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i have a 2 step form which contains 1 file_column field. The second form is just "This is how your post will look" kind of form and the user can click Edit (to take them back to form1) or Submit. If the user clicks edit it takes them back to the first form with fields populated. I have it working with all text fields, I just dont know how to do this with file_column field (showing the

is there a way using the file_column plugin to enforce a certain content type based on regex (i.ie, /^image/) and/or filesize (150k) ? thanks adam

I''m fairly new to Ruby & Rails and I come from a stricly M$ background. I''m trying to move into the world of open source, but I don''t have a good roadmap. I''m starting to develop a Rails-based product and I want to have the option to distribute it to non-hosted customers. So I''ve said all that to say this... I want to learn how to setup linux and

how do i find the available methods available to my objects in file_column ? I noticed that i can do @post.image_relative_path for my @post object to retreive the relative path. What are all the other options available to my objects thru file_column ? thanks adam

Does anyone know of a good resource on doing MLS (Multiple Listing Service) integration with Rails? My searches don''t seem to be turning up much information and I need to get a quick handle on what''s involved in this process. Many thanks!

is there a way to keep the file_column field in the form persistent across diffferent view templates ? In my controller (same controller for both views) i do @post = Post.new in the view i do form_step1.rhtml --------------------- <%= file_column_field "post", "image" %> <% if @post["image"] %> <%= image_tag url_for_file_column("post",

What does everyone on this list think about enhancing scaffolding somehow so that a "has_many" relationship will automatically drop the <select> box into the view to reference the "belongs_to" part of the view? I think scaffolding is great but I am always adding the <select> boxes to reference the parent association. Do you think this would be useful? just a

Does anybody have any issues with the AJAX code inside rails? Whenever i use any sites i have built, or even external sites (such as basecamphq) my internal security device blocks access to the Ajax piece with a 400 Bad Request ( i scoured the net for other ajax examples and no isses anywhere else). I think there is something in the AJAX code of rails that is not implemented correctly. Has

Hey, I have been progressively learning more and more rails each day (from both a current project, reading the agile book, and this list). Does anybody think it would be beneficial to have kind of like a rails "Best Practices" page that lists some of the better ways of handling certain functions of rails (that are common in most apps) that are both more elegant, and efficient. For

I am using active record sessions and everything works fine. I am integrating it with phpbb however so i need some extra fields populated in the session table. In application.rb i put a before_filter to update the session table I have a model for the sessions $ more app/models/session.rb class Session < ActiveRecord::Base set_primary_key "session_id" set_table_name

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

Still a semi-newbie, but so far I''ve managed to solve most things with a bit of help from the Agile book, some googling around, and a bit of trial-and-error, but I''m really stuck with this one (very much an Ajax newbie): I know how to gracefully degrade an AJAX newpost type call so it can appear inline or (for those without JS support) go to a new page (put an ":href

Hello, What is the best way in rails to check a session hash value for nil ? I have a session hash called user (session[:user]) that sometimes I have to check for a certain variable like session[:user].email. however the following always results in an error if session[:user].email and I always have to do if session[:user] and session[:user].email Is there a cleaner way to do this then

For those who cant access IRC, or just looking for a quick browser based alternative, i started an open jabber powered webchat for rails. Hopefully this will be a nice alternative for people to go to ask questions, get some help, offer some help, etc. I hope the community enjoys it, just trying to give a little back for all the hard work. It can be accessed here http://jabber.dufftech.com

How does one encode URLs in ROR? Thanks Frank --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it''s free and works with Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060130/60280869/attachment.html

Does anybody know how to access the domain of a cookie from inside rails? I am try to integrate phpbb forums into my site and one of the things phpbb does is store a cookie. The forums are at forums.domain.com and the site is www.domain.com so i needed to set the cookie domain in phpbb to just be ".domain.com" so both sites can access it. The trouble is when using cookies[] in rails,

Has anyone successfully integrated (embedded) vbulletin into a rails app? I would be curious to see if/how this worked. RForum still seems quite beta so I am looking for something a little more tried and true. thanks adam

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

Hello, I have a hash that contains categories, and each category ID is a hash of subcategories. What i want to do is dynamically load that hash, loop thru it, for each category , subcat run a query against the DB, and render a partial. The issue is i put the render:partial in a for loop but you can only render once per action. What is the best way to loop thru all my categories without a

I would like to have a login box setup so that if incorrect info is submitted, the box "shakes" via Effect.Shake. If the correct information is submitted, I want to redirect to some other page. The only solution I''ve found is the following, which is pretty ugly, as it displays the javascript I''m invoking on the page prior to the redirect. Here is the code: The Form