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I''m having a silly little problem with migrations.  All I''m trying to do is to add an SSN column to my Employees table.  I generated a migration which looks like: class AddSsn < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up     add_column :employees, :ssn, :string end def self.down     remove_column :employees, :ssn   end end When I run this, however, I get: >rake

For those haven''t seen it yet, Patrick Peak has an interesting article at the Server Side (www.theserverside.com) discussing the differences between the Hibernate (www.hibernate.org) peristence framework and ActiveRecord.  The article can be found here: http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate .  Patrick Peak is the author of _Hibernate Quickly_ (Manning), which

Hi all, I was a client site today on another project and we started talking about RoR. I wanted to show it in action, so I downloaded the one-click Ruby installer for Windows and then tried to do "gem install Rails -include-dependencies". After a time-out period I received the following error: ERROR: While executing gem.(Gem::RemoteSourceException) Error fetching remote gem

As others have mentioned, Chapter 4 of David A. Black''s book _Ruby for Rails_ is now available for download from the Manning site. The fact that the book is being released one chapter at a time makes it easy to read in small, digestible chunks. I never intended to review every chapter individually here, but now that I''ve done the first three, I feel like I ought to continue.

Here''s my review of Chapter 3: As the author says, this is a transitional chapter. The first chapter was an introduction to Ruby, and the second was a similar introduction to Rails. Now we begin the real purpose of the book, which is to dig into the Ruby behind the Rails. Periodically the question arises on this list about how much Ruby you need to know in order to do Rails.

Hi all, The Rails book talks about running Rails under Apache, but is there a (relatively) easy way to deploy it to either Tomcat or JBoss? Is the CGI servlet the only option? Thanks, Ken -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc. <http://www.kousenit.com> http://www.kousenit.com <mailto:ken.kousen@kousenit.com> ken.kousen@kousenit.com

A client of mine has a ton of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. I''m building a web application for her (backed by a real db of course) and want to import all that data. Is there a library available to read data from Excel? Is there an easy way to upload the spreadsheets and then read the data? Thanks, Ken Kousen -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc.

I''m sure this has probably been asked hundreds of times already, but I am desperately seeking a ticket to the railsconf in Chicago. If anybody has one they need to get rid of or knows of somebody who does, please let me know. Scalpers welcome :-) -Christian _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list

Hi everyone -- In the excitement of the Chicago RailsConf and other recent events, don''t forget the excitement of RailsConf Europe! You''ve heard of it, but it seems kind of shadowy compared to the "big" events? Here''s the news: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It IS a big event!

Dear All - At the end of our RailsConf Speech on how we built a maintainable yet complex rails system (slides here: http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010/public/schedule/detail/14302), there was a large demand for us to open source our methods. As such, we are pleased to announce eco_apps 0.1. (http:// www.github.com/idapted/eco_apps) What it does: eco_apps allow you to develop an application

Hi! I have a seat at the international RailsConf 2006 in Chicago but for personal reasons I am not able to attend. The conference has been sold out for a long time so I am now giving you guys a chance to attend, if you are interested to take over my seat, just drop me an e-mail. More info on the talks, venue etc can be found here: http://www.railsconf.org/ -- Cheers, Joakim p.s. Save a tree

A friend of mine decided to get married on RailsConf weekend, so I can''t make the conference. I checked the website and tickets are transferable, so I''m making the ticket available to the highest bidder. The ticket was $400. I''m not looking to make a profit, but I would like to recover the original cost. Given that the conference sold out almost immediately,

Hey Folks, I''ve been meeting lots of great folks at RailsConf and in my spare time hacking up this latest pre-release of Mongrel. It features the following new goodies: * Change to user:group is done *after* the socket is bound, but still as early as possible. * Mongrel will try to reap dead threads as soon as possible, especially when it gets overloaded with too many open files. *

We booked our UK techies into RailsConf Europe 2006 and one of them can''t make it?. so (assuming we''re allowed to by the conference) we''d like to make the ticket available to someone as a small "thank you" to the Rails community. I guess we''d like to think that would mean it went to someone who is involved in the community but couldn''t

Fyi, the RailsConf ticket has been traded. Thanks to all the people who expressed interest! I''m glad I offered a trade in addition to just offering to sell the ticket! It was a great experience, and I got to meet a lot of people I think I''ll be working with, including Sarah Mei (the person I''m sending to the conference). If the logistics work out, I''ll be

Hey folks, Unfortunately I''m not at RailsConf but if there are enough people interested in PDF generation in Ruby / Rails, please consider using the BoF sessions or some other time to get together and share thoughts about how PDF generation in Ruby can be better, and then have someone post notes from your discussions to the Prawn mailing list[0]. There are already a bunch of folks

<gloat>Well, that''s me booked in for RailsConf in september :0)</gloat> Who else is going? Steve

I have a RailsConf ticket available and am looking to sell it, as I won''t be able to make it out to Chicago as something has come up. Please email me off-list at nshb@inimit.com

I haven''t decided for sure, but I''m considering not going to RailsConf this weekend. Anyone out there interested in a ticket? $400. Thanks, Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060619/8109af28/attachment.html

Does anyone have a clue as to when the railsconf speakers will be announced? Thanks- -Ezra Zygmuntowicz Yakima Herald-Republic WebMaster http://yakimaherald.com 509-577-7732 ezra@yakima-herald.com