similar to: Generating a long, unique "ticket" number.

Hi there- What''s the easiest/most efficient way to perform a zerofill in Ruby? i.e. Given the value ''val'', I would like to do something like: val = 43 puts val.zerofill(8) ---> "00000043" gsub? sprintf of some sort? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello Rails Community, I put this request out to the community a few weeks ago and got one reply and he ended up being too busy to do it. So, let me try again. I have a need to generate a shipping order from an application that is rails driven. All the data for the shipping order is contained within two tables. I feel like it it too cumbersome to map out all the coordinates for the

I want to create a random string of length n that is made up of characters and integers. Is there a function in rails or ruby that allows me to do this? Thank you my friend :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net

(Donning flameproof suit) Am I the only person who thinks that the Ruby forum software sucks? E.g. search only for a word. Can''t search for new posts, can''t search by date, topic list doesn''t indicate when I''ve already read a post, there can be several independent replies to a topic, just to name a few. There are lots (admittedly not Ruby based) of good

Hello- I would like to know what the suggested practice is for having multiple submit buttons on a relatively complicated input page. Let''s use the example of a Contact. There is lots of info there, including name, address, phone number. There is also a list of "contact associations" which can be modified on the same page. Ideally, the user could have one

Hey folks- If I wanted to distribute my code to users that would run the code on their own machine, how could I go about encrypting the source to run on a user''s machine? PHP has the Zend Encoder among others, I believe. Is there anything similar for Ruby? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I admit I am stuck. I am converting a legacy php site to ROR. The old site uses MD5, a security flaw waiting to happen. I upgraded to AAA and am adding code in the session_controller.rb file to see if crypted_password is blank. If it is, crypt and check the password against the old md5 version and write it in the new crypted_password field. Here is my code add on before the logged_in?: def

Hello- With a database filled with several customers'' datasets, I thought it would be a nice feature of my app''s backend interface to be able to extract (and optionally delete) the data from a single customer. It would then also be nice to rebuild that data from the stored info. What''s a good way to do this efficiently? If all the ":dependent => true"

Hello all, I have a client with an older Rails 1.8 app (was recently upgraded from 1.6) and I need to integrate a php site to use the same user login creds. I''m not very versed with Ruby but I think this is the code that encrypts the password. [code] # Encrypts some data with the salt. def self.encrypt(password, salt) Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("--#{salt}--#{password}--")

Hello- I''m new to the ruby-based schemas and migrations. As I''m looking over examples and such online, I see that many of them don''t make use of schema-enforced attributes. For example, instead of: t.column "post_id", :integer, :default => 0, :null => false They do: t.column "post_id", :integer So I''m wondering -- is this

Let''s say I create a "ticket system" that has a support ticket with a status attached to it. (Say, OPEN or CLOSED for now, but more later) The status -could- be another table in the database listing status types, but I think that''s unnecessarily complex and overly flexible for this. (opinions on this point would be interesting) Another alternative would be to

Is there any information on how to go about accessing a strongspace account from a rails app? What are the preferred methods for doing this? Are there plugins for RoR that support SFTP transfers and so on? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All the examples I''ve seen have the SSH repository accessed via http:// Does Switchtower support svn+ssh:// URLs? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hello- I''d like to throw a little AJAX into a table to allow the user to edit a single row of data inline rather than moving to another page. The row (which has N columns) would be swapped out for a row which has a single column (colspan="N") and the form inputs would be in that row. My question is, is this legal HTML? I can''t find anything that says either way.

Hi all- I just decided to move from my 1.1.0 to 1.1.2. I had previously frozen to 1.1.0 and therefore had all of rails in SVN in my vendor directory. When I finally got rake freeze_gems to work, it blasted (rm -rf) my vendor/rails directory and put a new one in there. This also blasted all my .svn directories. Is there some convenient way to do a freeze upgrade and play well with SVN?

I have a situation where I want to edit an arbitrary number of instances of one model on one page. I can and have accomplished this by manually managing the object <-> text field relationship, but in a way I consider at best hackish. I''d like to know a clean way to do this. If you want to edit the name attribute on a person class, you write code like this

I''m in the process of creating a sign up form for an online application. The form collects account info, company info, and then info for an administrative user. The method looks like this: def create @account = Account.create!(params[:account]) @company = @account.companies.create!(params[:company]) @user = @company.users.create!(params[:user]) end However, this inevitably fails

Hello-- I''m investigating the API facet of my site and wanted to ask a couple questions: 1. The Agile book describes adding an API using the web_services generator which adds stuff to app/api. In Rails 1.1, Jamis added some wants.xml stuff to the controller code which also allows API generation. Which is better to use now? Do they mutually exclude one another? 2. In some cases, I

Hello- I have a database/rails design question. I''d like the user to be able to specify a set of fields they would like associated with items. Imagine a shopping cart where each item has a description and price. But a particular customer may choose to associated a color with all her items. (it will be site-wide, so every item listed for this particular user will have this