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Reviews Wanted. I''ve read the tables of contents and haven''t yet made up my mind. Is one book clearly better than the other? Is one clearly full of bugs? Is one so much further ahead that there is no choice? Are they both so incomplete that I should just wait and only cook real food? Do trains still have dining cars? Warren Fred -------------- next part -------------- An

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"

hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

I bought the pickaxe about 1 1/2 months ago, and I have been reading through it and learning Ruby in my spare time. I''m about 200 pages into it, and I''m starting to think I don''t need to know all of the in''s and out''s of Ruby to get a good hang on Rails. How much Ruby do I really need to be proficient in Rails? Ruby is a great language, I love it, but

OK, I am a Rails nuby, so please keep that in mind. I want to have a form on a page where users can enter in their email address in one field, a message in a text area field, and when they click "submit" the message should be sent to a static email address, say me@mysite.com. I have read the "HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer", but I am not sure this is exactly what I need.

Hi, I bougth the Agile Web Development with rails First Edition and now want buy rails recipes but what is the best decision buy rails recipes or the new edition de Agile Web Development With Rails? Jean Carlo Schechnner www.idvirtual.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I''m a beginner. I''ve done the apple tutorial, Agile ROR (the depot app, I stopped after that, a little to advanced with no base knowledge of Ruby), Why''s guide and my copy of Chris Pine''s book today. After Pine, I''m going to buy either the Wrox book or Ruby for Rails book. I did a search and there''s not too much on the Wrox book (Holzner)

Hi all I took a look to several examples of RoR on different web sites, and I found that it is hard to write a class, in RoR, because I do not understand all the codes used on the source code. jsn -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi everyone.. i''m a high school teacher who wrote a webapp in PHP and MySQL for my curriculum.. i use it to keep attendance, take notes per student or class and keep track of activities. i would like to soup it up and have read both the pickax and version 2 of agile web dev... now i''m starting to work and i''d like to rename columns and relationships in the database so

So, I''ve been listing to stuff folks have been saying about the Bookman font we use. Most people like the font, but some feel there aren''t enough words/line, so your eyes move too much. So, I spent the weekend playing with typography, and I''ve come up with a compromise. The thing is: it looks good to me, but I don''t want to mess up the read for others

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

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I have the following code that generates a rhtml page, <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <%= render :partial => ''form'' %> <%= submit_tag "Create" %> <%= end_form_tag %> <%= link_to ''Back'', :action => ''list'' %> ...I am trying to put a "Browse" button to

I want users to have their own landing pages: http://username.domain.com. Since this is dynamic (any user will have a subdomain), is there a way to do this without creating a DNS record for each of them? Can you DNS records be dynamic? -- Austin Govella Thinking & Making: IA, UX, and IxD http://thinkingandmaking.com austin.govella-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

I see => is a hash in ruby so is # ,,, errrg But then I see in Rails #=> and then render :action => ''list.rhtml'' and other uses to it ,, I just need some sort of definition to what it mean, is it redirect send_to ''then'' no wait : is then ,,, help... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

When I add an item to the shopping cart, I get an error: undefined local variable or method `cart_item'' for #<#<Class:0x3715a78>:0x3715a48> Session info says the cart being updated properly. I''m just not able to output two variables: <%= cart_item.quantity %> &times; <%= h(cart_item.title) %> I did some research, and I can grasp that local

I posted this to comp.lang.ruby and comp.lang.smalltalk, and my blog. I will likely get destroyed, but it will be worth it if at least one nugget of information helps the Ruby IDE makers. ----------------------------------------- Hi all -- I shout my question to the entire Ruby + Smalltalk community: Smalltalk has had amazing IDEs for decades, why not Ruby? Smalltalkers, Ruby needs your help!

To reverse a migration that sets a default value, do you set the default to nil? And, if you''re setting a couple of default values just to make early development easier, is it best to do that directly to the database and not clutter your migrations with them? (I.e., it''s not a *real* db change.) Thanks, -- Austin Govella Thinking & Making: IA, UX, and IxD

Hi Everyone, I''m trying to formulate my thoughts on how views work in RoR and I understand the basic bits - 1. Every controller has its own view defined using rhtml files in the views/[controller_name] folder. 2. There is one "view" file (rhtml) for every in the controller and has the same name as the method. 3. For portions that are common, partials can be used - file

Hi, is it possible to store RHTML templates or partials in database? thanks, Bojan Mihelac -- Bojan Mihelac Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com -> tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org