similar to: What does ''h'' do?

Hello, Is there a common way of stripping html tags from a string? Right now I''m just calling gsub!(/<.*?>/, ''''), but with a background in PHP and always having used its strip_tags() method, I wonder if the Rails community has standardized this fairly common task with something a bit less simpleminded than my quick fix. Thanks! Zack -------------- next part

Hi, I''m developing a mini-programming language for research surveys. [code] question S1 { label: The first few questions are just to help us categorize you. label: Do you or does any member in your household work for... (MARK ONE ONLY FOR EACH.) grid { col { 1 Yes 2 No } row { 1 An advertising agency 2 A public relations company 3 A marketing research firm or

I was trying to convert a some text with the (r) character it so it replaced character \xAE with &reg; h(@item.description) didn''t do anything. I need to use @item.description.grep(/\xAE/,''&reg;'') for it to work. I think the h() function should be able to do all the codes that are available. Regards Neil.

ERROR: undefined method `h'' for ERB::Util:Module i get above error when i use ERB::Util.h(content) in my controller''s action. can any one one tell me how to use this ''h'' method within controller? thanks, Jigar Gosar http://jigar.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Is it possible to define a function in a template file? For example, I thought it might be a good idea to define my Debian systems'' /etc/apt/sources.list files based on what level of stability and freeness a system should have. So I have this puppet code: #---------- apt.pp ---------------- define apt-sources-list

Hello :) Having just gone through the (admittedly simple) API of Mocha to learn how it works, I wrote a quick guide (190 lines) to help others get up to speed. I''ve attached it as RDOC and as HTML. It is a first draft - please help me improve by giving feedback ! Contents : Overview - Quick overview of Mocha Unit testing, mock object and stubs - Very quick introduction to mock

What module of ActionView are the <% %> and <%= %> defined in? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I know one can use <%=u "a string" %> to use the url_escape function in ROR and convert "a string" to "a%20string" I tried using url_escape and u in my controller but none of them work and I get a function unknown error. Can anyone please guide me as to how I can use the url escape function in my controller? I appreciate your help Thanks

hello, I have today updated my rails app to 3.0.4 security release but now this yield :javascripts fails in the layout and I get my custom js escaped as text in the view. anybody seeing this also? tia, jk -- www.least-significant-bit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to

Regarding: <% (some code) %> I have some suspicions/general ideas about what this contruct is supposed to do, but can someone a) tell me what it''s proper name is and b) explain or point me to a resource which defines it in a formal way? Thanks in advance, Bihal -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello there, Just wanted to know if class will be able to have parameters ? Right now i use: define resolver( $options =''rotate'', $nameserver, $search='''',$domain='''',$sortlist=''''){ file{ ''/etc/resolv.conf'': content =>

Hi Railers, For some time now I''ve been looking for a decent Rails equivalent of PHP''s "htmlentities" command, because ERB''s html_escape (or more commonly called as just "h", eg. <%=h @somevariable %> ) just doesn''t go far enough for me. Back in PHP land, I actually had an extended version of the htmlentities command to deal with

Hi, We are thinking about choosing Rails as our weapon of choice for our next project, which is basically a text editor on steroids, whith some functionality that need an Internet connection. In the first step we are going to develop it as a plain web app (AJAX-ified, yay!), however, in the next step we would like to port some of the functionality (such as the editor) to a desktop app (which can

Is there an equivelent ruby function that is similar or exactly the same as the php include() function? I would like to be able to include a header for my RoR web application that refers to a url. Thanks! -Gilles -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book it runs through making an example application, a shopping cart. In one of the views files, there is one line of code I dont understand (below), I dont know what the "h" is for, also I took the h out, and it did not affect the application (as far as i could see). <%= h(product.title) %> Can anyone shed some light on this

I would like to put Ruby code inside a string, between <%= %> tags, and have the code inside the tags executed when the string is displayed. Is this possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When I use pp on an object in rails, it prints out a nice string representation of the object. I am trying to pass objects from one server to another and I am wondering if I can just pass this string and create an object on the other server. Any libraries/functions out there that can do this? Or any other way to do this (not necessarily using pp). Thanks! -- Posted via

Hi everyone, I am new to ruby and i just wanna send an email using ruby action mailer. i have been trying it for about a day. Not achieved. so many replies came in from google but many were beating the bushes .. can any one send me a correct procedure.. regards ds -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

I hope to store the log file by day , because the log file will be so large with the time goes by.Is it possible to do this ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I''m looking at the documentation: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html And I notice two uses of Net::HTTP. Both are using GET requests. But what''s the difference? When to use which? Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http| request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object end uri =