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Pragmatic Studio''s Advanced Ruby training is coming up next month (early registration ends soon!), and folks often ask what to expect in our advanced classes. You might also be wondering how Rails developers will benefit from attending this public class. So I asked Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler (the instructors) to share a few of their thoughts on the Advanced Ruby class in this short

Hi Folks - Just a quick reminder before the end of the year... We have a new Ruby Studio coming up on February 27-29th, taught by Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. They''ll help you get up to speed on object-oriented programming with Ruby. It''s an ideal course if you''re new to the language, need a comprehensive refresher, or plan to start a Rails project. Speaking of

Hi Folks, Apologies in advance for the blatant advertisement. Just thought you might be interested in our new regional Ruby/Rails conference series. The first will take place on November 16-18 in Denver, CO. http://therailsedge.com -------------------- What''s It About? -------------------- You all know that Rails and Ruby are on the move. Every month brings new tools, new

Hi Folks, We''re excited to announce that Dave Thomas and I will be teaching an Advanced Rails Studio: a hands-on, master-level workshop where you''ll learn the cutting-edge techniques used by the experts to build killer Rails apps with confidence and efficiency. We?re still finalizing exactly when and where we?ll hold this Studio. But if you?re seriously interested in

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The second beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s killer book or writing real-world Rails, is now available. It features seven new recipes: * In Place Editing * Making Your Own JavaScript Helper * Many To Many With Attributes On The Relationship * Dealing With Time Zones * Living On The Edge * Making Your Own Rails Plugins (contributed by Rick Olson, aka technoweenie) * Polymorphic

Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

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

Folks: The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book on writing real-world Rails, is now available. The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here''s the complete list. Part I--User Interface Recipes In-Place Form Editing Making Your Own JavaScript Helper Live Preview Live Search Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract) Update

Folks: For your cooking pleasure, I''m happy to announce that Chef Fowler has added eight new recipes to his book: * DRY Up Your Database Config * Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations * Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry * Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty) * Syndicate Your Site With RSS * Handling Bounced Email * Dynamic Database Configuration * Quickly Inspect Your

Hi -- Accelebrate[1] is presenting a four-day Ruby for Rails training course, February 6-9, 2007, in Alexandria, Virginia. I will be the instructor. The course covers beginning through intermediate Ruby and Rails, and is a good fit for anyone who''s starting out on their own and wants to get the fundamentals down solid. You can get more information, and registration details, at

I've just started consulting for a SME client based in Reston Virginia. They don't know it yet but they are going to need a hosted asterisk service and some DID's. Email me if you are able to provide 10 DID's in Reston (must be able to be ported away!!) and hosted Asterisk with end user configurable IVR etc. Probably only 5-8 users at the moment BUT... they'll be

Chad Fowler gave two keynote presentations at CUSEC 2006 in January. The second one he gave was entitled "Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy" and is available through the SOENlive podcast. For those handful who might of not heard of Chad Fowler yet, he is the author of "Rails Recipes" which is presently available as a beta book. (Great book, you should get it out)

In two weeks, Dave Thomas will be in Pasadena doing a three-day Rails workshop. I''m about to sign up for it. I figure three intense days with Dave and a few dozen other Rails developers will produce huge learning leaps for me. Then it occurred to me that it might be useful to ask the list if anyone has attended one of these workshops before and, if so, how valuable you found

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

ENTERPRISE RUBY STUDIO Announcing a new offering from Pragmatic Studio: An Enterprise Ruby Studio to be held September 11-13 in Boston, MA. Learn how to use the power and expressiveness of Ruby, and how to use it as your enterprise "glue." ------------------------------------- Use Ruby for Enterprise Software Development ------------------------------------- Enterprise

If you live in the Mountain West (Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah), or don''t mind a bit of travel, You should look into the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 16th and 17th. We''ve got a great line up of speakers, including the JRuby team, Ara T Howard, and a keynote by Chad Fowler. Registration is just $50, hotels are affordable, and pre/post

Aloha! July 15th is the last day for proposals to present at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. Join Chad Fowler, Obie Fernandez, Gregg Pollack, Jim Weirich, Yehuda Katz, and many more at the premier destination event for Ruby on Rails! Aloha on Rails will be held in Waikiki, Hawaii on Oct 5-6, 2009. To learn more, and to submit your proposal, please visit

Reminder for all Rails/Ruby Londoners that there is a meet up tonight with guest Chad Fowler. Hope to see some of you there. T -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and