Hi, I’m running Mac OS X and I’m trying to update my version of Ruby. I downloaded 1.8.6 and installed, but typing “ruby -v” at the terminal still shows 1.8.2. How do I fix this?
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## [Queuing mails for a mailing list](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/queuing-mails-for-a-mailing-list/105465)
hi i am wanting to send out a mailing listto subscribers. myserver has an hourly mail limit. i am using the mail-queue plugin to queue up my mails. so how would i send out batches? or should i just setup a cron job t…
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## [Manage of dynamic tables](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manage-of-dynamic-tables/104586)
Hi group, Im new at here and I hope someone could give me a hand, im building an app witch is going to manage big amount of contacts, but my problem is that I need to accept a variety of columns from my customers, so …
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## ["\`/rails/info/properties' not found." Error is displayed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-info-properties-not-found-error-is-displayed/92106)
hi all i just install RoR on my linux machine…and try using the online tutorials of RoR The web server is started properly but when i check the url “http://localhost:3000” the Welcome page is shown properly and but …
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## [How to crash Ruby by not registering global C variable?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-crash-ruby-by-not-registering-global-c-variable/90725)
Hi list, On page 284 of Pickaxe, 2nd edition there is a passage: If you create a Ruby object from C and store it in a C global variable without exporting it to Ruby, you must at least tell the garbage collector about …
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## [Help me about nil check of veriable( question of a niw bie)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-about-nil-check-of-veriable-question-of-a-niw-bie/90275)
Hi guys, I have a string variable named as ‘last\_name’. how can i check NULL(nil) of this veriable? as exapmle if ( empty(last\_name) ) #\* # code else #code end How can I write the syntax in the if statement(\*)…
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## [SqlServer adapter mangling id column data](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sqlserver-adapter-mangling-id-column-data/87470)
My venture in trying to use freetds with odbc did get me going, but I’ve hit a wall. Once in a while (read about 40% of the time) … the row id’s get transformed into these huge integers eg: http://hyde:3500/blog/sho…
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## [Application-specific e-mail template engine](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-specific-e-mail-template-engine/87768)
Does anyone have any experience with creating a templating system for e-mails sent via Rails? Here is what I’d like to do: User selects “Create message” from my application User selects a predefined template from dro…
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## [Unification of variables and methods](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unification-of-variables-and-methods/85886)
The one thing that bothers me about ruby is the (as i see it?) separate namespaces for locals and functions. Variables take precedence, but you can override and get the functional form in 2 ways: def x; 1; end x = 2 …
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## [Vendor/rails and vendor/plugins vs. system wide rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vendor-rails-and-vendor-plugins-vs-system-wide-rails/86298)
Hi: I am at the end of my development cycle. I am just wondering if others could give me some deployment advice. it is nice to have rails system wide thats how i have it on my Mac… however I have some plugin system w…
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## [Ruby Syntax - One::Two](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-syntax-one-two/85783)
I’m a newcomer to ruby and there’s this little something I don’t really understand: class One::Two … end Class One::Three … end On this example, what does “::” mean? If understand correctly it’s just sort of a n…
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## [Apache2 / MySQL / Mongrel on separate machines](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache2-mysql-mongrel-on-separate-machines/85259)
Hi all, I have read and re-read the tutorials on mongrel clusters and have a question. Most, if not all, deal with having everything run on one box, locally. I would like to add more redundancy by having several bo…
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## [Fetching objects used as hash keys](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fetching-objects-used-as-hash-keys/84659)
Hello I’m using objects which are instances of a class that has 3 instance variables as hash keys, but I’m using the value of only two of those instance variables for the hash calculation. It’s something like this: c…
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## [CSS Calendar in Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/css-calendar-in-rails/81944)
Any ideas how we can get the following calendar up and running in Rails? Especially how it generates year specific code when we change the current year.
