All, I have the following code that I put in my controller which I am using to initialize some static data. Note that it is not contained with a method of any kind. puts “test” config = YAML.load\_file(“config/confi…
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## [Re: Run USRP at alternate clock frequency?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-run-usrp-at-alternate-clock-frequency/93383)
Clark P. wrote: I finally got my 44MHz oscillator in. Tried to remove the existing oscillator but I got nowhere with my iron and copper braid. Can anyone suggest a cheap tool that will allow me to get this surface mo…
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## [Extreme newbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/extreme-newbie/90064)
Hi, I have absolutely no web programming experience (know basic html and have some ancient c++ experience) and am interested in learning Ruby on Rails to get me going quickly. What’s the best way to approach learnin…
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## [Dispatch.fcgi hanging after lighttpd shutdown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dispatch-fcgi-hanging-after-lighttpd-shutdown/56037)
Hi. I’m using RoR 1.0 with FastCGI and lighttpd on a Debian 3.1 box. I have configured lighttpd to do adaptive spawning of the FastCGI processes. However, after shutting down lighttpd the FastCGI processes remain ru…
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## [Rails redirect/jump script?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-redirect-jump-script/54867)
I’m looking for some advice on how to write a jump script - something that will look up a url in my database and redirect a cleaner url to the one in the database. For example: url: http://www.amazon.com jump url: h…
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## [Howto keep already entered form fields](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/howto-keep-already-entered-form-fields/73429)
Hi, is there a way to keep the already entered form fields when the form is re-displayed after some error has been detected and reported to the user via flash? Regards IJD
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## [Self.use\_instantiated\_fixtures](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/self-use-instantiated-fixtures/71690)
Can this be controlled on a per TestCase basis, or is it only a global setting? David
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## [Problems Connecting to SQL Server](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-connecting-to-sql-server/68701)
I’ve been asked to make my app work on Windows Server 2003 and connect to SQL Server. I’m having trouble getting connected to SQL Server. It fails as follows: is not a class/module C:\\InstantRails-1.0\\ruby\\lib\\ruby…
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## [How to find the helpers code?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-find-the-helpers-code/53648)
Hello, i have the application set up on my radrails. I was looking at the view generated by scaffold and i see a bunch of names, after looking up internet i found that they are helpers and generate the HTML for us. N…
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## [Scgi apache routes help needed](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scgi-apache-routes-help-needed/51355)
I’m trying to get an application running in a sub directory of a site using apache and scgi. The application runs fine with webrick. I have a site. Let’s call it “mysite.org”. There is a variety of content on that s…
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## [Variable dumper](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/variable-dumper/51024)
Hi there, I am newbie both in Ruby and in Rails. My experience is mostly PHP. In PHP, there is a var\_dump($mixed) function that dumps the object $mixed to std\_out. This is helpful to see the curent value of a variabl…
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## [RE: Problem using rmagick in model class](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-problem-using-rmagick-in-model-class/99719)
I think that in the code that didn’t work, you were, in effect, creating a class called Registrant::Magick::ImageList, because the require was inside the class definition (this is how mixins do their magic). However, …
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## [To customize link\_to](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/to-customize-link-to/48878)
Hi I’m trying to customize the link\_to helper and keep getting this error, any suggestion how can I work arround it? this is the error message: undefined method link\_to' for moduleUserHelper’ this is my users\_helper…
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## [Calling ruby script/generate scaffold category dependency mo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-ruby-script-generate-scaffold-category-dependency-mo/47751)
Hi, I’m trying to play around with the scaffolding(?) example that I found in the 4 Days on Rails tutorial, and I tried running ruby script/generate scaffold category dependency model but rather than generating files…
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## [Checking errors in functional tests?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/checking-errors-in-functional-tests/47632)
We’re elbow deep in functional tests and we’re trying to figure out how to do some assertions about the state of the list of validation errors on the request. We’d like to be able to assert that there are no validati…
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## [Partial views and forms/ design patterns](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/partial-views-and-forms-design-patterns/220778)
Consider a team of players. I would like to make my \_form not include the form header. This would allow me to have different fields available when depending on whether I am editing or creating a new player. It also a…
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## [Paperclip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paperclip/215709)
