similar to: Persistent form data (using sessions?)

hello, I am trying to implement a "remember be" box for logins, however I cant seem to get it to work. I have tried the following 2 methods but neither seem to work. When i check the expiry time in firefox it always says "end of session". What is the proper way to handle this so the session cookie "_session_id" doesnt expire for a year? I tried

What is the recommended amount of time to keep sessions around in the database (i store them in a sessions table). IF you get 1 million requests per day you are going to get 1 million new session entries in the DB. This would need some serious cleaning so just wondering what a safe cleanup time would be. Also does anyone know how to prevent new sessions records from being created if session

is there a way to keep the file_column field in the form persistent across diffferent view templates ? In my controller (same controller for both views) i do @post = Post.new in the view i do form_step1.rhtml --------------------- <%= file_column_field "post", "image" %> <% if @post["image"] %> <%= image_tag url_for_file_column("post",

Hi there I have a for with a couple of text_fields. I''m doing some validation via the model and when the validation "works" I get there was an error on blah blah the problem is the form is erased and I have to fill up the form again! I saw that scaffold keeps the form filled when the validation "works" but I dont know exactly what''s making it happen! I would

I keep getting this error in rails 1.1, does anybody know what it means? My site will be working fine, i do some more development, get a parse error, and then all of a sudden the page 404''s with the following error Session contains objects whose class definition isn''t available Remember to require the classes for all objects kept in the session. (Original exception:

I am using active record sessions and everything works fine. I am integrating it with phpbb however so i need some extra fields populated in the session table. In application.rb i put a before_filter to update the session table I have a model for the sessions $ more app/models/session.rb class Session < ActiveRecord::Base set_primary_key "session_id" set_table_name

i have a 2 step form which contains 1 file_column field. The second form is just "This is how your post will look" kind of form and the user can click Edit (to take them back to form1) or Submit. If the user clicks edit it takes them back to the first form with fields populated. I have it working with all text fields, I just dont know how to do this with file_column field (showing the

is there any special requirement for validates_confirmation_of ? I am trying to make sure 2 passwords are equal (cleanly the rails way).. In my view i have two fields with id user[password] and user[password_confirmation]. in the model i have validates_confirmation_of :password, :message =>"Passwords do not match " Am i missing something here ? thanks adam

Hey guys, I''m trying to have a simple webform in my administration section to add a user. I have the text_fields for adding the user''s name, password, and password confirmation, but cannot seem to figure out the checkbox. I want it to be a single checkbox, that if clicked, will set the database column "access" to be "admin" and if its unchecked, set it to be

Hello, What is the best way in rails to check a session hash value for nil ? I have a session hash called user (session[:user]) that sometimes I have to check for a certain variable like session[:user].email. however the following always results in an error if session[:user].email and I always have to do if session[:user] and session[:user].email Is there a cleaner way to do this then

Hi all I have an ADSL modem which reboots when there is a power cut and the inverter (UPS) kicks in. Internet access is down for a duration of 1 to 2 minutes while the modem boots. I have many SSH tunnels and shells active. Due to the default "TCPKeepAlive On" setting, these sessions are terminated almost immediately. I tried the following configuration: sshd_config on server:

is it possible to store a field of type file_column in the session? Rails crashes on me every time i try to do something like the following: @session[:newpost] = @params[:post] however if i assign each field of @params[:post[ except for @params[:post]["image"] i have no problems. Is there something that should be done to allow the file in the session? thanks adam

I am trying to update multiple objects (in a collection) from a single form. I found an explanation of how to do it for text_fields in the Agile book (v2, P.499 PDF), but I can''t figure out how to do the same thing for a select group. I would really appreciate some help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

What does everyone on this list think about enhancing scaffolding somehow so that a "has_many" relationship will automatically drop the <select> box into the view to reference the "belongs_to" part of the view? I think scaffolding is great but I am always adding the <select> boxes to reference the parent association. Do you think this would be useful? just a

since webrick does not need to run with FCGI how do you get a rails app in FCGI mode to reload the controller (since it caches in production). Is it simply a restart of apache ? adam

Does anybody have any issues with the AJAX code inside rails? Whenever i use any sites i have built, or even external sites (such as basecamphq) my internal security device blocks access to the Ajax piece with a 400 Bad Request ( i scoured the net for other ajax examples and no isses anywhere else). I think there is something in the AJAX code of rails that is not implemented correctly. Has

Hello, I''m trying to create a form that will allow a user to submit a list of phone numbers, but the list is dynamically created. Thus allowing my form to submit an unknown number of phone numbers. Here is some of the code I have been trying: <%= collection_select( "phone[]", "phone_type_id", PhoneType.find(:all, :order => "position"),

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

Hey, I have been progressively learning more and more rails each day (from both a current project, reading the agile book, and this list). Does anybody think it would be beneficial to have kind of like a rails "Best Practices" page that lists some of the better ways of handling certain functions of rails (that are common in most apps) that are both more elegant, and efficient. For

Hi all All my forms should look the same, so I think always putting the right div etc. tags around them is a violation of the DRY principle. Until now my forms look like that: <div class="text_field"> <label for="news_item_subject">Subject:</label> <%= text_field "news_item", "subject" %> </div> Now I want the default