Is there a way of mining the forums and figuring out an index of the top 10 or 20 frequently asked technical questions on ROR ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Top 2: 1. Why is scaffold broken aka "undefined method scaffold" 2. Why can''t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka "no such file to load -- sqlite3" On 23/07/2008, at 1:49 PM, Ather Shiraz wrote:> > Is there a way of mining the forums and figuring out an index of the > top 10 or 20 frequently asked technical questions on ROR ? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ryan Bigg wrote:> Top 2: > > 1. Why is scaffold broken aka "undefined method scaffold" > 2. Why can''t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka > "no such file to load -- sqlite3"hahaha :) Patience my friend ... we shall tackle this all :) but seriously we should compile a list of frequently asked questions and take this as a hint of what to tackle next. If they are having problems we could give them REALLY REALLY descriptive error messages with links to pages that help them tackle such errors. Some of these errors I am sure could be tackled by some rewrites and making the framework more "nooby proof". Thank god I didnt have such questions when I was starting out but you have to also see that people who want to give ROR a bad name will attempt to raise the barrier to entry (which we must lower) so more may take advantage, contribute, improve the framework... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
That''s a job for the wiki, when it''s eventually cleaned up :) On 23/07/2008, at 2:05 PM, Ather Shiraz wrote:> > Ryan Bigg wrote: >> Top 2: >> >> 1. Why is scaffold broken aka "undefined method scaffold" >> 2. Why can''t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka >> "no such file to load -- sqlite3" > > hahaha :) > > Patience my friend ... we shall tackle this all :) > > but seriously we should compile a list of frequently asked questions > and > take this as a hint of what to tackle next. If they are having > problems > we could give them REALLY REALLY descriptive error messages with links > to pages that help them tackle such errors. Some of these errors I am > sure could be tackled by some rewrites and making the framework more > "nooby proof". > > Thank god I didnt have such questions when I was starting out but you > have to also see that people who want to give ROR a bad name will > attempt to raise the barrier to entry (which we must lower) so more > may > take advantage, contribute, improve the framework... > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ryan Bigg wrote:> That''s a job for the wiki, when it''s eventually cleaned up :)As for keeping count of the indexes and top searches and top questions, could someone managing this site have an index like this one for example: http://isohunt.com/stats.php?mode=zg Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ryan, How could you ever forget the absolute No 1??? Why is Rails better than PHP? Cheers, Sazima On Jul 23, 1:27 am, Ryan Bigg <radarliste...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Top 2: > > 1. Why is scaffold broken aka "undefined method scaffold" > 2. Why can''t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka > "no such file to load -- sqlite3" > > On 23/07/2008, at 1:49 PM, Ather Shiraz wrote: > > > > > Is there a way of mining the forums and figuring out an index of the > > top 10 or 20 frequently asked technical questions on ROR ? > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Sazima wrote:> Ryan, > > How could you ever forget the absolute No 1??? > > Why is Rails better than PHP? > > Cheers, SazimaSeriously, I know loads of people would want to harrass the community of developers for their own reasons. We should however be able to combat that by positive steps and solutions. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
All great ideas tonypm wrote:> 1. I think mining the data in the forum is a good idea if there is a > way of generating some sort of report that would be a start. When I > have a random question, I nearly always do a forum search first > (google search in the group is great, i wonder if they have any > analysis tools)I was asking for an index of frequent searches and index of frequent questions because we should target the most COMMON questions first if we want to help the other developers. If we target the most common questions and put up responses , help , bug fixes, tutorials on those questions we will be doing what the rest of the industry does. The rest of the industry follows this rule : target the most common questions , problems, bugs etc. and the rest will follow (I forgot the name of the law but there is a law in EE/CS that asks you to target these most common flaws first). Perhaps the authors of http://www.ruby-forum.com could have something like that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---