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Not sure if this is old news or not, but it would appear that both the Ruby Cookbook and a Rails book are now available for purchase at O''Reilly Rough Cuts (something akin to PragProg''s beta book program): http://rubyurl.com/nHz http://my.safaribooksonline.com/?mode=roughcuts&srchtext=ROUGHCUTS I haven''t tried them yet, but it definitely seems worth checking out.

Hi Raileans, I''m wondering if there''s any way to get a list of all of the valid controllers in my application. Specifically, I''m doing some funny dynamic stuff in my routes.rb and wanted to make sure that valid controllers will always get mapped while things that are not controllers will go to my other map. I think it would look something like this in my mind''s

Just wanted to drop a note about a new Rails site that we''re testing in the wild, http://www.vegaslists.com. The site allows users to create lists about anything Las Vegas related and then lets other users comment on those lists. It was a project that went from concept to completed in about 2 weeks, working on it after the ''real job'' for fun. It''s very simple

Is anyone using ActiveMerchant currently? I''ve seen it recommended on this list several times, but it seems kind of buggy and incomplete and I''m having trouble getting it to work. >From the example at http://home.leetsoft.com/am/, I''ve tried: gateway = ActiveMerchant::Base.gateway(:authorized_net) response = gateway.capture(1000, creditcard) ..but it

Is it will known and accepted that before_save triggers should return true? I didn''t notice this before but now I see it in the documentation. Here is what I''m doing in my model: def before_save if self.has_album? self.visible = self.album.visible? end end That results in the expected result when album.visible? is true - but not when it is false. To make it

Hi all, I had a rails project ported from a java app that was perplexing me. Everything was running fine, except that it wouldn''t validate with the W3C HTML validator - it kept saying that there was a invalid character in there and failing. Up until a few days ago, I had no idea what a BOM or Byte Order Mark was. Apparently, many editors write a few bytes at the beginning of a

Hi, I''m trying to figure out how to reliably define a column as mediumtext type through a migration. First I tried this: change_column( :entries, :lines, :text, :limit => 2.megabytes ) It worked fine for my development box on MySQL 5.0, but when I tried it on my production box with MySQL 4.0, it gave the following error: MysqlError: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the

Hi all, I''ve been put into the unique position of having to port a J2EE app using Struts and Hibernate over to RoR. The good news is that it''s not a terribly complicated application. The bad news is that I know next to nothing about Struts. I took some Java classes in my university days and have had the opportunity to work with a couple Java developers in the past, so

I need to do USPS shipping from within my Rails app. Before I reinvent the wheel, is there anything out there already? I''m familiar with the Shipping gem that has support for Fedex and UPS so far, and came across a post on Robby on Rails'' blog that he might be adding USPS support to it back in April. Does anyone know if that or anything similar has ever came to fruition?

I''ve just been bodyslammed by a problem with has_and_belongs_to_many - as far as I can tell, if it doesn''t appear at the top of other relationship definitions it doesn''t seem to work right. For example: class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :genres has_many :albums has_many :videos has_many :cds has_many :collections end ..works fine