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...nnis has just finished a short book on the QtRuby library, which integrates the cross-platform Qt3 library into Ruby. It discusses how to create cross-platform GUI applications for Linux and OS X in Ruby. It covers installation, basic and advanced programming, event models, and Korundum. See http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ ctrubyqt/index.html for more details and an extract. This is the first in our new line of _Fridays_: short, PDF-only books on a single topic. (There''s more information on Fridays at http:// pragmaticprogrammer.com/fridays.html)<http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/fridays.html)&g...

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

So I''ve sort of come to the conclusion that if I wanna get stuff done, I need to either A) Find some dang money and pay people to do it or B) Do it myself. I''m opting for B. Soooo...now I''ve got some programming/technologies to learn. I''m self-employed and I can afford to take a month (or 2) off to totally immerse myself in this and learn how to do it.

Hello Everyone - Newbie here. My programming experience is primarily SQL, SAS (if anyone knows that), and a little tiny bit of ASP. Want to get going on Rails. Any suggestions? Was thinking of "4 Days on Rails". Thoughts? Thanks - Brian

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

...updates to the PDF, both during the beta process and for the life of this edition of the book. If you also order the paper book, it''ll ship just as soon as we have it in stock (probably sometime in May or June, but you know what authors are like...) You can buy the book via http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr Thanks Dave

Hi All, I am a java developer. I wanna learn Ruby on Rails. Can anyone suggest some good books on Ruby or some url where can I learn the basics of Ruby. Thanks, Prabhu. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2?/min or less. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi All, Pragmatic Dave Thomas tells me that Rails Recipes (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr) is now shipping! He and Andy apparently have over a ton of books to deliver. If you''ve ordered a paper book, it''s soon on the way. If you''ve been waiting, now''s the time. Amazon is also has the book in stock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product...

I have experience in PHP/MySQL, but absolutely no experience at all in Ruby (and Rails) and would love to get a few quality books aimed at absolutley newbies. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

Hello, Can someone kindly tell what the heck creating a relationship does in active record? I understand the idea of joining the tables and such. But how do I use it? Is it available in a scaffold? How about when I want to view a record and want to see all the joined data from the other table? Do I have to manually code the data I want from the other table? Does this automatically make the

I''ve been doing lots of research about different languages and frameworks for a project I''m planning. Your help in deciding what to do would be of great assistance. I used to program in highschool for a couple years. I haven''t done much since then and I know i''m pretty useless as a programmer. I know that if i put my head to it, I could muddle my way

hello freinds... I m very new to ruby on rails and i m facing a problem... whenever i add Scaffold table and try running in that broser it shos error that the particular tbale doesnot exist.... also it changes the name of the table , for eg.table names Recipe gets changed to Recipes and in order to get ountput i need to change the name of the table TO Recipies........is there any reason to

Hi, I purchased the first edition of "Agile Web Development with Rails" and it says the source code shown in the book is available on http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails . However, I can''t find it. Does anyone know where I can get the code from? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I just saw a mail about the best practices of something or other, and I was wondering is there a place where Ruby and RoR best practices can be found? Phil J. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060601/52ab6a0f/attachment-0001.html

Hi, I''ve been trying to run the application (depot_final) from the "Agile Web Development with Rails" book (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/railscode.html), and keep getting the "Application error (Apache)" screen when I go to 127.0.0.1:3000/admin/new. I tried this on 2 different Win2K machines with the same error. One machine has the latest version (13a) of InstantRails installed, on the other I did a manual...