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Hello, I was reading the pickaxe book and then I arrived to the chapter "When trouble strikes" in the Benchmark section. I have this code: #!/usr/bin/ruby -w require ''benchmark'' include Benchmark LOOP_COUNT = 1_000_000 bm(12) do |test| test.report("normal:") do LOOP_COUNT.times do...

I am furiously trying to find what I am looking for in Pickaxe book and not finding it. I''m getting some values back from a posted form and I need to get the ''id'' number off the backend. The ''String'' will always come back to me as... Some_name\r\n123 where 123 is actually the id number which I need to execute the...

I''m a beginner. I''ve done the apple tutorial, Agile ROR (the depot app, I stopped after that, a little to advanced with no base knowledge of Ruby), Why''s guide and my copy of Chris Pine''s book today. After Pine, I''m going to buy either the Wrox book or Ruby for Rails book. I did a search and there''s not too much on the Wrox book (Holzner)

...er pass 100% of the tests because KirbyBase does not support all required functionality. Ackbar includes a SQL fragment translator, so that simple cross-database code should be maintainable. For example the following will work as expected, Book.find :all, :conditions => "name = ''Pickaxe''" Book.find :all, :conditions => ["name = ?", ''Pickaxe''] Additionally, you can also provide blocks: Book.find :all, :conditions => lambda{|rec| rec.name == ''Pickaxe''} or even: Book.find(:all) {|rec| rec.name == ''Pickax...

Kevin, Very cool. I initially tried to figure out how to do it without those evals, but I failed (thanks for picking up the slack :) Your changes definitely improved the code, and made it much cleaner. Thanks. By the way, what is pickaxe? I''m not familiar with that term. _________________________________________________________________ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! Multiple plans available. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/

hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

...er pass 100% of the tests because KirbyBase does not support all required functionality. Ackbar includes a SQL fragment translator, so that simple cross-database code should be maintainable. For example the following will work as expected, Book.find :all, :conditions => "name = ''Pickaxe''" Book.find :all, :conditions => ["name = ?", ''Pickaxe''] Additionally, you can also provide blocks: Book.find :all, :conditions => lambda{|rec| rec.name == ''Pickaxe''} or even: Book.find(:all) {|rec| rec.name == ''Pickax...

For expats from other languages, what''s the next best step after the Agile Web Dev book: Rails Recipes or Ruby for Rails? Thanks, -- Austin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have looked through the Ruby Pickaxe book as well as done a search but can''t figure out how to validate the format of a field. The field I want to validate is a credit card expiration date field. Based on our user study (going around the office and asking everyone the way they like to fill out that particular field ty...

Hi all Guess it''s time for me to dig a bit deeper into the ruby language. Can you recommend some good starting books on ruby programming? Thanks. -- Med venlig hilsen Juri Rischel Jensen Fab:IT ApS Vesterbrogade 50 DK-1620 København Tlf: 70 202 407 / Fax: 33 313 640 www.fab-it.dk / juri@fab-it.dk

...ect function it gets out of alpha order: => {"new"=>3, "name"=>29, "new test for tags"=>4, "serial"=>4, "test"=>1, " baseball"=>2} I can''t figure out why or how to correct it. I don''t have the latest pickaxe book which documents the inject function and can''t find much documentation on it on the web. I could turn it into an sorted array using "count = count.sort_by { |r| r.name }", but I don''t want it in an array. In need it in a hash. Any ideas? Kind regards, Steve Odom h...

I have the following code in my index.rhtml: <div id="how_many_images" style="background-color:#eee;"> <%= render(:partial => ''form'') %></div> ...and the following in my _form.rhtml <%= form_remote_tag(:update => "images_div_main", :url => { :action =>

Reviews Wanted. I''ve read the tables of contents and haven''t yet made up my mind. Is one book clearly better than the other? Is one clearly full of bugs? Is one so much further ahead that there is no choice? Are they both so incomplete that I should just wait and only cook real food? Do trains still have dining cars? Warren Fred -------------- next part -------------- An

Hi all.. I new in Ruby/Rails.. Where could i get some good tutorial about SOAP using Rails? I''ve been googling yet still did''nt find good tutorial. Thank you in advance.. :) -- Regards, Ananda Putra

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi. I have a small problem with the custom type I am working on. I define method ''evaluate'' which is called after all data is been collected. Here it is: module Puppet newtype(:test) do newparam(:name) do end newparam(:listen) do defaultto "silent" end def evaluate puts "evaluating..." return super.evaluate end

And I got this lousy LatexParser. Ah well... A new cut of the automatic WxRuby documentation is now viewable online at http://www.pressure.to/wxruby/. There''s also a pdf version http://www.pressure.to/wxruby/wxruby.pdf [3MB, 751 pages!] and a tarball http://www.pressure.to/wxruby/wxruby2.tar.gz [1.3MB] In terms of output, it''s no advance on what Sean has already done.

...9;', ''vette''] puts eval(make) --> What I need this to produce is camaro vette Which of course it doesn''t ;-) I''m still pretty new to Ruby and, while I''m sure there''s got to be an inverse to eval(), the hours I''ve spent in the Pickaxe book on this haven''t clicked for me. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!!! Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060704/4b4a8abd/attachment.html

hi everyone.. i''m a high school teacher who wrote a webapp in PHP and MySQL for my curriculum.. i use it to keep attendance, take notes per student or class and keep track of activities. i would like to soup it up and have read both the pickax and version 2 of agile web dev... now i''m starting to work and i''d like to rename columns and relationships in the database so

I bought the pickaxe about 1 1/2 months ago, and I have been reading through it and learning Ruby in my spare time. I''m about 200 pages into it, and I''m starting to think I don''t need to know all of the in''s and out''s of Ruby to get a good hang on Rails. How much Ruby do I...