# Rails

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## [Manage address with no cotrollers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manage-address-with-no-cotrollers/130387)

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**Author:** [@stratboy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stratboy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manage-address-with-no-cotrollers/130387 "2008-02-27T22:17:00Z")

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For examples. I have: examples.com/john John isn’t a controller but an id I want pass john to a method od a controllerfor example examples.com/index/john Is possible with rails and without .htaccess? Thanks

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## [Rails 2.0.2 and Agile Web Development 2ed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-0-2-and-agile-web-development-2ed/130383)

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**Author:** [@celodrake](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/celodrake)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-0-2-and-agile-web-development-2ed/130383 "2008-02-27T22:06:24Z")

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Hello all, someone know where do i find documentation about how to learn ruby on rails 2.0.2 with examples? At now, i am reading “Agile Web D. with Rails 2ed.” but i have had a lot of problems with my version of rails…

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## [Validar un formulario con que captura a 2 tablas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validar-un-formulario-con-que-captura-a-2-tablas/130375)

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**Author:** [@fvasquez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fvasquez)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validar-un-formulario-con-que-captura-a-2-tablas/130375 "2008-02-27T21:57:10Z")

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Hola… Aqui ando de pregunton de nuevo… Ya logre tener un formulario el cual esta compuesto de elementos que capturan a 2 tablas user y virtual New user \<%= error\_messages\_for :user %\> \<% form\_for(@user) do |f| %\> …

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## [Help with oracle adapter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-oracle-adapter/130267)

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**Author:** [@nobility](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nobility)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-oracle-adapter/130267 "2008-02-27T21:44:25Z")

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I have been snooping around this forum for a while so hopefully i have posted this the correct place. I need help getting oracle to work. I have read a lot of posts and search google but i believe my situation may be …

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## [Rails 2.02 collection\_select problem passing option and html\_option hashes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-02-collection-select-problem-passing-option-and-html-option-hashes/130368)

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**Author:** [@Dave\_Rapin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dave_Rapin)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-2-02-collection-select-problem-passing-option-and-html-option-hashes/130368 "2008-02-27T21:14:21Z")

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Running into a strange issue and was wondering if others are experiencing it with the latest rails release. When using the collection\_select helper and passing in a hash for the options or html\_options params I consis…

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## [\[ANN\] Rails patch review bot + feed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rails-patch-review-bot-feed/130379)

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**Author:** [@Jeremy\_McAnally](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jeremy_McAnally)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-rails-patch-review-bot-feed/130379 "2008-02-27T20:26:32Z")

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Hello all, The new +1 scheme for getting patches verified and committed is great, but it’s created a lot of mailing list and IRC traffic when people request +1’s, feedback, and so on. Typically that’s fine, except it …

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## [Observe\_field not generating any script](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/observe-field-not-generating-any-script/130371)

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**Author:** [@dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dino_d)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/observe-field-not-generating-any-script/130371 "2008-02-27T19:54:34Z")

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Hi - I have a view: \<% content\_for(:page) do %\> New user \<% form\_for :user, @user, :url =\> { :action =\> “create” } do |form| %\> \<%= render :partial =\> ‘form’, :locals =\> { :form =\> form, :genders =\> @genders} %\> \<%=…

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## [Beginner, non-programmer - where do I start?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-non-programmer-where-do-i-start/89918)

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**Author:** [@dawnrae](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dawnrae)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/beginner-non-programmer-where-do-i-start/89918 "2008-02-27T19:52:47Z")

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I’m a experienced web designer, fluent in XHTML & CSS, however, scripting languages like javascript and php tend to elude me. I’ve read a good bit on RoR and it seems that it might be a better place for me to get my f…

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## [How to translate my inline form helper to form\_for?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-translate-my-inline-form-helper-to-form-for/129959)

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**Author:** [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-translate-my-inline-form-helper-to-form-for/129959 "2008-02-27T19:25:14Z")

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All, In application\_helper.rb, I have the following custom helper to let me generate an inline form with one button: def inline\_button(name, form\_options = {}, button\_options = {}, do\_get=false) output = form\_tag(fo…

