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I just found this one: http://tinyurl.com/3c3mfa David, are there any other RSpec books in the works? With Regards, Cody Skidmore

I don''t know if I missed this on the list, but the Agile Web Development with Rails book is now at version 4.0, for those of us who bought the PDF from the Prag Prog site. Just a few typos and corrections from the looks of it, but can''t hurt to get the latest. You can reorder the book for download at: http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails/reorder Cheers, Tom

Not sure if this is old news or not, but it would appear that both the Ruby Cookbook and a Rails book are now available for purchase at O''Reilly Rough Cuts (something akin to PragProg''s beta book program): http://rubyurl.com/nHz http://my.safaribooksonline.com/?mode=roughcuts&srchtext=ROUGHCUTS I haven''t tried them yet, but it definitely seems worth checking out.

Hi Everybody, Greetings!! I want to use rspec for my applications. Please guide me with the Rspec tutorial. I want a good example to start with. Please help me by providing good tutorials on Rspec to start with. I actually followed the example from http://rspec.info Please guide me on more examples. Waiting for your reply. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received

Good morning (Pacific Time). I have a controller action that, as a side-effect, sends an email to an administrator. I want it to do something like this: specify "when someone successfully signs up, an email should be sent to the administrator with the person''s contact page" do post :signup, {...lots o'' params} response should_be success #

Let''s say an app has a User, and a User has many friends. Also, let''s say the app authentication was built on the restful_authentication plugin, and we have email and password in the Users table. The friends controller index might look like this; # GET /users/1/friends # GET /users/1/friends.xml def index @users = @user.friends respond_to do |format| format.html

This is pretty much the same as last time around, if you recall. Thanks to Wilson for converting to the new form. I''ve added a few lines. Basically, it iterates over your model associations and does two things. - First, just try to call the association. Usually fixes speeling erors or other such silliness. - Second, try to find a record with an :include on the association. This

Folks: I''ve uplaoded the B1.05 version of AWDwR. It fixes a number of reported errata (and a few that weren''t reported :), and adds two significant changes: 1. It now uses the new Active Record decimal -> BigDecimal conversion. I''ve personally been waiting for this for a long time, and I''m really happy it''s now part of core. However,

Hi to everyone, I''m an RSpec, and BDD in general, newbie so in order to learn I have chosen to use my personal website as a tesbed. I''m having difficulties juggling with mocks, and in particula with the following code. Here''s the controller action: def create @album = Album.new(params[:album]) if @album.save flash[:notice] = "album saved"

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

We are starting to move to using llvm/clang x86 as the starting point for mips native compilers. It's important to make sure that gcc cross compilers can do this too but sometimes there are issues there; especially now as c++11 is moving into the foreground. We are working to also make sure this works. As 3.5 llvm is probably around the corner; our use of clang/llvm for this starting

Are there deltas for the revisions of the PDF version of the Agile book? -- fxn

So I''m new to all this Rails stuff and this is probably a database design-related question to, but here it is... Just for learning I''m trying to build a little real estate listings application. Of course there is the listings model which will store basic information like name, price, description, and all that jazz. I''m to the point where I want to figure out how to

RSpec-1.1.3 has been released. If you''re using RSpec and autotest, you''ll have to upgrade to RSpec-1.1.3 and ZenTest-3.9.0 at the same time. == Version 1.1.3 Maintenance release. * Tightened up exceptions list in autotest/rails_spec. Closes #264. * Applied patch from Ryan Davis for ZenTest-3.9.0 compatibility * Applied patch from Kero to add step_upcoming to story listeners.

http://pragprog.com/titles/achbd/errata nr 57: Ruby 1.8.7 expected [] to include "Welcome to Codebreaker!" Ruby 1.9.1 undefined method `include'' for #<Object:0x80b32c90> (NoMethodError) --- class Output def messages @messages ||= [] end def puts(message) messages << message end end Then /^I should see "([^\"]*)"$/ do |message|

Hi folks, I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I would like some recommendation from users on this matter. I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages outside of .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started with end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different book they found useful? Many thanks,

I saw this mentioned on Dave Thomas''s blog http://blogs.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/pragdave.cgi/Tech/Ruby/EIR.html and don''t remember having seen it announced on this mailing list. This new Beta Book is at http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_eir/index.html regards Justin

Hi all, In GOOS[1] they use an assertion called assertEventually which samples the system for a success state until a certain timeout has elapsed. This allows you to synchronise the tests with asynchronous code. Do we have an equivalent of that in the Ruby / RSpec world already? I know capybara has wait_until { } but that''s fairly rudimentary - the failure message isn''t very

I am attempting to test the web services added during chapter 20 of the Agile book. The code as written in the book yields 2 errors: test_find_product_by_id(BackendControllerApiTest): XMLParserError: syntax error Anyone hit this yet and get it to work? Thanks. Ken _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org

Just tried the first AJAX example in the rails book (p.391-392, the ''word guessing'' thing), and the AJAX partial used seems to render as a full page. I''m not sure whether it''s a) a partial bug b) some interaction between ajax and partials c) a change since the book came out or d) pilot error I''ve checked the errata pages and it''s flagged up