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this is semi-off topic but still related to ror. i had a problem with testing my depot program (which i follow the tutorial in agile web development book). it took me many hours to solved the problem. all the while i thought i was using spaces inside the test/fixtures/products.yml programmer_book: id: 1 title: Pragmatic Programmer description: Best book

...tests" does not work. Bummer. I suspect that if migrations were fixed, this would work, too. Again, has anyone heard anything about this? I''d love to hear back from anyone successfully using Firebird with Rails! -- Louis Erickson - lerickson@rdwarf.net - http://www.rdwarf.com/~wwonko/ Labor, n.: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil''s Dictionary"

I cant figure out how to do global regular expressions in ruby. Im not even sure if its possible. In the "Programming Ruby" book there is no mention of it. Can you do this? text = "aaa1 bbb2 ccccc3 dddddd4 eee5" re = /\w+\d{1}/ matches = re.match text m[0] = "aaa1" m[1] = nil m[2] = nil and so on.... Is there any way to get an array of all the matches??

I would have never imagined that I''d be bitten by the Y2038 bug someday... but it just happened and, trust me, it hurts! I have to deal with a database containing datetime fields with dates up to 2050 and more. ActiveRecord raises an exception because Ruby''s Time class implementation. Besides running Ruby on a 64-bit platform, what can be done to avoid that? Does a

Being a somewhat jaded Java programmer I''ve decided to make an evaluation of Ruby and Rails. I''ve purchased both the Pragmatic books (Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails) and I''d like to get people''s opinions as to the best way to use them. When you were learning Rails did you find that you had to read Programming Ruby first or did you

Greetings all, I''m sure there is probably a very obvious reason for the following problem. However, after much hair pulling, I am just not seeing it yet. As you can see from the trace below, I am not able to complete scaffold generation due to some problem between rails and mysql. I double checked MySQL to make sure both my Ruby user and Root user have full rights to the database.

I am trying to create the perfect development environment for rails and i dont know exactly which way to go. Do i create a windows environment or a *nix environment. If i go *nix, what distro is best suited for rails. I would be using mysql, so that would come in to play. If i go *nix, i would use apache. Any ideas for the right environment would be greatly appreciated. I guess the major choice is

ANNOUNCING AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH RAILS, SECOND EDITION =========================================================== http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails2/ Rails has changed a lot since we announced the first edition of the book a year ago. DHH says that the 1.1 release "boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors." Who are we to