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Hi: I have a table called clients and each client has many lists (a has_many and belongs_to has been created in the class. What I need to do is get a count of the rows in each list for each client. I was hoping I could do something like client.lists.count but it does not seem to work. Any suggestions? bruce

I create a hash using this line of code @x = Account.find(:all) I then want to go through each element in turn and add a key value pair to the end of it. I thought this would work, but it does not. @x.each do |a| a.merge({"balance"=>50} I used merge because I thought ''a'' would be a hash (how do you find out the type of an object?) I then guess it was

Hi: Some French fellow posted a notice yesterday about a book that had come out. It''s called "Ruby on Rails" and is apparently by DHH & David Thomas. Is this a scam? If not, does anyone know where I can buy this book in English? I''ve searched the usual places but can''t turn anything up. Bruce

Hi: I love Locomotive and use it exclusively for my rails projects. I''d like to install GRUFF and give it a try (a graph image creation package). I know I can do sudo gem install gruff from the command line for normal ruby and rails. How do I make gems available to Locomotive? bruce

Hi: Would it be fair to say (or completely out to lunch) that a local variable is local to a method and an instance variable is local to an object. Thus an instance variable is a sort of limited global variable or super-powered local variable. Its scope is larger than a local but smaller than a global. Or that it is a global within a limited domain (the object). or is it a whole lot

I am reposting this because not only am I VERY interested in the answer but because I think it would also be useful to many, many people. We kind of have a house-style here, so it would be nice if the generated scaffold.css would accommodate that. My questions are? Is it possible? Is it safe? How? bruce

I''d like to take some advice and write a generator to change the scaffold.css. How do I do that? I looked on the wiki and googled it but have not found anything yet. Any help would be much appreciated. bruce

I added :accesskey=>"D" to the html options hash of my link_to tag but nothing happened. Should I keep trying or is this not an option yet? bruce

I see an abbreviation in the menu called lia but how do I make it work. I have tried a fascinatingly large number of possibilities without success. I have searched the help file and googled the issue. bruce

I notice that I begin each project with a standard css file which is the one produced by scaffolding PLUS some other stuff. I could cut and paste a copy from an old project but I thought it would be "cooler" amongst other things (like more efficient) to just have the scaffold.css file be created for me. Is it possible? Is it safe(ish), What would I have to do? Thanks in

Hi all, On the rails list I''ve seen that it''s hard to integrate Rails with Apache (especially apache2), that it''s hard to change the default port (3000), and that Apache runs Rails stuff slowly. Is it reasonable to run Rails stuff on Webrick while simultaneously running other stuff on Apache? How does one simultaneously run two rails applications on Webrick, when

Hi: I have lines in a table I wish to stripe BUT, every now and then there is another type of line, a section header line. I''d like to be able to start the line after a section heading always as one of the two classes the cycle helper is cycling between. Is it possible? If so, how? bruce PS. I realise I could do this with ''odd_or_even'' or the %2 method (mod

Hi: I am using a collection_select to select which client''s records I want. Everything works properly EXCEPT the list box reverts to its initial value rather than holding onto the client whose records I am now viewing. ?

hi: I am on Mac OSX 10.4 using locomotive. My ActionMailer configuration is ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp # or :sendmail or test ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = { :address => "mail.albertafilmworks.com", :port => 25, :domain => "brucebalmercanada.com" } ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true

Hi: @x = Invoice.find(:first) if @x do one thing else do another end This ought to work but does not. I think that @x is nil but if I test for existance or @x != nil or @x.attribute != nil - my code does not respond correctly. What is the value of @x if there are no records yet in the invoices table? Thanks in advance. bruce

Hello, I just installed radrails and it will not run the webbrick because a version is already running on my mac. I do not know how to shut down the mac version. Thanks Regards, Frank Rocco farocco-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org

Does anyone have an idea of the rates being charged by Rails developers (or salaries for FTEs)? I''m curious to see whether rates will become comparable to those paid to more experienced Java/.NET developer types, or if rates will be lowered by the free/open source mentality, and the possible perception that Rails makes Web development "easy." Sometimes rates are more

I am writing a banking / accounting / bookkeeping system for myself. I have orgs (who pay me or who I pay) and line_items (day to day transactions that mirror the entries on my bank statements) On my line_items screen I have a select box with various orgs in it. I''d like to have a way to add an org write there on that screen rather than have to leave it and go back to the orgs

I am building an invoicing system but cannot use the auto_increment field to determine the invoice number (because they are running 3 different companies off the one system. I need to find the last invoice number from any given company and then add 1 to it to get the next invoice number. BUT, there is a unique case on the very first invoice produced because there is no earlier invoice

Okay, I know this will probably be a very easy question. But I am discovering that RonR makes just about everything easy. The problem is, it takes me a few hours to figure out that I can do it the easy way. I need to know how to move to the next record in a database. I want to format my out put in a table. For example, I want a 3 by 3 table. So record one goes in the first cell, record