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And compared to PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

Hi all, I''m a web designer/-developer. I found Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and as I can understand (for now) this is what I''ve been looking for. I''m really exited about this. Prior to this I''ve used Lasso and PHP. But a few questions (sitting on Mac OS 10.4.6). I tried to install according to this:

How is the performance running RoR with Apache2 compared to running it with PHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When creating a scaffold you get a layout file. How does it work? I thought I would find the var @content_for_layout in the controller, but I didn''t. Where is layouts defined or controlled? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Are there any other tutorial than "Agile Web Development with Rails" that you can suggest? So far I can''t say that RoR has been easy to learn. :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

In http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial there is the string/method protected in the model. What does it do? Can''t find that in http://api.rubyonrails.org/. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can I use the table name "adm_users" (mysql)? Will that give the model name "adm_user"? Or should it be "admusers" and "admuser"? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Maybe this should apply to Ruby forums directly, but I''ll try here. I understand the concept of classes and subclasses thanks to the excellent "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer''s Guide". However, I don''t understand what :: signify in terms of inheritance, parent and child in e.g. ActionController::Base -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

How can I modify the style of a RoR field like text_field or password_field? I can use input in css, but how do I add a class? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What are the different parts of; class TestController < ActionController::Base? I look at the http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and try to understand but I don''t. Could someone give me a hint? I get the part of Test being the "folder", def and all that, but I can''t find an explanation of the basic stuff. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

What are the possibilities of file manipulation in RoR? How do you create a .html or .rhtml file with ruby to be placed in the public folder, with custom content? Btw, where is RoR root? Is that ''public''? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I can''t get Eclipse to create the files for a new Rails project in Eclipse. It works using the terminal. What could be wrong? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Greetings, I am trying to track down a bug with intermittant glitching in our Vorbis streams. I am running Icecast 2.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04. Several Vorbis clients seem to glitch on some (not all) metadata updates. As we update metadata 3 to 4 times a minute, this is something we are trying to fix, VLC gives the following output on metadata update: main warning: the mixer got a packet in

In http://www.aidanf.net/rails_user_authentication_tutorial there is a string called require ''digest/sha1'' in the model. What does it do? Everything else is well explained besides that. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

>From a development standpoint, what are the features that make Ruby on Rails a better choice compared to CakePHP? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all I created a project in eclipse of type radrails, and the project is empty, it did not generate the Rails application skeleton. When I try to run it its ask for a configuration file. What is missing? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I followed hivelogic article on how to install Ror and Lighttpd on Mac OS. http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger But I''m not sure I got Lighttpd in the right place. If I do "which lighttpd" and "lighttpd -v" I get answers from the terminal: /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd lighttpd-1.4.11 - a light and fast webserver But I

How do a set a main start page? I understand that index is the start action in a controller, and going to the controller name will show that index page. But can you set an index to be a start page from root, so when you enter domain.com:3000 it will show up? I tried to add def index to the main controller application.rb but no luck. Btw, how do deal with this when hosting several solutions,