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I am following the instructions on how to use RESTful Rails plugin found at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html?page=3. When I run the rake test:functionals I get the following error message: rake aborted! undefined method `first'' for :book:Symbol (See full trace by running task with --trace) How can I fix this problem? I am using Rails 1.1.4 version. TIA

Is there any tools that is similar to Webtrends that can be used with Rails based Web sites? TIA http://www.ProblemSolvingSkill.net Hone your problem-solving skills

I read the Amy Hoy''s presentation on why scaffold is not a good thing for beginners. For admin application, is it ok to use scaffold? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

I have been frustrated with J2EE technology just like any other developer who has worked in that technology for a long time. This made me learn about Rails and I was excited about RoR. Today I came across JBoss Seam framework and I am not able to contain my excitement. My passion for JEE development is back. It seems like it is better than RoR. I would like to hear differnt opinions about this

Question please. I''ve bought the beta ''Agile web dev with rails''. Are book related questions valid on the list please? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

I am following the instructions on Agile Web Development with Rails book "Iteratio E1: Capturing an Order" section. When I run the migrations I get the following error. rake db:migrate (in /Users/balaparanj/work/depot) -- execute("alter table line_items \n add constraint fk_line_item_products \n foreign key (product_id) references products(id)") rake

Agile Rails Development book says that it is a good idea to deploy regularly during the development process. So, I am planning to install Linux on my old PC for this purpose. But I don''t know where to start. Which Linux do the Rails developers prefer and why? TIA.

I would like to know which one is better. Zentest seems to lack good documentation whereas Selenium seems to be having good documentation. TIA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Im trying to establish relationships in a many to many table. When I create a user, I do this to insert the different relationships between the user and sports: c.sports<<Sport.find_all_by_name(params[:sports]) where c is the user. The problem is, when I edit this user, and lets say he adds a sport, I can''t use this because I get an error saying that some records already

I am evaluating the Yahoo Browser Based Authentication Rails plugin for use in my web app. It looks like a good idea to make the signup process easier by using this plugin. I see the following advantages for using it: 1. Less code ;-) 2. I don''t have to struggle with Acts As Authenticated or RESTful Authentication plugins to get this functionality. 3. I can safely assume most of my

Hi all - I am having some trouble figuring out how to model self-referential entities in Rails. I have a "group" model, which can have 0 or more "group" objects or 0 or more "user" objects. I tried creating a subgroup table that has a parent_group_id and a child_group_id as foreign keys but can''t figure out how to create the mapping in my ruby model

The AWDwR book has the following: add_index :categories_products, [:product_id, :category_id] add_index :categories_products, :category_id The first, composite index actually serves two purposes: it creates an index which can be searched on both foreign key columns, and with most databases it also creates an index that enables fast lookup by the product id. The second index then completes

Hey if you know any rails cheatsheet link add it inot the follwing list, lets make a long list on Rails cheatsheet.... ;) 1) 2) 3) 4) . . . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060103/a6eea2ac/attachment-0001.html

In DHH''s keynote, he alluded to doing logins with REST. Has anyone implemented this, and if so, would you mind elaborating on how you did it please? Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Now that we have the big Rails 2.0 release out the door, it''s a lot easier to push out smaller updates more frequently. So that''s what we''re going to do. Rails 2.0.2 contains a bunch of smaller fixes to various bugs, no show-stopping action, just further polish. But it also contains a few new defaults:

hi, I''ve got an api which is using authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic What are you guys using to test this? I''m using rspec, and before I was using rspec-rails, I was using authorize from Rack::Test to do the authentication. However, authorize clearly doesn''t work when using rspec-rails, so I''m wondering what everyone else is doing? -- You received this

Hello all, I have an Order object that has and belongs to many Products and has and belongs to many Loan Types. This is so I can select multiples of each in my order entry screen via checkbox groups. I''m having some trouble with saving multiple HABTM associations for a single model object; only the first HABTM association declared in the model will save during the initial @order.save

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

hey all, I have three tables like this: forum (id,title) usergroup(id,title) forum_perms(usergroup_id,forum_id,read,write,post) is there a way to deal with that kind of relation with rails such as by using has_and_belongs_to_many kind of stuff? thanx in advance Pat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

I followed the instructions at Hivelogic on Building Subversion (SVN) on Mac OS X and installed it on my machine. Now I am following the rubyonrails wiki on How to Use Rails With Subversion, it assumes that you have already created a subversion repository. Could someone please point me in the right direction for creating a subversion repository? Searching lead me to macdevcenter which seems to be