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Hi guys, I''m having a little trouble understanding the differences and knowing when to use "def foo" and "def self.foo" in my models. I don''t quite understand them and was hoping someone could explain or give me examples on how to use the "self." properly. For example, I had "def foo" in my model "Account" and in one of

I have a few pages where a user may do something (add tags, login, etc) and I would like to redirect them back to the last page they were at before calling that action. Is there an easy way to do this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, In the AWDR author use the execute method to declare foreign keys: execute "alter table.... add constraint.... foreign key...." Is there a ruby sintax to declare a foreign key in a migration class? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I started a php-based website a few months ago with a buddy of mine on netfirms.com. I was perusing their knowledge base and I came upon a quick-start for something called Ruby on Rails. Since then I have immersed myself in RoR. I''ve done the tutorials, I''ve purchased the books. But, I could never get even a sample RoR app to work on netfirms. 500 server errors.

Hi, I am trying to follow the "DRY" principle and came across a problem. I am working on a small ajax task manager, and right now in the index page which renders the list, I have (for example, in the Lists controller): def index @lists = List.find(:all) end Now within the controller there''s also a list_add action which is called via ajax.. def list_add if

Greetings all. I''m using the Microsoft "NorthWind Traders" database "orders" table as test data for the Rico LiveGrid JavaScript. The problem I''m noticing is that some of the records in the "ShipName" field contain ampersands -- which for some reason are not being escaped by Rails. Rails does in fact automatically escape all of the other

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Hi all, I have two controllers - "foods" and "receipes" which map to models. Each one will have multiple categories, but the categories are completely different for each one - they don''t share the same category. So they aren''t related at all. If I wanted to do this using resources, what is the best way to set this up? If I setup a categories controller and

I''ve been mulling over an idea for a book covering Ruby on Rails application deployment. Obvious topics include using Mongrel by itself and with Apache/Lighttpd, load balancers, memcached, and Capistrano. What other topics would you like to see covered in such a book? Cheers, -- Dave Murphy (Schwuk) http://schwuk.com

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''m not sure if this is the right place to ask such questions. If not, my apologies and please direct me where such questions are handled. I am new to RoR and have been following the tutorial in Agile Web Developement with Rails. I have successfully gotten RoR up and running on my Mac (OS X 10.4.6) and created a MySQL database. However, on page 57 of the tutorial, the command

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but with the search function down its hard to find out if it has The first Agile book recommended using the automatically assigned row id of an object as a foreign key reference, as rails would automatically interpret the attribute (for example) product_id as the table ''product'' and row ''id''. I''ve just

Hi all I''m just wondering if I get the 2nd version of "Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails" for free if I already own the 1st edition paperback/PDF combo? And anyway: I wanted to update my first edition, but I can''t find the link anymore where I could get a new PDF version? Thanks a lot for help. Josh -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

I''m new to Ruby and RoR but excited to learn what I can do with RoR; I have Pickaxe second edition and want to get "Agile Web Development with Rails" but I''m aware that the book was published some while before RoR version 1.0 was released. Has a lot changed since then, and would I therefore be advised to wait for a second edition of AWDwR? Many thanks in advance

Is there any way to tell Rails to send the .html file it renders somewhere other than the web server? I need to save a page to the server''s file system instead of sending it to the user''s browser. Thanks! Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060518/facce47e/attachment.html

Hi all, On theserverside.com there is an article describing an interview with Bruce Tate, where he calls Java dead like Cobol. See: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39066 However in the comments, some guy comes up with a good point: He states the following: <quote> I couldn''t come up with a viable enterprise quality/grade deployment platform for RoR. Even

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

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"