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Hello, I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me. [1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn''t find anything which I explained how to do logging in models. [2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model, and try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For views the error occurs

Hello, When I am trying to run rake migration tasks, I get the error as shown below. I am using ruby 1.8.4 and edge rails. What am I missing or doing wrong? C:\rails\temp1>rake db:migrate (in C:/rails/temp1) rake aborted! no such file to load -- rails_version Thanks for your help. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, I have created a ticket for an enhancement of the autocompleter to show the options immediately when the field gets focus. Right now at least one character must be typed for autocomplete to kick in. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5435 I have also made some code changes directly in the script Event.observe(this.element, "blur", this.onBlur.bindAsEventListener(this));

Hello, I am using RJS and Edge Rails and I was wondering if the page object should be available in helpers also. For example if I have a helper function def update_flash_messages page.replace_html ''flash_messages'', (show_flash_messages :textilize => true) page.visual_effect ''flash_messages'', :appear end and then in my RJS files I call

Hello, When I am writing rails migrations, quite often I make mistake in them which causes the migration tasks to stop halfway with error. This causes lots of problem, because it results in half of the things in migrations changed and other half not. Also, as the schema number is changed, so things cannot be rolled back. Is there any way to make the entire migration action atomic, i.e.,

Hello, Rails provide counter cache field for associations, I want a similar cache for totaling up values (say account_balance = sum_of_deposits - sum_of_withdrawals). I was wondering if rails, already has another surprise in store for me, or is there any plug-in or how-to for doing these kind of things. Thanks. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read the

Hello, While sending email notifications from ThoughtNotifier, I am getting weird exceptions, which sometimes occur on the production machine, but I haven''t been able to reproduce on my development machine. There should be no error while rendering `thought_notifier/share_notification.rhtml'' template, but if for some reason it is rendering

Hello, I was wondering if there was any automated (may be scaffolding) way of exposing Model CRUD via web services. I found this ticket for django, but nothing for Rails. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/115 Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions. Regards. -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at:

Hello, I want to start my rails application in production mode. But for some reason in spite of uncommenting this line in ''config/environment.rb'' ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] ||= ''production'' when I run ''ruby script\console'' it says loading development mode. Also, the webrick sends log messages to development.log file instead of

Is anybody hosting with GoDaddy.com? I''m about to set up a hosted account for my RoR app and see that they''re now offering RoR hosting. I''d really appreciate hearing from anybody who''s tried them for RoR. Any congrats / complaints / etc. you had / are having would be really appreciated! Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

As I, like many people, are coming to ruby in the rails era, I''m curious about how Ruby Web Dev was done prior to rails. Any veterans want to share their insights? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060518/20cde24d/attachment.html

Hello, I needed to add custom cache field for one of my application. I thought I will share the code showing how to do this. This code below creates and maintain a custom cache field, for keeping track of totals. Say, you have accounts, and for each account there are transactions (either deposit/withdrawal), and one will like to keep track of the total balance for an account. So, let there be a

Hi, I am trying to spec helper methods in a Rails project, but it seems the specs fail with the error: You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.<< if the restful routes helper are used either in spec files, or the helper file. What can I be doing wrong? Or how can I fix this. Thanks! -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com,

I''m using the iframe trick to upload files with form_tag and a target pointing to the iframe. All is working, but I would like to display an indicator of the upload. All I want to do is show a hidden animated gif via Element.show. With form_remote_tag, i could use the :loading and :complete callbacks to do an Element.show and Element.hide. How do I achieve a similar effect with form_tag?

Hello, How do I prevent previously submitted form data from being reinserted into the database when the user presses the browser''s Refresh button? On Aughey''s advice in #irc I tried using `redirect_to'' a new `:action'' but this approach doesn''t seems to work. Any idea what might be wrong or how to tackle this problem? Thanks for your help. P.S.- I

I am looking at using acts_as_versioned to manage revisions of data in several tables in my application. However, the default behavior of acts_as_versioned appears to apply to individual rows within a table. The tables I want to version are complicated lookup tables and what I really want is to version the entire contents of each table as a single set. Adding a row, deleting a row, or updating

Hello, Earlier in my rails application, I was using the convention of writing the following to refer to templates and/or views in the view folder. "./blah/blah" But in the Edge rail, it doesn''t work and the page doesn''t shows any output there is no error in the development log as well. But changing the above to "/blah/blah" seems to fix things. Was I

Hello, I am pleased to announce the availability of the plugin acts_as_classifier which allows using the ''classifier'' gem in a Rails application. This plugin can be downloaded from http://opensvn.csie.org/sksinghi/acts_as_classifiable/ This plugin is useful in scenarios where you want to distinguish between spam or non-spam comments, Or maybe you want to track the

Hello, I need to put an AJAX, form such that it is inside a table, and spans across few rows. But, what I am noticing is that, while submitting the form, the data in the fields is not submitted. If I move the form outside the table or inside a cell, things work OK, but not when the form is inside the table and spans few rows. This problem is only with AJAX forms, regular forms work perfect. I

When I try to do a deployment with Capistrano I get the error "No such file to load -- pathname" when Cap tries to execute reaper. Any ideas what''s causing this or how I can troubleshoot it? (Output follows.) Thanks. Evan -----BEGIN OUTPUT----- [evans-powerbook:~/Desktop/asktheguys] evan% clear ; rake remote:deploy (in /Users/evan/Desktop/asktheguys) loading