Looks like there is a problem with using the attr_accessor method with datetime form fields http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8983 In Rails 2.3.2, for me at least, the problem seems to be popping up again. While trying to process a date for credit card v...

User.find :all, :select => "DISTINCT occupation"

Here is how to install a Rails application out of a subdirectory (rather than as a subdomain) with the Apache web server(Apache2). In this example I'm going to use my own blog which is a Wordpress installation and serve a Rails application from the subdir...

It's a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn't a package for it so here are the commands. wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz cd sphinx-0.9.8.1/ ./configure...

Extending forms in Rails is simple and will greatly reduce the amount of code in your views. This example is taken right from the Agile Web Development book on Rails(2.1.*) with one minor tweak. I want to pass a label argument along with the field name so...