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Hi Can any one help me with this? I think that this is soemthing quite simple as there is quite abit traffic about this on the web and everyone sems to figure it out. I have tried most of the solutions that I can find. but nothing. I have mysql 5.0.11 working on linux redhat 9. ruby is working rails install mysql library seem to be there. to some trying rt get mysql to install need to

Hello, I''m a newbie to rails and I am trying to do the Demo in the November Issue of Linux Journal. Things go fine go fine until I try to connect to my Postgres database (ver 8.1). At this point I get the following error message ---- RoR error and trace back ---- PGError in Admin#index could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running on host "localhost"

Does anyone know where I could get text file with the code from the famous video where they create a Weblog in 15 minutes -- The one that''s here: href="http://rubyonrails.com/screencasts? (I can''t just watch it here at work, and I''d like to avoid having to re-type everything in any case.) Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to get Ruby/Rails running on my mac but having some issues. I created a new rails project "blog_test" trying to get something working. When I follow this guide http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html it says to do a "db:create". This is where I get this error... Could not find gem ''sqlite3 (>= 0)'' in any of the gem sources listed

i''ve seen both of these syntaxes before and have also used both in my own models: class Foo def get_bar @bar end end and class Foo def get_bar self.bar end end seemingly with no difference... i''m a nuby though so could anyone enlighten me to the differences if there are any? thanks, jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

Hi! Can anybody link to some ror based project what is using rspec, so nuby as me can learn from it. So it should have updated and practising advanced rspec. After reading last threat about "testing behaviour or testing code?", I just realised that I would definitely learn something from app like that. Some casual googling didn''t help me this time. Thanks! Priit at

OK, I am a Rails nuby, so please keep that in mind. I want to have a form on a page where users can enter in their email address in one field, a message in a text area field, and when they click "submit" the message should be sent to a static email address, say me@mysite.com. I have read the "HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer", but I am not sure this is exactly what I need.

This is a bit of a nuby question methinks but i''ve had a play/search around and it''s just bugging me now :0) Say I have a conditional statement, testing a variable against a number of values. The first way i did this is like so: if myvar != "" and myvar != 0 and myvar != nil # .. code end This seems a bit messy - is there neater way of doing this? I thought of:

Hi! I know you must be answering a lot of basic questions, sorry about that :-) However I have not get it, how do you keep mocks updated without pain? I reached to the point where mocking things for view. I spec model-controller-view using "correct doc" way mocking-stubbing (plus I should run integration test to be sure that everything really works together). Now, when I want to

total rails nuby here. I have a table "thumbnails", hence the model Thumbnail. I''m extending the Thumbnail class with a few constants needed for thumbnail cropping: class Thumbnail < ActiveRecord::Base SOURCE_FILE_PATH = "path/to/source" TARGET_FILE_PATH = "path/to/target" TARGET_WIDTH = 100 TARGET_HEIGHT = 100 end Now, in my controller

I''m very new to Ruby and to Rails. I''m coming from PHP and CakePHP. I would like to create a base model from which all other models will inherit from. I have done this: class AppModel < ActiveRecord::Base end and class Post < AppModel end I''m getting the following error: Table ''blog_development.app_models'' doesn''t exist My

anyone can explain me why in the Agile Depot Tutorial application they use i.product_id to find if a product already exist in the cart, because the cart contains items, each of them references a product. I tried i.product_id like in the tutorial and i.product.i all of these 2 notation works , but i find the second seems more clean??? isn''t it. Any explanation will be fine Regards

I have three tables. users, posts, users_posts. This last one is to mark a post as read. How do I write to the users_post table? Here''s what I have: In model ''User_Post'' belongs_to :post belongs_to :user In post/view/show: <%= link_to "Mark As Read", :controller => ''post'', :action => ''post_read'', :user =>

Hi everyone, I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the list. Here''s my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem: Ruby version 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0) RubyGems version 0.8.11 Rails version 1.1.2 Active Record version 1.14.2 Action Pack version 1.12.1 Action Web Service version 1.1.2 Action Mailer version 1.2.1 Active Support version 1.3.1 I did

(Nuby to Ruby and Rails...) I''ve implemented security using the login generator in a simple app so that I have a user table, a roles table, and a join between them (roles_users). All works as expected. I now need to check if a user has a specific role, but my approach is off somehow. Here''s what I''ve tried thusfar: user_roles = @session[:user].roles

Good morning rspec people! Still rspec nuby: I must do something wrong obviously. How can I spec about redirect_to at ApplicationController describe ApplicationController do it "method login_required should redirect to home path without login" do pending "I tried to use controller.login_required.should be_redirected and got NoMethodError with nil object

Hi Derek, I was getting this too, with three tables, called taxa, databases and references I found I could add an irregular pluralisation for taxa: Inflector.inflections do |inflect| inflect.irregular ''taxon'', ''taxa'' end to the environment.rb, but no amount of modification there would allow databases and

Hello all, I am a rails nuby and I am evaluating using Rails for a new web application. The application will have a large number of tables (>70) that will basically mimic a large collection of paper forms that user would otherwise have to fill out. From what I have read on rails thus far it seems I would have to create a lot of models and form templates. Is this common and if so does

Hi, I am a rails and ruby nuby :-) How do you pass data between different controllers and views? I have a page ( a quote) that I am editing url ....quote/edit/6 6 id the current id. I then go to a catalog (url....catalog) to add an item to my quote (I do this via a line_item file that the quote reads) I now want to go back to the quote. I have tried this <%= link_to ''Back to

Hi, I have ferret working fine on my Dev machine using a relative index path as follows: USER_INDEX = Index::Index.new(:path => "indexes/user", :key => ''id'', :auto_flush => true) And the indexes/user directory is located directly off the root of my project tree. But when I migrate this same code to my shared TextDrive account, Ferret cannot find the index