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Hello- I have a Rails web app that is database-centric (go figure). What I would like to do is expose certain parts of this database to an application running on a Windows box (or whatever). For the moment, let''s consider the read-only case, but authentication will be required. Is SOAP what would be used for something like this? Are there better alternatives? The existing

Hey everybody, I''ve got a model that represents kind of a turn-based games. Certain actions can only be made unders certain conditions. For simplicity, we''ll say that the only condition for a particular action is that the weekday be Tuesday. def add_vote raise ''You cannot vote today'' unless Date.today.wday == 2 ... end In my controller I want to show a

Hi All, I am doing some research on how people start with their Rails app. What design decisions are made and how is it build. For example: - do you use scaffolding and go from there? Or do you create everything from scratch? - are you using multiple controllers? Or do you put everything in one? - do you use migrate? - how do you use migrate? Do you call migrate your self or do you use the

Am i a total idiot to try and parse out a rails object for javascript in this way? <% for i in interface_items[0].attributes %> var <%= i[0] %> = "<%=h( i[1] )%>" <% end %> Am I missing something really obvious? Thanks, Mark -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Mark Daggett and I approve this message.

Hi! I try to get AJAX running on a mobile Windows Mobile 5.0 based device and failed. There should be a JavaScript support but nothing happens. Have any of you experience with the rails javascripts on a this platform or are there any hints, documentation on the net? tia, -- Daniel V?lkerts Protected by Anti Pesto.

Hello. I installed under Ubuntu (Dapper) Park Place. I followed the instructions given at the RedHanded site. I get the following mongrel error when launching the application: ** Please login in with `admin'' and password `pass@word1'' ** You should change the default password or delete the admin at soonest chance!/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.12.5/lib/mongrel.rb:584:in

The following works fine as a standalone ruby program: ********************************************************************************************** t = Time.now starter = Time.local(t.year,t.mon, t.day) + (24 *3600) ender = starter + 7 * 24 *3600 lat = 40.352039 lon = -74.191961 require ''soap/wsdlDriver'' params = {:maxt => false, :mint => false, :temp => true, :dew

Hi all. I have a need to build a SOAP client using Ruby and Rails. I''m accessing a document/literal style SOAP service. I''ve been poring over documentation (well, there really doesn''t seem to be any, so that''s a little misleading), blog posts, and outdated tutorials all day, and I still don''t really have anywhere to begin. Every tutorial seems to have a

In the new / edit screen for an "item" I''d like to be able to add/remove "sub-items" on pressing an add button below the "sub-items" a bit of a form shows up with the html looking something like: <div id="uniqueid"> <!-- label etc here --> <input type="text" id="sub_items[]" name="sub_items[]"

Hi , I want realize a web service with rails, but it''s the response it''s very slow. I want only saw all element present in my base. I did a base Customers (with element like id, name, phone,...). I added two elements. I did a model customer, a web_service customer. In the file /app/apis/customer_api.rb class CustomerApi < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :listid,

Hi, The code for my Rails webservice is below. It working just fine through the Rails web service scaffold invoke http://localhost:3000/ProductBackend/invoke I''m trying to write a plain ruby command line client to access the webservice. require ''soap/rpc/driver'' proxy = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("http://localhost:3000/product_backend",

I am trying to teach my models how to render themselves, i.e. <%= my_model_object.render() %> Let me explain my reasoning and proposed method before this gets shot down as anti-MVC. Let''s say I am writing a contact-management application. I have a class Contact. I will need to display this class all over the application. My first choice is to use a partial. Now I can

Hi All I have a requirement to consume a 3rd party web service from my Rails application. I am doing this in my action require ''soap/wsdlDriver'' factory = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(TRANSIDIOM_WSDL_URL) soap = factory.create_rpc_driver soap.wiredump_file_base="#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/transidiom.log" param = %(<Request

Hi all, Ruby 1.8.4 Rails 1.1.2 I''m a newb when it comes to SOAP, but I thought I''d give it a shot. I have several web services defined. However, when I try to connect with a SOAP client it seems the client is only picking up one of the services, called Hardware. require ''soap/wsdlDriver'' wsdl_url =

I''m trying to connect to a SOAP interface using Rails and I''m running into a snag. I''m relatively new to Rails at this point and am in the very beginning stages of understanding how the system works. Currently I''m running into a error that looks like this: -------------------------------------------- Missing API definition file in apis/amazon_api.rb

I''m trying to find events created after an initial date. I''m sure it''s something obvious, but I''m not sure why this isn''t working: def self.find_recent find(:all, :conditions=>"created_at > #{Time.local(2006, 4, 27, 22, 0, 0)}") end Time for more caffeine for me...

Hi all, Ruby 1.8.4 Rails 1.1.2 1) Error: test_find_hardware_by_id(HardwareControllerApiTest): ArgumentError: illegal refid http://test.host/ c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/baseData.rb:166:in `decode'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/encodingstyle/soapHandler.rb:153:in `decode_tag'' c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/parser.rb:179:in `decode_tag''

I am a beginner so please excuse me, if i am doing something totally wrong. I have created a class using "wsdl2ruby.rb" and here is what it looks like: class ServiceSoap < ::SOAP::RPC::Driver DefaultEndpointUrl = "http://balrog/services/SearchWorker/service.asmx" MappingRegistry = ::SOAP::Mapping::Registry.new Methods = [ ... -- Posted via

Not terribly exciting, but I was happy to think of it. I needed a div with a fixed height that could vary depending on page content. So I did this: <div class="listcntnr" style="height: <%= @users.size / 2 * 125%>px"> Whee! --Al Evans -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a an STI table which acts_as_tree, that has a large number of classes/types. My common fields are: id parent_id name description with 4 more text fields, I could cover most of my classes if I could redefine the name of the field like this. text1 AS address1 text2 AS address2 text3 AS zipcode For one class and text 1 AS model_number text2 AS vendor Is there a construct that will allow