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Hi All, I am looking for a way to dynamically load a view, inside a template, based on uri that does not officially exist inside of rails. i.e. a typical CMS system such as wordpress that stores the html from the pages in a database. I have found a page on the the rails wiki ( http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToRunAnActionBeforeRoutes) that seems to be what I want, but lacking a few

Don''t know if anyone else has experienced this but I''m having a problem with the access_denied method in Ezra''s ACL access control plugin. It''s working fine (in conjunction with acts_as_authenticated) until it comes across a user it denies access to, in which case it throws the following error: NoMethodError in Admin#index protected method

I am struggling to understand the methodology here... I have a find.rhtml <%= start_form_tag :action => ''list2'', :first_name = client %> <%# render :partial => ''form'' %> <p><label for="client_first_name">First name</label><br/> <%= text_field ''client'', ''first_name''

I have just taken on a new site and they were running ruby on rails for their store. I have finally found the database but I cannot get the store to work. I can''t even get it to show up. I have never used this software before and have no idea where to start. All I know is the client was upset when I told them we wou;ld have to start a new store. They apparently have a few hundred of

I have tried all night trying to find a way to get the host name which is currently being used within my routes.rb file to do some case/when switching for specific domains such as this cgi = ActionController::CgiRequest.new(CGI.new) case cgi.domain(1) when /www/ map.connect '''', :controller => ''public'', :action => ''index'' when

Hello Community, is it possible to include perl scripts into a ruby view (.rhtml)? If yes, the structure has to be /public --> /cgi-bin like in a web application with cgi scripts? Best regards, Mathias -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m trying to write a sidebar menu with dynamic menus, and to do so I would like to define a list of menus to display within my sidebar component controller code and pass that list to the component display view, like so: # menu_controller.rb class Sidebar::MenuController < ActionController::Base uses_component_template_root @menus = %w{admin user help} def display

Hello, I''m writing a search function for my application, but I am unsure on how to search for all results that contain my search string; here''s what I''ve got: def search @products = Product.find(:all, :conditions => "date_available < now()", :conditions => [ "title ilike ?",

Is there a simple way to format your data in the .rhtml file? I come from a PHP/Smarty background, and in the templates, I''ve used what is called "modifiers" to format data. {$price|currency_format} # displays in currency format {$description|truncate:"100"} # Truncates the description after 100 characters It seems like the template (rhtml) would be the ideal

after playing with the DB interaction I''m moving on to doing some file IO. but I''m completly lost as to where to put the code and how to call it. I''m trying to get a list of files in a directory and it''s not obvious to me how to do this in Rails via a controller method. so ruby code is Dir.entries("testdir").last and html code is <%=

Friends- I wanted to let people know that there is a new experimental release of this plugin. I would love feedback on syntax and features. There is now a full test suite with fixtures that covers all the available syntax. Look at the test suite for more syntax possibilities. There have been many additions since my last release. Fabien Atelier has been working on this with me and has

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;

I have a layout that provides the basic outline of each page in my app. It has a title, footer and a navigation bar. In the title I want to put the name of the current user that is logged in. I could do something like @session[:username] but I would rather encapsulate that into a single variable so that I can change the key in the session map if I want without having to goto each page that

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 there, I am newbie both in Ruby and in Rails. My experience is mostly PHP. In PHP, there is a var_dump($mixed) function that dumps the object $mixed to std_out. This is helpful to see the curent value of a variable, of if it is an object, everything that is in the object. Is there an equivalent methods in RoR? Thanks, Ezra -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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