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Having IE6 Users sucks instead!

Get rid of them by pasting the following code into your document-head.

<!–[if IE 6]>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
alert(”No IE 6! Thanks!”);
document.write(’<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>’)
</script>
<![endif]–>

IE 6 will crash after asking the user not to use it!

Ruby on Rails provides a nice way to display error_messages; just by adding form.error_messages you get a nice overview of all your errors.

But i prefer to have it in different ways, so i 1) dont want the on_error_message-output to be a div element, 2) further i want to give each input field having bad content to be marked – by adding an error-class to that specific element for example.

Since i had to figure it out, here are the results for changing both.

1) different element instead of a div at on_error_message?
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Rails logging methods are wonderful for development.

Indeed, they often suck when you want to inspect objects or cascaded objects. So here is a codesnipped that helps you inspect any kind of any object in rails, deeply and detailed.

as a new lib-file or, just as i do, in application_controller.rb, add the follogwing code:

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