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Hi all, I''ve added a new library called sound.js to script.aculo.us, which allows for playing (mp3-based) sound effects. It works without using Flash, by using IE''s internal sound playback mechanism (BGSOUND) and falling back on using whatever plugin is used for audio/mpeg on other browsers (in real world terms, this means QuickTime or a QuickTime- compatible plugin).

Hi, Does anyone know is there some ruby configurations that can be done to make ruby act a little more like a statically typed language???I love its dynamic nature, but miss the safety that comes from statically typed languages like java??. Cheers in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Greetings railsers - I''m trying to add to a collection through HABTM, but the sql insert is trying to insert a PK rather than letting mysql produce the auto_increment''ed PK. ## @medication_dose holds a validated, saved model @medication_dose.medication_frequencies << MedicationFrequency.find (:all) The above bails with, Mysql::Error: #23000Duplicate

It seems like half the people on this list are writing a book on Ruby or Rails. For all the hints I''ve seen strewn across the list I have yet to see one that will focus on test-driven development for either Ruby or for Rails. If anyone is looking for a topic, please consider this. I''ve been trying to wrap my brain around the TDD process, but its way of thinking is

I''ve been working through the book ''Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce'' which is very heavy on Test Driven Development. As in, you have to write tests for scaffolding methods and validations and crap like that. And then they fail. And you KNOW its the test not the method. So you spend 2x the time writing a test that has to be adapted when requirements change. You

*PLEASE FORWARD* Inkscape: An Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Editor Overview Birds of a Feather Meeting in Co-operation with Siggraph 04 at the Los Angeles Convention Center http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/conference/birds/index.php?pageID=conference Monday, 9 August 4 - 5 pm Holiday Inn City Center Santa Monica Room Jon Phillips + Jon Cruz ### Inkscape: Draw Freely.

I''m struggling to get switchtower working, and from other posts about it I know it has something to do with ruby binding to open ssl. I''m just not sure what I should recompile/reinstall to get things to work. running: "rake remote_exec ACTION=setup" gives me ---> ...executing "mkdir -p -m 775 /usr/apps/hello-rails/releases /usr/apps/hello-rails/shared/system

I just read ''Mocks Aren''t Stubs'' and was intrigued by the notion of ''outside-in'' TDD. As a Rails developer, I''m curious if others are employing this method when developing Rails applications using RSpec. Is it common practice (or even practical) to drive the development of a Rails app by starting with view specs, then controller specs, then

Hello all, I discovered that the pdf device uses fonts to represent "points" symbols (as in plot(...,type="p",...) ). Namely it uses ZapfDingbats with symbol U+25cf. This can lead to problems when the font is not available, or available in another version (such as points being replaced by other symbols, or worst: slightly displaced). Furthermore, it also causes

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

I''ve been reading through the lucene, ferret, and aaf docs, but I''m still a bit new at full text indexing. When I create a new instance of an indexed model, and save it, it doesn''t show up in searches. Should I have to update the index of the entire model (which works) before it will return in queries? Britt

System: Linux kernel 2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper R version 2.5.1 ESS 5.2.11 on Emacs 21.4.1 ------------------------- Colleagues Having read the posts on producing perfect graphs in R, or using inkscape to edit R graphics output, I have a related question. Lately I am publishing in a journal that is very picky about their graphics formats. It is more efficient for me to get the final picky details

Dear R-users When trying to import graphics from an pdf-file to a Vector graphics editor (I use Inkscape, but i've confirmed the same problem on adobe products), all points in the graphics turn out as "q"s. This example displays the beaviour: pdf(file="points are weird.pdf") plot(1:5) dev.off() When importing the file to inkscape, I get five neatly arranged little

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204 ------- Additional Comments From britt at yenne.net 2002-04-04 18:49 ------- Okay, commenting out those lines definitely solved the problem. The pty issue happened because I didn't configure with PAM, and evidently Ensim has done something sneaky there. So, definitely a problem. -britt ------- You are receiving this mail because:

Hi all, Quick question for STI. With the following setup: class Company < AR::Base; end class Firm < Company; end Why does Firm.find(:all) return all Companies, not just those that have type==''Firm''? -- Alex

Hello, I''m wondering If I am missing something here when creating an example that sets an expecation at the top or beginning of an action but requires you to stub / mock everything that follows. Example: I want to test that a certain controller is running a before_filter...thats easy: - controller.should_receive(:require_user) - do_get But now i''ve got to mock / stub

Hi, Is the stars command in the base package or do I need to download? I am looking to make star/radar/spider charts. Thanks! Britt Britt Aronovich Marketing Analyst BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) ... Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217-01486 ... P: 718.724.8038 E: baronovich@BAM.org<mailto:baronovich@BAM.org> BAM.org Facebook.com/BAMstage

I suppose it''s just idle curiosity... but I''m wondering if there are any Railsers from/in Bristol (I mean the English city, if there''s more than one) ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060310/7ee9689d/attachment.html

Hi everyone - sorry if this is a bit OT, I''m not subscribed to the ''ruby-talk'' list, but if anyone wants to cross post this over there... This is just a quick announcement to let people know that I''ve built a basic RDoc Dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger. It''s still beta-ish, but seems to work okay for me - and it''s a convenient reference

Hey railsers...anyone run into this problem? I''m developing an app which I''m deploying with Capistrano. That being said, I''ve stuck all the file_column goodies in public/system/... During my deployment script I chmod -R that directory and everything in it to make sure www-data (the apache user/group) has access to it. In development mode on my Macbook I can upload