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I don''t know if I missed this on the list, but the Agile Web Development with Rails book is now at version 4.0, for those of us who bought the PDF from the Prag Prog site. Just a few typos and corrections from the looks of it, but can''t hurt to get the latest. You can reorder the book for download at: http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails/reorder Cheers, Tom

Dave, on another topic, might I recommend that you and DHH publish an updated version of the Agile guide right away when 1.1 comes out? You could reuse much of your material and it would do a lot of good to help make sure there is still a good centralized source of reference for Rails. Without that book, there really is not a good one-stop source of information for people to learn how to use

I''m working in a complex web app that could have 1000+ users within the next year. It must be run on Windows 2003. Current db is SqlServer 2000. Company is deciding between Rails and ASP 2.0. I''d like to get some feedback on which would be the best to develop in. ( I prefer Rails :) 1. Will Rails be stable in that environment? Will it work with IIS? 2. Is it better for

This is so frustrating. Is RoR that easy to learn or is it hype or is it just me? I wonder how many newbies like me are surfing the docs trying to get a clue of the basics. Every tutorial I find is much the same, and seems to skip the fundmental parts. How should you understand the Ruby API http://api.rubyonrails.org/? What is < ActionController::Base? Can''t I set a cookie under

Our company is mainly made up off application developers but we have a lot of web work coming up so we are deciding which route to take at the moment. We initially identfied ASP.NET 2.0 with the ATLAS AJAX framework because of the RAD features, easy to learn etc. I had read some stuff on ROR and our Boss who is open minded allowed me to create a sample application with ROR. He was impressed

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)

Apologies for cross-posting. We''ve been asked to do a job for a client who wants to embrace agile development methodologies. Hurrah! However, our standard contract was written for the 1980s. It is full of phrases like "agreed specification" and "change request procedure" and so on. I was wondering, how do other people get around this in contract forms with

Hi All, I''m a RoR n00b that has been lurking for a week or so. About two weeks ago I bought the text version of Agile Web Development with Rails. Today, I bought the .pdf version because I run a Sony Notebook and find a .pdf more user friendly. Therefore I have the text to give away for free. If anyone in the continental US would like the copy please let me know and I''ll mail it

Hi! I am totally new to ruby on rails and dynamic website creation (never done php or asp). I am reading "Agile Web Development with Rails" by D.Thomas, and I am wondering if I need to create multiple scaffold and controllers to be able to create a really basic CMS. Part of the website needed: -http://www.domain.com/ -http://www.domain.com/about/ -http://www.domain.com/articles/

http://apress.com/book/view/9781590597811 I acquired this book and it has the info I thought I wanted; but, I''m not sure. Is there something better more current out there? RESTful oath openid etc.. I''m coming from a wordpress to cake, codeigniter tinkering and forget why I tried rails; but, it seems pretty cool and intuitive. Appreciate the Capistrano rec prior. Super good,

Hi there is it possible that pdfs generated using the pdf() function with default settings leads to loss of information? I was plotting copy number changes from Agilent 180k data in form of rectangles (rect()) while each rectangle represents one region of copy number change. When plotting into a pdf I noticed that some very small rectangles do not appear (even after extensive zooming) in the pdf

Help, i''ve been trapped on the tracks here for a day now in the Agile w/ Rails book (latest edition) I can''t get page 115 to display. It says: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occured while evaluating nil.each Extracted source (around line #3): 1: <h1> My Agile Cart</h1> 2:

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Are there deltas for the revisions of the PDF version of the Agile book? -- fxn

Hello everyone, I''m a complete Rails newbie who is currently working my way through the Agile Web Dev with Rails book. I''ve reached the chapter on creating the shopping cart (chapter 8). I keep having a problem with the same error which I can''t get past, however what''s more confusing is that it''s being generated even when I swap all my app code out

Hi: Some French fellow posted a notice yesterday about a book that had come out. It''s called "Ruby on Rails" and is apparently by DHH & David Thomas. Is this a scam? If not, does anyone know where I can buy this book in English? I''ve searched the usual places but can''t turn anything up. Bruce

Appreciate any help - I am working through Agile web development (4.0) and am stuck on the deployment using phusion passenger. I get this: "Forbidden You don''t have permission to access / on this server." when I put depot.yourhost.com in the browser. I have been through various web searches and for file permissions and suggestions to change the <Files> container.

I am following the instructions on Agile Web Development with Rails book "Iteratio E1: Capturing an Order" section. When I run the migrations I get the following error. rake db:migrate (in /Users/balaparanj/work/depot) -- execute("alter table line_items \n add constraint fk_line_item_products \n foreign key (product_id) references products(id)") rake

Hi there, I am a newbie and interested in learning Ruby on Rails. I see there are 2 books out there: Ruby for Rails Ruby techniques for Rails developers David A. Black and Agile Web Development with Rails : A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, and Thomas Fuchs Which one should I get? "Agile Web Development with Rails"

Hi, Has anyone gotten the "roughcuts" of the Ruby and Rails cookbooks? If you have the Pragmattic Rails Cookbook is the O''Reilly worth it? Also can you download PDF''s of their "roughcuts". The website is kind of vague, it just mentions online access (whatever that means). Thanks in advance.