[Rails] Re: Re: Mongrel not starting

2010-03-03 Thread John Mcleod
Thank you for everyone's reply. I finally made it work. Here's the steps I did. sudo gem uninstall mongrel sudo gem uninstall fastthread sudo gem install mongrel sudo gem install fastthread As I'm not that experienced with this, I'll assume that one or the other installation was bad. I found

[Rails] Re: Re: Mongrel not starting

2010-03-03 Thread John Mcleod
Sorry about that. OS: Mac At the rails project root directory, using the Terminal, "script/server mongrel". When I say "nothing" I mean a blank screen. The cursor goes to the next line and that's it. I've also used "ruby script/server mongrel -debug" with the same results. When I interrupt

[Rails] Re: Mongrel not starting

2010-03-03 Thread John Mcleod
Thank you for the reply. Yes, after 1 minute of nothing. John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscr

[Rails] Re: Mongrel not starting

2010-03-03 Thread John Mcleod
Maybe a gem list would help too. - Gems - *** LOCAL GEMS *** acl9 (0.12.0) actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.2.2, 1.3.6) actionpack (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.2.2, 1.13.6) actionwebservice (1.2.6) activerecord (2.3.5, 2.3.4, 2.2.2, 1.15.6) activerecord-oracle-adapter (1.0.0.9250) activeresource (2.3.5, 2.3.4,

[Rails] Mongrel not starting

2010-03-03 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm have a problem starting Mongrel. I get the following... user-fc0e6f:ProjectDB johnmcleod$ script/server mongrel ^C/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel/gems.rb:11:in `require': Interrupt from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:17 from /Libr

[Rails] New window parameters disappear with validation fails

2010-03-02 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, My 5th month with Ruby on Rails is over and on to #6, but still learning. I have an application... Rails 2.3.5 Ruby 1.8.7 I have a jQuery dialog box that gives the user the option to "create" a new project or "Cancel". When "Create New" is clicked, a new browser window is opened with t

[Rails] Upload progress bar with Paperclip, Mongrel, Apache

2010-03-01 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I've been looking now for several days for an easy to use progress bar plugin or tutorial. I have Paperclip installed and it works great. My production server runs on Apache and Mongrel. It's amazing that there's no easy set up progress bar plugin or gem out there. I have seen "SWFUpl

[Rails] Re: "Sequence does not exist" for joined model

2010-02-25 Thread John Mcleod
I agree with you. I had the application working fine with SQLite and then he (not just he but the department) wanted the Oracle migration. The reason being is the department is a big Oracle house, even though they have apps with MS-SQL and mySQL. Oh, I did create a sequence also. All works fo

[Rails] Re: "Sequence does not exist" for joined model

2010-02-24 Thread John Mcleod
Well, I just added an PK ID into the joined table and good to go. Thanks John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.c

[Rails] "Sequence does not exist" for joined model

2010-02-24 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm in my 5th month on Ruby on Rails and still learning. I have an application that works fine in sqlite3 and then the boss says he wants it migrated to Oracle. Now, I know very little about Oracle, enough to get into trouble. When I did the migration everything went haywire. Well, I'

[Rails] Re: ORA-01704 string literal too long

2010-02-23 Thread John Mcleod
>> Have you actually tired to store the 13 K byte string in a CLOB field? I did a simple copy/paste of the 13K data into the CLOB field and it worked fine. I checked the "show" view and the data is there. John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because yo

[Rails] Re: ORA-01704 string literal too long

2010-02-23 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks for the reply. > I would hope that the Ruby Oracle database > adaptor would take care dealing with the CLOB field. I had the standard Oracle Adapter but decided to install the Oracle Enhanced Adapter. > Have you actually tired to store the 13 K byte string in a CLOB field? No, next th

[Rails] Re: ORA-01704 string literal too long

2010-02-23 Thread John Mcleod
Thank you for replying. I don't quite understand what you're doing. What do you mean by... >I'm guessing you'll need to change the value into it's ready-to-store binary >>format." John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[Rails] ORA-01704 string literal too long

2010-02-22 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm stuck again. I'm in my 5th month of Ruby on Rails and getting better but... I'm uploading a .csv file using Paperclip and FasterCSV, then processing the file after the upload is complete. Small files work fine. I tested a larger file and found that one cell had 13,000 chars. need

[Rails] Re: Re: .find() with simple :join

2010-02-11 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks for help. John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyo

[Rails] Re: .find() with simple :join

2010-02-11 Thread John Mcleod
if I include ":include => :activity_type", then I get the name. debug @activities - !ruby/object:Activity activity_type: &id001 !ruby/object:ActivityType attributes: name: Budgeting created_at: 2010-01-25 14:38:25 updated_at: 2010-01-25 14:38:25 id: "1" attribute

