Adding 127.0.0.1 project.dev
to the top of /etc/hosts and accessing the page using it solved the problem immediately. I had cleared the content of the form and refreshed (in Firefox), but didn't know about Ctrl-F5. Does that do the same as Shift+(Reload)? I'll replace @content_for_layout with yield when the client wants to pay for it. :) Oh, hell, it's just one line, I'll just do it. Same with the doc type, I'll change it to transitional and get it in line at http://validator.w3.org/. Thanks to all. Scott At 09:51 AM 8/25/2009, you wrote: >I'm maintaining a Rails 2.0 app for a non-profit. I've added a text >field to the user model to hold a note. I want the contents of the >current user's note field to populate the form so it can be modified >if desired. > >My understanding is that is what Rails does by default. I've removed >almost everything from the layout and view (a comment in layout.rb >says: NOTE: The old notation for rendering the view from a layout >was to expose the magic <tt>@content_for_layout</tt> instance >variable. The preferred notation now is to use <tt>yield</tt>, as >documented above.) > >Here's the layout: > ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> ><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ><head> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> ></head> ><body> ><div id="content"> > <%= @content_for_layout %> ></div> ></body> ></html> > >Here's the view: > ><% form_for :user, @user, :url => { :action => "save_notes", :id => >@user.id }, :id => "save_notes", :class => "notes" do |form| %> > <%= form.text_field :notes %> > <%= submit_tag("Save", :style => 'float:right;margin-right:1em;') %> ><% end %> > >Here's the HTML. Note there is no CSS or Javascript: > ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" >"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> ><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ><head> ><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> ></head> ><body> ><div id="content"> > <form action="/admin/members/save_notes/3782" method="post"> > <input id="user_notes" name="user[notes]" size="30" type="text" > value="This is a test." /> > <input name="commit" type="submit" value="Save" /> > </form> ></div> ></body> ></html> > >The problem occurs when this page is displayed on localhost, running >under development. The text field is not populated with 'This is a >test' in Firefox under Linux. > >If I copy the HTML to a file and browse to that, it is populated. > >If I run the app under OnCloud.org (what a great way to show clients >work-in-progress) and view from either Linux or Windoze, the field >is populated. > >Why isn't the field populated when the app is accessed via localhost? > >Thanks, > >Scott > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
