http://satishchauhan.com {satish => RubyOnRails.new} Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:09:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en * {margin: 0; padding: 0} .roundedCorner { font-family: verdana, arial; width: 500px; margin: 10px auto; text-align:center; } .roundedCorner p { font-size:18px; padding:10px;} .text { border: 1px solid #B0BCC2; border-width: 0 1px; padding: 5px 10px;} .b1, .b2, .b3, .b4, .b5,.b1 b,.b2 b, .b3 b, .b4 b, .b5 b{ height: 1px; font-size: 1px; overflow: hidden; border-style: solid; border-width: 0 1px; display: block; } .b1 { ... http://satishchauhan.com/2009/01/01/rounded-corners-using-pure-css-without-images-and-javascript/ We perform simple queries using dynamic finder and for commonly used query logic we use named scope. User.find_all_by_user_name_and_password(user_name, password) # SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_name = user_name AND password = password named_scope :active, :conditions => { :status => true} User.active # SELECT * FROM users WHERE status=1 but we can’t chain query conditions when using ... http://satishchauhan.com/2008/12/30/dynamic-scope-methods-in-edge-rails/ Ruby on Rails and Merb team decided to  merge both of the frameworks into a singular web framework in Rails 3. The two frameworks have much in common and share code in a variety of places. Please click here to find the detailed post by DHH. http://satishchauhan.com/2008/12/28/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3/ Geekeerie organising a full day ruby and ruby on rails event scheduled on 22, Nov 2008 at Impetus Technologies, D-40, Sector 59,NOIDA,UP,India Noida, India. And not just that, RubyFunDay comes with free goooodies like lunch and Ruby p T-Shirt. So as ... http://satishchauhan.com/2008/11/19/first-fun-day-a-ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-event-in-india/ Al of you know how to load fixture to db rake db:fixtures:load To load a subset of your fixtures to your projects db rake db:fixtures:load FIXTURES=users,stores http://satishchauhan.com/2007/08/30/how-to-load-selective-fixtures-to-db-in-rails/ Recently I needed to implement star rating system for one of my project I am working on. If you are not familiar with a star rating system, its simply a method of voting using (usually) 5 stars in a row, which will change colour as you hover over them indicating ... http://satishchauhan.com/2007/08/24/star-rating-in-ruby-on-rails/ Pagination is a very common task in web application development. But sometimes we need to paginate something with ajax request. The interest to use Ajax for this is to provide a dynamic interface which doesn't need to reload the entire page when next results(page) displayed. Ajax is really nicely integrated ... http://satishchauhan.com/2007/08/01/how-to-paginate-with-ajax/ SyntaxHighlighter: SyntaxHighlighter is a source code syntax highlighting plugin to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and and without having to worry about applying format. It is a free JavaScript tool for source code Syntex highlighting , It doesn't care what you have on your server. The ... http://satishchauhan.com/2007/07/23/how-to-use-syntaxhighlighter/ How to import CSV file in rails? The CSV text-file format is a common choice for both import and export when performing data migrations. What if you want to import CSV files within a Rails application? Here is the code that allow you to upload CSV data onto the MySQL database from ... http://satishchauhan.com/2007/07/18/how-to-import-csv-file-in-rails/ Useful expressions for email address validation Matches a limited version of the RFC 2822 addr-spec form. /\A(?:[\w\!\#\$\%\&\’\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+\.)*[\w\!\#\$\%\&\’\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+@(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!\.)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-](?!$)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?)|(?:\[(?:(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\]))\Z/i satish chauhan's blog http://satishchauhan.com/2007/07/03/varify-email-address-format/