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Hi All, I am trying to figure out some models and controller for a time tracking system. More specifically I am trying to figure out the best way to track how long a user was logged in for a given day week or month. I was thinking from a database standpoint of having a created_ and and updated_at in a session table and then I would find out the hours and minutes that a user was logged in for

Where did the site go? any eta on it''s return? any info on why it is down? David Newberger 651.271.9045 me-KzQzY1MbaKgTvtZlET5bddBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org http://www.davidnewberger.com

Sorry, but this is really NOT as easy as the tutorials/books make out. I''m really struggling at the first hurdle here. And while I''m not a programmer by design I do know my way around most stuff. And if I can''t get this to work I suspect more people will have the same issues. There seems to be too many variables to address. I have winXP, I have ruby and rails all

I''m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout, so what i''m doing is ... class SomeController < ApplicationController layout "simple", :only=> :some_action ...... end and the "simple" layout is applied to all the actions, can someone please give me a hint?

I am a total RoR virgin, and took my first steps this weekend into the Ruby world. A lot of sites I create need to be as SEO friendly as possible, particularly for google. Before I delve any further, can anyone tell me how friendly the dynamic URLs or if there is the usual rewrite mod for rugby? Thanks Mike -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

is there a way to replace unkown action error with a pretty 404 page ? I set the ErrorDocument 404 in .htaccess, however when someong goes to http://www.mysite.com/bogus i would like it to show a 404 error instead of just "Uknown action". Is this possible with a rescue or something? adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''ve noticed that it is possible to pass javascript unaltered through the sanitize function using CSS. For example: sanitize( "<style type=''text/css''>body{background-image:url(''javascript:window.alert(1)'') }</style>" ) IE will execute the javascript. Firefox will not. I haven''t tried it with any other browsers.

Hello, Thank you all in advance for your help with this. Environment: Windows XP Pro (Development only) Ruby 1.84 Rails 1.1.0 SaltedHashLoginGenerator Plugins: file_column, userstamp I have a user table per the salted_hash_login generator. I have an orders table that has a column named created_by that is updated by the userstamp plugin. I am trying to retrieve all of the orders for a single

Hiall, Is it possible to organize my model files below app/models into subfolders? E.g. I would like to put admin related models into their own subfolder. This kind of structuring works for controllers and views (scaffolding creates the right subfolder-model mappings), but app/models always stays flat. I''d really like to be able to group my code into logical, well packages :-) Yes, I

Hi, I need to allow login based on the phone number. During the signup they can give the number in any format with spaces, slash or (). But for storing in database and then during login to compare I just want the 10 digit number. How can I remove the special char from phone number before storing to db ? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How do I pass parameters from one controller to another during redirect_to command? I want to pass both model and non-model objects. The solution I use is via session, but I rather pass it as parameters to the redirect_to Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It seems the wiki-spam bot has been at work again. There are numerous hidden links toward the top of the page that might be better gardened out right away, if you know what I mean ;-| -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have an interessting problem, I''m not sure how to solve :-) I have the name of a model in a variable like this: My model is called Article My var contains "Article" Now - How do I get the model class, so I can call Article.find, Article.new etc ... ? Greetings, Gitte Wange

I would like to put Ruby code inside a string, between <%= %> tags, and have the code inside the tags executed when the string is displayed. Is this possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all I''m having an issue with ruby on rails, and it not throwing an error where it should. I have a class ''clientpool'' that is: class Clientpool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "clientpool" set_primary_key "id" belongs_to :clients, :foreign_key => "cliname" validates_presence_of :cliname validates_associated :client end

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

I just saw a mention here of LoginEngine, which I hadn''t heard of before. Last week when I was digging for user-account sample code for my web-app, I instead found the LoginGenerator and started using that: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/LoginGenerator Is one of these preferred over the other? From skimming the API docs, it does seem that LoginEngine has more features,

Hello, can anyone help me. After a few weeks I returned to the rails to play with it. But I recognize that I''m now not abble to build appdoc. The same thing that few weeks ago worked without an problem now give me an error: unrecognized option `--line-numbers --inline-source'' $ rake --trace --verbose reappdoc (in /home/radek/src/firma/giga-net/ncc/work) ** Invoke reappdoc

Hi, I''m trying to use the SaltedHashLoginGenerator as documented on http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/SaltedHashLoginGenerator Ruby version: ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-openbsd3.9] I''ve the following commands: gem install salted_login_generator gem install localization_generator rails myapp cd myapp ruby script/generate salted_login User Localization All ran