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## [Getting input's value from a form](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-inputs-value-from-a-form/130365)

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**Author:** [@keaja](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keaja)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-inputs-value-from-a-form/130365 "2008-02-27T19:21:05Z")

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I am following a new tutorial just added to the upcoming book, Advanced Rails Recipes. The recipe is, “Process Recurring Credit Card Payments”. The tutorial is great and I recommend picking up the PDF book. Simply pu…

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## [Event Calendar/Scheduler Implementation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/event-calendar-scheduler-implementation/130091)

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**Author:** [@Elmar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Elmar)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/event-calendar-scheduler-implementation/130091 "2008-02-27T19:18:09Z")

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Hi there. I am a RoR newbie and come from the Java/C# perspective. After digging into Rails I would like to convert an ASP.NET project -that served as a protoype- to RoR. The only thing that I haven´t got a good solu…

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## [Adding a rails app to a subdomain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-a-rails-app-to-a-subdomain/130367)

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**Author:** [@preppy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/preppy)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-a-rails-app-to-a-subdomain/130367 "2008-02-27T18:30:54Z")

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I’m trying to add a separate rails app to my existing rails app running on apache. I followed the steps at this site (http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/ time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and…

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## [Noob: how to pass parameters between pages in v2.0.2?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-how-to-pass-parameters-between-pages-in-v2-0-2/130286)

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**Author:** [@rpardee](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rpardee)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-how-to-pass-parameters-between-pages-in-v2-0-2/130286 "2008-02-27T18:12:39Z")

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Hey All, I’m just starting out w/rails & have a toy app w/just 2 types of things right now: People and Organizations. Person :belongs\_to organization and Organization :has\_many people. I’ve got scaffold-generated in…

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## [Any Rails users out there ever used Seam/Richfaces?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-users-out-there-ever-used-seam-richfaces/130364)

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**Author:** [@praxedis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/praxedis)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-rails-users-out-there-ever-used-seam-richfaces/130364 "2008-02-27T17:43:05Z")

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I know it’s completely off topic, but I am having such a hard time with this that I thought maybe I might be able to get some answers here. I’m a Rails developer recently forced into a Java Seam/Richfaces project. Th…

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## [Ajax progress indicator](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-progress-indicator/130320)

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**Author:** [@Tarscher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tarscher)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-progress-indicator/130320 "2008-02-27T17:39:33Z")

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Hi all, This might be more a html question than a rals one… I have a link that user link\_remote\_to. When a user clicks that link I want to hide it and show a progress indicator in that same place. I tried to do this…

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## [No unicode in rails console](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-unicode-in-rails-console/128975)

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**Author:** [@greenbox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greenbox)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-unicode-in-rails-console/128975 "2008-02-27T16:49:03Z")

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I’m unable to enter characters like Ã© (in CafÃ©) into script/console but they work just fine in the regular terminal. I can’t seem to find anyone ever having an issue with this out there. I’d be so grateful for any …

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## [Conditionalizing find via has\_many](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/conditionalizing-find-via-has-many/108071)

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**Author:** [@dmorin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dmorin)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/conditionalizing-find-via-has-many/108071 "2008-02-27T16:33:45Z")

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I have a has\_many relationship (person has\_many meetings). The majority of people in my system have no meetings, so I only want to deal with Person where meetings.size \> 0. Is there a simple and elegant way to manip…

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## [:include?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/include/130281)

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**Author:** [@confundido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/confundido)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/include/130281 "2008-02-27T16:29:20Z")

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I’d like some adviceif possile i have 2 models Location and Listing Location has many Listings Listing belongs to location. Using teh acts\_as\_geocodable plugin i have geocoded the Location model. this allows me to …

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## [Observe\_field not working in Safari](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/observe-field-not-working-in-safari/130272)

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**Author:** [@jimmypalmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jimmypalmer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/observe-field-not-working-in-safari/130272 "2008-02-27T16:10:16Z")

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I setup an observe\_field and it works great in firefox, but there is not response in Safari. Here is the code that works perfect in firefox: Email Address: \<%= f.text\_field :email\_address, :class =\> 'inpu…

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## [Modules Routing Problem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modules-routing-problem/130355)