[Rails] Re: .find() with simple :join

2010-02-11 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks Mat, That did it. I checked with debug and how do I get the type Name? John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegro

[Rails] .find() with simple :join

2010-02-11 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I about to pull my hair out. I have two models "Activities" and "Activity_types" Activities -- id name activity_type_id Activity_types -- id name - Associations - class Activity < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :activity_types end class ActivityType < ActiveReco

[Rails] Re: .find() with contents of Array

2010-02-09 Thread John Mcleod
Well, I found out that I just do this... m = Array Model.find(m) That gives me my results. Thanks, John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to r

[Rails] .find() with contents of Array

2010-02-09 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm on my 4th month with Ruby on Rails. I'm doing good, I think, but have a long way to go. I have an array with several IDs. Array [1,4,6,10,40] I wish to perform a find() on a Model, on each of these IDs, then be able to send the results to a view. Thank you for any help on this.

[Rails] passing parameter thru fields_for text_field

2010-01-19 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I have a helper function called "add_link" which will insert html to a partial. - ProjectsHelper - def add_link(name, irb=nil) link_to_function name do |page| page.insert_html :top, :irbs, :partial => 'projects/irb', :object => Irb.new, :locals => { :irb_id => irb } end

[Rails] Re: Passing parameter to open dialog using link_to_function

2010-01-19 Thread John Mcleod
I removed the Prototype window and went will jQuery UI Dialog instead. It was easier to work with and more examples in regards to what I'm trying to accomplish. JohnM -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby o

[Rails] Re: Disabling "Submit" button in form_remote_tag in dialog box

2010-01-18 Thread John Mcleod
Well, I answered this one on my own. In my "applications.js" file, I have a function that opened the jquery dialog box. - application.js - function addIrb(id){ jQuery.ui.dialog.defaults.bgiframe = true; jQuery(function(){ jQuery('#add').dialog({ title: 'Search IRB Records',

[Rails] Disabling "Submit" button in form_remote_tag in dialog box

2010-01-18 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I have a jQuery dialog that renders a search form using "form_remote_tag" - _searchDialog.html.erb - Please type IRB number or part of a number If search does not retrieve desired results, please refine search. <% form_remote_tag :update => "searchResults",

[Rails] returning search result to new.html.erb as textfield value

2010-01-14 Thread John Mcleod
lts. Like below... IRB Search Results IRB ID Title PI Full NameAction 00-010 Project Title ... John Mcleod Add IRB The "Add IRB" is a hyperlink to return the IRB ID to the "new.html.erb" as a filled text field. I will add a littl

[Rails] Re: has_one belongs_to confusion

2010-01-08 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks for the reply. >Without looking over all of the code here, you more than likely are >missing an :include. I've added it above. Sorry, the only missing code would be in the project model. - project model - def self.search_all_projects(search, page) # searchlogic gem used # project_numbe

[Rails] has_one belongs_to confusion

2010-01-08 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, This will be my 3rd month with Ruby on Rails. I do all my developing on Mac with TextMate. I'm now totally confused. I have a one to one relationship. Projects and study_type - project model - belongs_to :study_type - study_type model - has_one :project I can display correct data in my

[Rails] problem using build with has_many :through relationship

2010-01-08 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm having problems creating a new record with has_many :through My application is quite complicated so I'll try to explain it as easy as I can. I have a many to many relationship with Projects, IRBs and Reviews. Where reviews is the joined model. In the new project view, I have a li

[Rails] Find by looping thru array

2010-01-07 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm in my third month of Ruby on Rails. I think it's coming along fairly well. My current issue is this. I'm do a search based on string data some of which is very long. So I'm doing a similar match using "amatch" gem. When I have a 50% or greater match I store the id to an array. How

[Rails] Re: update data using jQuery UI dialog

2009-11-05 Thread John Mcleod
> 'project', :action => 'update'} do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> <%= f.text_area :notes, :size => '50x30' %> <% end %> // Here is the table row in the "form_for" <%= f.label :comments, "Notes/Comments&

[Rails] Re: update data using jQuery UI dialog

2009-11-05 Thread John Mcleod
7;, 'viewDialog("Notes/Comments")') %> John John Mcleod wrote: > Hello all, > I'm just a newbie with Ruby on Rails but I've worked a little more with > jQuery. > I have a RoR application that has a very long "New" form. One of the > fields in the

[Rails] update data using jQuery UI dialog

2009-11-05 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm just a newbie with Ruby on Rails but I've worked a little more with jQuery. I have a RoR application that has a very long "New" form. One of the fields in the form is "Project Notes". I have created a hyperlink to a jQuery UI Dialog box that can stay open so the user can type note

