required ''admin'' } Thanks a lot! Tom

Greetings, I''m working with the salted hash login generator. Is there a way to post a flash message if the user isnt authenticated for a section of my site and has to login? If so, where should I implement it? To understand what I am talking about, try and visit a Basecamp page without being authenticated. It posts a notice flash telling you to login. If you just directly visit

Hi all, When i use the ''delete_all'' function to remove a few rows from my database, it causes a deadlock on the sql server. The delete seems to be successful, it then redirects to the ''view'' page, and the record does appear to be deleted as far as the ''view'' rails page shows. BUT if i go into sql query analyser, i can''t do a

Hi all, I''ve got a Rails app with a ApplicationController that looks like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :authorize, :except => :login def authorize unless session[:user] flash[:notice] = "Please log in" session[:jumpto] = request.parameters redirect_to :controller =>

Can''t get this?...I''m close I think, my calculation appears to be working, but.... when i access duration = <%= @enquiry.course_duration %><br> in my final view it''s blank.. course_duration is getting set to null but works for the calculation? controller.. ---------- class EnquiriesController < ApplicationController layout ''welcome''

I want to setup an api for my web app, but i had a few question on the best way to do this. I was hoping for some input from you experienced individuals and rails rock stars. 1) Is there a way to implement a login in feature so that api methods cant be called without proper authorization? This is so i can log activity and use of the api from different people and so -------------- next part

since upgrading to 1.1.4 (I had been running without issue on a git snapshot), I''m noticing that my filter actions initiated from application.rb seem to be running twice. I created a test rails project with the rspec scaffold and am also seeing the same behavior here too. Adding this code to application.rb: before_filter :foo def foo "foo" end and an example

Any ideas with fixing this? Doesn''t work properly, although it doesn''t throw any runtime errors. # Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the application. module ApplicationHelper def options_for_months(selected_month)

I have a function i want to be used in both views and controllers: def year_to_fiscal_year(year) # converts, say, an integer 2003 into ''0304'' year.to_s[2,2] << (year+1).to_s[2,2] end Where should i put it ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Here''s what i''m trying to do: Have 3 dropdowns up the top of a page, being: year, month, department, and group. Also a button underneath that called refresh. When you click refresh, it finds the 1 row of data from the database for that year/month/dept/group and populates the fields into a set of textboxes below. Then you can edit what is in those textboxes, and click a

So I decided to just go with apache2 and fcgid. I looked into Mongrel and apache and I looked into lighttpd and fastcgi and found both to be too time consuming and not well enough documented for what I''m doing. My question is, how do I set up apache and fcgid to actually work? I got apache installed. I think I got fcgid installed (I read somewhere all I have to do is move the

I leave a notice in the flash and do a redirect from a before_filter. Can someone confirm that the first request after this, i.e. the page I redirect to, doesn''t/isn''t supposed to clear the flash? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/flash%2C-before_filter-and-redirect_to-t1367103.html#a3665933 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.

Greetings, I tried upgrading Rails to 1.1.2 and now nothing is really working. In connection to the Rails upgrade I upgraded my Ruby version to 1.9.0. I also upgraded all my gem installs. Since my old rails apps stopped working I tried generating a fresh one , alas with the same result. Below I included the full trace when trying to reach the app. Line 3 in application.rb is : class

Hi all, I have a question concerning ActionWebService XMLRPC servers: Is it possible to send multicall requests to the Web service? I tried to use multicall and get the error message: no such method ''system.multicall'' on API [MyAPI] In Changeset 2021 there is the following commit message: add ''system.multicall'' support to XML-RPC. boxcarred methods must

I have a nice hierarchical table structure like this: divisions has_many groups groups belongs_to division has_many subgroups subgroups belongs_to group has_many units units belongs_to subgroup I have a report which is based on units, but i want to be able to filter the units by which subgroup, or which group, or which division. I also want to sort them by division.name,then group.name,

Hi list: I run the ri''s ERB doc 1st sample 1. require ''erb'' 2. x = 42 3. template = ERB.new <<-EOF 4. The value of x is: 5. EOF 6. puts template.result(binding) the doc say it will print "The value of x is: 42" but my irb print "nil" and there is a "=> #<ERB:0x2970b24

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