As part of my Rails application, I've written a little importer that sucks in data from our LDAP system and crams it into a User table. Unfortunately, the LDAP-related code leaks huge amounts of memory while iterating over our 32K users, and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix the issue. The problem seems to be related to the ...
I have opened my existing file in r+ mode. open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/locale/app.pot", 'r+') do |f| end I want to insert some other rows at specific line no.. Like i want insert "Hii " on line number 10. "hello " on line number 2. "world " on line number 20. How may i handle it in ruby ?? ...
Does anyone have a problem with Nokogiri acting differently between two servers (staging, and production)? On staging, it grabs and return the page properly (Nokogiri 1.4.2 Mechanize 1.0.0) On production, it returns a much smaller set of html that looks like a canned message (Nokogiri 1.4.2 Mechanize 1.0.0) I found out by running it i...
I created two applications that were essentially identical on heroku. They started off different because I was testing uploading to heroku and having some challenges making the adjustments. But now things seem to be working, but both have data that I would like to consolidate. Since they run off the same git repository, the code is th...
Hi. Are there any gems able to parse XLS and XLSX files? I've found Spreadsheet and ParseExcel, but they both don't understand XLSX format :( Any ideas? Thank you. ...
I'm implementing a search in my website, and would like to support searching for exact phrases. I want to end up with an array of terms to search for; here are some examples: "foobar \"your mom\" bar foo" => ["foobar", "your mom", "bar", "foo"] "ruby rails'test course''test lesson'asdf" => ["ruby", "rails", "test course", "test lesson"...
following snippet is from rails code def rescue_from(*klasses, &block) options = klasses.extract_options! unless options.has_key?(:with) if block_given? options[:with] = block else raise ArgumentError, "Need a handler. Supply an options hash that has a :with key as the last argument." end ...
Possible Duplicates: Rails or Django? (or something else?) Django or Rails? I come from a PHP background and was planning to try out a new framework. I have never done Ruby or Python before. Knowing PHP, what language would be easier to learn? ...
I'm trying to write a server connection in Ruby that will spawn a thread to handle incoming connections. This thread will then interpret the incoming data, then place some instructions in a queue to be processed by the main program loop at its convenience. However, I seem to have some issues with the queue processing, as the program se...
I'm getting an error in thumbnail.rb saying :geometry is empty Here's a condensed version of the stack: NoMethodError in PagesController#create undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass RAILS_ROOT: ... Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace .../vendor/plugins/paperclip/lib/paperclip/thumbnail.rb:18:in `initialize' .../vendor/...
Ruby Net::IMAP library provides a good API for IMAP stuff (http://railsapi.com/doc/ruby-v1.8/classes/Net/IMAP.html). There are two methods related to closing the IMAP connection: logout() and disconnect(). In which turn are they supposed to be called? ...
I am a non-coder and am very good at HTML. I am going to self-teach myself Ruby & Ruby on Rails because I hear it's a good skill to have but especially because it may be an easy first language to learn with my HTML background. I would like to create my webpage, which will catalog my photographs, using Ruby on Rails. For a non-coder-HTML...
So the loose tolerance of Ruby to use braces sometimes and not REQUIRE them has led to alot of confusion for me as I'm trying to learn Rails and when/where to use each and why? Sometimes parameters or values are passed as (@user, @comment) and other times they seem to be [ :user => comment ] and still others it's just: :action => 'edit'...
What's the difference between RMagic, ImageMagick, GD, etc. and which one should I use? I was looking for a thumbnail generation script and noticed that every script I found uses a different library for the same thing. ...
I'm new to Ruby, and I'm having a strange problem with the inject method. When I do: (1..10).inject(0) {|count,x| count + 1} the result is 10, as expected. But when I do (1..10).inject(0) {|count,x| count + 1 if (x%2 == 0)} I get an error: NoMethodError: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass from (irb):43 from (irb):43:in...
Can it be moved by Window Title as well as exe name? Other info on moving it in another language could be helpful. Update: some Perl sample can be found in Win32::GuiTest but there seems to be no resize or move functions. ...
I am using Xpath in Ruby with following statement. print XPath.first(Document.new(html),"//tr[@id='ctl00_c1_rr_ci_trAdd']//td[2]") The Query return the following text. <td> 1371 N Belsay Rd<br/>Burton, MI 48509 <br/> <a href='http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?style=2&amp;addres...
I am new to ruby and rails but seem to be getting the hang of it better than I expected... So I have a few instance methods, within which calls to ruby gems are made. When one of them throws an error, how do I get that to gracefully pass back to the client? Either let it keep going if it can and display an error message, or die and giv...
I trying to construct a regex to extract a domain given a url . for eg. http://www.abc.google.com/ http://abc.google.com/ https://www.abc.google.com/ http://abc.google.com/ should give abc.google.com any hellp verymuch appreciated. Thanks ...
hi, I want to test a helper where I use a instance variable inside. I'm using rails 2.3 with the default testing framework. Can please someone write my a simple test (I guess a Unit test) for this? thanks A simpler version of my code as example. # controller @bla = "some value" # view <%= foo %> # helper def foo @bla.reverse end ...