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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/.

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

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:

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

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/.

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

I have this code in a controller that returns images to my browser...with ROR. def index @products = Product.find_all_ pictures end ....this is the .rhtml.. <% for photo in @pic -%> <div class="entry"> <img src="<%= photo.image_url %>"/> <h3><%= h(photo.title) %></h3> <%= photo.description %>

>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/.

I would like to embed my login form on my app''s home page. What''s the best way to render the login action of member controller from another action? Thanks Frank --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi all, I am using InstantRails with MySQL-Front. Date is stored in format yyyy-mm-dd in database. I want to retrieve and show date in dd-mm-yyyy in my view.rhtml. How can I change it to dd-mm-yyyy form. Please help me out. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

In an migration file there is one up and one down method. Below is from Agile Web Development with Rails: class CreateOrderHistories < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :order_histories do |t| t.column :order_id, :integer, :null => false t.column :created_at, :timestamp t.column :notes, :text end end def self.down drop_table :order_histories end end Why is there a drop

Hi all, I''m trying to create a worker to send a mail to all the users in my db. Right now I''m doing the tests, this is the code in my worker (Masivo is the ActionMailer subclass): def do_work(args) @progress = 0 @logger.info("MAILER: starting job") records = Record.find(:all) total = records.size records.each_with_index do |record, idx|

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/.

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/.

There is a solution to use helpers from controllers ? I have an error : |undefined method `content_tag''| class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base def test return content_tag("a","test") end end

A view display.rhtml sees no controller state variables set in the corresponding display action. Why? -- fxn

Hi Think this is probably straightforward, but I don''t know enough about rails to work it out, so was wondering if anyone can help I keep on running into this error when I''m deploying my app: "FastCGI: server ".../public_html/public/dispatch.fcgi" stderr: ../config/../app/views/items/_side_share.rhtml:8: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use

All, I''ve found that the html view for the rspec formatter falls to pieces with Rails 2.02 and rspec 1.10. Has anyone else run into this trouble? Here''s a monkey patch that fixes the problem. A more elegant fix would be in order, but this gets the job done: Index: /Users/timcharper/www/exchange/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/formatter/text_mate_formatter.rb

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/.