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Ok, I''m pretty sure I''ve seen this done before. I have a fixture that isn''t named the same as the table I want to insert the stuff into. Whats the right way to go about this?! Google has failed me! :( -Nick

Hi! There''s something I don''t understand yet about static/private methods. I hope someone can explain... E.g.: class SayHello def hello(who) puts "Hello, " + who + "!" end def self.say(words) puts words end end hello = SayHello.new hello.hello "World" : Hello World! hello.say "hi" : Error SayHello.say

Hello, I know how to share sessions between subdomains in PHP. Can anyone please guide me as to how I can share sessions using Ruby? Where can I set the value of domain for which the cookie is set? I would like for a user to login on the home page and then go to blog.home.com and not have to login again. Any guidance/pointers are appreciated. Thanks''

i realise that this goes against the basic idea of the MVC architecture, but i''ve found myself in a situation where i need to get information about the current user in a model & i''m not sure how to do it. Basically, we have a product where each customer has their own profile with data stored in a separate database. There are some tables in a common

Hi mongrel-herders, I''m just wondering what fellow railsers use to rotate their logs in an orderly fashion? I''d like to do something lightweight, i.e. (1) rename the logfile (2, optional) create a new empty logfile and (3) send a signal to each mongrel in the cluster and have them understand it''s time to reopen their log file handles. This is what I do with apache and

With reference to a previous post:http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/55201#new I would like my app to function as follows: A new user signs up for my application, his username is "andy". When andy now logs in to the application the url is redirected to : http://andy.myapplication.com Questions: Is this possible to develop on a windows box with webrick? Do I need anything special like

I read somewhere that the correct naming of bridge tables is in alpha order. For example. I have two tables: houses, and colors. If I want to create a bridge table to associate colors with houses, I would name the table: colors_houses The associations work fine. But, if I have a table named: track_houses. Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model associaton errors.

Hello all, my first project is on it''s way, and I am loving it! But, and that''s a big BUT: Active Record does not use prepared statements! How is that? Everybody is bragging about performance and the most obvious tuning measure is missing. Ok, I don''t know, if MySQL can even do them as I am using Postgres, but still. I started looking at the code and it is not

Recently discovered Markaby. Before I use it on a production system, I''d like to know if it is still being maintained? According to the change log, the last change was in February of 2006. Does this mean that the project has been abandoned? Or, at version 0.3 it was considered production stable and complete? -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory

Does anyone have any experience getting ODBC to work? I could really use some help here. I''m having trouble accessing a db2 database via odbc using rails. It''s an external database, that I import data from. I have placed the connection code in my model : unless connected? establish_connection( :adapter => "odbc", :dsn => "<dsn

Installed Fedora5. Installed Ruby 1.8.4. Installed rubygems. Installed rails. Created test app to verify that ruby and rails were working. When I attempted to install mongrel via: sudo gem install mongrel I get this error: Install required dependency daemons? [Yn] y Install required dependency gem_plugin? [Yn] y Building native extensions. This could take a while... can''t find

Hello, If anyone could help me out with this problem I''d appreciate it... I''m making a database of event bookings, I have an events table and a clients table. I''d like to include a form to create a new client in the form for creating a new event. This would update the parent form with the new client_id using AJAX methods (see previous e-mail) so you''d

Hello, I''m trying to restart my application fastcgi processes using reaper. But I get the following error: $sudo -u www ./script/process/reaper Couldn''t find any process matching: /var/www/example/200605200000/public/dispatch.fcgi The problem is that it should not look for 20060520000 but for current which is a symbolic link pointing to 200605200000. I did the

Hi. I am using Capistrano for my webapp and after deploy I need to restart memcached service. I am trying to do it with sudo "/etc/init.d/memcached restart" But it does not do it, even if memcached service existed - after deployment memcached service is off. I did some researching and added run "sleep 40" right after sudo command and found that service process existed

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Hello! I want to use the same application in two environments (production and development) on the same server (apache2 with fcgid) in different (aliased) directories. Is there a way to specify RAILS_ENV inside my <Directory> directives? I have the line DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production in my httpd.conf but I want one of the directories to be development. Setting the ENV var directly in

Ruby script/console takes 30-secs to start on the Windows 2003 servers in our shop. Has anyone found a way to speed that up? ( I know Linux is much faster, but that''s not an option, in this case). -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

Hi all, My unit tests and functional tests are failing because my tests aren''t authenticated. I''m using using user engine and login engine. How can I fake authentication to make my tests work properly. Thanks, Jason Edgecombe

Hi,I want the page to be cached and be accessed by all users.And in my controller: class MyController < ApplicationController caches_page :show def show render :layout => false end end When I use link_to_remote to use My/show to update some div, i can not see the template has been cached. However,If I use <%= render_component :controller => ''My'',