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Hi, Has anyone gotten the "roughcuts" of the Ruby and Rails cookbooks? If you have the Pragmattic Rails Cookbook is the O''Reilly worth it? Also can you download PDF''s of their "roughcuts". The website is kind of vague, it just mentions online access (whatever that means). Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone! I want to have login field in User model which is set only once (on create), and then it should fail validation if the value is changed. How can I do this? I dig around for validation and tried def after_validation_on_update unless User.find_by_login(:login) errors.add(:login, "is immutable. You can''t change it") end end in model, but somewhat it

It looks rails automatically creates a "finder" method on models that have a "belongs_to". So I tried this in the console: c = Category.find(2) chunks = Chunk.find_by_category(c) chunks is always returned as an empty array. When I know have some chunks with a category_id of 2. Should the find_by_category do what I think it should be doing or am I completely off base?

I''d like to announce acts_as_habtm_list plugin for rails. acts_as_habtm_list is a Ruby on Rails plugin, that can manage ordered lists through a join-table. It is providing almost the same Api as acts_as_list. The position column has to be defined in the join table. You can find additional information at: http://www.inlet-media.de/acts_as_habtm_list/ Install it executing this command

Hello all, I am developing an online store and would like to keep track of how many times each product was viewed. While I can keep track of page hits using something like webalizer, this won''t really work (I don''t think) as the pages are not going to be static. Has anyone else implemented this and if so could you please point me in the right direction. A potential solution

Hi, I''m attempting to add a route via a plugin. I attempted to add the following to my init.rb: myroute = ActionController::Routing::Routes.connect "boo2", :controller=>''plugin'', :action=>''index'' puts "path=#{myroute.path}" myroute.options.keys.each do |k| puts "#{k}=#{myroute.options[k]}" end The newly

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Does anyone have any experience with using flickr.rb? Seems the only thing which is documented for it is searching through your photos. Anyway, all I''m trying to do is return a list of my 20 most recent photos, but nothing seems to work. doing this returns 100 photos for a given user (which takes all day to load) @flickr = Flickr.new ''API KEY'' @user =

Simple question: How does one do URL encoding in Ruby/Rails? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi guys, has someone here implemented rails api for dashboard widget like ruby rdoc widget? http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/rubyrdocwidget.html -- sig "kind regards" :name => " Arie Kusuma Atmaja ", :callme => " Arie ", :ym => " riyari3 ", :email => " ariekusumaatmaja@gmail.com ".chop!, :blog => "

Hello, I''m trying to figure out how I could implement fragment caching that expires every x amount of time. I thought of writing a runner script that would expire the cache and set it as a cron job, but that doesn''t really work because runner scripts act on models and not controllers. Does anybody have any ideas? Regards, -carl

What line separator do you use when composing emails? 1. \n 2. \r\n 3. \r Is there a ''official'' line separator for emails (rfc-document?)? What separator is the most compatible between Windows, OS X and Linux? -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de

Hey, am i to stupid to find the information about how to route to a controller in a module? Maybe module support has gone! The controller is under: app/controllers/admin/my_controller.rb The my_controller.rb file looks like this: module Admin class MyController def index render :text => ''Hello!'' end end end How does a route to all controllers under module

I''m trying to be a good rails developer and fix DRY violations as i find them. However, i''m trying to fix this one, i cant seem to get it to work. I have two tables A and B that have a one-to-one relationship. Table B belongs_to Table A. Table A has_one Table B. I''m creating instances of Table A in different places, depending on the controller. However, for each

I am trying to use caches_action and the agile book says that it is keyed off the URL, however it does not seem to pick up the URL parameters. http://localhost:3000/controller/action/id?foo=bar and http://localhost:3000/controller/action/id?foo=foobar Returns the same page. Anyone looked into how to add URL parameters to the cached key? Also, where do those file get stored? Thanks Dave

I''m very new to Rails. I''ve been reading Agile Web Dev for a while and read up on ruby, but I''m still learning. I designed a website for someone for an engineering shop. New projects had to be added manually. Well, I figured this would be a great canidate for railifying! I have the form working perfectly, you can add your data and get it in a table, and listing

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Hi, I populate a couple of text_field_tag''s with data from an AciveRecord object. Some fields are editable and at the end of the page there''s a submit button. I want the new values to be updated in the DB but by default my original values are stored again. How do i go about doing this? thanks/jens AIM: jens.tinfors@mac.com Skype: jtinfors

Hallo, what links would you recommend for an advanced programmer, who wants to know something about the basic idea and architecture of Rails. That''s no question for tutorials or howtos, but rather for theoretical documents and field reports. Can you help me? -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de

I have a model "Childmodel" that belongs_to two other models "Parent1" and "Parent2". "Parent1" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp1" and "Parent2" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp2". i.e. The child is independently positioned within each of its parents. This works fine and gets me the useful