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Hello, I''m a big bookworm, so I decided to round up all the upcoming Ruby books in the market in one big blog post. At my count, there are _sixteen_ books to be released (in print) for the upcoming year, with some available in pdf form right now. Here''s the list: http://www.robsanheim.com/2006/03/23/ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-book-roundup/ Hope its helpful for fellow book nerds

Having a weird issue where I can migration to version 1, but then go no further, and cannot go back to 0 -- but only from the command line. If I open up script/console I can do migrations just fine - down to 0 or up to 2, via ActiveRecord::Migrator. So I know the migrations must be valid, and I can verify that tables are created or destroyed in the database. Does anyone have any idea why this

I''m struggling to get switchtower working, and from other posts about it I know it has something to do with ruby binding to open ssl. I''m just not sure what I should recompile/reinstall to get things to work. running: "rake remote_exec ACTION=setup" gives me ---> ...executing "mkdir -p -m 775 /usr/apps/hello-rails/releases /usr/apps/hello-rails/shared/system

I was wondering if anyone had a quick an easy way to add color to the autotest output. I just want a nice green splash somewhere on success, and red on failure - I miss the Eclipse xUnit plugin''s easy feedback where I didn''t have to read log output. =) - rob -- http://www.robsanheim.com http://www.seekingalpha.com http://www.ajaxian.com

Would upgrading rails and all dependancies break the installation of the fcgi/mysql bindings? I know I had all this stuff working a month ago or so, but since then I''ve updated a few times... - Rob -- http://www.robsanheim.com/ - blog on java, rails, tdd, agility, and life in general http://www.ajaxian.com/ - the net''s premier ajax blog

Right now, I have the following in my application controller - and a simliar version is duplicated in test_helper. There must be a better way to include common functionality like this that gets used across layers? Maybe at the very least a way to include it at the class level and instance level with one line? # provide access to text helper at class level def self.text_helper

So I''ve used the helper test plugin, and also tried some things from Rails Recipes, and basically neither seems to work for cases where a helper does anything related to link_to/url_for, and this includes calling named_routes. This is obviously an issue, as a common use for helpers is to refactoring something like this: <%= link_to "text that changes slightly", :id => id

Hi All, I saw spurious mentions on a few blogs of a DVD being made available of RailsConf presentations. However none seemed to have a who/what/when/where attached to them, thus might just be pure speculation. Anyone know of an official source/effort being made for a DVD? Would be well keen for copy if one is to be made available.... Cheers Rowan --- http://raili.st/ -------------- next part

I''ve written a little ruby/rails hangman-ish app to keep my wife occupied at work that I think list members might also find interesting. I''m new to this list so I wanted to see if it would be considered bad form to post the link before I did. There aren''t any ads so I''m not getting anything out of more visitors, but I still didn''t want to take the

Hi, Nuby on Rails here trying to bring up an existing app on a new installation. The whole ruby/rails/mysql/lighty installation was done per the much touted "hivelogic article" that runs through all the steps. I am running into a permission error when I try to do a rake migrate to set up a session database needed by this existing app. Extracted from the trace... ** Execute

Hi all I''ve noticed that the mongrel log output when run interactively (via script/server) doesn''t respect environment specific log levels, because the logger is initialized way before the ''development_cached.rb'' file is ever loaded (for example). I''m guessing this is more a Rails issue then a Mongrel issue, so maybe I should open or search for a

Hey all, I''ve run into an interesting scenario that I think some of you might have some suggestions on. I am currently working on a RoR project and we are making full use of the migrations. We are also using a subversion repository for our source control. Now, the problem.... We are both making migrations and checking them into SVN. So, if in our checkout we have migrations up to 10 and

Hi all Hope this isn''t too far off-topic on this list, as I think it would largely go ignored on the main rails list. I''m looking for the most pragmatic way to speed up our test suite. This is on an established project, and lets just say that we used way too many fixtures when we started =). For example: Finished in 128.870144 seconds. =============== 392 tests, 2106

I have a simple Yes/No selection list that I am using in a number of places. Thinking that I could DRY things out a bit, I added it to application_helper.rb ... YES_NO = [ [ "Yes", true ], [ "No", false ] ].freeze So I figured I would use it there instead of in each model.rb where needed. anyway, in webrick screen, I am continually seeing this...

or similar... Is there any extension for firefox so that I can view the source code of ajax returned content? Thanks everybody.

I found these facts while in #ruby-lang irc? <duracell8> 1. Limited Pool of developers who know Ruby. Get developers to nominate if Ruby will be their secondary language. <duracell8> 2. The serving of Ruby Apps from Apache using FastCGI is broken the world over. It causes periodic process and database connection blowouts. Move to a Mongrel Pack. <duracell8> 3. Limited

On my current project I needed to create a stub that responded correctly to the id message. Here''s the change I put into my copy of head. Index: lib/mocha/mock_methods.rb =================================================================== --- lib/mocha/mock_methods.rb (revision 1114) +++ lib/mocha/mock_methods.rb (working copy) @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ method_names =

As others have mentioned, Chapter 4 of David A. Black''s book _Ruby for Rails_ is now available for download from the Manning site. The fact that the book is being released one chapter at a time makes it easy to read in small, digestible chunks. I never intended to review every chapter individually here, but now that I''ve done the first three, I feel like I ought to continue.

Hello, I was reading the pickaxe book and then I arrived to the chapter "When trouble strikes" in the Benchmark section. I have this code: #!/usr/bin/ruby -w require ''benchmark'' include Benchmark LOOP_COUNT = 1_000_000 bm(12) do |test| test.report("normal:") do LOOP_COUNT.times do |x| y = x +1 end end

So after recompiling ruby a few times to get ssl and readline working, fighting with lighty for awhile, and learning a bit more about linux in the process, I think I''m really close to getting i2 up and running. However, when I try to access my wiki, I get either a blank page or an error 500 and the stack trace below gets sent to the log. If I can''t get this working soon