# Rails
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## [How to deal with one user-visible object stored as two logical objects](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-deal-with-one-user-visible-object-stored-as-two-logical-objects/115960)
I’m not sure the Subject really captures what I’m trying to figure out how to do, so bear with me while I describe what I’m doing. I’ve got two classes that I’m trying to figure out how best to structure. One of the c…
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## [GLoc Internationalization Plugin error](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gloc-internationalization-plugin-error/116155)
Hi, I just installed the GLoc plugin, and set up my application to use symbols instead of hard coded strings. I did this for the English, language, and everything worked like a charm. I then added a fr.yml (french …
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## [Ignore path](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ignore-path/116102)
Hi. I’m trying to rewrite a path to a different application with Apache. My Apache Rewrite rule is RewriteRule ^/(service)/(.\*)$ balancer://myapp\_service\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} \[P,QSA,L\] My other rewrites for this s…
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## [Ruby servers and command line and gems... what's that! (I'm a php guy)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-servers-and-command-line-and-gems-whats-that-im-a-php-guy/116149)
I’m used to working in php, where I have my .php files and all I have to do is put them in a www directory served by apache, or upload them to a php host. Now I’m trying ruby and RoR and first I discover they don’t us…
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## [Question about MVC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-mvc/116147)
Hi all, I have a question about a MVC-“problem” and how to handle so a case. I want page which lists some users. You can add users with a dropdown-list. So something like: %h2 Selected users user1 user2 %h2 Add …
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## [Using flash to pass data between pages](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-flash-to-pass-data-between-pages/116135)
Hi all, Is it considered good practice to use the flash to pass temporary data between pages? Items such a id’s for model objects in case I want to retrieve the object that was used in the previous page. Or, should I …
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## [Temporary active records](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/temporary-active-records/116072)
I would like to create some activerecord instances in my application that don’t ever get written to the database while others do. Is that possible?
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## [Oracle :time field issue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oracle-time-field-issue/116037)
What field type should I use to store time in oracle? I tried :time but that actually creates a date field that doesn’t work with time\_select, it gives me the error “1 error(s) on assignment of multiparameter attribu…
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## [Rake db:migrate fail! bad descriptor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-migrate-fail-bad-descriptor/116085)
Dear All, I am just getting into Ruby on Rails, after successfully failing at getting any other programming language to work locally. RoR appears to be a repeat! One problem I keep running into is getting a database u…
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## [Rails email contacts importer?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-email-contacts-importer/116134)
Is there Ruby on Rails based code to import contacts from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.? I’ve seen this on many sites and have found php- based code but nothing yet for Ruby.
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## [Showing popup window without showing any status on taskbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/showing-popup-window-without-showing-any-status-on-taskbar/116126)
Hi friends, I am new to ROR , I want to show the popup window instead of using the title attribute of the link\_to tag so that I can reseize it, Is there any way to do that Please Help Me… Kiran P., removed\_email\_…
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## [Finding "has\_many :through" items without any associated items](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/finding-has-many-through-items-without-any-associated-items/116123)
Hi guys, I have a class Foo has\_many :foo\_bars has\_many :bars, :through =\> :foo\_bars end What’s the simplest way to find all Foos that don’t have any Bars? I know I could go through some convoluted process like fi…
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## [Question about string compares with ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-string-compares-with-ruby/116069)
Say I have two entries in my database: Bartlett Peabody A user runs a search, and I want to return all matches to the name above. So the user types in “Bartlett Street”, and I want it to return #1 above. My ruby c…
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## [Date Validation problem](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/date-validation-problem/116115)
Hello, I have this validation code in my model. def validate errors.add(:last\_action\_date, “some message”) if next\_action\_date \< last\_action\_date end Two date select fields. Without the code, as long as dates are …
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## [Rake db:migrate strange behaviour "wrong number of arguments](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-migrate-strange-behaviour-wrong-number-of-arguments/107572)
Hi everybody, May be somebody has a clue, why I get these errors below, while trying to migrate. Any help is very appreciated! Greetinx Rafael I was trying to experiment a litte bit with redMine (www.redmine.org). …
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## [\[ANN\] London Ruby User Group - 08th October, 2007](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-london-ruby-user-group-08th-october-2007/116112)
Hi all, The next London Ruby U. Group meeting is on this coming Monday: Date: October 10th Time: 6:30pm onwards Location: the Skills Matter offices at 1 Sekeford Street, EC1R 0BEL\[1\] Closest tube: Farringdon Agenda…
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## [How do I make toggle appear not disapear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-i-make-toggle-appear-not-disapear/116078)
In my partial I iterate displaying many ‘roles’ in a side bar. each role has 0 or more services. I then iterated over the services and set their div id to that of the parent service ( you will notice in the code that…
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## [Open new window](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/open-new-window/95393)
First, I’m very new in rails, i’m loving it and didn’t encounter any problems in the simple tasks i’m doing yet. What I’d like to do is to open a new window containing the info of a Model (something like the show sca…
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## [REXML - XML query only returning one (last) result](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rexml-xml-query-only-returning-one-last-result/115880)
I’m really new to Ruby on Rails, and I’m trying to read an XML file with REXML. No matter what I try, I am only getting the last result returned from my query. I should be getting 365 results. Here is the code: inclu…
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## [Routes both nested and RESTful](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/routes-both-nested-and-restful/116065)
Most of the material on custom routes and URL generation in Rails assumes non-nested, non-RESTful routes it seems. Especially for non-crud actions it is difficult to find good examples for nested resources. RESTful …
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## [Modifying iframe source](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modifying-iframe-source/116113)
Dear all, Currently I am struggling with the following; I am building an app in with external sites are reviewed by humans. The reviewing focusses on certain link which I want to highlight. In the past I could just p…
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## [Graphing in ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/graphing-in-ruby/116106)
I need to do some x /y plots in ruby for a rails app, with a log scale, does anyone know of any gems / libraries that can do this. Tom
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## [Using local gems](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-local-gems/116098)
Hello, I have successfully installed some local gems on my rails host. I checked that through irb: irb(main):002:0\> require ‘rubygems’ =\> true irb(main):003:0\> require\_gem ‘mylocalgem’ =\> true irb(main):003:0\> a =…
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## [Rails development using Unified Process](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-development-using-unified-process/116059)
So I’m doing a school project in Rails. But they force us to use UP as development process. Any suggestions on how to get started with Rails in sort of UP fashion? I really want to start coding, but I know that’s not …
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## [Problem with render\_component](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-render-component/116015)