Re: Rails Framework Documentation - More Info, Please

Jeremy McAnally
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:04:07 -0000

The best next step seems to be Ruby for Rails and/or something like
Rails Recipes or Ruby/Rails Cookbook.  I found these resources to be
excellent ways to deepen my understanding of Ruby and Rails while also
picking up some interesting, time saving tricks.

--Jeremy

On 12/20/06, Bryan Cox
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Taylor and Conrad,
>
> Thanks for the help.  I did end up finding the documentation in AWDwRv2
> (had to think for a moment what you were talking about with the
> acronym!)  My specific problem, however, illustrated a common problem
> I''ve experienced with the documentation a number of times... It
feels
> stinky that in order to get full documentation on an open source
> product, I would have to purchase a book authored by someone
> intrinsically involved in the creation of Rails.  I''d purchase the
book
> anyway because documentation doesn''t give you a "How to get
started"
> (generally), and I don''t mind the person making money..... anyway,
> enough with a rant of frustration.
>
> One more question:
>
> What books go more in-depth than AWDwRv2?  I''d like to learn a lot
more
> about the object structure, etc. and can see doing this with the docs,
> but not all of it.
>
>
> Conrad Taylor wrote:
> > Hey Brian, if you take another look at the AWDwRv2, it provides the
> > answer for you on page 484 of the PDF.  You may also see usage on page
> > 162 as well.  Next, are you attempting to edit the password field?  I
> > believe this is the case.  Then you''ll need to do the
following:
> >
> > :value => ""
> >
> > Note:  The option that you use for the password_field would be very
> > similar to the options that you would use within HTML.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > -Conrad
>
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >