This is more a curiosity than necessity question. I've just installed nokogiri again with RubyGems and it is saying "WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.5, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.6" This is easy enough to fix, but it lead to a more general question: how do I see all the configuration options for a rubygem befor...
I have a Rake task that loads configuration data into the DB from a file, is there a correct ruby/rails way to call it on a migration up? My objective is to sync my team DB configs, without have to broadcast then to run the task lalala def self.up change_table :fis_situacao_fiscal do |t| t.remove :mostrar_endereco t...
History: I created a key and pem file on Amazon. I created a private bucket I created a public distribution and used origin id to connect to the private bucket: works I created a private distribution and connected it the same as #3 - now I get access denied: expected I'm having a really hard time generating a url that will work. I'v...
I am new to Ruby and Rails so bear with me please. I have created a very simple blog application with both posts and comments. Everything works great. My next question regarding adding categories. I am wondering the best way to do this. As I can't see too far in front of me yet when it comes to Rails I thought I would ask. To be clear,...
I am displaying recent comments on the home page of a very simple blog application I am building in Ruby on Rails. I want to limit the number of characters that are displayed from the 'body' column of the comments table. I am assuming I can just add something to the end of the code for <%=h comment.body %> but I don't know what that woul...
For example: for(int i = 0; i < 100; i += 2) I could use a while loop or check if i % 2 == 0, but I was wondering if there wasn't a way to do it with the for loop. I could also use for(int i = 0; i < 50; i++) and multiply i by 2, but that doesn't seem right either. I'm just wondering if there is a simple, straightforward way to do it. ...
looper = (0..3).cycle 20.times { puts looper.next } can I somehow find the next of 3? I mean if I can get .next of any particular element at any given time. Not just display loop that starts with the first element. UPDATE Of course I went though ruby doc before posting my question. But I did not find answer there ... UPDATE2 input ...
I'm converting a part of a rails application to its own sinatra application. It has some beefy work to do and rather than have a million helps in app.rb, I've separated some of it out into classes. Without access to rails I'm rewriting finder several methods and needing access to the database inside of my class. What's the best way to...
I have a master-workers architecture where the number of workers is growing on a weekly basis. I can no longer be expected to ssh or remote console into each machine to kill the worker, do a source control sync, and restart. I would like to be able to have the master place a message out on the network that tells each machine to sync an...
I'm looking for a much more idiomatic way to do the following little ruby script. File.open("channels.xml").each do |line| if line.match('(mms:\/\/{1}[a-zA-Z\.\d\/\w-]+)') puts line.match('(mms:\/\/{1}[a-zA-Z\.\d\/\w-]+)') end end Thanks in advance for any suggestions. ...
I have a collection of Post objects and I want to be able to sort them based on these conditions: First, by category (news, events, labs, portfolio, etc.) Then by date, if date, or by position, if a specific index was set for it Some posts will have dates (news and events), others will have explicit positions (labs, and portfolio). ...
What's the best way (ideally a gem, but a code snippet if necessary) to generate an HTML table from an array of hashes? For example, this array of hashes: [{"col1"=>"v1", "col2"=>"v2"}, {"col1"=>"v3", "col2"=>"v4"}] Should produce this table: <table> <tr><th>col1</th><th>col2</th></tr> <tr><td>v1</td><td>v2</td></tr> <tr><td>v...
I have built a very simple blog application using Ruby on Rails. New to both Ruby and Rails so excuse the stupid questions. I currently have two tables that relate to this question. I have a Post table and a Tag table. Basically I set it up such that Post has_many :tags and Tag belongs_to :post. I am using AJAX to process and display t...
This is psesudo code. In what programming language this is possible ? def lab(input) input = ['90'] end x = ['80'] lab(x) puts x #=> value of x has changed from ['80'] to ['90] I have written this in ruby but in ruby I get the final x value of 80 because ruby is pass-by-reference. However what is passed is the reference to the dat...
In ruby, is it possible to specify to call another ruby script using the same ruby interpreter as the original script is being run by? For example, if a.rb runs b.rb a couple of times, is it possible to replace system("ruby", "b.rb", "foo", "bar") with something like run_ruby("b.rb", "foo", "bar") so that if you used ruby1.9.1 a.r...
I am a little confused about object assignment and pointers in Ruby, and coded up this snippet to test my assumptions. class Foo attr_accessor :one, :two def initialize(one, two) @one = one @two = two end end bar = Foo.new(1, 2) beans = bar puts bar puts beans beans.one = 2 puts bar puts beans puts beans....
I am a student in the process a building an Android app that can post a GPS track into a Rails application. I would like to do things the "Rails" way and take advantage of the REST. My rails application basically has 3 models at this point: users, tracks, and points. A user has_many tracks and a track has_many points. A track also ha...
I have a Rails app implementing a game, so it's expected that a player will leave a browser open at the game page. When player Alan takes an action himself, I use AJAX requests to update the game page Alan is viewing to reflect the new state. However, when another player (Bob) takes an action, I don't have (or want) a mechanism to push t...
This is a short question: I am looking for a way to run specs in debug mode, with the -u switch, so that RSpec would drop to console whenever it failed, without having to add a debugger line into the code. Any pointers? ...
I am having a problem understanding how array.sort{|x,y| block} works exactly,hence how to use it? ruby-doc example: a = [ "d", "a", "e", "c", "b" ] a.sort #=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"] a.sort {|x,y| y <=> x } #=> ["e", "d", "c", "b", "a"] thanks ...