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Hi, I populate a couple of text_field_tag''s with data from an AciveRecord object. Some fields are editable and at the end of the page there''s a submit button. I want the new values to be updated in the DB but by default my original values are stored again. How do i go about doing this? thanks/jens AIM: jens.tinfors@mac.com Skype: jtinfors

Hi, I''d like to allow users to upload images and store those images in a Postgres database. I''ve looked through the example in "aguile development with rails" which suggests using the MySQL blob field. When I wrote a similar app in Java, we Base64 encoded the file and then stored it as a text field. Is this easy to do in RoR too? Any advice you can give me would

I''d like to announce acts_as_habtm_list plugin for rails. acts_as_habtm_list is a Ruby on Rails plugin, that can manage ordered lists through a join-table. It is providing almost the same Api as acts_as_list. The position column has to be defined in the join table. You can find additional information at: http://www.inlet-media.de/acts_as_habtm_list/ Install it executing this command

I have a model "Childmodel" that belongs_to two other models "Parent1" and "Parent2". "Parent1" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp1" and "Parent2" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp2". i.e. The child is independently positioned within each of its parents. This works fine and gets me the useful

Hey, am i to stupid to find the information about how to route to a controller in a module? Maybe module support has gone! The controller is under: app/controllers/admin/my_controller.rb The my_controller.rb file looks like this: module Admin class MyController def index render :text => ''Hello!'' end end end How does a route to all controllers under module

I''m trying to be a good rails developer and fix DRY violations as i find them. However, i''m trying to fix this one, i cant seem to get it to work. I have two tables A and B that have a one-to-one relationship. Table B belongs_to Table A. Table A has_one Table B. I''m creating instances of Table A in different places, depending on the controller. However, for each

Hello- I would like to know what the suggested practice is for having multiple submit buttons on a relatively complicated input page. Let''s use the example of a Contact. There is lots of info there, including name, address, phone number. There is also a list of "contact associations" which can be modified on the same page. Ideally, the user could have one

I''m very new to Rails. I''ve been reading Agile Web Dev for a while and read up on ruby, but I''m still learning. I designed a website for someone for an engineering shop. New projects had to be added manually. Well, I figured this would be a great canidate for railifying! I have the form working perfectly, you can add your data and get it in a table, and listing

Hey folks- If I wanted to distribute my code to users that would run the code on their own machine, how could I go about encrypting the source to run on a user''s machine? PHP has the Zend Encoder among others, I believe. Is there anything similar for Ruby? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello everyone! I''ve noticed, that the book uses double quotes almost everywhere. It is like <%= javascript_include_tag "prototype" %> I''ve checked the "programming ruby, 2ed" book and found that double quotes are most suited when escape sequences and substitutions are required. Isn''t it more semantically correct to write this code like

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

Hi there- What''s the easiest/most efficient way to perform a zerofill in Ruby? i.e. Given the value ''val'', I would like to do something like: val = 43 puts val.zerofill(8) ---> "00000043" gsub? sprintf of some sort? Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi all how to parse such email string to a array: #-------------------------------------------- "joe black"<joe_1@joe_black.com> joe_2@joe_black.com, joe_3@joe_black.com #-------------------------------------------- seems emails from user input include various format. and i have to split them to a array. any idea? regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello- With a database filled with several customers'' datasets, I thought it would be a nice feature of my app''s backend interface to be able to extract (and optionally delete) the data from a single customer. It would then also be nice to rebuild that data from the stored info. What''s a good way to do this efficiently? If all the ":dependent => true"

Hallo, what links would you recommend for an advanced programmer, who wants to know something about the basic idea and architecture of Rails. That''s no question for tutorials or howtos, but rather for theoretical documents and field reports. Can you help me? -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de

For security purposes, I often want to find objects that are ''visible''. e.g. class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :x end ... @person.x.find(params[:id]) as opposed to X.find([params[:id]). Simple enough for me. My question: Say we have - class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :x, :class_name ''Z'', .... has_many :y, :class_name

What line separator do you use when composing emails? 1. \n 2. \r\n 3. \r Is there a ''official'' line separator for emails (rfc-document?)? What separator is the most compatible between Windows, OS X and Linux? -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de

Hello! I have 2 table: users and buddies User: id, name, ... Buddy: id, user_id, user_buddy_id, ... So if you have 2 users 1,jack and 2,fred and fred is a buddy of jack, there is a Buddy object: id=1, user_id=1, user_buddy_id=2 I can declare only one belongs_to in Buddy and one has_many in User. And there is conflict if I had the second one (the first one is discarded) class User has_many

Is it possible to display the log files in the view? Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Thest are two methods:- 1) redirect_to :action => ''list'' 2) render :action => ''list'' what is difference between these two methods?????? Thanks. Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.