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Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby...

The virtual user group Rubyists of Second Life will meet this Thursday, August 31, and next Thursday, September 7, at 6:00 pm PST. This Thursday, Theodore Polonsky will be presenting on simply_restful and the new RESTful routes in Rails Core, and Polypus Watts will be presenting on DRP: evolutionary/social programming for inter...

...team. The type of people we''re especially interested in meeting are: * Designers with experience designing highly usable and beautiful UIs, preferably with some expert XHTML & CSS2 skills and experience integrating their designs with a web templating language of some sort. * Advanced Rubyists with meta-programming experience. Familiarity with advanced Liquid templating, integration with external APIs, and/ or social network building are huge pluses. We are pre-funding right now and are offering nothing but equity as a founder. If that''s okay with you and fit one of the abov...

I''ve been at the Ruby Hoedown in Raleigh, and have had a fantastic two days. I finally decided to get off my butt and really try to organize a LowerAlabama.rb ... Soooooo...... http://groups.google.com/group/loweralrb If you''re in Baldwin or Mobile counties in AL, or Pensacola FL, or Eastern MS...go sign up! I''m sure I''m not the only one down here. My plan

...2.3.0 Active Resource version 2.3.0 Action Mailer version 2.3.0 Active Support version 2.3.0 Application root /Users/rick/plugin-git Environment development Database adapter sqlite3 Database schema version 0 2) script/plugin install -v git://github.com/rubyist/aasm.git Plugins will be installed using http Plugin not found: ["git://github.com/rubyist/aasm.git"] #<TypeError: can''t convert Array into String> I rattled around in lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rails-2.3.0/lib/commands/ plugin.rb for awhile with the blunt tool of "puts...

...to get the schedule at least mostly set so that we can open up registration and actually give people a reason to register!! (Yes, we can coast on our brand name, but we like to stay on our toes.) 2. WHO SHOULD PROPOSE A PRESENTATION? You! We''re looking for presentation ideas from new Rubyists, old Rubyists, young Rubyists, old Rubyists -- anyone who has: * work-in-progress reports on Ruby libraries and applications * insights into Ruby''s design * experience with using Ruby in any enterprise (whether "the" enterprise or some non-commercial or hobbyist...

I have done the changes in the file config/routes.rb as mentioned in the Rails Guides tutorial, but when I try to open: http://localhost:3000 the page is not opening. It is giving error. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Anyone out there in Portland. I''ll be in town this weekend, and was looking for advice from Rubyists on things to do. Thanks, Jake

Wednesday''s Beer & Pizza SIG was attended by about a dozen Rubyists, plus one extremely well-dressed gentleman (no hacker he!) who was on the prowl for Rubyists to hire. Beer and Pizza (among other things) were consumed, Ruby (among other things) was discussed, and everyone appeared to have a good time. The upcoming SIG will, as announced previously, be held ju...

Hi all, The article I wrote for Rubyist magazine is out: http://jp.rubyist.net/magazine/?0005-RLR-en (English) http://jp.rubyist.net/magazine/?0005-RLR (Japanese) I definitely encourage other developers/users of Win32 Utils to write articles about our project (in any language)! Regards, Dan

...2008. Fosdem is a gathering of Free and Open Source Software developers and the ideal occasion to meet fellow Ruby and Rails developers (and 2,000 other FOSS developers). If you have a good idea for a talk or tutorial, consider sending in an abstract. You can find the Call for Papers at http://wiki.rubyist.be/wiki/show/CallForPapers, and quoted below. See you at Fosdem! Kind regards, Peter Vanbroekhoven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ First Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem (Brussels, 23-24 Feb 2008) The Belgian Ruby User Group http://www.rubyist.be/...

Although I don''t _need_ RSVPs for this event 12/28 8:00 pm The Beer & Pizza SIG will meet at Wild Pepper (3601 26th. St.; SF, CA). For details, see http://cfcl/rdm/beer_and_pizza. I''d like to be able to give the restaurant some idea of the size of table we''ll be needing. So, if you are planning to attend, please drop

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Hello all, I am new to RoR and am working my way through Timothy Fisher''s Ruby On Rails Bible. I''m stuck on page 81. I have followed the steps leading to this page, i.e. cd rails_projects rails contactlist <creates all the directories> ruby script/server webrick <shows the Welcome Aboard page> open a cmd window and run mysql: create database contactlist_development;

...stration for RubyConf 2006 is still scheduled to open on August 2, in the early evening Pacific (US West Coast) time. Also, there''s more info at http://www.rubycentral.org/conference (e.g., the fact that this year we''re only taking credit cards, etc.). David P.S. Any LA area Rubyists around? I''ll be there this week doing Rails training. -- http://www.rubypowerandlight.com => Ruby/Rails training & consultancy ----> SEE SPECIAL DEAL FOR RUBY/RAILS USERS GROUPS! <----- http://dablog.rubypal.com => D[avid ]A[. ]B[lack''s][ Web]log http...

Hello to all Rubyist and Railist ;) I''m looking for people to start a blog-project, write about Rails and with its related subject. Or if anyone have a blog that I can join in and write some articles? Greetings, Chris Dorner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http...

...t only for Silicon Valley people? No. It''s got some regional Ruby community emphasis -- but Ruby Central was asked to get involved specifically to broaden the event base and help fulfill the planners'' goal of making the conference of interest and timeliness to Rubyists overall. Is it a Ruby conference, or a Rails conference? It''s all things to all people! :-) In fact, it''s a Ruby conference with a number of Rails talks (want to hear core Rails developer Marcel Molina presenting on Rails 1.1?) and Rails developers, as we...

I feel like I'm not firing at all cylinders with the R language, despite reading over the R Language Definition. Has anyone seen something like an "R for Rubyists" guide (i.e. teaching the R language for those who are more familar with Ruby)? Alternately, a book with lots of examples about how the R language itself works would be fantastic. -David

Hello Rubyists, I need to generate barcodes (in UPC and codabar symbologies) and would like to know if anyone has done this with Ruby. From what I can tell, it would be possible to use the gnu-barcode [1] or barcodewriter [2] to generate a PostScript, then through RMagick (via GhostScript) take the file...

I am very confused by the config.gem statement in 2.1 If I put config.gem ''pdf-writer'' in my environment.rb I get the following error when I try to instanciate a PDF object in my controller with the statement pdf = PDF::Writer.new uninitialized constant CollectionsController::PDF so I try putting require ''pdf/writer'' in my environment.rb and the application