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A couple questions: 1) How does rails no if you are in your test, dev or production environment? 2) Does anyone have an actionMailer server settings that will work on your standard local machine? I will use the one provided for my textdrive account but for testing on my machine I am getting connection refused. Thanks. Your Friend, Jonathan Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com

Anyone else having problems with :anchor? Until 0.10.0 it was working fine but with this recent update it''s just not doing anything. Thanks, Pedro

I posted something about this yesterday, and got some good responses but it seems that the variable @request[''controller''] isn''t being passed in to the page or isn''t being read. Has the naming convention for these variables changed. it worked great in all rails versions up to 0.9.5 with fcgi, but is not working in rails 0.10.0 with fcgi. I am currently just

I''ve been using the login generator ''out of the box'' for simple authentication, and its been working fine. Now I want to extend it by simply adding ''type_id'' field which links to my ''user_types'' table, but I''m hitting: #<ActionController::SessionRestoreError: Session contained objects where the class definition

Hi, I''ve generated a new Rails app and dummy controller "foo" with method "hello". I am trying to run it under Apache/2.0.53 with fastcgi, and getting the index.html page when I hit http://localhost/foo/hello, or for any other request (http://localhost/kdjfslkfjs). Also, there is nothing in the rails logs, and no errors in the apache logs. Relevant bit of

I''m proud to announce the 2.0 release of the typo web logging engine. What started as a toy project while I was waiting for a client at starbucks now became a prestige open source project with tons of modern features a dedicated dev team and even its own hosting service! Get it at http://rubyforge.org/projects/typo/ The 2.0 release has been long coming. Here are some of the new

Recently my application has refused to start on my production environment. The setup is debian(unstable)/apache2/fastcgi/mysql Rails 0.10 (upgrading to 0.10.1 as we speak) When I first start up apache the machine grinds to a crawl starting up the dispatch.cfi processes. It''s a VPS with 256M of ram, but still (in addition to user time) it''s spending 30% of time in system

With the release of our filmfury.com project, I''ve been trying to rise to the stature of a true system administrator in the last couple of days (haha). I''m trying to understand how all of the pieces to this apache/fastcgi deployment fit together. Here''s what I''ve learned so far: * You need a separate FastCGI server for each Rails application on your

Hi Everyone, I''m trying to figure out how to do SQL queries in the Controller. I know this is not recommended, but I can''t use ActiveRecord because I am dealing with thousands of a different tables, one for each user, and I don''t think AR can be made to handle that situation. You can assign the table name; but that''s a class variable so any particular

It seems odd to me that the layout is processesed after the view. When I set a variable inside the view it does not have an impact on the layout file. But when I set it in the controller it does. Is this the way it works or is it possible that I am doing something wrong?

Tobias, I would have left a comment on your blog, a thanks really, except that the comment submit form is throwing an error. So, thanks for the cool tools, especially the login generator. After deleting the old generator the new one worked and passed all tests in a snap. Like Tim Lucas said, the Hieraki code base is a wonderful resource for someone learning Rails. Much appreciated.

I am trying to use the login generator, but I keep getting the following error when I run "generate login Account": /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.10.0/lib/rails_generator/base.rb:84:in `manifest'': No manifest for ''login'' generator. (NotImplementedError) from (eval):3:in `__send__'' from (eval):3:in `manifest'' from

Hi, I''m working with acts_as_tree to print an unordered list of items: Root -- Child ---- Child I''ve got this working, however I''d like to know if there is a more elegant fashion that I''m unaware of: #Takes a parent category and recursivley returns all children def find_all_subcategories(category) if category.children.size > 0

One problem I sort of always had with the ActiveRecord''s tight coupling to the SQL backend is how slow it makes the unit tests. OK, there are some ways to make it faster at a price of extra complexity (reusing the fixtures, doing a rollback in the end of the test, etc), but still - it is much slower than what I would like a unit test to be. Today I had a very simple idea (why, oh why

I''m using Hieraki to do some documentation for RubyGems. So far I''m lovin'' it. But I have a question. I currently have three books on the site. It seems that the chapter numbers continue from one book to the next. For example, the first book has 7 chapters (numbered 1-7). The second book has three chapters, but they are numbered (8-10) rather than the (1-3) I

Wondering: Does Apache shut down inactive FastCGI processes if it doesn''t get any requests for a while? My app works fine if it''s being used regularly, but it will respond very slowly to the first request after an hour of zero traffic. Is there a way to keep FastCGI ready all the time, even when there haven''t been any requests for a while? We''re deploying

Hello everyone- I was just reading the article on Rails at O''Reilly and one of those little light bulbs over my head went off - what a GREAT tool. I tried to install both Ruby on my Mac PowerBook without much luck and then tried to install Ruby and Rails on a FreeBSD server I have. I am running into some odd errors - so, my question is - can you point me to some tech resources

hi, i''m falling in love with rails, but the main obstacle is digesting the huge amount of documetation for it... i''m getting dizzy flipping back and forth between my development and the online reference. i know rails is in a constant state of flux, but surely there is a pdf-ized version of the api reference out there somewhere. alas, google tells me there is no such animal.

I am running Rails on my Mac, installed from fink/gems. I get this error when I try to re/start Apache: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc: access for server (uid -1, gid -1) failed: read not allowed If I chmod the /tmp/fcgi_ipc directory, apache starts and everything''s fine. Why is fcgi_ipc in my /tmp directory? Can anyone guess why the chmod''ing doesn''t seem to

Caching computation in rails? Simple example: factorial modulus a large number input: integer x output: factorial( x ) % 12345678901234567 I want it so that if it computes factorial of N once, it will not have to compute for N again. code: class SiteController < ApplicationController caches_action :factorial, :inv def examine @inv = @params[''inv''] @outv =