All, What’s the current line of thinking wrt patterns/best practices for remote calls and subsequent page updates? For instance, let’s say I have a simple link\_to\_remote call that simple creates a new comment for a g…
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## [What exactly does an .html.erb file do?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-exactly-does-an-html-erb-file-do/126878)
Hi everyone, I’ve been setting up a web application on my host (mediatemple) using the restful\_authentication with the guidance offered by a few help files and the video from Railscast. Everything went fine with the …
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## [HTML 5 differences from HTML 4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-5-differences-from-html-4/126870)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122/ Some interesting stuff, especially the section about New Elements/INPUT I note also that ‘accesskey’ has gone from ‘button’, and a lot of changes that move attributes &…
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## [Restful\_authentication: Why are columns I add to user table never populated?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restful-authentication-why-are-columns-i-add-to-user-table-never-populated/126837)
Hi, I’m using the restful\_authentication plugin that I downloaded from here – http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/. I wanted to use the plugin with an existing table I have, which has a column named “user\_type\_id…
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## [Attachment\_fu problems on updates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attachment-fu-problems-on-updates/123090)
On the creation of a member the member’s picture uploads as it should. However, when updating the member, while selecting a new picture, an error is thrown: can’t convert nil into String RAILS\_ROOT: /Users/chris/Docu…
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## [Validates\_numericality\_of accepts true, is this right?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-numericality-of-accepts-true-is-this-right/126844)
Is validates\_numericality\_of supposed to accept true as a value for the following options class Location \< ActiveRecord::Base validates\_numericality\_of :longitude, :allow\_nil =\> true, :greater\_than\_or\_equal\_to = -180…
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## [Assert\_select\_rjs behaving strangely](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/assert-select-rjs-behaving-strangely/126511)
Before, I had this in my RJS template: page\['order'\].replace\_html :partial =\> 'order' When I use assert\_select\_rjs as follows: assert\_select\_rjs :replace\_html, 'order' I get the error: No RJS statement that replaces…
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## [Populating oracle db data for radio button on the view](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/populating-oracle-db-data-for-radio-button-on-the-view/126871)
Hi, I am trying to populate data from oracle database table and all text fields and text areas work fine. But radio buttons does not get populated. For example, \<%= radio\_button(“attending\_ip”, ‘service’, ‘NBU’) %\>N…
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## [Cruft in development.log](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cruft-in-development-log/246515)
Can someone tell me why, in addition to the useful error, I get all this other cruft and in my development.log and how I might get rid of it? ------ GOOD STUFF ------- Processing UsersController#show (for 127.0.0.1 a…
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## [Ruby on Rails Carousel?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-carousel/126862)
Hi, Does anyone have any experience using the prototype carousel from here http://prototype-carousel.xilinus.com/ originally from Bill Scott but adapted by Sebastien Gruhier for RoR… The problem is that I can’t get i…
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## [Using Variables after Find](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-variables-after-find/126860)
Hello, I am still new to RoR and I’m having a very basic problem… Ok, so I can display all the results of two different tables by calling (in my case) @bes = Bes.find(:all) @prov = Import.find(:all) This works grea…
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## [When "controller" is created?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/when-controller-is-created/126857)
Hi, Does anyone know when exactly the “controller” objects are created in rails? when the http server starts? or when it is answering a http request? or … thanks you very much. Sayoyo
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## [Mini cms functionality within an app](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-cms-functionality-within-an-app/126791)
I need a sort of mini cms function in my app, allow a user to alter the content of the site (nothin too sophisticated). Just want them to be able to alter “fragments” of content on the pages. I do it like this and I k…
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## [Has\_many seems funky when handling duplicate records](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/has-many-seems-funky-when-handling-duplicate-records/126749)
The following test fails on the last line as firm.clients.length == 2, not 4: def test\_replace\_with\_duplicates firm = Firm.find(:first) c1, c2 = companies(:first\_client),companies(:second\_client) assert\_equal firm.c…
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## [Cutting off a Character from a String](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cutting-off-a-character-from-a-string/126855)
Hello, I just have a small question - how can I cut off the leading character of a string? For example, in my case, I have a list of telephone numbers with a 1 at the beginning… I need to say that if the string is 11 …
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## [Earning for reading SMS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/earning-for-reading-sms/196579)
