[Rails] Re: Web hosting for ruby on rails application

In the cheaper VPS I would recommend Webbynode http://webbynode.com/ , you can go bigger but the low end is pretty good to start off with form most small business web-apps. And it's a VPS so you can install whatever you want -- they also have pre-build recipes for Rails 3 and other platforms whi

[Rails] Re: Unit Testing getting me confused, not able to make test respond like application, where application is correct.

OK i think I fixed it by doing this instead: test "should not save with duplicate name property" do c = *Collection.new(collections(:one))* assert !c.save, 'Saved a collection with a duplicate name' end -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Rub

[Rails] Re: Unit Testing getting me confused, not able to make test respond like application, where application is correct.

For example this is the documentation at: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-low-down-on-fixtures # this will return the Hash for the fixture named david users(:david) # using the find method, we grab the "real" david as a User david = users(:david).find -- You received this messa

[Rails] Re: Unit Testing getting me confused, not able to make test respond like application, where application is correct.

Interesting, I thought I had to do a *collections(:one).find* for it to be taken out of the database, according to the documentation... but i did notice, and my next question was going to be, why do I get an error when doing the *find* method in the test? 1. So, I guess it is not true that

[Rails] Unit Testing getting me confused, not able to make test respond like application, where application is correct.

I have a few test cases, using unit test, I am new to testing but I don't understand why, if fixtures are loaded and validations are in place (in my case, I am testing that identical objects should not be saved to the database) -- and I know that it works, because doing the test through the UI

[Rails] Re: Which editor to use

If you want and IDE go with RubyMine, hands down best ruby IDE ever. If you just want to keep it simple (sic) use vim... -- 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-talk@googlegroups.

Re: [Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

I do wish there was a different error message/exception raised if something like this happened rather than a failed validation, since validations ca be written to be independent of db column types and therefore not a reflection of what is acceptable to the database... -- You received this mess

Re: [Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

Bah! Much ado about nothing, I'm pretty sure now that the problem is that the database record only accepts integers for the phone column. I just checked the schema file, should have done that much earlier! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Ra

Re: [Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

I have tested a simpler version and noticed this: ruby-1.9.2-p136 :010 > /^\(?[0-9]{3}\)?[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/ =~ "1234567890" => 0 ruby-1.9.2-p136 :011 > /^\(?[0-9]{3}\)?[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/ =~ "(123)4567890" => 0 ruby-1.9.2-p136 :012 > /^\(?[0-9]{3}\)?[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]

[Rails] Re: mysql gem problems

if you're on a mac, get homebrew, then type in your terminal "brew install mysql" -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, sen

[Rails] Re: Simple Facebook integration

You might just want to see what Facebook's 'like' button does, but I don't know how this is a Rails questions. Unless you use Rails to fill in the parameter for the like button's message that Facebook then uses to fill in the user's wall with... -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: [Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

To be a bit more clear about how I see the problem: as I said earlier, http://www.rubular.com/ validates the correctness of the expression, I've tried similar expressions in JS parsers, .NET parsers, Python parsers, they all pass, I think it's the rails parsers that fails, and/or something abou

Re: [Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

I've gone through about a couple of hours of building it up and tearing it down, I need someone else's brain on this one please... -- 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-talk@goog

[Rails] validates_format_of :phone with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/

Why doesn't this phone validation work? validates_format_of :phone, :with => /^\([0-9]{3}\)[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}|^[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{3}[-. ]?[0-9]{4}$/, :message => "is not a phone number" tested with (123) 456 7890 testing it here does work: http://www.rubular.com

Re: [Rails] Re: including a module in my model rails 3

I am having the same issue... -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups

[Rails] Re: MySQL not Connected ...... *pull hair*

Also as someone mentioned already. You want to keep an eye on the mysqlserver socket... But if your just working on local to develop screw mysql use sqlite3 and just use mysql on production... Which hopefully is not an iis server... On Jul 2, 11:42 am, Dave Digital wrote: > I'm trying to run " ra

[Rails] Re: Updating Bill To: fields to Ship To:

By using JavaScript... On Jul 1, 4:44 pm, InventoryTrackers wrote: > You've all seen that shopping carts have a checkbox that automatically > moves the Bill To: fields (such as name, phone number, etc) across to > the Ship To: fields. > How would you approach this in Rails? > Thank you -- You r

[Rails] Re: MySQL not Connected ...... *pull hair*

Sure get a Mac ;) No but seriously first there's no reason why your app should be in the www folder the only thing you want to expose to the world is he public folder and you can do that by simlinking I don't know what the equivalent is on windows well I don't know why anyone does web dev on a no

[Rails] Re: Reposted from Superuser - Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 10.04: A Living Nightmare

I would strongly suggest you look into rvm to manage your ruby/rails environments. But you might also want to install gem as your own user as opposed to root. The new gems will be kept somewhere in your home directory. - Victor On Jun 30, 1:03 pm, emptyset wrote: > I'm reposting this here from

[Rails] Re: Good Linux Distro for Rails 3?

