similar to: Ruby Central presents the European Rails Conference

Hello all -- And a special greeting to those of you who were at RailsConf 2006 in Chicago. You know how great the event was, and how great the European Rails Conference is going to be in London in September! We''re now accepting proposals for talks at the European Rails Conference, to be held September 14-15 in London. Accepted speakers will get free admission to the conference.

Hi all -- The second printing of "Ruby for Rails" is happening soon. If you''ve spotted any small errors, let me know... like... *very* soon :-) (I want to know about large errors too, but those fixes won''t make it into this printing :-) Thanks! David -- David A. Black (dblack@wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com) See what

Hi -- I''m on the road, so I haven''t laid eyes on it yet -- but word on the virtual street is that "Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers" is now out in paper. It will probably take a little longer to trickle to your neighborhood Barnes and Noble... but you can order it now from the publisher. See http://www.manning.com/black. And trickle it will, too.

Hello everyone -- We are very pleased to announce the launching of the Ruby Central Regional Conference Grant Program for 2006. This program will provide grants of up to $1500 US to approximate six to eight regional conferences, over the next year. You can download full details at either of these addresses: http://www.rubycentral.org/rcg2006.pdf

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!

Hi -- Just a quick note to announce the creation of DABlog, David A. Black''s Log, at http://dablog.rubypowerandlight.com. You can also reach it at http://dablog.rubypal.com, if you want to type less :-) DABlog runs on Typo. Meanwhile, greetings from Chicago -- I hope I''ll see lots of you here. David -- David A. Black (dblack@wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light, LLC

[Strictly speaking, this isn''t really a "reminder", since I''m fairly sure the original announcement didn''t go to this list. Nonetheless -- here it is!] Hi everyone -- In case you missed it the first time (and rather a lot of you seem to have...) -- You can now submit a RubyConf 2006 presentation proposal, at: http://proposals.rubygarden.org You

Hi -- My book "Ruby for Rails" is now being released one chapter at a time through the Manning Early Access Program, with the whole book due to appear on May 1. If you''re interested, see http://www.manning.com/books/black (I guess I could have just sent my sig with no body, but anyway :-) David -- David A. Black (dblack@wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light

Hi -- I''m going to be giving a free (but limited enrollment) one-day Rails workshop in Malmo, Sweden, on September 17. The event is presented by Polar Rose (http://www.polarrose.com). For more info: http://www.polarrose.com/about/ruby-on-rails-workshop-by-david-black Hop on over from London if you''re at RailsConf Europe! (Which [London] is where I am now.) David --

Hi -- Here''s the current status of RubyConf registration: I''m tinkering with the form.... We''re using an outside registration service for the first time, so I have to make sure I get it right, and it''s actually pretty complicated (I think). We got our credit card merchant account, so we''re good to go on that score. My current plan, barring

Hi -- I''ve created and registered an IRC channel, #rubyforrails on irc.freenode.net, for discussion of, and questions about, my book "Ruby for Rails". I''ll do my best to be on hand to field questions and comments. This is in addition to, not instead of, the other ways you can reach me (email, Ruby and Rails mailing lists, Author Online forum at Manning, Author

Hi everyone -- Registration is now open for the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 22-23. This event is a co-production of SDForum and Ruby Central, Inc. Some FAQ: Is this the same as RubyConf? No, it''s an event unto itself, and quite a substantial one! Is it only for Silicon Valley people? No. It''s got some regional Ruby community emphasis --

Hi -- Registration for RubyConf 2006 is still scheduled to open on August 2, in the early evening Pacific (US West Coast) time. Also, there''s more info at http://www.rubycentral.org/conference (e.g., the fact that this year we''re only taking credit cards, etc.). David P.S. Any LA area Rubyists around? I''ll be there this week doing Rails training. --

Hi, I am working thru the Ruby for rails book. On page 30 David Black talks about running erb from the command line i.e. $ erb erbdemo.rb just as you would a normal ruby prog ($ ruby erbdemo.rb) but when I try to do this I get command not found. How do I make this work? I am running Linux (Ubuntu Breezy) Regards, Paul

I have a loop that I iterate through in my view. <% coll.each do |itm| puts(itm.value) end %> How do I render the itm.value without using a <%= %> tag? Should puts not work? Joerg P.S. There is a good enough reason for me wanting to do this :-) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is an informal poll. If you are primarily a Ruby programmer, - What was your primary language before you started coding in Ruby? Else, - What''s your current programming language of choice? I''ll start: Perl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hello. first things first - I am new to ruby on rails (ruby, too), so I''m figuring this is just a basic newbie error. I''m creating a basic photography website. And I have two tables with a relationship: photos: - id (set up as PK) - title - shutter - aperture - date - the_order ...etc photo_comments: - id (set up as a PK) - photos_id (set up as a FK) - author - date -

I''m having a problem getting this example from the book to work: class Cookbook attr_accessor :title, :author def initialize @recipes = [] end def method_missing(m, *args, &block) @recipes.send(m, *args, &block) end end cb = Cookbook.new cb << recipe_for_cake cb << recipe_for_chicken beef_dishes = cb.find_all {|recipes| recipe.main_ingredient ==

Hi All, I want to select a level of a factor variable from a dataset. I have the folowing data: dataset: use factor: month (use$month, levels=February, July) > use[1:5,] month registration use department size 1 February KKG151GP Y Safety 1.6 To select February I tried: > use[use$month=="February"] Error in "[.data.frame"(use, use$month ==

I''m using Rails-1.1.4 with Ruby-1.8.4 So let''s say I have 2 model classes: class Item has_and_belongs_to_many :things end class Thing has_and_belongs_to_many :items end i = Item.new i.things << Thing.new( :value => "Something").save i.things << Thing.new( :value => "Something Else" ).save i.save Fine, now I have two records in the