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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luciano Broussal <luciano.broussal@gmail.com> Date: Feb 15, 2006 5:00 PM Subject: [Rails] To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org Hi all, Is anybody know how + to install a ruby application (persitent , after computer restart) in the system tray. Is any body know an installer to package ruby application and to compile it as an file .exe Thank you all

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

Hi all, I have a problem with unit test database data reload. I have several test_xxx function in my ruby unit test file I would like to know why xxxx.yml containing test data are load only 1 time for all the test while specification say it done for before each test method. Thus my test_xxx are dependant of previous test This is a mistake, because the specs say the test data are reload

Hi all, a little off topic, but was wondering what the best way is to re-write incoming requests so that they all end up at the same domain. For example, if I had: my_domain.net my_domain.com my_domain.org Whats the best way to map/redirect all of these to www.my_domain.com ? I know its possible, just not sure what to add for rules/virtual hosts in my apache config. Thanks for the help! -Nick

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''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

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

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

Hi, I''d like to allow users to upload images and store those images in a Postgres database. I''ve looked through the example in "aguile development with rails" which suggests using the MySQL blob field. When I wrote a similar app in Java, we Base64 encoded the file and then stored it as a text field. Is this easy to do in RoR too? Any advice you can give me would

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

what is the best way to embed a forum (phpbb is currently installed under /public/forums/) inside my layout ? I dont want the foum to be its own page i would like it to appear inside the main part of the page with navigation and border in tact. is this possible with the current way it is installed ? thanks adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Is it possible to display the log files in the view? Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

For security purposes, I often want to find objects that are ''visible''. e.g. class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :x end ... @person.x.find(params[:id]) as opposed to X.find([params[:id]). Simple enough for me. My question: Say we have - class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :x, :class_name ''Z'', .... has_many :y, :class_name

Hello everyone! I''ve noticed, that the book uses double quotes almost everywhere. It is like <%= javascript_include_tag "prototype" %> I''ve checked the "programming ruby, 2ed" book and found that double quotes are most suited when escape sequences and substitutions are required. Isn''t it more semantically correct to write this code like

hi all how to parse such email string to a array: #-------------------------------------------- "joe black"<joe_1@joe_black.com> joe_2@joe_black.com, joe_3@joe_black.com #-------------------------------------------- seems emails from user input include various format. and i have to split them to a array. any idea? regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two models, Category and Article. Article belongs_to :category and Category has_many :articles. I''d like to be able to find all non-empty categories. What''s the best way to do that? Pat

I was working on deploying an app with switchtower, and I really dislike the way spawner is implemented. The way it will relaunch the dispatcher all the time just to let it die if the port is in use is too brute force for my taste. As we''re in a ruby script, why not let ruby find out if the port is in use? Using the TCPServer class we can try and bing to the port. If we succeed, it means