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**Author:** [@darth\_timeus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/darth_timeus)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modules-routing-problem/130355 "2008-02-27T15:44:13Z")

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Hi i have been looking for information and i have not been able to find any guide regarding my problem. Here is the problem I create a controller/model name Service and inside service a created a module named Voip. So…

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## [Help with FormOptionsHelper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-formoptionshelper/130338)

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**Author:** [@dino\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dino_d)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-formoptionshelper/130338 "2008-02-27T15:43:37Z")

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Hi - I’m trying to understand the help for this: it says: select(object, method, choices, options = {}, html\_options = {}) questions- what is ‘object’ ? Is this an ActiveRecord object? what is method? do i assume…

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## [Two start\_form\_tag and 2 submit button in one rhtml file](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-start-form-tag-and-2-submit-button-in-one-rhtml-file/130329)

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**Author:** [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/two-start-form-tag-and-2-submit-button-in-one-rhtml-file/130329 "2008-02-27T15:39:58Z")

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Hi I have a file edit.rhtml \<%= start\_form\_tag ({ :action =\> ‘update’, :id =\> @ci, :method =\> ‘post’}, :class =\> ‘itilform’, :enctype =\> ‘multipart/form-data’, :onSubmit =\> ‘return validate\_form();’)%\> \<% if @ci.c…

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## [Error in Lib file function](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-lib-file-function/130342)

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**Author:** [@vasan\_cec](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vasan_cec)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-lib-file-function/130342 "2008-02-27T15:32:50Z")

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Hi Everyone, I have the following two functions in “global\_functions.rb”, # Decription : Function to get minimum between two input values # Input : x & y - any two number # Output : Minimum number of 2 inpu…

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## [Can't find user ID](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-user-id/130346)

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**Author:** [@kaizerkaizer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kaizerkaizer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-user-id/130346 "2008-02-27T15:19:18Z")

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I redid my code, before I tried using the friendship-plugin “has\_many\_friends” but it got messy and wrong, so I borrowed “PRACTICAL RAILS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING” from the library. I’m trying to use the book’s example “…

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## [Fopen + fgetcsv rails equivalents](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fopen-fgetcsv-rails-equivalents/130344)

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**Author:** [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fopen-fgetcsv-rails-equivalents/130344 "2008-02-27T15:14:04Z")

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hiya, quick one. does anyone know what the rails equivalent to the php fopen + fgetcsv methods are, want to read in a csv file and parse it for specific data. appreciated,

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## [Deploy.rb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploy-rb/67495)

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**Author:** [@tnanu24](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tnanu24)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploy-rb/67495 "2008-02-27T15:10:28Z")

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hi all, i am rails programmer.i need one help.i am using Capistrano for a automatic deployment.thatz work fine for single server deployment.i want to give for another server also.how to specify in deploy.rb. like i d…

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## [Free IDEs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/free-ides/130176)

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**Author:** [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/free-ides/130176 "2008-02-27T15:08:39Z")

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What is the general feelings on the best free Ruby IDE thanks \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. …

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## [Location of images](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/location-of-images/130210)

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**Author:** [@ruud](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ruud)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/location-of-images/130210 "2008-02-27T15:05:07Z")

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hello all, I’m new to RoR. I am reading Agile Development etc. and I have completed a tutorial that explains the differences between rails 2.0 and rails 2.1. Still some questions are unanswered by the book. I hope yo…

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## [First rails application](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-application/130337)

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**Author:** [@fonziguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fonziguy)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-rails-application/130337 "2008-02-27T15:01:44Z")

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Hi guys, I’ve just launched my first Ruby on Rails application so would appreciate any feedback. It’s a viral idea about redefining words with websites, so you can pick a word associated with your site and link it.

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## [CSV upload button with validation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/csv-upload-button-with-validation/130250)

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**Author:** [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 27, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/csv-upload-button-with-validation/130250 "2008-02-27T14:52:19Z")

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Hi all, i urgently need help for my first RoR app which should be running already. My app is a shop database (http://ewallshops.heroku.com/) made with Heroku. Entering shops manually already works fine. Data entered i…

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