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Speaking of hosting, have any of you used a VPS provider that offers gentoo as the VPS OS? All of the ones I know of use fedora, debian, ubuntu, or CentOS. -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.everylastounce.com ] [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [

Ok first i am running linux with lighttpd and apache proxy''ing to the lighttpd process. ruby version is ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] def test @count = Question.count if(@params[:id]) then breakpoint() if (params[:id].to_i > @count) then redirect_to :action => ''finish'' end end end this is a stripped down version of

I didn''t get a chance to go to this meeting debating WebObjects Vs Rails, but here''s a report about it: http://desperatepundit.com/blog/cremes/technology/2006/02/15/WebObjects-versus-Ruby-On-Rails.html I don''t get what he''s saying, hand coding the model? yeah, you COULD ... but what about script/generate ??? And is that so what he said about security? --

Hello everyone, I just showed a friend a prototype of a site offering a service I''m trying to sell (sorry, not on the Internet yet - he saw it at my house). His comment: "Looks like it does everything, but also looks pretty ugly. You''re not going to wow anybody with that". Sitting back and thinking about it, he''s dead right - it needs some bling to make it

Hey Everyone! I have a newsletter system that contains a multitude of different newsletters. In this case three but the system allows the user to add more. Every user can be subscribed to any amount of given newsletters. So what I did was I created a user model, newsletter model, and subscription model. The subscription model belongs to one user and one newsletter. However,

When I explain RoR to someone I don''t have a convincing argument that explains why everything is so automatic and transparent, but relationships have to be encoded by hand in models. That shows I don''t understand well that part of AR. There''s the argument that says that not all databases offer metadata about foreign keys, but the natural question then is that,

I''m calling render_component in a helper. render_component :controller => target_controller, :action => "show", :id => target_id This works fine, except that passing the id in :params didn''t work and I had to pass in an explicit :id parameter to get the target controller to override the id - is that documented anywhere? That''s not my question. My

Suppose I have a multiple select form on an initial page called things[], and two target actions. The initial page submits to target action 1, and target view 1 submits to target action 2. When I submit the form on the initial page, I can access that set of values in target action 1 and turn it into an array of objects by doing something like this (assuming that the option values are object ids,

Is there a development guide for best practices when making reusable components? For example, none of the login generators fit my requirements, and I want to write my own. But after I''m done, I''ll want to share it with multiple applications. Is there documentation for the right way to go about doing this? -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management ****

I want append custom query parameters to my pagination links, like ?page=1&foo=bar. I can''t quite figure out how to do this with the pagination_links helper, although I believe the API says you should be able to: pagination_links(paginator, options={}, html_options={}) options are: :params: any additional routing parameters for page URLs Has anyone tried this? thanks, jeff --

Hello, I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is it possible ?

Hello all, I am curious about what tools you guys use to make your databases. I know David uses CocoaMySQL. Are there other tools for other platforms and for other databases? I''m not very good with the SQL language, so I would like being able to do all my database setup with an easy-to-use tool (defining tables, fields, primary keys, foreign keys, indexes, etc.) Big kisses, Vincent.

Any plans for using Atom with rails. I saw the "Typo" project is using MoveableType, Blogger, ... but not Atom. It seems Atom is not part of ActionWebService. Has anyone done any work with Atom and Rails ? Thanks for your answers, Gaspard

You''ll have to forgive me ... I''ve been toying with rails for about a week and although I don''t feel completely lost there''s still a lot that I don''t understand. Here goes. Assume I have a controller called admin in app/controllers as well as three model classes in app/models: product, category, warehouse. How exactly do I use the admin controller to

I just released a whole new version of the Ajax Scaffold Generator (for Ruby on Rails). The generator creates a scaffold page like the typical rails one, except adding, editing and deleting are all done inline. The generated scaffold is valid XHTML strict and fully styled right out of the box. Check out the demo: http://ajaxscaffold.height1percent.com/ And the how-to:

Quick Question. I understand how to change the default path to something other than public but what if I wanted to add another directory into the equation. I want to upload an image into the following structure: /public/image/userid/imageid/test.gif So basically I want to look up the userid in my users table and put all the images for that user in the same directory. So i have a one

Sorry for the resend but I am not sure if the first one ever made the list. As mentioned in my previous posts I''m trying to create a dynamic directory for file_folumn. After finding out that I didn''t have the most recent version I installed the latest trunk and am able to get file_column to act as it should. However I have been racking my brain on how to implement

I am looking at adding the Sentry plugin to one of the applications that we are working on. I have a need to store some info that will have to be encrypted and decrypted. I have been going through the docs for the plugin and the AsymetricSentry class looks like the best for what we need to do but I am not sure how to generate the key. The docs say: This is a shortcut for using an

All, This is really starting to get me as i can''t figure out why I am getting this error. Here is what is going on. I have a table called items and a item controller. When I add a new item to the items table I am also creating several associated tables. the code for this so that you can follow along is: def create @item = Item.new(params[:item]) # The item belongs to

Dave, on another topic, might I recommend that you and DHH publish an updated version of the Agile guide right away when 1.1 comes out? You could reuse much of your material and it would do a lot of good to help make sure there is still a good centralized source of reference for Rails. Without that book, there really is not a good one-stop source of information for people to learn how to use