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Hi, I am very new to this so please go easy on me... I am trying to deploy my app on dreamhost and I seem to be having problems getting it working. One of the troubleshooting items on the wiki states: Rails apps in production mode do not reflect changes made after they start running. So, if you found a bug, fixed it and nothing appeared to happen--this is probably because you

I just started playing with rails this week and am working on porting our existing website to rails in our navigation we have a list that has the days of the week that link to the articles for those days. this seems to be working when I had it in the template it would give me the array I was looking for so I decided to move it to the helper so that I could use it on all my templates.

Quick question: If I want to schedule different worker methods defined in the same worker to trigger at different times, is this possible? Would the following scheduler yaml work? :schedules: :foo_worker: :worker_method: method1 :trigger_args: 0 */10 * * * * * :job_key: some_key_1 :foo_worker: :worker_method: method2 :trigger_args: 0 */15 * * * * * :job_key:

We''re seeing these errors intermittently: ### Mysql::Error: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction: UPDATE `chairs` SET `published_at` = NULL, `updated_at` = ''2008-07-30 15:31:05'' WHERE `id` = 2147 [RAILS_ROOT]/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/ connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:147:in `log'' ### The root issue is probably

Hello All, I''m making a quick application that tracks outgoing links to referral sites. I need to track the user and the url they went to so the easiest way would be to take the entire url as a parameter and log that into the database. I was wondering if I could do something like this with routing: http://www.example.com/user/jump/http://www.myvendor.com/referral.php?

I''m trying to use the CGI module to generate the html in a view but am having trouble. My controller looks like: class MyTestController < ApplicationController def cgitest require ''cgi'' @cgi=CGI.new("html3") end end My cgitest.rhtml view document simply has: <%= @cgi.out{@cgi.html{@cgi.head{}}} %> Loading MyTest/cgitest, Rails tells me that

Hi, I want to update an existing row in table "items" where items.id == 10 I tried this: item = Item.new item.f1 = ... item.f2 = ... ... item.id = 10 item.save I got an error Duplicate entry ... for key 10 : INSERT INTO items ... How do I make item.save to use UPDATE instead of INSERT? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Heyho, I start to discover RSpec but it seems that just on my second day I ran into some strange trouble with the rescue_action of my controllers. Just like in Rails 2.0 where there is a rescue_from Exception, :with => :foo_method thing to rescue exception thrown in actions in the production environment, I did a little helper that rescues my action exceptions with a defined class. For