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I am a total RoR virgin, and took my first steps this weekend into the Ruby world. A lot of sites I create need to be as SEO friendly as possible, particularly for google. Before I delve any further, can anyone tell me how friendly the dynamic URLs or if there is the usual rewrite mod for rugby? Thanks Mike -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to use a different layout for just one action in my controller, all the other actions use the application.rhtml layout, so what i''m doing is ... class SomeController < ApplicationController layout "simple", :only=> :some_action ...... end and the "simple" layout is applied to all the actions, can someone please give me a hint?

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve noticed that it is possible to pass javascript unaltered through the sanitize function using CSS. For example: sanitize( "<style type=''text/css''>body{background-image:url(''javascript:window.alert(1)'') }</style>" ) IE will execute the javascript. Firefox will not. I haven''t tried it with any other browsers.

is there a way to replace unkown action error with a pretty 404 page ? I set the ErrorDocument 404 in .htaccess, however when someong goes to http://www.mysite.com/bogus i would like it to show a 404 error instead of just "Uknown action". Is this possible with a rescue or something? adam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I need to allow login based on the phone number. During the signup they can give the number in any format with spaces, slash or (). But for storing in database and then during login to compare I just want the 10 digit number. How can I remove the special char from phone number before storing to db ? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hiall, Is it possible to organize my model files below app/models into subfolders? E.g. I would like to put admin related models into their own subfolder. This kind of structuring works for controllers and views (scaffolding creates the right subfolder-model mappings), but app/models always stays flat. I''d really like to be able to group my code into logical, well packages :-) Yes, I

How do I pass parameters from one controller to another during redirect_to command? I want to pass both model and non-model objects. The solution I use is via session, but I rather pass it as parameters to the redirect_to Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi All, I have been using Ruby and Rails for only a few short days and I am loving it so far. I have a couple of questions relating to a specific project I am working. 1. I am wondering about sessions expiring after a set period of in activity and what would be the easiest way to set it up. 2. I would like to be able to users on the system. Each of these users has a login of there own. Each

It seems the wiki-spam bot has been at work again. There are numerous hidden links toward the top of the page that might be better gardened out right away, if you know what I mean ;-| -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying to keep a Last Modified column in my record lists a fixed width and as narrow as possible. <td><%=time_ago_in_words record.updated_at%></td> However, making room for certain values like "less than a minute" force me to make the column twice as wide than, say, "12 hours" or "10 days". I would prefer "0

Hi There, As I have learned the hard way, let me discuss my question, idea or feature here before doing actual work on it... distance_of_time_in_words_to_now() seems to be unable to tell if this distance is in the future or in the past. I''d really like to see ''in 5 days'' or ''5 days ago'' depending on, well, if it was 5 days ago or will be in 5

I would like to put Ruby code inside a string, between <%= %> tags, and have the code inside the tags executed when the string is displayed. Is this possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I wanted the distance_of_time_in_words_to_now method to have '' ago'' suffixed to it when the date is in the past, I assumed this would be the default behaviour but apparently not. I know of a REALLY messy way that i could solve this with, but it''s so ugly I can''t be bothered Does anybody have an easy, elegant solution?

The Time::next_week method is supposed to give the time of the start of the next week. But look at this, it cocks up : >> t=Time.parse "Monday October 16th 2006" => Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week => Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week => Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 BST 2006 >> t.next_week.next_week.next_week => Mon Oct 30

Hello, I have an interessting problem, I''m not sure how to solve :-) I have the name of a model in a variable like this: My model is called Article My var contains "Article" Now - How do I get the model class, so I can call Article.find, Article.new etc ... ? Greetings, Gitte Wange

Hello all I''m having an issue with ruby on rails, and it not throwing an error where it should. I have a class ''clientpool'' that is: class Clientpool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "clientpool" set_primary_key "id" belongs_to :clients, :foreign_key => "cliname" validates_presence_of :cliname validates_associated :client end

Hi all how can I implement the singleton patter in RoR? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this

Hello, I wrote a RoR app on OSX and SQL Server. The DB uses SQL_Latin1, so I use Iconv to convert to UNICODE every dynamic text I show on the pages (Iconv.conv(''utf-8'', ''iso-8859-1'', string)). That''s been working fine until I deployed the app on a debian box. Since then, the accents are shown as question marks, and I don''t know why. The

Hello, can anyone help me. After a few weeks I returned to the rails to play with it. But I recognize that I''m now not abble to build appdoc. The same thing that few weeks ago worked without an problem now give me an error: unrecognized option `--line-numbers --inline-source'' $ rake --trace --verbose reappdoc (in /home/radek/src/firma/giga-net/ncc/work) ** Invoke reappdoc