[Rails] Re: Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to an

2009-10-29 Thread John Mcleod
saving one record each time, > but I > could be wrong. If anyone's got a better way I'd love to know what it > is. :) > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:37 PM, John Mcleod < -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~--

[Rails] updating model while reading CSV

2009-10-29 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I was wondering how to update an existing table column when reading in a CSV? I'm using FasterCSV and my controller method is this... - Import Controller - def process_csv # set file name file = params[:import][:file] rowcount = 0 Import.transaction do FasterCSV

[Rails] Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to another

2009-10-27 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I've been getter better with Rails but I'm still just learning. Here's what I have. I have one table (imports) and I read in a csv into this table. I must do some preliminary editing to each record, afterwhich, I wish to insert all records into another table (projects) in one shot. I

[Rails] Re: Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to ano

2009-10-26 Thread John Mcleod
You are correct. I must do some editing to incoming data before it's "imported" into the "projects" table. I'm having more problems importing data from one table to another. When editing is complete, I click a button to "save" to projects table. My button is very up front and easy. <%= button_

[Rails] Re: Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to ano

2009-10-26 Thread John Mcleod
Your right. I could not deal with the additional table. Thanks for the insight. John Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > John Mcleod wrote: >> Thanks for the quick reply. >> >>>But having two tables with identical structure is smelly. Why not just >>> use a flag a

[Rails] Re: Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to ano

2009-10-26 Thread John Mcleod
able after the insert into the "projects" table. This way the user has a fresh table to get info from a csv file. John Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > John Mcleod wrote: >> Hello all, >> I've been getter better with Rails but I'm still just learning. >> >&g

[Rails] Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to another

2009-10-26 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I've been getter better with Rails but I'm still just learning. Here's what I have. I have one table (imports) and I read in a csv into this table. After doing some preliminary editing to each record I wish to insert all records into another table (projects) in one shot. I could create

[Rails] Re: Drag and drop table row problem

2009-10-22 Thread John Mcleod
Oh, another thing. When I click on the row, the all the text in the row does fade (similar to the drag/drop examples). It seems to me that I'm almost there. Thank you. John John Mcleod wrote: > Hello all, > I'm trying my first drag and drop project. Dragging a table row fro

[Rails] Drag and drop table row problem

2009-10-22 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm trying my first drag and drop project. Dragging a table row from one table to another. First, get table 1 row to be draggable. I looked over several examples of Prototype/Scriptaculous of drag/drop and thought I was doing right. My problem is after setting it up, no dragging. Tab

[Rails] Re: Conditional layout - show

2009-10-14 Thread John Mcleod
l.erb and click on the 'show' link, my 'header/nav bar/content area layout disappears. All that displays is the project information without any styling. I hope this clears up things. JohnM Colin Law wrote: > 2009/10/14 John Mcleod : >> >> Hello all, >> I'm

[Rails] Conditional layout - show

2009-10-14 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm learning Ruby on Rails and still kind of new at this. I have two different layouts (standard page and dialog box) for a view (show). How do I set each layout in the controller to show the different layout? Something like this... - Controller - def show @project = Project.find

[Rails] Passing parameter to open dialog using link_to_function

2009-10-13 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm having one fun time trying to past a parameter to a javascript function using link_to_function. This is what I have... 1. A simple project, controller, views, model. 2. Prototype Window dialog box installed. What I'm trying to do is on the index.html.erb, instead of link_to "show"

[Rails] Re: validates_format_of .csv

2009-10-09 Thread John Mcleod
mike wrote: > I think you try to parse the csv before saving the model to the db. > Thats when validations would be run. You should catch any FasterCSV > Exceptions and give a proper error message in the controller. > > 2009/10/8, John Mcleod : >> Below is my model. >

[Rails] validates_format_of .csv

2009-10-08 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm trying to validate a uploaded file extension. I'm not using any special plugin other that fastercsv. When I try to upload an incorrect file (say a ".doc"), I get this error message... "Error adding logs. (Unquoted fields do not allow \r or \n (line 2).). Please try again." Below

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-28 Thread John Mcleod
> My pleasure! People help me.. I help people. The world goes round, > albeit slightly lopsided. quite a bit lopsided. > Hmm.. Why not just do it the way the scaffolds set it up? :) Not a bad idea. I'll head in that direction and see what transpires. Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-28 Thread John Mcleod
= params[:id] > results = Project.search_by_irb_pi(irb_id, params[:page]) > render :partial => 'imports/results', :locals => {:projects => > @projects} > > This code quite clearly gets results, and then sends the variable > @projects out

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-24 Thread John Mcleod
<%=h project.project_id %> <%=h project.title %> <%=h project.pi_full_name %> <%= link_to 'view', project, :rel => 'facebox' %> <% end %> John John Mcleod wrote: > Aldric, > I did what you s

