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Hi folks, The Pragmatic Studio is happy to announce the next Rails Studio will be in Reston, VA on April 15-17. If you''re just getting into Rails, or need to get your team members up to speed quickly, this course is for you. In this hands-on workshop, you''ll learn directly from two experienced Rails developers and authors: Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. You''ll come away

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

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 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

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

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

Hi everyone -- My .sig has said so for a while, but I thought I would directly announce two Rails training courses from Ruby Power and Light, coming up in Florida in January, both in Fort Lauderdaler Intro to Ruby on Rails, January 12-15 Advancing with Rails, January 19-22 I''m teaching "Intro", and "Advancing" will be co-taught by me and Patrick Ewing. The

Hi Folks, We''ve just uploaded the third beta revision of the Advanced Rails Recipes PDF: http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr To get your updated PDF, simply sign in to your account (http:// pragprog.com/my_account) and ask the system to regenerate it. This revision adds 14 new recipes (81 total) from some of the top developers in the community: * Process Recurring Credit Card

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

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

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

The following works: it "should evaluate a passed in block in the context of the interview object" do block = Proc.new { raise unless self.is_a? (Interview) }.should_not raise_error Interview.create(:title => "Text", &block) end However, the following does not: it "should evaluate a passed in block in the context of the interview

Hi everyone -- I''m very pleased to announce the following upcoming training course: ADVANCING WITH RAILS July 21-24 Edison, NJ "Advancing With Rails" is a course for intermediate Rails programmers who want to get to the next level with both their Ruby knowledge and their Rails skillset. Topics include routing and REST, advanced ActiveRecord associations, caching,

Yes, I know that Rails *2.3.x* is no longer fully supported (this is why I''m posting it to rails/issues). Still, I would like to post the topic so that everyone who experience the same problem could quickly google for it (no, afaik no solution for this yet). I''m trying to migrate a 1.5 years *2.3.x* app from Ruby version *1.8.7* to * 1.9.3-p0*. The strange problem I

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

Dear Lists, This is an off topic (OT ). I recently took Anne Milley's interview .In Part 1 of the interview , Anne talks about SAS, WPS, other softwares she studied like SPSS,.She also talks about the difference between small and big companies , what sets SAS apart and the famous licensing model of SAS Interview – Anne Milley, SAS Part 1<http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/16909>

Dear All, Slightly off -non technical topic ( but hey it is Friday) Following last week's interview with REvolution Computing which makes enterprise versions of R, here is another interview with the rapidly growing company Blue Reference CEOPaul van Eikeren at <http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/04/interview-inference-for-r/>

Hello, Researchers at Oregon State University are striving to conduct research to learn more about the free/open source software community landscape as it relates to older adults. We have identified you as a leader for a free/open source software community. If you?re interested, we will either do an in-person interview (if you are local to the Corvallis or Portland area), or an interview over the