firstruby@FIRSTRUBY /demo
$ gem install json -v=1.4.6 –platform=ruby –no-ri –no-rdoc
Fetching: json-1.4.6.gem (100%)
ERROR: Error installing json:
The ‘json’ native gem requires installed build tools.

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit
from ‘http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads’ and follow the instructions
at ‘http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit’

firstruby@FIRSTRUBY /demo

To fix this problem, need to install Development Kit (DevKit – Its a toolkit that makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions for Ruby on Windows) as follows,

1) Download DevKit file from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads (DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20110712-1620-sfx.exe)
2) Extract DevKit to path C:\Ruby192\DevKit
3) Goto DevKit installation directory,

cd C:\Ruby192\DevKit

4) Run following command,

ruby dk.rb init

It will generate the config.yml file. This config file should include installed Ruby path, like “C:\Ruby192″
5) Run following command,

ruby dk.rb review

It is useful to review the list of Rubies to be enhanced to use the DevKit and verify the changes you made to it are correct.
6) Run following command,

ruby dk.rb install

It is useful to enhance your installed Rubies and makes it easy to build and use native C/C++ extensions such as json.

Reference : https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

rake app:test argument_name=’Hello World’

And read command line argument in following rake task,

namespace :app do
desc ‘test’
task :test => :environment do |t|
puts ENV['argument_name']
end
end

Mysql::Error: query: not connected: SHOW TABLES

then you may need to download ‘libmySQL’ from http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/InstantRails-win/InstantRails/mysql/bin/libmySQL.dll and paste that in C:\Ruby192\bin folder.

OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError (Illegal key size)

it means you need to install ‘Java Jurisdiction policy files’. These files can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce-6-download-429243.html and copy ‘local_policy.jar’, ‘US_export_policy.jar’ and replaced at ‘C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\jre\lib\security’.


before_filter :authenticate

def authenticate
authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
username == "test" && password == "test"
end
end


After adding these lines, application will ask for username and password.

1) File missing : If particular locale file say German locale ‘de’ is set from browser, then Rails application will look for de.yml file in /config/locales folder, and if de.yml is missing, then by default language fallback mechanism will load en.yml file as default.

2) Entry missing: If German locale ‘de’ is set from browser, then Rails application will look for de.yml file in /config/locales folder. In case, particular entry is missing in de.yml file, then conversion for the same language will be loaded from en.yml file.

To achieve this, just need to install latest I18n gem and need to create file /config/initializers/i18n.rb file with following,

I18n.backend.class.send(:include, I18n::Backend::Fallbacks)

Reference URL : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2324398/fall-back-to-default-language-if-translation-missing

RegEx:   /\A[+\-0-9]+\z/

This RegEx can be useful for Phone number validation.

If Helper module name is “UserHelper”, then need to write following in Mailer file,

add_template_helper(UserHelper)

After this, you will be able to access all the methods written in UserHelper in ActionMailer views.

Hope this is helpful.