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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, BEWARE: this is not a Rails question, but a SwitchTower question. I am asking here because SwitchTower is usually employed with Rails. I am developing what we may call a "distributed video player" in Ruby (this is NOT a Rails application). It works this way: I have several boxes that play videos and one server, where I store the

I''m facing a situation where I am going to have to integrate with a legacy database , specifically the IBM UniVerse database, which is not *quite* relational. It feels like a holdover from the dark ages of computing. Before I attempt writing an ActiveRecord adapter, I''d like to know if anyone else uses this database and if I''m the only person that needs this thing. I

hey, i am using the flickr wrapper for ruby and need to access the tags of a specific photo. i got all the rest working. i must admit i am kind of new to ruby, but i tried and tried and couldn''t figure it out. among other things i want to read geotags like in my example here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whoisstan/146634506/ i''m sure it is deadsimple and i just overlooked it.

I have a weird problem with creating a new record when using PostgreSQL. From inside script/console ... >> entity = Entity.new >> entity.first_name = "Foo" >> entity.last_name = "bar" >> entity.save Throws an exception due to the following SQL error: duplicate key violates unique constraint. The application was working fine before and suddenly

I needed to format numbers with commas to make it more human readable. Here''s how I did it. def commify(number) c = { :value => "", :length => 0 } r = number.to_s.reverse.split("").inject(c) do |t, e| iv, il = t[:value], t[:length] iv += '','' if il % 3 == 0 && il != 0 { :value => iv + e, :length =>

I''ve just released Juggernaut - a plugin for ruby on rails. Check out the site: http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org I?ve also finished a demo that illustrates some of Juggernuat?s capabilities. You can sign up for an account here: http://alexmaccaw.no-ip.info:3500/login/sign_up . It might be a tad slow as it?s running from my home machine. Juggernaut for Ruby on Rails initiates a flash

Hello, When I attempt to use KDE 3.03 "konqueror" for help.start() I can't get the search engine to work but otherwise help.start() is OK. How should "konqueror" be setup for this? The response to the command is below: > help.start(browser= 'konqueror') Making links in per-session dir ... If konqueror is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must

I have this in my controller... @tech_standards = TechStandard.find_by_sql("SELECT * FROM tech_standards WHERE subpoint <> 0") Everything is fine except when I look at my view I still get supoints that are 0. When I run this query in my query browser I don''t. View: <select name="resource[tech_standard]" id="tech_standard">

Hey, I''ve gotten file_column to upload a file, drop it in the dynamic directory, but I can''t display the image, the directories repeat themselves: My model: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base file_column :image_url In my view: <%= image_tag url_for_file_column(''person'', ''image_url'') %> HTML generated is this: <img

Since i've gotten so much help from this list with my samba issues, i've been trying to be active and help others, but heres my question. If I reply to someone, should I send it JUST to the mailing list, JUST to the person i'm helping, or both? I've been keeping it on the mailing list, but some people may want the help to come into their main mailbox. Should I send to both?

I''m getting ready to go to the Rails Studio in Pasadena next week. As part of the prep for that event, I was instructed by the Pragmatic guys to download and install a new Rails 1.0/Ruby 1.8.4 configuration to my OS X 10.4.4 box. I did that three or four days ago. Ever since then, I cannot run a rake migrate command successfully anywhere in my Rails world. (Mind you,

Hi, how can I extract the t-values after running a pairwise.t.test? The output just list the p-values. Many thanks for your help. Cheers Guido ____________________________________ Guido J. Parra School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography James Cook University Townsville Queensland 4811 Phone: 61 7 47815824 Fax: 61 7 47814020 Mobile: 0437630843 e-mail:

Given that we occasionally run into problems with comparing Excel results to R results, and other spreadsheet-induced errors, I thought this might be of interest. http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems The punchline: "If this error turns out to be an actual mistake Reinhart-Rogoff made, well, all I can hope is that

Hi all, I''ve add :before_update event to my model Before updating a record I want to check if new attributes differ to old attr. My question is how to retrieve old attributes in :before_update event ? thanks -- gratis egold 1$ http://shegold.com/

Not a biggie, but definitely annoying: I try to register for a media site, so I can put in a comment, and every time I hit "register", noscript pops up telling me it's protecting me from cross-site scripting... and if it's giving me any way to say, "that's ok for this site", I don't see it. I've tried typing in a pattern for xss, and no joy. Clues for the

Hey everyone, Is there Rails support for something like Google Maps, but using my own images/maps? Basically, I''d like to have my own maps/images, be able to drop markers on them, center on certain attributes etc. - Nic

Hi all, as part of adopting Rails in my company I had to go through the hassle of setting up a Rails production environment on Win32 system since we mostly use MS SQL as our database back end and also because we mostly dealing with customers who become green-blue-purple as soon as you mention Unix/Linux and run for the door. I also need to mention that most of our web applications are internal and

I realize thi may be more complex issue than can be asnwered in this post. But, what I need to do is create a simple query on my existing tables via a search form. I have half my app done (I can write all the info I want to my database), but pulling the data out dynamically is giving me trouble. I have both the "ruby for rails" book and the Agile Development book. They both give

Hi there, I have a User model and a Profile model. A user has_one profile, and a profile belongs_to a user. The profile model contains a user_id column as the foreign key. The problem comes in when I want a user to register. In the user_controller I have a method that creates the user. I also want the profile model to be filled in with the appropriate user_id foreign key (I don''t care

Does anyone know if there is a function available which can format any entered number as words? eg: ''1234'' would be ''One Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty Four'' In the past, I would have said this is a tall order, but from what I''ve seen with playing with rails for a short time, I don''t know what to expect. :) Thanks for any help, Damien