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Any ideas with fixing this? Doesn''t work properly, although it doesn''t throw any runtime errors. # Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the application. module ApplicationHelper def options_for_months(selected_month)

I have a function i want to be used in both views and controllers: def year_to_fiscal_year(year) # converts, say, an integer 2003 into ''0304'' year.to_s[2,2] << (year+1).to_s[2,2] end Where should i put it ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Here''s what i''m trying to do: Have 3 dropdowns up the top of a page, being: year, month, department, and group. Also a button underneath that called refresh. When you click refresh, it finds the 1 row of data from the database for that year/month/dept/group and populates the fields into a set of textboxes below. Then you can edit what is in those textboxes, and click a

Ezra et al: I have this problem: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/2006-December/000578.html Any progress on it? Or are unit tests simply impossible for now? -- Phlip http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!

Another newbie question: How do i convert a float to a string, rounded to a certain number of decimals? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In Cucumber... Is there a simple way to find out what file a scenario is defined in? I''d like to use this information to load a set of fixtures depending on which feature is being run. So if I''m running the ''login.feature'' file, I''d like to be able to load the set of fixtures under ''/fixtures/login/*.yml'' _Kevin -- Posted via

Hi all, When i use the ''delete_all'' function to remove a few rows from my database, it causes a deadlock on the sql server. The delete seems to be successful, it then redirects to the ''view'' page, and the record does appear to be deleted as far as the ''view'' rails page shows. BUT if i go into sql query analyser, i can''t do a

Here''s what I''ve got: <% @fields.each do |field_name| %> <tr> <td> <%= field_name.humanize %> </td> <td> <% unless field_name =~ /_id$/ %> <%= form.text_field field_name, :size => 40 %> <% else %> <%= select(:vendor, field_name, State.find(:all, :order

I need to access params[:field_name] from within my Model. @params[:field_name] isn''t working?

Hi, I have an index where each document contains an untokenized ''url'' field. I would like to query the index for the most popular urls. In SQL I would do this via a Group By clause. Is there anything in Ferret that will do something similar? I found this discussion that proposed a solution involving TermEnums:

hi, what''s the way to reset the form generated by the form_remote_tag after the successful submission of the form? thanks

I have a date where the year range is more then I want to define in a select_date scaffold generated year range. My idea was to have the year entered as a text field and the month and day using something like: <%= select_month @person.born,:prefix => :person ,:field_name => "born(2i)" %> <%= select_day @person.born,:prefix => :person , :field_name =>

Is there a decent way to add a field to a form before posting it? I haven''t tried using HPricot manipulations just yet, since I can''t ever find really solid docs on hpricot.... Form#[]= doesn''t work because it first searches only pre-existing fields. I''m investigating how to write a patch now. But I thought maybe someone here might have an idea.

I haven''t delved into the wonderful world of PDF::Writer yet, nor have I run across a need.. but I just had an idea I wanted to throw out there how hard would it be to create a .rpdf template plugin for rails? could be neat ;]

Hi ! I?m newbie with Xapian ! I?m looking for the best way to index json data to be able to search by name/value pair and Full Text Search using only Xapian. I did haven?t success to found a complete or a good documentation about json index and search. Do you know some documentation about ? Another problem that I have is that: In the same name/value pair sometimes I have different data types

In my save function in my (ajax!!!) controller, i''ve got a bit like this: if ... flash[:notice] = ''NOT SAVED: This month is locked'' render :partial => ''edit'' else save it... redirect to ''show'' action.... ... If i try to save an entry for a locked month, it correctly brings me back to my edit action with the

How can i run and get the value from the following sql: select avg(my_field) from my_table where which_year=''0506'' and which_week <= 21 and my_foreign_key_id=10 cheers -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Dear list, I ''m using a text input field with autocompletion . The suggestions come from a ferret index which is created by getting all the terms belonging to other indices. Here is the code: class Suggestion attr_accessor :term def self.index(create) [Person, Project, Orgunit].each{|kl| terms = self.all_terms(kl) terms.each{|term| suggestion =

Hi, I just released a plugin to help debug views. The plugin makes it easy to add a button that will popup a new window that displays the following debug data; * Request Parameters * Session Variables * Flash Variables * Assigned Template Variables It was derived from code that traces back to Marten Veldthuis in Epilog. You can check out webpage and plugin via;

I would like to set some db session variables specific to my application on the database connection that rails uses. They can be set by issuing an SQL command like "SET statement_timeout = 1000" once - it will be in effect for every subsequent SQL statement that uses this connection. So I tried to put the following into an initializer: ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SET