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I'm currently developing a web application in Ruby on Rails. How can I retrieve website information such as title given a remote URL? Examples of this can be seen in many places such as del....
Hi, I'm trying to install Rails on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. I want to use Rails with a MySQL database, so I need to install the MySQL gem. I don't have it installed and as a con...
Is there an easy way to get the domain name of where something was called from? For example, if I have the same app that is linked to both www.somesite.com and www.somesite.net, is there an...
In perl and PHP there are variable variables and variable functions such that... $func = 'foo'; $func();        // This calls foo() $func = 'bar'; $func('test');  // This calls bar() ...
I would like the rails app to reload the page that it came from after executing a method.   I can get it to reload a specific page (redirect_to :action => 'list'), however I want it to relo...
Hello I am brand new to ruby and was wondering how I can open a file in a different directory. My current script (Phil.rb) reads as follows and is in the same directory as my text file (SC6....
Hi, apologies for a newbie question... I'm trying to loop through 2 dates ... so .. <% start_date.until(end_date) do |dates| %> <%= dates %> <% end -%> It prints out each date ti...
Dear all, I have installed Ruby 1.8.6, and currently would like to install Rails-0.9.4 After downloading Rails installer, i extracted the installer nside folder C:/Ruby Then at C:\Rub...
I'm new to Ruby on Rails. A client has expressed an interest in a project where the server-based app receives PDF files by email, then displays individual pages from the PDF on web pages. What...
I am trying to add a javascript "onsubmit" to a ruby on rails form (boss wrote the basic code then took off on vacation leaving me to finish something in a language I sooo don't know yet) H...
This should be simple: text = 'adam|paul|mike' I want to replace that with   ->   <b>adam</b><b>paul</b><b>mike</b> So each name seperated by a |  OR a name at the end of the string s...
I want to implement a div box on my homepage where the content is populated from a database items. The div content should (not the entire page) refresh every 5s (new random query) with a fadin...
Hello I have been trying to strip out parts of a string resulting from an array. In my array I have collected text files from a folder - result is as follows: c:08082008.txt c:09082008.txt...
Hi, experts, I have three links in view and I need to pass different parameter value so that I can use them in controller. How do I do that in RoR? <%= link_to 'Click here', :action => "...
i would like to install rmagick gem at windows. i've downloaded "rmagick-win32" and install "ImageMagick" inside the package Inside the package i found RMagick-1.14.1.tar.bz2, and unzip it...
hi, This will be a easy question. How do I print sql in console from the following code? ... ... @attending_ip = AttendingIp.find(:all,                                 :conditions =>...
I have created a simple rails application using RadRails on Aptana studio. I created two tables as described below: business id:integer name:string address:string post_code:integer phone...
Hi folks, I've been asked to set up Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.1.0, and Gems 1.2.0 for a developer so they can do a project for us.  Downloading and installing the bases of each turned out to be p...
Hi Experts, I have a question displaying result set. Currently, this works. in controller:  @attending_ip = AttendingIp.find_by_sql("SELECT ....") in view: <% @attending_ip.each...
Hi, I already have the wamp server (Apache & php w/ mysql) installed and want to use Ruby on Rails (RoR) with it.  I installed everything fine (Ruby, Rubygems, Rails), but how do I get RoR ...
dear experts, how to declare a method in Ruby that takes an OPTIONAL Array variable? thanks & regards.
Ruby has the cool little method "inherited" . . . All I want to do is whenever another class inherits from this parent class, I want to call a specific method on the child
Hi I need a Ruby script to delete files that are older than 3 days from I guess Time.now. Can someone help me with this? Thanks.
Hello I have a csv file (approx 20000 lines) and I want to count the number of times the following text (On Hold)appears in a given field (Col4)  Example .... Col1,      Col2 ,    Col3,    ...
I am ttrying to Update a field on my search result page thorugh in_place_edit and then render a partial to display the updated contents. I am receving the following instead od the real value ...