similar to: Reminder Chad Fowler in London tonight

Chad Fowler gave two keynote presentations at CUSEC 2006 in January. The second one he gave was entitled "Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy" and is available through the SOENlive podcast. For those handful who might of not heard of Chad Fowler yet, he is the author of "Rails Recipes" which is presently available as a beta book. (Great book, you should get it out)

The London Ruby Group is having a meet up on April 10th. Chad Fowler is planning to attend and perhaps give a brief talk. Details are here: http://upcoming.org/event/67108/ please sign up if you''re planning to attend so we can get an idea of numbers. Thanks Tony -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

First a helper... Have a boolean field - on forms, it returns ''true'' or ''false'' It would be much nicer to have it say either ''yes'' or ''no'' is there a helper for this? Where do I find a list of helpers beyond Agile book? Secondly, plugins... I know that I am going to have to look at authentication mechanisms and

I''ve tried the following line in ruby script/console require ''digest/md5'' Both my Mac (Intel iMac) and my Windows box return "false"... Any ideas what could be wrong? I was trying to do the RoR Recipe on page 54 of Chad Fowler''s new (beta) book. -Mark -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

I''ve gone through Chad Fowler''s recipe for creating a drag and drop sortable list, and have been trying to extend this to a sortable tree. Has anyone come up with or seen code which allows drag and drop sorting (altering the position and parent_id variables of the relevant objects) but for data in a nested tree rather than a list form? - Justin

I was able to follow the search recipe in Chad Fowler''s upcoming book but I''m wondering if there is any sort of recipe/guide out there to actually perform the search once the auto-complete does its stuff. Anyone? It''s kind of hard to search for search.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

The second beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s killer book or writing real-world Rails, is now available. It features seven new recipes: * In Place Editing * Making Your Own JavaScript Helper * Many To Many With Attributes On The Relationship * Dealing With Time Zones * Living On The Edge * Making Your Own Rails Plugins (contributed by Rick Olson, aka technoweenie) * Polymorphic

Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

hello. i just checked Chad Fowler''s post "20 Rails Development No-No''s" and one guideline caught my attention. it says: "Nothing that looks at all like SQL should go into a controller, view, or helper." it really came as a surprise to me as Rails itself seems to go against such practice by its AR ''conditions'' option, which most of the times

Just a reminder, I'll be re-creating the 2.5 branch tonight at 9pm PST. -Tanya

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

On Monday 02 February 2009 13:20, Tanya M. Lattner wrote: > Just a reminder, I'll be re-creating the 2.5 branch tonight at 9pm PST. What does re-creating mean? Why can't the previously-created 2.5 branch simply be updated? I ask because svn history will look a little wierd and it makes it harder for third parties to track revisions and do merges.

> On Monday 02 February 2009 13:20, Tanya M. Lattner wrote: >> Just a reminder, I'll be re-creating the 2.5 branch tonight at 9pm PST. > > What does re-creating mean? Why can't the previously-created 2.5 branch > simply be updated? It means deleting the branch and creating a new one. > I ask because svn history will look a little wierd and it makes it harder for

In honor of RailsConf, I''m releasing an authorization plugin with 3 test apps that show you how to use the system. A reasonably lengthy description can be found here: http://www.writertopia.com/developers/authorization I will also be talking about the plugin''s architecture in my RailsConf talk on Saturday. Some features: - Nice English-like way of expressing permissions through

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

Hi folks, The Pragmatic Studio is happy to announce the next Rails Studio will be in Reston, VA on April 15-17. If you''re just getting into Rails, or need to get your team members up to speed quickly, this course is for you. In this hands-on workshop, you''ll learn directly from two experienced Rails developers and authors: Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. You''ll come away

Aloha! July 15th is the last day for proposals to present at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. Join Chad Fowler, Obie Fernandez, Gregg Pollack, Jim Weirich, Yehuda Katz, and many more at the premier destination event for Ruby on Rails! Aloha on Rails will be held in Waikiki, Hawaii on Oct 5-6, 2009. To learn more, and to submit your proposal, please visit

I read the 13th recipe in the book "Rails Recipes" from Chad Fowler. I install with gem the gruff-library (gem install gruff). After the installation, I download the "rmagick-win32-1.13.0_IM-6.2.9-3.zip" file and install it on my win32-machine. It was successfully! So, I create a controller with script/generate. In a method, which I wrote after the creation, I''ll make

Hi all, For those few of you in London and interested in an ad-hoc meetup, I''m planning on being at the Cheshire Cheese[1] at 6pm local time. I don''t expect to last long, being painfully jet lagged and all, but I''ll be there at least long enough for dinner and a pint or two. Note, also, that I''m giving a talk at GLLUG[2] tomorrow night. 1 -