similar to: Preface to Agile 2nd edition book available?

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

Borders show it has to be ordered but Amazon says they have it but don''t show any reviews so what exactly is the true availability of the second edition? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 want to copy data from one database to another using rails. But, it seems that rails only will talk to one database at a time. Is there a way around this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Best Regards, -Larry "Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative." --- E.Taft Benson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

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

Hey, I have got a script that returns a long list of font family names, which I all want to store in a variable (array). I tried doing this with @f = font.family also in the for loop below but it only prints the last item when I want to display the results. require ''rubygems'' require ''RMagick'' include Magick for font in Magick.fonts puts font.family end

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

Hello, I have an application that access two different DBMS - Firebird and Postgres. So far, that''s ok. The problem is, depending on the customer logged, a different database (Firebird) must be selected. To make the things clearer: Postgres: 1 database shared by all customers with these tables: - user - vehicle - driver Firebird: several databases with different names and identical

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

Dear list, This weeks RCW has a slightly different format than before. After all, since what we want is less bloat, this RCW is less verbose. Please do let me know what you think off-list. *Interesting stuff on the Rails Timeline* _Fixed and commited to trunk:_ An issue with not null columns in SQLite3 migrations(<a

Pg. 57 of Agile asks you to create a scaffolding by typing in ruby script/generate scaffold Product Admin Instead of generating everything, it only gives me exists app/controllers/ exists app/helpers/ exists app/views/admin exists test/functional/ dependency model exists app/models/ exists test/unit/ exists test/fixtures/ identical

Hi, I''m surprised by the solution published at the following place : http://wiki.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/Task_D-A_Dash_of_Ajax For the 4th point : the solution published make a database request for remove a Product from a Cart. I think it''s not needed. What do you all think about that ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message

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 all - New to rails... been reading as much as I can though and have yet to find a solid answer (although I think I found an unsolid negative). I''m wondering if there''s a way to split up the reads and writes in Rails so that pages/actions that don''t need to write can query from a group of mirrored databases. And my content managers can update a single master. I

With after triggers in Postgres, there are special NEW and OLD vars accessible to trigger functions. Any such thing in Rails? Or would it entail doing something like setting a class var in before_update? Jack -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. Where is there an Agile Messageboard? On the first part of the Depot example, a price field shouldn''t be an integer right? (it should be more of a float since a price has decimals) Dominic Son -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, I have a few models -- book, cd, dvd -- for which I''d like to have an abstract base superclass to hold some common stuff. That abstract class, I was thinking, would inherit from ActiveRecord. Didn''t work, though, and looking around, I found this: <http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoMakeAbstractModel>

hi, This is regarding the "Depot Application". Section 9.3, Iteration D3 -- Highlighting Changes. I''ve followed this exactly according to the PDF, but it doesn''t work. The Ajax cart works, the blind_up and blind_down works. But couldn''t get the highlighting of the current item to work. Tested in Opera 9, FireFox 1.5 and IE 6 -- no luck !! I even

Hi, I would like to turn some of our simulation codes out to pasture and string some of them together by draping them in web services. I''m looking for a RESTful Camping tutorial to get started ... pointers appreciated. Some simple example applications: airfoil force calculator: feed it an airfoil geometry, an angle of attack, and a Mach number, and it returns the lift, drag, and

Hi, Has anyone tried to embed rails into a Cocoa app? I have got this working to a very primitive point using RubyCocoa. After about half an hour of playing I was able to get WEBrick to serve the rails starter page inside of a Cocoa app, but that is as far as I have got. I have an idea for a client/server app where the server is a Cocoa application that embeds WEBrick (or another server solution

Subject says it all... Thanks in advance, T