Browsing Questions About ruby-on-rails (1)

My Rails-app has a sign in box with a "remember me" checkbox. Users who check that box should remain logged in even after closing their browser. I'm keeping track of whether users are logged in by storing their id in the user's session. But sessions are implemented in Rails as session cookies…

I have a Ruby on Rails Website that makes HTTP calls to an external Web Service. About once a day I get a SystemExit (stacktrace below) error email where a call to the service has failed. If I then try the exact same query on my site moments later it works fine. It's been happening since the si…

After upgrading a rails 1.2 website to 2.1, the ExceptionNotifier plugin no longer works, complaining about this error: ActionView::TemplateFinder::InvalidViewPath: Unprocessed view path found: "/path/to/appname/vendor/plugins/exception_notification/lib/../views". Set your view paths with #app…

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What do you think is the best set-up for RoR in a Win Vista environment? I've tried the radrails eclipse plug-in, and it just seemed too bulky for me, I've also started to just use Textpad and the command line, but I'm used to having somewhat of an IDE to work with. Thanks for the help!

I want to create my Rails application with MySQL, because I like it so much. How can I do that in the latest version of Rails?

When asked to create system XYZ and you ask to do it in Python over PHP or Ruby, what are the main features you can mention when they require you to explain it?

My company is in the process of starting down the Grails path. The reason for that is that the current developers are heavy on Java but felt the need for a MVC-style language for some future web development projects. Personally, I'm coming from the design/usability world, but as I take more "front…

I have the following html.erb code that I'm looking to move to Haml: <span class="<%= item.dashboardstatus.cssclass %>" ><%= item.dashboardstatus.status %></span> What it does is associate the CSS class of the currently assigned status to the span. How is this done in Haml? I'm s…

As I learn more and more about OOP, and start to implement various design patterns, I keep coming back to cases where people are hating on Active Record . Often, people say that it doesn't scale well (citing Twitter as their prime example) -- but nobody actually explains why it doesn't scale …

Ok, so I've been refactoring my code in my little Rails app in an effort to remove duplication, and in general make my life easier (as I like an easy life). Part of this refactoring, has been to move code that's common to two of my models to a module that I can include where I need it. So far, …

I am running OS X 10.5, Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.1, and sqlite3-ruby 1.2.2 and I get the following error when trying to rake db:migrate on an app that works find connected to MySQL. rake aborted! no such file to load -- sqlite3/database

I have a cron job on an Ubuntu Hardy VPS that only half works and I can't work out why. The job is a Ruby script that uses mysqldump to back up a MySQL database used by a Rails application, which is then gzipped and uploaded to a remote server using SFTP. The gzip file is created and copied suc…

I am a neophyte with Ruby on Rails but I've created a couple of small apps. Anyway, I'm really interested in OpenID and I would like to implement OpenID authentication and maybe some Sreg stuff in a Rails app. All of the research that I have done has come up with articles that are out of date or j…

Is anyone out there using RoR for large scale, business critical enterprise applications? Are there any other lightweight web-frameworks based on dynamic languages that people are using for these types of apps? If you're not using these types of application frameworks what's stopping you? Is…