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I''m trying to install Bruce Perens'' ModelSecurity gem, but it keeps asking me if I want to install rails too (I have already installed rails). It exits if I say no and crashes if I say yes: C:\>"c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe" "c:\ruby\bin\gem" install model_security_generator Attempting local installation of ''model_security_generator'' Local gem

I''ve found vague mentions of various attempts at creating an ActiveRecord adapter for the KirbyBase pure Ruby DBMS, but nothing which looks like it''s actually working. Anyone know of such an adapter that is functional and available? b

I just replied to someone about using send_file and while I was testing my solution I figured out that the controllers "current working dir" appears to be the root of the app. Then I saw a reply that Ezra sent to someone where he used RAILS_ROOT and I thought "duh, I''ve seen that before... shoulda used that". But, when I had an action print out RAILS_ROOT

Hello, I am running OS X Server version 10.4.6 and I already have some MySQL databases working on the server. I install the RubyGem recently, however, it does not work correctly with the default MySQL. I am wondering if anybody can shed some light on: 1): how to reinstall ruby''s mysql library on the OS X server, 2): Is it possible to keep the old database files intact while reinstall

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

I am just getting into web servers/web applications and rails as well so bear with me. I am trying to write a web app that, based on a users input from the browser, will perform some task, and update the browser (ala ajax style) as needed and/or provide a way for the user to control the background task. Now, I have more experience with java servlets, which makes this easy enough for a beginner.

Hi everyone. I recently wrote a nice module that I want to use in my rails app. It consists of a few files in a directory that I have places in the lib directory. It looks like this: /lib/KMLTools/foo.rb, bar.rb, baz.rb Some of these files load each other and I finally got those to work by using the File.dirname(__FILE__) trick. When I simply require the file into my controller, everything is

Friends- I am almost finished with a custom live cd called Rubuntu ;-) This is an ubuntu live cd variant that comes preloaded with ruby and rails developers in mind. I already have it working with all the basics but I was wondering what extras people would like to see on this distro. What editors with what configurations? What other tools do people really like for rails development on a

= About Ackbar Ackbar is an adapter for ActiveRecord (the Rails ORM layer) to the KirbyBase pure-ruby plain-text DBMS. Because KirbyBase does not support SQL, joins or transactions, this is not a 100% fit. There are some changes to the ActiveRecord interface (see below), but it may still be useful in some cases. = URIs Ackbar: http://ackbar.rubyforge.org KirbyBase:

This page: http://www.rails-engines.org/download makes it sound like SVN is optional for using engines, but when I try to run the second command ("ruby script/plugin install engines"), I get the NoMethodError on nil as described in the second issue reported here: http://www.rails-engines.org/wiki/pages/Engines+plugin%3A+Known+Issues So, which is it? Do I have to have SVN installed

Hi, could someone tell me how to list and update the currently installed gems on my rails installation? Thanks in advance, -Conrad

Hi I have just released the 0.3 revision of ActiveRecord - make sure to get the fresh, hot packages from https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/releases What is ActiveRBAC? ------------------- ActiveRBAC is a Ruby on Rails library that provides a full stack RBAC (Role Based Authorization) system with user, group, role and permission management. It provides models and controllers to edit

Hi, I have the following code fragment; @comm_type = Communication.find_by_sql(''select id from communication_types where upper(description) = "EMAIL"'') Which results in >> @comm_type => [#<Communication:0x39a0f60 @attributes={"id"=>"4"}>] But when I try to test an ActiveREcord against this it doesn''t work;

Hello At the start of October, Duane Johnson announced the Query mixin plugin on this list. The code was attached to the announcement email. Unfortunately, I''ve not been able to locate the attached code. Goggle has not helped me this time. Could somebody forward it to me? Thanks in advance Harvey This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by MessageLabs.

Hi I am trying to create a plug-in to fix the error in the rails core produced by the multiple delete on a HABTM relationship. I have confirmed that my plug-in is being included into the base during runtime however the code does not seem to be overridding the base class. module ActiveRecord module Associations module ClassMethods def has_and_belongs_to_many(association_id, options =

Friends- I have taken a new job and will be moving at the end of March. The newspaper I currently work for is looking for someone to take my place. I have really enjoyed working here. It is a great environment with very nice people to work with. And the best part is you get to develop in Ruby and Rails, for everything! The paper is willing to accept applications from people who would

Hi everyone, I have 3 types of people (for now): Staff Faculty Students To break them up into classes, but keep them in the same People table, I''ve broken them up like so (code and ''ends'' snipped): class Person < ActiveRecord::Base class Employee < Person class Staff < Employee class Faculty < Employee class Student < Employee So, when I insert

Hi everybody, this is a little OT. We are using Lighttpd as a webserver for Rails. Our problem is that when we rotate the logs everyday at the end of the process, lighttpd stops writing the logs. To solve this we have to restart the server manually each time. We use a common Debian, lighttpd-1.4.7, Rails 1.0 and fcgi-2.4.0. I have tracked the lighttpd bugs, and I haven''t found

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

Hello list, I have an app that has a very simple authorization scheme. A person can have many roles and roles can have many people. In my app, I''d like to do before_filter :login_required (since no role name is provided, it accepts any users with credentials) before_filter :login_required ("administrator") (only accepts those with role administrator) before_filter