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This isn''t Rails or Ruby related, but I just need some advice and thought I''d ask the bright individuals here. I want to start my own blog but I''m not sure where to begin. I don''t want to get a blogger account because I want to have my own domain. Blogger also doesn''t have many features. My hosting service is 1AND1 so it supports php, cgi and mysql.

I''m running into the need (on at least one project now) to implement end-user-customizable "metadata" or properties on model objects. The standard example would be a Person class that had first_name, last_name, etc. but would need to be extended real-time (through the web admin interface) with properties such as phone_number : varchar (30). I''ve done some basic

Using lighttpd + fcgi to power a site. When no one has accessed it in a while, the first visit to the page takes a while to load up. Then subsequent visits are fairly fast. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Is there any reason to avoid using postgresql for small web apps? That is, is it''s overhead so large that the lighter MySQL will work substantially better for small apps on small machines? Or are they very similar in performance and configuration? I''ve used MySQL but postgresql has its appeals and I''m wondering if I need to keep MySQL around at all. On the other

I''ve setup a new mongrel cluster on my VPS, and am noticing a lot if 503 errors if I try to hit the server too many times in succession in a few seconds. I''ve read that this is usually caused by the cluster crashing, but I haven''t been seen the cluster crash when I do this. Does anyone have any other ideas what might cause this? I have my server configured how

I''m trying to jump on the TDD/BDD bandwagon, but am having trouble understanding how i should mock my user. The user has a habtm relationship to a roles model (acl_system2 plugin), but I''m not sure how to tell rspec about a model. My code: describe UsersController do integrate_views before(:each) do @user = mock_model(User)

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to maintain database reflection for the ''new'' and ''edit'' views whilst removing scaffolding? I''m trying to create a webapp that will be somewhat maintainable by colleagues (that aren''t necessarily web developers) through simple manipulation of db table fields. For example to add another field to the

Hey all, In my code, it seems that when I divide two integers, the result is an integer. Is there any way to make it such that when I divide two integers, the result is a double? Any help appreciated, Jin _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

Is there support yet for adding something to a list in sorted order? For example, you have a form to add a new item and you want the new item to be inserted in the list in the proper order. I''ve noticed the :position option in the form_remote_tag but it doesn''t seem like you can use it to keep things in sorted order. Rod Schmidt http://rodschmidt.blogspot.com "Do or

friends of the int-arweb. what does this mean: (in bold) ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Contact#create SQLite3::SQLException: SQL logic error or missing database: INSERT INTO contacts Context: this happened after I had finished setting up RoR as per the tutorial at http://maczealots.com/tutorials/ruby-on-rails/ the database, is like, there. is there a nice ruby command like deal to

Our group has several web apps developed in ColdFusion, PHP, and Rails. The ColdFusion and PHP apps are on an older server, and the Rails apps on a new server. Ideally, we''d like them all to share the same server. Our current setup for the Rails server is Apache2.2 with mod_proxy_balancer and mongrel_cluster. We''d like to have specific directories be processed and served by

Howdy, I am using the ''default'' Apache 2.2 mod_rewrite rules suggested from the Web site and they are working. One thing related to static (non cluster directed) resources: If I have a directory in public called ''static'', if I request it as follows: http://www.domain.com/static/ - then it works If I request it as: http://www.domain.com/static - then it

Hi, I''m newbie to rails, so please be gentle with me. I got one of the new powerbooks that apple just released last month (october 2005). I installed rails using RubyGems and also the installer for mac osx found here http://www.tonyarnold.com/articles/2005/08/10/rolling-with-ruby-on-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-for-beginners everything seems to update and install fine. But when I type

I need to insert ~100k rows into the database, but using "Table.new(...).save" is painfully slow (I notice in the logs that it''s wrapping each insert in a transaction -- that can''t be fast). Any suggestions on how I can improve the speed of bulk inserts like this? Thanks ... -- Steve

Hi, I just realice that I can''t run php code anymore once I installed my dear mongrels (under an Apache Proxy Balancer). I''m just trying to run the clasic phpinfo() in the following file /var/rubyapp/public/phpinfo.php ... but instead of being executed the code is being displayed as plain text ... This is the ouput :)) <?PHP phpinfo(); ?> anyone can give a

There are some interesting comments re Paul Murrell's new book, R, & SAS on Andrew Gelman's blog: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/04/a_new_book_on_r.html -- Tony Plate

Hello list, Some time ago I was looking for apache (as non balanced proxy) + mongrel configurations. Almost everybody seemed to use similar approaches (one of these could be found @ mongrel.rubygorge.org docs) with mod_rewrite. I don''t use proxy_balancer because I don''t need it at the moment (my site has pretty low traffic). This is apache configuration that I''m using

I am pleased to announce the immediate release of Radius 0.5.0. Radius is a small, but powerful tag-based template language for Ruby inspired by the template languages used in MovableType <www.movabletype.org> and TextPattern <www.textpattern.com>. It uses tags similar to XML, but can be used to generate any form of plain text (HTML, e-mail, etc...). This release is much more feature

Hi, I''m running a rails (mongrel) based web service behind an apache proxy, on windows 2003. Sometimes I see a POST in the apache log that returned a 404 but nothing about it in the rails log. It doesn''t happen every time, 9 out of 10 times it works just fine. The post (is actually a put) comes from a .NET application uploading a small xml-file. The log message in apache

hi all, i''m working on deploying my app w/ apache and a mongrel cluster. i''ve started by copying the instructions and code from the agile rails book and everything seems to be working fine but apache isn''t forwarding my requests to mongrel the way i expect it should. there''s nothing in the rewrite logs and nothing but 404 errors in the apache error logs.