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Heya everyone! I am quite new to Rails and I am reading AWDwR. I am at Task E "Check Out!". I understand it quite well, but I have a problem with the last playground exercise: Add a Table which contains the payment types. All goes well, but I am not sure whether I should use has_many or has_one(as in the Playground wiki at http://wiki.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/PT-E-3). I use the

Dear All, I am just getting into Ruby on Rails, after successfully failing at getting any other programming language to work locally. RoR appears to be a repeat! One problem I keep running into is getting a database up and running. I''m working out of Windows XP. I installed MySQL, it works, runs, will create tables etc. BUT, when I do rake db:migrate...it fails and tells me I have a

Hi Everyone, I''m resending this since it did not come back to me (and no replies either), so I think it may not have got through at all. Apologies if you receive multiple copies. Is there a FAQ for this list? Is someone considering setting one up? Perhaps as a collaborative wiki that is kept roughly current and can be referred to directly by list members... Here are some of the

I was trying to apply the processing rules to RedCloth 3.0.4 and ran into a documentation error. According to the documentation at http://redcloth.rubyforge.org/ the rule for glyphs is called "inline_textile_glyphs", but every time I tried using that as a rule, I got an error saying "undefine method..." Finally, I looked in the lib/redcloth.rb file in the RecCloth 3.0.4 gem and