Re: Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce : Errata Help

Bala Paranj
2006-12-11T17:02:09Z

This weekend was ruined because of this book. I am actually exhausted from
trying to learn from this book. I worked this book till page 112 and deleted
everything and started all over again to see if I can get it running. This
book is just draining my energy.

I would suggest others to stay away from this book. Unless you have lot of
time and energy to waste. You can think about buying this book if the
publisher comes up with a revised edition that fixes all the problems.


On 12/11/06, Fernando Aleman
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Bala Paranj wrote:
> > There is another related thread on this list. Change the
test_process.rb
> > to
> > the implementation shown below:
> >
> > --- vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_process.rb
> >  def html_document
> >    HTML::Document.new(@response.body)
> >  end
> I tried this and it seems to work for some of the tests, but in turn,
> produces a numerous amount of additional errors in other parts of the
> testing.
>
> I have to say that I am disappointed in this book. I think a good effort
> was made in putting this out for programmers, but I find myself spending
> more time trying to figure out what went wrong than actually learning. I
> even copy over the folders from the source code I downloaded from the
> authors and the code fails. Very frustrating.