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Is it possible to write map.connect rules in route.rb that externally redirect (HTTP 302) to other actions? thanks csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

With this route: map.connect ''items/:subject/:id'', :controller=>''items'', :action=>''show_redirect'', :requirements => {:subject => /.+/, :id => /\d+/} Is it possible to have it match these URLs: items/biology/123 items/chemistry/234 items/math/456 But not these: items/new items/list ... The problem is that :requirements only

How can I handle ''recognition failed'' errors so they act like typical 404 errors? By displaying a message, page and/or redirecting. thanks csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Is there a way to do this in a view? <% redirect_to ''http://url.com'' %> All I can think of is outputting a link and using Javascript to click it, or probably do something like ''doc.location(url)''. csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Is there some way to have these two sets of URLs use totally different controllers and templates? categories/list categories/show/1 admin/categories/list admin/categories/edit/1 admin/categories/destroy/1 admin/categories/update/1 Besides, of course, using different controller names ;). The first URL is publicly accessible, while the second contains admin functions. Also, with the second,

I''ve looked through the docs and the wiki and can''t figure out how to go about generating select options and the update function for an item that has a HABTM relationship. I have a ''parks'' table and the park model has a HABTM to the ''states'' table. On the park edit page, I''d like a multiple select box to appear with all states show,

With a hash such as: stuff = {''1''=>''desc 1'', ''2''=>''desc 2'', ''3''=>''desc 3''} options_for_select(stuff) will output: <option id="desc 1">1</option> <option id="desc 2">2</option> <option id="desc 3">3</option>

Rather than having a file upload field, I want to have a text field where a URL can be specified, then get the file from the URL and treat it like a typical file upload (presumably saving it in /tmp). Anybody know how to do this? Thanks csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Is there an easy way to deal with nil properties in templates? All I''m aware of are these methods, and it''s quite tedious and surely violates DRY. <%= @member.name unless @member.name.nil? %> <%= @member.name.to_is %> <%= "#{@member.name}" %> csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the

Here''s what I use, in a crontab entry: */30 * * * * find /var/www/html/rails/public/categories/ -mmin +60 -exec rm {} \; I''d also like to remove empty directories, which are easy enough to find with the ''-empty'' param, but rmdir trips on non-empty parent directories which it finds before children, and I''m not sure if I want to use ''rm

I currently have a dedicated server at ev1servers, but it''s getting rather antiquated (Redhat 9) and am looking to upgrade. I''m thinking about serverbeach.com - one of their CentOS servers. Anybody have any recommendations for dedicated servers on which to run Rails? Hopefully less than $200/month. Thanks! CSN __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?

Is there a quick and easy way to paginate something like @member.items (Member with has_many :items)? Right now I do in the controller: @item_pages, @member_items = paginate :item, :conditions=>["member_id=?", @member.id], :per_page=>25, :order=>''datetime desc'' It''d be more DRY if this was possible: @item_pages, @member_items = paginate

Anybody else experiencing problems accessing ruby-forum.com ? For the past week or so I''ve mostly not been able to access it. It either never loads, or displays a 500 error message. I prefer it though to direct email, or the Mailman archives. csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

I have a feeds controller which generates RSS and Atom pages. I put ''caches_page :show'' in it. The problem is that the pages are saved with an html extension. As a result, browsers display the cached feeds as HTML rather than XML, and feed validators complain. There''s an option to set ''Base.page_cache_extension'' globally, but I don''t want

I copied (and modified) this code from AWDWR: def rescue_action_in_public(exception) case exception when ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, ActionController::UnknownAction render :template=>''/error'', :layout=>''application'', :status=>''404 Not Found'' else render :template=>''/error'',

I never would have figured this out in many moons: has_many :subscribers, :class_name => "Person", :finder_sql => ''SELECT DISTINCT people.* '' + ''FROM people p, post_subscriptions ps '' + ''WHERE ps.post_id = #{id} AND ps.person_id = p.id '' + ''ORDER BY p.first_name'' Variable

I have this code: Link.find(params[:id]).toggle!(''active'') Before it, its timestamp is: 2005-11-20 20:45:48.741973-07 After: 2005-11-20 20:45:48-07 Why does Rails take it upon itself to truncate the seconds fraction? How can I get Rails to not change it? Thanks, csn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

I do it because: 1. Different retrieved records use different variations of the same template, and may want more/fewer/different queries and present them differently. Plus templates can display whatever they want and not have to rely on the controller to assign it data. e.g. index1.rhtml can retrieve and display categories, news, calendar; index2.rhtml can retrieve and display categories, news,

I do ''@item.datetime.to_formatted_s(:rfc822)'' and it outputs: 2003-08-06T04:12:00-0600 '':db'' doesn''t work either, but '':short'' does. How can I output rfc822 without actually putting all that awful % code in my templates? I''ve also tried this in environment.rb, but it still doesn''t work:

I have an array of categories, and I wanted them split up into two columns in tables: category item_count | category item_count category item_count | category item_count category item_count | category item_count category item_count | category item_count ... Here''s the template code: <table> <tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <table