similar to: newbie advice

I''m fairly new to Rails, and I''ve been learning from AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH RAILS. Everything has been going smoothly until the chapter on Unit Testing, where I''m getting some strange errors. I''m up to page 141 in the Agile book, and attempting to run the test program containing the method test_read_with_hash. The previous tests work properly, but I

I''ve been doing lots of research about different languages and frameworks for a project I''m planning. Your help in deciding what to do would be of great assistance. I used to program in highschool for a couple years. I haven''t done much since then and I know i''m pretty useless as a programmer. I know that if i put my head to it, I could muddle my way

Hello There I new to rails development and looking to write a simple site using rails. Does any one know of and example ecommerce application that that I can use as a base to build from. My db schema is very simple--product, categories, orders and order_item tables. Any suggestions will be highly appreciate. Thanks Pat

Hi folks, Newbie with ruby on rails but very excited by the features provided by the framework ;) Suppose I''ve got a table ''Company'' and a table ''Category'' Company belongs to a category but I will retrieve the Catagory in the Company list? It seems that I don''t have the basic ruby wau of thinking to get this easily. Can someone help?

Hi All, I''ve been a ASP.NET developer for the last few years and consider it to be a pretty productive environment to work with. However, the object-relational mapping (ActiveRecord) and simplicity of the Rails framework and Ruby in general really appeals to me. .NET currently doesn''t have something like Rails'' ORM - atleast not out-of-the-box. Here''s my

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

So I''ve sort of come to the conclusion that if I wanna get stuff done, I need to either A) Find some dang money and pay people to do it or B) Do it myself. I''m opting for B. Soooo...now I''ve got some programming/technologies to learn. I''m self-employed and I can afford to take a month (or 2) off to totally immerse myself in this and learn how to do it.

Hello, I'm looking for a textbook that can explain some of the math behind the intro-to-intermediate stuff like ANOVA, multiple regression, non- parametric tests, etc. A little background: I took an intro stats course last year and would like to further my education. Being as that was the highest (and only) stats class the local community college offers, it looks like I'm on

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Has anyone come up with a list of best practices for App design using Ruby On Rails? John McClain Senior Software Engineer TCS Healthcare jmcclain-RI2jYlfFOOy2dUpmj6OxPQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org (530)886-1700x235 "Skepticism is the first step toward truth"

I have experience in PHP/MySQL, but absolutely no experience at all in Ruby (and Rails) and would love to get a few quality books aimed at absolutley newbies. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

Hi everybody, I''ve started to learn Ruby on Rails with the two books, of course I''m experimenting outside the examples in the book and walking against some things I didn''t learn yet. so here''s the question: Is it possible to access one model from within another? Actually I have a Many to Many relationship between tables and I''m trying to realize

Hi, I have absolutely no web programming experience (know basic html and have some ancient c++ experience) and am interested in learning Ruby on Rails to get me going quickly. What''s the best way to approach learning rails for an absolute newbie? I''ve looked through the tutorials available through the Ruby on Rails site, and even these are just beyond my level. Thanks, John

Hi .. I am getting started with RoR and having fun :-) So, my problem is how to integrate the static and dynamic sides of the site I am making. I have a standard look-and-feel, the usual stuff, graphic header, left sidebar with menu, content in the centre. Some pages are static -- main page, contact, that kind of thing -- and some are dynamic, such as the admin pages. My problem is I