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How to generate a random date and time between two dates?

The title pretty much says it all. Don't overlook the 'date AND TIME' part though. ...

Interacting With Class Objects in Ruby

How can I interact with objects I've created based on their given attributes in Ruby? To give some context, I'm parsing a text file that might have several hundred entries like the following: ASIN: B00137RNIQ -------------------------Status Info------------------------- Upload created: 2010-04-09 09:33:45 Upload state: Im...

Mimic C preprocessor with Python/Ruby?

I need to mimic the preprocessor feature of C with Python. If I want to run the debug release, I use as follows with C #ifdef DEBUG printf(...) #endif I just use -DDEBUG or similar to trigger it on or off. What method can I use for Python/Ruby? I mean, what should I do to control the behavior of python/ruby scripts in such a way th...

How do I send signed emails from ActionMailer?

I'm using GMail as my SMTP server. I have that configuration working just fine: # config/initializers/action_mailer.rb: ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :tls => true, :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => "587", :domain => "www.example.org", :authentication => :login, :user_name ...

RubyGems installation errors both when using 'sudo' and not using sudo

I have a machine that is running Ubuntu Hardy, which provides its own RubyGems package. Unfortunately that version of RubyGems (1.1.1) is too old to do anything useful with, so I decided to manually update RubyGems to the current version (1.3.6). That part went smoothly, and if I do gem -v, I get 1.3.6 which is expected. The problem i...

Convert input to integer before save in rails

Hello, i have a set of select inputs representing a users birthday: birthyear, birthmonth and birthday. And i want to validate birthyear like this: validates_inclusion_of :birthyear, :in => Date.today.year-50..Date.today.year-12 So the user can be at least 12 years but at most 50 years when they are registering. But my problem is th...

Range with leading zero in ruby

Hi, i have a form where my users can register to my site. They fill in theirs birthdate in the form: birthyear, birthmonth and birthday. So i am using Range to create the select in the form like this: = f.select(:birthmonth, options_for_select((1..12))) But that doesnt start the single digit numbers with a zero like i want: 01, 02, 03...

Error when pushing to Heroku - ...appear in group - Ruby on Rails

I am trying to deploy my first rails app to Heroku and seem to be having a problem. After git push heroku master, and heroku rake db:migrate I get an error saying: SELECT posts.*, count(*) as vote_total FROM "posts" INNER JOIN "votes" ON votes.post_id = posts.id GROUP BY votes.post_id ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 5 OFFSET 0): ...

How do I serve nested static content on Heroku?

I have a rails application with static content in the public directory (e.g. public/index.html) and additional static content in nested subdirectories (e.g. public/one/two/index.html). All the static content is served correctly if I run it locally via script/server but when I upload it to Heroku the top-level page loads correctly but t...

Dynamic fields with Thinking Sphinx

Hi! I'm building an application where I have products and categories. Category has_many properties and each property has a list of possible values. After a category is set to the product all properties show up in the form and the user can set that property to one of the properties possible values. My question is: Is it possible for Th...

catching timeout exceptions in rails seems to skip rescues and explode "all the way up"

I have a controller: class EventsController < ApplicationController def index begin SystemTimer.timeout_after(10, CustomTimeoutError) do sleep(11) end rescue CustomTimeoutError => e # swallow end end end For some reason the rescue statement is not catching the timeout but instead its bubblin...

C underscore prototype syntax

I was trying to compile a ruby module, and my compiler choked. I think it might have something to do with a line in ruby.h: void rb_check_type _((VALUE,int)); I've never seen this _ syntax before. What does it mean? Could it cause problems for my compiler (Visual Studio)? ...

Ruby: Dynamically calling available methods raising undefined method (metaprogramming)

I have an Activerecord object called Foo: Foo.attribute_names.each do |attribute| puts Foo.find(:all)[0].method(attribute.to_sym).call end Here I'm calling all attributes on this model (ie, querying for each column value). However, sometimes, I'll get an undefined method error. How can ActiveRecord::Base#attribute_names return an ...

Scope of Constants in Ruby Modules

I'm having a little problem with constant scope in mixin modules. Let's say I have something like this module Auth USER_KEY = "user" unless defined? USER_KEY def authorize user_id = session[USER_KEY] def end The USER_KEY constant should default to "user" unless it's already defined. Now I might mix this into a couple of p...

How to upload a file with watir and IE?

I am writing a watir script to test an upload form. But the script does not automatically choose the file that is to be uploaded from my harddrive. Instead IE stops with the file chooser dialog open. As soon as I manually select the to be uploaded file in the dialog and click ok, watir continues as desired. I wonder why it stops. This...

Should I use multiple threads in this situation? [Ruby]

I'm opening multiple files and processing them, one line at a time. The files contain tokens separating the data, such that sometimes the processing of one file may have to wait for others to catch up to that same token. I was doing this initially with only one thread and an array indicating with true/false if the file should be read in...

Ruby Win32Api get single character non-blocking

I'm trying to write a simple game working with two threads, one thread to get input from the user, and another thread to animate some scenes. I'm able to get characters without pressing ENTER just fine, but it blocks in the animating thread until the user presses a key. Does anyone know of a way to get a character from the keyboard non...

Ruby on Rail using MYSQL database

Hey guys, New to rails, trying to figure out something simple. Seems as though I cannot migrate a very simple mysql database using "rake db:migrate" command. Here is the issue: I know rails defaults to sqllite right now, but I need to use mysql for a series of reasons. Use the following commands rails -d mysql MyMoviesSQL cd MyMovies...

Ruby on Rails bizarre behavior with ActiveRecord error handling

Can anyone explain why this happens? mybox:$ ruby script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.5) >> foo = Foo.new => #<Foo id: nil, customer_id: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> >> bar = Bar.new => #<Bar id: nil, bundle_id: nil, alias: nil, real: nil, active: true, list_type: 0, body_record_active: false, created_at:...

Ruby: How come the same strings have different hashcodes?

test = 'a' test2 = '@a'.slice(0) test3 = '@a'[1] puts test.hash puts test2.hash puts test3.hash Output: 100 64 97 Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding how the hash method works? Is there a way to fix this? ...