Hello people, I installed paperclip gem with these following lines in gem file gem ‘rmagick’ gem “paperclip”, “~\> 2.0” gem ‘aws-s3’ I am using amazon S3. the problem came when I ran the migration which had the foll…
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## [Ruby task monitoring](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-task-monitoring/211923)
I want to use ruby to monitor other programs that are running in Windows. Is there anyway to access information about other programs through ruby? If not does anyone know any useful windows command line commands to fi…
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## [Long loops inside threads](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/long-loops-inside-threads/210037)
Hi, I have a newbie question :slight\_smile: If I run the following code outside a thread: count=0 while count \< 10000 do puts “x” count +=1 end I get 10000 ‘x’. But, if I run the same code inside a thread, I rec…
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## [Socket Problems](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/socket-problems/190147)
I want to use a Ruby script to connect to a vendor API. I have 2 problems: 1) It takes almost a minute to establish a connection; and, 2) after the connection is finally established, no data is returned in response …
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## [Rails removes newlines and spaces from ajax requests](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-removes-newlines-and-spaces-from-ajax-requests/189954)
Hi I have an app which posts an ajax request with with text area content, but when it does post it it gets all the newlines and multiple spaces removed (need to use multiple spacing for use with markdown code snippet…
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## [Class variable inside block of defining instance method](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/class-variable-inside-block-of-defining-instance-method/182174)
Hello. How do I perform something like this? It’s the @echo variable inside the block I’m talking about, how do I gain “access” to it? Sincerely, phora.
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## [Problems with RoR on Leopard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-ror-on-leopard/179486)
hi guys–im also a newbie to RoR and programming in general so i apologize in advance for the elementary questions im about to ask…but i went to hive logic and began his tutorial. but i hit 2 snags–i’ve emailed him and…
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## [Gem or plugin?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-or-plugin/176358)
I have never packaged any code for a Rails app before. I have read a fair amount about differences between Gems and Rails plugins, but I was wanting to get some other opinions. I have a small cms I have built. As far …
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## [Passenger and Parallels running Vista?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-and-parallels-running-vista/174569)
I have searched around a fair amount and I have yet to find any info on getting Paralles to work with Passenger. My dev box is running Leopard, then I have Parallels set up to run Vista just for IE really. With Mongre…
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## [Why is map.root not calling action to set vars...?](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/why-is-map-root-not-calling-action-to-set-vars/170428)
Hi All, I’ve got a small problem with map.root in the following code: map.root :controller =\> "site\_manager", :action =\> :index It would appear that, for whatever reason, it isn’t calling the “index” action on my co…
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## [Mvc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mvc/165139)
Hi, i am wondering about the MVC pattern, I havent worked with that for a long time and before I break it I would like to ask your advice… if I have a birthday calender visible in nearly every view where would I put …
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## [Re: USRP Gain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-usrp-gain/147720)
Brian, More questions. Q1: I had second thoughts about the CIC gain. If I am going to use a 4th order CIC to give an overall decimation of R, then the decimation of each stage will be the fourth root of R, and the …
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## [RubyGems update](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubygems-update/142241)
I have RubGems 1.1.0 installed on my Fedora Core 5 machine along with a lot of rails 2.0.2 stuff. I want to upgrade to version 1.2.0 as easily as possible. I typed in: gem update --system as root but that did not d…
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## [\[ADV\] Announcing the Third Edition of Agile Web Development with Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adv-announcing-the-third-edition-of-agile-web-development-with-rails/135651)
If a dog year is 7 human years, then a Rails year is a lifetime. Things keep changing—the core team add new features (and remove old ones…), and we all learn new idioms and patterns for writing Rails applications. So…
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## [Setting blanks](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-blanks/128543)
I have this form which has a whole bunch of stuff for a user to fill out, not all of the fields have to be filled, but the one that are left blank I need to enter a dummie value for in the database because all that st…
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## [Autotest'ing specs on non-rails app](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotesting-specs-on-non-rails-app/121758)
I’m having trouble using autotest with rspec on a non-rails project. my Rspec gem is version 1.0.8, ZenTest is 3.6.2 project structure $ ls \* lib: parser.rb spec: parser\_spec.rb autotest finds and runs the spec, …
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## [Creating an HTML select](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-an-html-select/112234)
Hi, I use the following code in a view to show a list of states inside a form but I get not result, I mean I get no errors nor the expected HTML code that should be something like \