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In two weeks, Dave Thomas will be in Pasadena doing a three-day Rails workshop. I''m about to sign up for it. I figure three intense days with Dave and a few dozen other Rails developers will produce huge learning leaps for me. Then it occurred to me that it might be useful to ask the list if anyone has attended one of these workshops before and, if so, how valuable you found

...trying to add definitely exists as an account in OS X with the password I'm providing. Help! -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Dan Shafer Technology Visionary - Technology Assessment - Documentation "Looking at technology from every angle" http://www.danshafer.com 831-392-1127 Voice - 831-401-2531 Fax

anyone can explain me why in the Agile Depot Tutorial application they use i.product_id to find if a product already exist in the cart, because the cart contains items, each of them references a product. I tried i.product_id like in the tutorial and i.product.i all of these 2 notation works , but i find the second seems more clean??? isn''t it. Any explanation will be fine Regards

Hi, My application has a table of People that has information about them, and I want to have a subset of those people as Users - people that can login to the application. What is the best way to do this? Add columns to People that only Users would use? I''ve read the threads on single table inheritance, but it seemed a little bit wasteful: 10,000 people vs 50 users For those more

OK, thanks to Kelly I got my options_for_select in a select_tag helper method to use a Ruby range as a value. Now when the user makes a selection from that list, I can''t figure out why the result doesn''t get stored in the database. The line in the _form looks like this: <%= select_tag(:month, options_for_select((0..12).to_a)) %> Pops up an option menu.

As a long-time author of computer books, fairly experienced MVC/OO thinker/coder, and recent Rails convert, it is probably not surprising that my midnight ruminations occasionally lead me to wonder if a Rails book might not be an interesting undertaking. But I know there are some great titles out there already and undoubtedly dozens more in the works. I''m interested in writing

Back in the horse-and-buggy days when I was cutting my OO eye teeth on Smalltalk, we had a LOT of conversations about the biggest problem dealing with a large and growing set of classes and methods in the Smalltalk image. It became clear that most, if not all, successful Smalltalk coders spent a lot of their time code-shopping, i.e., looking for a class or method that did something they

I''m getting ready to go to the Rails Studio in Pasadena next week. As part of the prep for that event, I was instructed by the Pragmatic guys to download and install a new Rails 1.0/Ruby 1.8.4 configuration to my OS X 10.4.4 box. I did that three or four days ago. Ever since then, I cannot run a rake migrate command successfully anywhere in my Rails world. (Mind you,