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Thanks to everyone who responded to my first set of questions. Not only did I get my questions answered but I improved my code and learned a couple new things. I think I prefer the mailing list over IRC... easier to follow :-) I have some more questions if you don''t mind. Some are Rails related and some are Ruby related. 1) This is concerning displaying error messages. I am assuming

Hi, I was trying to schedule a worker to run during the midnight hour like this: :schedules: :collector: :process_something: :trigger_args: 30 * 0 * * 2,3,4,5,6 When I try to start backgroundrb, the "collector" worker failed to start up and I find this in backgroundrb_server.log: /home/mengkuan/apps/testrailsapp/current/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/

I''m having a problem converting a date retrieved from my MySQL database and I''m hoping someone can help. MySQL stores the date/time as this: 2005-03-08 17:00:34.0 and according to my Pickaxe book Ruby stores times as "the number of seconds and microseconds since [...] January 1, 1970". All well and good. Unfortunately, RoR is converting my date to this:

Hi, I am trying to limit the number of worker threads running at the same time. Adding ":poolsize: 2" to backgroundrb.yml or starting backgroundrb server like this script/backgroundrb start -- -s 2 does not seem to help. I can still create more than 2 worker threads from a rails app. I tried this on ubuntu dapper - ruby 1.8.4 - backgroundrb 0.2.1 as well as

I''m trying to get a page to validate as XHTML Strict, and I''ve gotten everything fixed except for one <textarea> that Rails is generating. <textarea cols="40" id="estcomment_comment" name="estcomment[comment]" rows="10" wrap="virtual"></textarea> This tag is being called in my view with <%=

I''m hoping someone can help me (a Rails newbie) with this. Basically, I need to verify that a date created with "date_select" is valid *before* it''s sent off to the database for acceptance (as a valid date) or rejection (as an invalid date). Given how easy the majority of validation are in Rails, I''ve got to believe there''s a fairly simple way

Hi All I just finished writing up a tutorial relating my experience developing a system to edit line-items ''in-line'' in my Rails application using XMLHttpRequest. I thought this might be of interest to some readers of this list... Check it out at http://hieraki.goodlad.ca/read/book/1 Thanks! Dave -- Dave Goodlad dgoodlad-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org or

Hi Hermant, I have seen some earlier messages in the list where you warned people never to use sleep() in workers. However, currently I have a need for a worker to issue a command to an external host and then keep checking that external host for a status change. Other than sleep, what else can be used to make a worker wait some time (say 1 second) between checks? cheers, mengkuan

Hi, i am now in the process of building a newsletter system which will send out emails to users that have enlisted to a certain group; everything''s going fine, and i an towards the end of this project...now the real part of the story kicks in, where i need to check to see if the thing is working or not. i have been looking over the development.log file, and i see that the emails

Greetings, I''m reporting on what I found after trying to use mechanize on a site like www.tellme.com. With mechanize versions 0.6.5, 0.6.4, 0.6.3, I was able to use mechanize without any problems on www.tellme.com. However, when I upgraded to 0.6.6 or 0.6.7, mechanize simply ground to a halt after a while. I''m not sure where the problem lies, but after looking at the

Hello all, If I run this script, and observe the output, the results are not there at all (try to do the same in the browser). Any suggestions? require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = ''Mac Safari'' page =

Hello all, I have tried to post this yesterday, but noticed I was actually not subscribed yet... Well, here we go again: If I run this script, and observe the output, the results are not there at all (try to do the same in the browser). Any suggestions? require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias =

Rubyforge Project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rctools Documentation: http://dev.robotcoop.com/Tools/ar_mailer == About Even deliviring email to the local machine may take too long when you have to send hundreds of messages. ar_mailer allows you to store messages into the database for later delivery by a separate process, ar_sendmail. == Installing ar_mailer Just install the gem:

Hi everyone, We had a really successful meeting tonight in Atlanta. The topic was an introduction to Ruby on Rails and our attendance was 30 people, which is over double of what we normally get. (Our attendance has dropped since moving the venue about 25 miles north of the city. The majority of the group stayed well past two hours, at which point we took a break. The entire presentation and

I need to run the same worker''s method twice per day with different arguments. Unfortunately, only the second entry in the schedule is firing. I created an experimental worker to verify this: Worker: class ExperimentWorker < BackgrounDRb::MetaWorker set_worker_name :experiment_worker def create(args = nil) # this method is called, when worker is loaded for the first time

Hi, I am using the latest checkout from backgroundrb release 1.0.1. I have a worker called status_checker that periodically (every minute) checks the status of certain hosts over the network. It works fine at the beginning but after a while the worker will mysteriously disappear and stop working. I have other workers running but they do not disappear like this worker does. These are

First let me say that Rails caching is very very cool. The traffic (and responsiveness) I''ve saved by added 10 lines of ruby code would be enourmous, if I actually had traffic... ;) Sweepers as observers are great, btw. Since every page of my side is dynamic, once I did some DB optimization I''m caching the content of the index page which was taking the bulk of the time to load

I have added roles and roles_users table and updated the model so that my users can have multiple roles. ("Admin" role does always have id = 1). I have added these methods to my application controller. <code> helper_method :is_admin? helper_method :is_user? def is_admin? if @session[''user''] @session[''user''].roles.find(1)

I am new Ruby on Rails, so excuse me if my question seems pretty obvious. I am trying to validate uniqueness of a filed: class EventType < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :sport validates_uniqueness_of :event_type end When I run it, I get this error message: Showing /event_type/new.rhtml where line #27 raised undefined method `each'' for nil:NilClass <select

Hello, I read that the ActionMailer configuration should be set in the environment.rb file (See http://am.rubyonrails.com/ and page 399 in the PP Rails Book). In my case, I have a customer rep admin application that administers multiple websites. One of the features involves emailing the login info for new subscribers that that sign up for the websites by mail. I would like to use the