Rails - Mar 2006 - Firefox ''Rails Mailing List'' search engine plugin

Hi all,
If you''re like me you probably spend a lot of time search the Rails 
mailing list. To make life a little bit easier I''ve created a nice 
little plugin for firefox ( A whopping 15 lines of markup ). The plugin 
uses nabble.com to search the mailing list.
Anyways, I thought I''d share.
If you want to install it the manual way, here''s the code.

<search
version="1.0"
name="Rails"
description="Search Rails Mailing List"
action="http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp"
searchForm="http://www.nabble.com"
method="GET"
 >
<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
<input name="forum" value="13830">
<input name="local" value="y">
<input name="query" user="">
</search>

If you want the auto install with the icon.
http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin

Happy Seaching!

-Eric

Thanks Eric.
  
  Very nice.
  
  Frank
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Kooool

Le 25 mars 06 ? 07:23, Frank a ?crit :
> Thanks Eric.
>
> Very nice.
>
> Frank
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

Thank you for the contribution, Eric! Great extension! -Dave

On 3/25/06, S?bastien Gruhier <seb@itseb.com>
wrote:
> Kooool
>
> Le 25 mars 06 ? 07:23, Frank a ?crit :
>
> > Thanks Eric.
> >
> > Very nice.
> >
> > Frank
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Andrew Thompson
http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hi,

Glad you guys found it useful!
With the amount of posts on the rails list each day now, I find I''m 
having to use a search more and more even to find things that were 
posted a day ago.
It''s cool to see the community expanding so quickly! I am reminded of a
post on Amy Hoy''s blog, though. Hopefully making searching easy will 
help alleviate some of the troubles that are associated with such a 
quick growth within a community.
Happy Searching!

-Eric
ericgoodwin.com
http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin

David Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Thank you for the contribution, Eric! Great extension! -Dave
>
> On 3/25/06, S?bastien Gruhier <seb@itseb.com> wrote:
>   
>> Kooool
>>
>> Le 25 mars 06 ? 07:23, Frank a ?crit :
>>
>>     
>>> Thanks Eric.
>>>
>>> Very nice.
>>>
>>> Frank
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Rails mailing list
>>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>>       
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>     
>
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> David Andrew Thompson
> http://dathompson.blogspot.com
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

Thanks for the great search engine.  I might be able to delete the last
years worth of emails now!  
Now for something completely off topic.  Are you refering to Amy Hoy''s
post about help vampires?
I found that post to be extremely elitist and derogatory.  I think it''s
attitudes like hers which are the death of a community.  You never know
who''s asking the questions.  It could be a 10 year old for all you know
and I would hate to see anyone put someone else down for asking a
question......even if they should of googled it first.


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 08:51 -0800, Eric Goodwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Glad you guys found it useful!
> With the amount of posts on the rails list each day now, I find
I''m
> having to use a search more and more even to find things that were 
> posted a day ago.
> It''s cool to see the community expanding so quickly! I am reminded
of a
> post on Amy Hoy''s blog, though. Hopefully making searching easy
will
> help alleviate some of the troubles that are associated with such a 
> quick growth within a community.
> Happy Searching!
> 
> -Eric
> ericgoodwin.com
> http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin
> 
> David Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Thank you for the contribution, Eric! Great extension! -Dave
> >
> > On 3/25/06, S?bastien Gruhier <seb@itseb.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Kooool
> >>
> >> Le 25 mars 06 ? 07:23, Frank a ?crit :
> >>
> >>     
> >>> Thanks Eric.
> >>>
> >>> Very nice.
> >>>
> >>> Frank
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Rails mailing list
> >>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> >>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >>>       
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Rails mailing list
> >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > David Andrew Thompson
> > http://dathompson.blogspot.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >   
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> 
Charlie Bowman
Programmer
Castle Branch Inc.
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Charlie Bowman wrote:
> I would hate to see anyone put someone else down 
> for asking a question......even if they should of googled it first.
+1

It''s great for newbies... thanks!

Eric Goodwin wrote:
> Hi all,
> If you''re like me you probably spend a lot of time search the
Rails
> mailing list. To make life a little bit easier I''ve created a nice
> little plugin for firefox ( A whopping 15 lines of markup ). The plugin
> uses nabble.com to search the mailing list.
> Anyways, I thought I''d share.
> If you want to install it the manual way, here''s the code.
> 

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi,
Glad you like the plugin.

As for the Amy Hoy post, you are correct in your assumption, I was 
referring to her vampires post.
I think I read her post a bit differently than you did though.

First off, I didn''t read anything about her advocating "putting
down
someone for asking a question, even if they should have googled it 
first".  She does mention that "not googling" may be one of the
many
different short sights that all together could lead to a "vampirish" 
post.  Quite opposite of a put down, she reminds everyone to "/be 
nice!/" and to "foster thinking" within the community. If someone
was to
ask a "vampirish" question, instead of answering it outright, point
them
to the right page on the rails wiki, or another mailing list post, or a 
blog. 
I don''t think it is "attitudes like hers which are the death of a 
community", although I do agree that the post could sound a bit elitist. 
Every once in a while you need a post like hers to stir up a bit of 
thinking. As members of this community it is our job to drive it in a 
direction that we see fit. I believe this is what she is trying to do. 
Her post was more of an outcry, voicing concern about a community which 
she deeply loves, but has been a annoyed with lately.