Hello, I found few genuine sites for earning through your mobile. http://www.sms2india.co.in/?user=patrapb http://www.youmint.com/network-patrapb mginger.com - This website is for sale! - mginger Resources and …
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## [Before Filters](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/before-filters/126815)
Hi all, I am having a slight problem with a before filter. I have a page that calls a before filter to create a set of methods to call my report generator based on if the person has permissions to the report. In d…
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## [Resizing images for display only with image\_tag()](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/resizing-images-for-display-only-with-image-tag/126830)
image\_tag() has :size option, but only takes height/width parameters. i want to be able to scale down the image by 50% because all my images are different sizes so i cannot be specific as image\_tag() wants me to be. i…
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## [MySQL migration: trying to create "not null" boolean column (RoR 2.0)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mysql-migration-trying-to-create-not-null-boolean-column-ror-2-0/126846)
Hello everyone! Disclaimer: I am really, really new to Rails and this is probably a really stupid question, but I have spent SO LONG trying to find an answer and I’ve gotten nowhere. Thanks in advance for indulging m…
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## [How to pause between mongrel stop and start in "cap deploy"](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-pause-between-mongrel-stop-and-start-in-cap-deploy/117253)
Hi! Sometimes when doing “cap deploy”, the process finishes by: \*\* \[out :: unebo\] stopping port 6500 \*\* \[out :: unebo\] already started port 6500 command finished It seems that mongrel didn’t have the time to stop be…
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## [Boolean values passed to content\_tag?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/boolean-values-passed-to-content-tag/126853)
In Rails 1.2.3, if I call content\_tag(‘input’, :type =\> ‘checkbox’, :checked =\> true, :disabled =\> true), I get \ I expected content\_tag to handle all boolean v…
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## [Prob on Dreamhost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/prob-on-dreamhost/126852)
I created a vanilla app on Dreamhost in the hope to at least get “Welcome” to display. the URL I use is www.globalhealthsources.net/sample.com I do a remapping to ~/ ghsrc/sample.com. when I add “public” to path…
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## [Strange issue with rmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-issue-with-rmagick/126850)
I’m having a problem on my production site where rmagick won’t resize images. The code works on my local machne so I’m wondering what the issue could be. WORKS: Development: Rails 2.0.2, Rmagick 2.1.0, Imagemagick…
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## [Can't expire cached pages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-expire-cached-pages/126847)
For some reason I can not expire a cached page. I have created a sweeper file and I know that the proper methods are being called. I have also tried just moving the expire\_page call into the controller code, but it …
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## [Trouble loading rails generated javascript to view](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-loading-rails-generated-javascript-to-view/126849)
I’ve been following Ryan’s recent railscast on creating dynamic select menus using javascript: He suggests the following method to create and load rails generated javascript: create a ‘javascripts’ controller crea…
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## [Using :db\_file as storage type in attachment\_fu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-db-file-as-storage-type-in-attachment-fu/126019)
I’ve successfully been using attachment\_fu with the :file\_system storage type, but am looking to switch over to using MySQL to store the images instead. First off, the reason I’m thinking of doing this is to hold all…
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## [Basic Rails... one-to-many and "filtering" using foreign key](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/basic-rails-one-to-many-and-filtering-using-foreign-key/126799)
Hi everyone, my apologies in advance since this is a rather trivial question, I believe. But although I have the Pragmatic Programmers book laying on my desk, I cant quite find a clear answer to the following question…
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## [Partials, Layouts and Collections](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partials-layouts-and-collections/126823)
Hi All, I am trying to make use of the new render partial functionality where in the index view I have \<%= render :partial =\> @people%\> #in rails 2.0 it detects this as a collection and in the show \<%= render :par…
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## [Config.action\_controller.session :secret how can I check against it?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-action-controller-session-secret-how-can-i-check-against-it/126829)
checking against the secret key is performed whenever a POST is sent to my webservice but how can I perform such control for other REST actions like GET I can pass the secret key as a parameter, but it’s not secret …
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## [Getting multiple select to work: options\_for\_select](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-multiple-select-to-work-options-for-select/126828)
Hi, \<%= select\_tag ‘image\_id’, options\_for\_select(Image.find(:all) {| an\_image| \[ an\_image.name, an\_image.id \] }), :multiple =\> true %\> I am in a view, and I am trying to search the image table and make a multiple s…
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