Sounds too strange to me... I think you could just ignore the built in package managers and download and install your gems, rvm and whatever else from github and the gem package manager. Forget about ubuntu or fedoras packages... Victor On Jul 3, 7:43 am, Kenneth     wrote: > But I very much di

[Rails] Re: Rails 3 api

Thanks, I was looking at the guides, but didn't know exactly what version it was updated for... thanks for the rails3 beta link! On Jun 28, 10:28 am, Fernando Brito wrote: > I also like this one:http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v3.0.0.beta.3/ > Please note that we are in beta4. > > There is also t

[Rails] Re: PDFKIT Gem Example

Love the Ryan Bates railscasts... work of genius. On Jun 29, 1:19 pm, geolev wrote: > Ryan Bates did a Railscast on this yesterday. > > http://railscasts.com/episodes/220-pdfkit > > On Jun 18, 4:23 pm, Rails Learner wrote: > > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > Can anyone give me a small working example

[Rails] Re: deploy: First Rails App to shared server

; > message. > > Error message: > > Missing the Rails 2.2.3 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.2.3 rails`, > > update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the > > Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION > > to use the latest ver

[Rails] Re: deploy: First Rails App to shared server

lso looked at the > site5.com forum and still looking at it but did not find any help to > deploy the application . I tried all the ways i know... > > On Jun 27, 11:33 pm, Victor S wrote: > > > > > I deployed on Site5, so it's possible :) > > > Search their

[Rails] Send form validation errors through redirect?

Hi, I'm new at this, how do I send the errors that one would get from a standard ruby scaffold generator on a form that is attempted to POST incorrectly? With all the beautiful formatting etc... Right now I have this: # POST /environments # POST /environments.xml def create @project =

[Rails] Rails 3 api

I'm being googledumb and just can't be sure to find the rails3.0.0.beta API's... anyone have a link? Also i read somewhere, I think the RVM gerbil told me, that I can generate my own api docs? Any quick hints? Thanks, - V -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[Rails] Re: deploy: First Rails App to shared server

pull and there's your updated app, version controlled deployment, closest to heroku without the coolne$$ of heroku ;) On Jun 28, 1:33 am, Victor S wrote: > I deployed on Site5, so it's possible :) > > Search their bulletin board for a tutorial, i can't remember the link

[Rails] Re: deploy: First Rails App to shared server

I deployed on Site5, so it's possible :) Search their bulletin board for a tutorial, i can't remember the link off hand, if you have trouble let me know. If you are developing locally you don't need apache, just go to your app in the terminal and say$ script/server This is a pretty good getting

[Rails] Rails layout generator not doing what the documentation sais it should be doing?

Hello, I've just started playing around with the Rails 3.0.0.beta and I came across some seemingly strange behaviour, where I expected: "In previous versions of Rails, the rails generate scaffold command would automatically create a controller specific layout, like app/ views/layouts/posts.html.e

[Rails] Re: Would you recommend some books about Ruby on Rails?

I would recommend things by: The Pragmatic Bookshelf http://www.pragprog.com/titles Check out the Agile Web Development With Rails... On May 22, 12:21 pm, goodchoi wrote: > Hi everybody~ > Vey nice to meet you on this group. > > I'm a only web service planner operating a site > "http://topics

[Rails] Re: Looking for Easy Rails hosting

"With Heroku there's no git pull -- just push the code and it does everything else. " The problem for me is that it wasn't that simple, the app didn't work. While in an environment like shared hosting (if were comparing low price things, Heroku has a small free option as well) I have control over

[Rails] Re: Looking for Easy Rails hosting

I'm sure its simple on average. For me, deploying on Site5 was simpler. I also use a blank repository from which i clone my production site next to it on the server and my dev site on my local machine through ssh. Same thing, git push, git pull, don't need heroku for that, too costly anyway unless

[Rails] Re: Looking for Easy Rails hosting

I am hosting on Site5 and it was quite a simple process, some forum tutorial reading might be required if you aren't very familiar with passenger. I'm using git to synch between my production and local dev code and its a breeze... Heroku is supposed to be simple, but I found it more complicated tha

[Rails] Re: New to web app development -- ROR pros and cons

If you really really have to use Windows look into cygwin, and bitnamy rubystack http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack, also JetBrain's http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/ or SublimeText. But if you can afford a Mac OS X laptop you will be on the same level as 99% of ruby developers... hey, it's what Linu

[Rails] Re: Intermediate level tutorials

This book is quite useful, you can just get the PDF version if you wish: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition This is a useful place to get info: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ On Mar 31, 7:08 am, IanJ wrote: > Hi > I'm hoping somebody can sugg

[Rails] Re: Most popular IDEs for Ruby on Rails development

Um, because it's not? Because its easy and fast? On Mar 12, 5:39 am, Michael Pavling wrote: > > Our , yes, but i prefer textmate, because windows is not os > >> IDE ? Ruby? What the fuck ?) > > Go on then... in the sliding scale between hardcore text editors (Vi, > Edlin, Emacs) and bloaty IDEs,

[Rails] Re: Fascism is coming to Internet

To be honest, the language sounds quite ambiguous... Things like "knowing" may not be as easy to define as you think... your example of Xerox 'knowing' that their machines are being used for copyright infringement doesn't cut it. To know is, in some manner, to be witness, if you have not seen it h