similar to: <%= works, print doesn''t

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

simple question: how do I output something from within <% %> tags? e.g. like ''echo'' in PHP. I thought it would be ''puts'' or ''print'' but neither seems to work. right now I always close the %> and open a <%= which is tedious. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi Folks, Just a quick message saying that, after much demand, I wrote a quick write-up for the RoR + XUL thing I did yesterday: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/programming/ruby_xul.html It lays out the few simple things I did, has a bit of rant on an unrelated topic, and other stuff but it''s short still. On a related note, I''d like to thank "xal" on IRC for reminding

Hello, I would like to know is there is a way to avoid poluting the views with tons of <% %> ? Like this <%= start_form_tag() %> <%= text_field_tag(''category[title]'', category.title, {:size => 20, :maxlength => 128}) %> <% if not category.parent_id.nil? %> <%= select("category", "parent_id", Category.find(:all,

Hi, Ruby-GetText-Package-1.1.0 is now available. This release enhances many features for Ruby on Rails. I hope this release make your Application support L10n. And thanks for many helps! Highlights ---------- * Added some functions which managed po/mo files easily. * GetText.update_pofiles creates/updates pot/po files. The idea is from Sascha Ebach. * String% is extended to accept

Hi list: I run the ri''s ERB doc 1st sample 1. require ''erb'' 2. x = 42 3. template = ERB.new <<-EOF 4. The value of x is: 5. EOF 6. puts template.result(binding) the doc say it will print "The value of x is: 42" but my irb print "nil" and there is a "=> #<ERB:0x2970b24

Hi, I want to calculate difference between Current date & previous date (stored in database). The difference should be in days. Hhow to do that?? PLs tell me. Thanx in advance. Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, New to the list, Ruby, & RoR. I''ve been going through the Rolling With Rails tutorial, but am getting the following error when the instructions tell you to add the @recipes = Recipe.find_all line to the RecipeController: Template is missing Missing template ./script/../config/..//app/views//recipe/index.rhtml The index.rhtml file is right where it''s supposed to

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Hi I am running Mac OX tiger with the installed ruby 1.8.2, and mysql5 (I checked that it was running in preference). I tried to run the various fixes recommended in agileweb. I am stuck on page 57, script/generate scaffold... > Could you paste in your database.yml file, from the > "config" folder inside your Rails app? If you have any > passwords entered there, you should

it seems that RoR doesn''t use erb or eRuby to generate its output for rhtml? the program erb and the description of eRuby at http://www.eruby.info both said that <% print "foo bar" %> or <% puts "hello" %> will be placed into the output... but currently for RoR, it won''t... only <%= expr %> is doing it and it cannot be print or

Hi, I''m using the latest gem version of rails under MacOS Tiger. I was trying to use acts_as_tree as described in the rails book. So I have something like: class Category < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_tree :order => "title" end create table categories ( id int not null auto_increment, title

I have several Rails (version 1.0) apps I''m working on on a Win XP box using Webrick that were working fine before I left for the holidays. I came back, started up and they all get the same syntax and compile errors: compile error ./script/../config/../app/views/time/list.rhtml:4: Invalid char `\212'' in expression repeated over and over. Refreshing the page gives thes same

Hi .. I am new to Rails and it is not clear to me why I am getting the following error. Any help appreciated. -m. $cat app/views/admin/new.rhtml <% @page_title = "New member..." -%> <%= start_form_tag( :action => ''create'' ) %> <table> <tr> <td> First Name: </td> <td> <%= text_field(

Hi everyone, coming from PHP something in the .rhtml files has been confusing the heck out of me. Why does this work? <% for header in @all_headers %> <%= header.subject %> <% end %> and both of these don''t work <% for header in @all_headers puts header.subject end %> --------------------------------------- <%= for header in @all_headers puts

Hi all, First off, we''re running Puppet 2.7.6 with Ruby 1.8.7 on CentOS 6.0. Now, I''m using tildes in a template to prevent newlines from appearing but ruby/puppet is choking on them. */tmp/puppet$ cat test.erb* Line 1: Line 2 will exist if running on CentOS. <% if operatingsystem == "CentOS" ~%> Line 2: Yay, we''re running CentOS. <% end ~%>

Hey there, I just updated to ferret 10.0.4, and acts_as_ferret 0.3, and now when I try to run my app with mongrel on Windows, I get very strange compile errors: ompile error C:/rails/app/script/../config/../app/views/login/index.rhtml:8: Invalid char `\002'' in expression C:/rails/app/script/../config/../app/views/login/index.rhtml:9: syntax error _erbout.concat "

I am a total Ruby/RoR n00b having just started reading the ''Ruby on Rails Bible'' book two days ago. I''ve been trying to work out through the introductory ''Your first ruby on rails application'' section, but I''ve run into problems already! The book goes on about creating the view templates and naming them with the *.html.erb extension, but I get

I''ve have a very tight schedule project that MUST (not my option), be developed in PHP. Is there a Rails based framework for this platform? I like the Rails way of things, but in this case, I cannot choose the programming language, so please don''t offend me :-) Thanks in advance, Alessandro _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

Greetings, I am working on extending a new part of our site to use Ruby on Rails, and have several portions of the site that is included in external files. The rest of the site is built on top of MovableType and uses PHP Includes to reference the external files. Is there similar functionality in Ruby or Rails that I can use so I don''t have to update excess content in two