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-24 Thread John Mcleod
ls => {:projects => @projects} end Thank you again for all your help John Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > John Mcleod wrote: >> Aldric, >> Sorry, I just did some work on the project and it still doesn't update >> the searchResults table. >> > >>

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-22 Thread John Mcleod
| %> <%=h project.irb_id %> <%=h project.project_id %> <%=h project.title %> <%=h project.pi_full_name %> <%= link_to 'view', project, :rel => 'facebox' %> <% end %>

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-16 Thread John Mcleod
like this... [0;1mSELECT * FROM "projects" WHERE (import_id LIKE '%%') ORDER BY irb_id ASC, pi_full_name ASC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0 [0m This will return nothing of course. Another problem is trying to display the results in the table in the "searchResults" div on the

[Rails] Re: Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-11 Thread John Mcleod
Whoa! There's a lot to chew on there. First off, thank you for the reply. Let me chew, chew on this over the weekend and I'll let you know my progress on Monday. I've used wil_paginate before so that helps. Thanks again. John Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > Hang on to your shorts - I did something qui

[Rails] Two tables, clickable row one table to fill other table

2009-09-11 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, This one has kept me up at night. I'm kind of new to Ruby on Rails (5 weeks and counting). I have two tables. One table is created by the input of a .csv file. Imports - imports_id - imports_title - description - manager The other table is a "projects" table. Projects - projects

[Rails] Re: Routes problem

2009-08-28 Thread John Mcleod
uot;map.connect" "path/to/view", :controller => 'controller', :aciton => 'action' Is this correct or am I lost? Rob Biedenharn wrote: > On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:34 AM, John Mcleod wrote: >> Hello all, >> Here's a newbie question (4 weeks and coun

[Rails] Routes problem

2009-08-28 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, Here's a newbie question (4 weeks and counting). My routes.rb is as below. map.resources :projects, :departments, :users, :admins, :imports, :notes #Below is route in question map.resources :projects, :collection => { :view_all => :get } map.home '', :controller => 'projects', :actio

[Rails] Re: Deleting table data from staging table

2009-08-27 Thread John Mcleod
Colin, I used the array approach and it worked. Like this... @import = Import.find(:all) @import.each { |i| i.destroy } Thanks for the input. John Colin Law wrote: > 2009/8/26 John Mcleod : >> >> I have this: >> imports_controller: >> >> def process_csv &g

[Rails] Re: Deleting table data from staging table

2009-08-26 Thread John Mcleod
t; redirect_to :action => :index end --- When I do this I get this error... "Error adding logs. (undefined method `destroy' for #). Please try again." Any clues? Thanks, JohnM John Mcleod wrote: > Hello all, > I'm using

[Rails] Deleting table data from staging table

2009-08-26 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.3.3. I'm new at Rails so bear with me, please. My application reads in a csv file to a staging (imports) table then compares the contents of the table to a main (projects) table. Then imports all non-repetitive rows to the main table. This application w

[Rails] Re: CSV upload to database

2009-08-11 Thread John Mcleod
Thank you for the reply. I will do some reading on Metal and I see there's a railscast on the subject too. It won't be too "heavy" task as the file will be approx. 17-20 MB Thanks again. JohnM Robert Walker wrote: > John Mcleod wrote: >> My project consist

[Rails] CSV upload to database

2009-08-11 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I'm a newbie with Ruby on Rails. So far, 3 weeks and counting. I'm really a PHP guy with a department that changed its development platform. But enough of the chit chat. My project consists of a "Project" database and periodic imports (new data) to the database. This import file will be

[Rails] Re: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

2009-07-23 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks for the advice. I will try all that's suggested. I've also posted on the Ruby forum, since Apha Blue's earlier post. It seems that I have a bit of work ahead of me. Thanks again. johnM rogerdpack wrote: >> nmake >> 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >> operable

[Rails] Re: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

2009-07-22 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks again for the quick reply. You are right. This is not the place for this post. My apologies. I will move to the appropriate forum. The funny thing is that I'm running a VM of Windows 2003 on a MAC. I'm really a PHP guy with around 2 weeks (department mandated) of Ruby experience. Thanks ag

[Rails] Re: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

2009-07-22 Thread John Mcleod
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried what you stated with no change. I installed the .tgz of the gem and moved the entire folder within the bin folder. I read the 'readme' and tried to install. I received the below error after the setup command. Is this what you mean by "you have to build the g

[Rails] ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

2009-07-22 Thread John Mcleod
Hello all, I tried to install the 'amatch' gem and received the following error: === C:\Ruby\bin>gem install amatch-0.2.3.gem Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing amatch-0.2.3.g