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## [Writing a test for IP addresses](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/writing-a-test-for-ip-addresses/81664)
I have a Rails controller which behaves differently based on the IP address of the remote request. However, the defaults for functional tests get submitted with an IP of 0.0.0.0. How can I create a series of tests tha…
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## [Help please - openssl and ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-please-openssl-and-ruby/80215)
Hi, I’ve run into a problem using openssl and ruby, which I can’t solve. I have a public key, a text string, and a signature, and I want to check that the signature was created from the text string using the appropri…
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## [Setting up Rails Application on Apache](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-rails-application-on-apache/59226)
Hello, I am trying to setup a rails application on a webserver running Apache 1.3.34. But I have tried everything but its just not working. I followed all the directions given here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/…
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## [Re: fxRuby: changing icon in TreeItem crashes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-fxruby-changing-icon-in-treeitem-crashes/57117)
Christer, You have to explicitly call “create” for the new icon to create the server side object. Fox does it automatically for all the objects it can see at the time “create” is called for the FXApp object if I rem…
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## [How to specify default action for particulr actioncontroller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-specify-default-action-for-particulr-actioncontroller/83081)
HI, How to specify default action for particular actioncontroller? Currently when I m typing the URL as “http:\\localhost:3000\\actioncontroller\_name” , then I m getting the default actin page as list.rHtml. But instead…
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## [Win32utils](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/win32utils/77101)
“A series of packages that provide Ruby interfaces to Win32 systems and services. This project supports Windows NT, 2000 and XP only” The above is from http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/ So, Windows 2003 Server…
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## [Problems passing un-sanitized XML to client](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-passing-un-sanitized-xml-to-client/51698)
I’m trying to store an xsl stylesheet in the database and return it to the client, but at some point in the process all the angle brackets, etc are parsed out of the xml, so I get \ instead of . Anyone have a…
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## [Engine and controller layout confusion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engine-and-controller-layout-confusion/51569)
Hi all, Installed the login\_engine which is working. But I’m confused as to how I tell Rails to use the “/app/views/layout” rhtml files, when partials from the login\_engine are used from “/vendor/plugins/login\_engin…
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## [Apache / FastCGI freak out in PRODUCTION mode on my new rail](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-fastcgi-freak-out-in-production-mode-on-my-new-rail/99715)
Here I go again with another question. I’ve been banging my head for the better part of a week against this one, so responses would be really appreciated. I have a Rails application that I’ve been developing under Ap…
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## [Form validation \_without\_ activerecord](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/form-validation-without-activerecord/48526)
Hi guys! I really like to form validation feature of ActiveRecord. However, what is the most natural way in rails to form-validate if you don’t have a model? Best regards Peter
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## [Sorry that this question is so dumb but](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sorry-that-this-question-is-so-dumb-but/48152)
OK. This is embarrassing. I need to programatically set the value of a field on a form (I get the id of the last invoice created and want to populate a hidden field on the line\_items form with that number so that the…
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## [How to print at non emergency, critical, error from nginx configuration log](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-print-at-non-emergency-critical-error-from-nginx-configuration-log/232462)
Hello, If I use ngx\_conf\_log\_error during parsing an nginx configuration (post config phase), the messages at NGX\_LOG\_INFO are not printed to the error log even when I set it the error log to log debug level. I can s…
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## [Why are generators not menus or prompts?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-are-generators-not-menus-or-prompts/246083)
wouldn’t it be more efficient to have a generator ask for column names and types and indexes in a prompt? or easier at least. It would be nice to also have ncurses menus for that.
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## [Can I add timesamples to tx samples](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-i-add-timesamples-to-tx-samples/226822)
Hi, Considering we can get timesamples of rx samples from UHD in metadata,can I add timesamples to tx samples,which would be send together. Thanks.
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## [Installing Ruby on mac os x lion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-ruby-on-mac-os-x-lion/224248)
Hi guys, does someone have a tutorial that explains how can i install ruby 1.9.3 on mac os x lion, because i’ve been trying to install it but i couldn’t. i’v already installed homebrew and this’s what i got when i try…
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## [I need to know any way to read the values from a webpage table](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-need-to-know-any-way-to-read-the-values-from-a-webpage-table/223308)
Hi, I need your help to find and select the value say “Contact: Email Credentials” using Ruby. The source code i have attached above for the same. Please help me out here!! Regards, Arup
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## [Proxy, upstream, apache vhosts not working](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-upstream-apache-vhosts-not-working/221697)
Hi, I want to configure nginx as a proxy to a bunch of apaches, all serving the same multiple websites via vhosts. I had it working with something like location ~\* .(jpg|gif|png|css|js) { try\_files $uri @proxy; } …
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## [Attributes in classes db/migrate or app/models](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/attributes-in-classes-db-migrate-or-app-models/221597)
Hello, I’ve got some experience in Java, and recently, I’ve begun to practice with Rails. One of the things that has surprised to me, after I’ve read some books, it’s that classes hasn’t got attributes; the attribute…
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## [Does whenever gem work in Rails 3](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-whenever-gem-work-in-rails-3/221367)
Hi i want to send mails by scheduling it. i found whenever gem but i wanna know is does it work in rails3 Thanks in advance
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## [Passing json parameter in ruby on rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passing-json-parameter-in-ruby-on-rails/218530)
Just i called one function in my program, but i need to pass one json parameter…But getting the error like ArgumentError (Unknown key: branch\_id): \* \* CODE \* \* \*branch1(params\[:branch\]) \* \* \* \*def branch1(bra…
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## [Release Schedule](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/release-schedule/217147)
I’ve become very interested in the 1.1 branch recently, particularly it’s http/1.1 support in proxy mode. Is there a rough timeline already proposed for the promotion of the 1.1 branch to ‘production’? – Will ‘Mit’…
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## [Update Ruby version on already running Rails app](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-ruby-version-on-already-running-rails-app/212243)
I started an application on 1.8.7, and needed to update the server to 1.9.2 to get Passenger to run. Now I’m struggling to get the application to start under Apache+Passenger, and I’m wondering if there might be some …
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## [Problems with Benchmark on ruby 1.8.4 (rhe 5.3)](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-benchmark-on-ruby-1-8-4-rhe-5-3/212213)
Yes I know the version is ancient – I’m stuck with it for various boring reasons we need not go into here. I have a ruby program that processes logs on an hourly basis for lots (hundreds) of machines. I want to find …
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## [Arrays and choose one](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/arrays-and-choose-one/212081)