I, myself am no veteran, but I don''t quite see myself as a newbie 
anymore. After reading the post it got me thinking. Now, before I post 
anything, I ask myself a few questions.
Have I searched the mailing list? Have I googled it? Have I checked the 
wiki? Is my question written so that it is easy to understand? Have I 
given enough information about my dev environment?
Sometimes I might miss one of these pre-post questions, and that''s ok. 
Just asking myself one or two of them will help out a lot.
I have, most likely, posted "vampire" posts in the past, but after 
reading her post I now know a bit better about how to avoid it.

-Eric
ericgoodwin.com


Charlie Bowman wrote:
> Thanks for the great search engine.  I might be able to delete the 
> last years worth of emails now! 
> Now for something completely off topic.  Are you refering to Amy
Hoy''s
> post about help vampires?
> I found that post to be extremely elitist and derogatory.  I think 
> it''s attitudes like hers which are the death of a community.  You 
> never know who''s asking the questions.  It could be a 10 year old
for
> all you know and I would hate to see anyone put someone else down for 
> asking a question......even if they should of googled it first.
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 08:51 -0800, Eric Goodwin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Glad you guys found it useful!
>> With the amount of posts on the rails list each day now, I find
I''m
>> having to use a search more and more even to find things that were 
>> posted a day ago.
>> It''s cool to see the community expanding so quickly! I am
reminded of a
>> post on Amy Hoy''s blog, though. Hopefully making searching
easy will
>> help alleviate some of the troubles that are associated with such a 
>> quick growth within a community.
>> Happy Searching!
>>
>> -Eric
>> ericgoodwin.com
>>
http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin
>>
>> David Andrew Thompson wrote:
>> > Thank you for the contribution, Eric! Great extension! -Dave
>> >
>> > On 3/25/06, S?bastien Gruhier <seb@itseb.com
<mailto:seb@itseb.com>> wrote:
>> >   
>> >> Kooool
>> >>
>> >> Le 25 mars 06 ? 07:23, Frank a ?crit :
>> >>
>> >>     
>> >>> Thanks Eric.
>> >>>
>> >>> Very nice.
>> >>>
>> >>> Frank
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> Rails mailing list
>> >>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
<mailto:Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
>> >>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>> >>>       
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> Rails mailing list
>> >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
<mailto:Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
>> >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>> >>
>> >>     
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > David Andrew Thompson
>> > http://dathompson.blogspot.com
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Rails mailing list
>> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
<mailto:Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
>> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>> >   
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org <mailto:Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org>
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>     
> Charlie Bowman
> Programmer
> Castle Branch Inc.
>
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-- 
Eric Goodwin
http://www.ericgoodwin.com

In hindsight, I think I was a little harsh on her.  She is trying to
help.  Her post just seemed to seperate the community into the "all
knowing" and the rest of us.  I by no means am an expert either and I
guess I just took her post a little personally.  I definitely ask more
questions than I answer, but I don''t consider myself a vampire.  

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:05 -0800, Eric Goodwin wrote:
> I don''t think it is "attitudes like hers which are the death
of a
> community", although I do agree that the post could sound a bit
> elitist. 
> Every once in a while you need a post like hers to stir up a bit of 
> thinking. As members of this community it is our job to drive it in a 
> direction that we see fit.
Charlie Bowman
http://www.recentrambles.com
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OK, I know I''m gonna get the smack down for asking this but...

Lets say I have a Customer model (table) with
  customer.ship_To
  customer.ship_City
  customer.ship_State
  customer.bill_To
  customer.bill_City...
  and so on...


There are 20 or so ''preference'' fields for a customer...

Is there a simple way to migrate this into my Order model / table  
with the same field names?

i.e. Every order can have it''s own billto/shipto but it''s a
pull from
the customers preferences...

I know I read something on this somewhere but I just can''t find it  
again.

Yeah, I already manually coded it -- works great...  But, I will  
refactor it when I figure out the right way...

Thanks!

-c

Carl Brown wrote:
<snip>
> There are 20 or so ''preference'' fields for a customer...
> 
> Is there a simple way to migrate this into my Order model / table  with 
> the same field names?
> 
> i.e. Every order can have it''s own billto/shipto but it''s
a pull from
> the customers preferences...
> 
> I know I read something on this somewhere but I just can''t find it
again.
I don''t know of a direct way off the top of my head, but something
along
these lines should work:

for column in Customer.content_columns
   assign_method = (column.name + ''='').to_sym
   if @order.respond_to? assign_method
     @order.send(assign_method, @user.send(column.name.to_sym))
   end
end

I''d suggest doing it via send() rather than accessing the properties 
directly so that you''re not stuck later if you want to change fields in
either model.

-- 
Alex