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Hi, where is your "last post" where you talk about the first four lines? Having trouble finding it.

Not advertising per say, I do work there so I can't be considered impartial. It is definitely cool to use and develop apps quickly that work on multiple mobile platforms.

when you say plug, are you advertising?
I'm looking for a mobile app in ruby

DAve

Thanks for the update. These days I would use passenger and apache instead of mongrel, it is much faster and integrates better. However if you are running a server on windows, you will still have to use mongrel as passenger doesn't run on win32.

Thanks for the help however the same fix for Rails 2.3.2 requires this addition to environment.rb instead.

config.action_controller.relative_url_root = "your_root"

Originally found on http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2009/4/15/rails-2-3-2-upgrade-gotchas

you should append the following line to the end of the solution:
tempfile.rewind

No significant notice. Both databases are running on the same mysql instance.

Cool stuff. Does using a different database for testing hinder the performance of your tests?

It is possible to do this, as it is just another form that is in the middle. All you would have to do is detect that the page showed up and click the button.

I have not yet tested this script with the new facebook, I expected there will need a few changes due to the volatile nature of page scraping.

"Once you have done this, you can now access any app pages that are on facebook. Some apps are flash based, others are plain html and javascript."

What if you want to automate 'allow' application access..?
Would be nice if you could click the allow access for the application so you didn;t have to loing and 'allow' access..!

Send me an email with your error messages and logs, I might be able to help you figure it out:

brian@briansblog.net

Thanks for the answer, that was just what i made, but when i did the object.save, mysql report an error, and WEBrick crashes, something weird happens...

While I have never done that, migrations have a field call 'binary' which would probably do the trick

In the migration:

t.column :myFile, :binary

To save it, you would do something along the lines of:

myObject.myFile = @realFile.read

Hi, what about saving files to the database?
I always get a weird error trying that...

If you check a couple posts back, I talked about windows and binary mode. I have patched my Tempfile to do that by default already.

The part here that is confusing me is why I should need to do a rewind on the StringIO before reading it. That and the fact that you have to deal with uploads in 2 ways depending on the file size.

The main issue you show here is related to the way files are being handled under Windows.

By default Ruby open files in text mode ('w'), that works under POSIX but under Windows, you need the binary 'b' for the mode or call #binmode as you did.

There are several patches for Tempfile under Windows, some of those came from Rails, try googling for that if you need more info.

See my latest post on how I fixed my unit tests.

I will be working on all my test in the future and get this thing reasonably tested as pretty much all I had was the scaffold generated tests unchanged.

Interesting, I guess I'll have to figure out how to fix that one. Stay tuned.

Danger, Will Robinson!

What happens when you run 'rake test'? (Hint: the database connection used for User doesn't change....)