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Pragmatic Studio''s Advanced Ruby training is coming up next month (early registration ends soon!), and folks often ask what to expect in our advanced classes. You might also be wondering how Rails developers will benefit from attending this public class. So I asked Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler (the instructors) to share a few of their thoughts on the Advanced Ruby class in this short

Hi Folks - Just a quick reminder before the end of the year... We have a new Ruby Studio coming up on February 27-29th, taught by Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. They''ll help you get up to speed on object-oriented programming with Ruby. It''s an ideal course if you''re new to the language, need a comprehensive refresher, or plan to start a Rails project. Speaking of

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

ENTERPRISE RUBY STUDIO Announcing a new offering from Pragmatic Studio: An Enterprise Ruby Studio to be held September 11-13 in Boston, MA. Learn how to use the power and expressiveness of Ruby, and how to use it as your enterprise "glue." ------------------------------------- Use Ruby for Enterprise Software Development ------------------------------------- Enterprise

In two weeks, Dave Thomas will be in Pasadena doing a three-day Rails workshop. I''m about to sign up for it. I figure three intense days with Dave and a few dozen other Rails developers will produce huge learning leaps for me. Then it occurred to me that it might be useful to ask the list if anyone has attended one of these workshops before and, if so, how valuable you found

Hi everyone -- My .sig has said so for a while, but I thought I would directly announce two Rails training courses from Ruby Power and Light, coming up in Florida in January, both in Fort Lauderdaler Intro to Ruby on Rails, January 12-15 Advancing with Rails, January 19-22 I''m teaching "Intro", and "Advancing" will be co-taught by me and Patrick Ewing. The

Hi Folks, We''ve just uploaded the third beta revision of the Advanced Rails Recipes PDF: http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr To get your updated PDF, simply sign in to your account (http:// pragprog.com/my_account) and ask the system to regenerate it. This revision adds 14 new recipes (81 total) from some of the top developers in the community: * Process Recurring Credit Card

Gentle Web Development Folk: Just in time for RailsConf, I''m happy to announce Jeremy Sydik''s book, "The Accessible Web", is now available in beta. This is particularly sweet as Jeremy and I first discussed this book in the hallways of last year''s conference. This book is all about making your website accessible web sites-- sites that can easily be used

Hi Folks, Apologies in advance for the blatant advertisement. Just thought you might be interested in our new regional Ruby/Rails conference series. The first will take place on November 16-18 in Denver, CO. http://therailsedge.com -------------------- What''s It About? -------------------- You all know that Rails and Ruby are on the move. Every month brings new tools, new

One of the things that I''m most excited to have as part of the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf is the second Alternative Ruby Implementors'' Summit and Panel -- I wrote a bit more about it here: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/01/mountainwest-rubyconf-implementors.html The rest of the speakers and talks are listed here: http://mtnwestruby.org/speakers/ If you''re interested

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

Hi All, Pragmatic Dave Thomas tells me that Rails Recipes (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr) is now shipping! He and Andy apparently have over a ton of books to deliver. If you''ve ordered a paper book, it''s soon on the way. If you''ve been waiting, now''s the time. Amazon is also has the book in stock

Hi everyone -- I''m very pleased to announce the following upcoming training course: ADVANCING WITH RAILS July 21-24 Edison, NJ "Advancing With Rails" is a course for intermediate Rails programmers who want to get to the next level with both their Ruby knowledge and their Rails skillset. Topics include routing and REST, advanced ActiveRecord associations, caching,

Folks: For your cooking pleasure, I''m happy to announce that Chef Fowler has added eight new recipes to his book: * DRY Up Your Database Config * Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations * Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry * Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty) * Syndicate Your Site With RSS * Handling Bounced Email * Dynamic Database Configuration * Quickly Inspect Your

I noticed a pointer to this in some RSS feed today. "Agile Web Development with Rails", release date July 4, 2005. http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html Once you''ve got an ISBN and a title, you''re halfway there. :-) How soon can we pre-order?

I''m working my way through the Pragmatic Programmer book on RoR. Following their examples, I have the following code in a controller: begin @product = Product.find(params[:id]) rescue flash[:notice] = "Invalid product" logger.error("Attempt to access invalid product #{params[:id]}") redirect_to :action => :index else @cart = find_cart

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

Folks: Sorry for the commercial, but I''m excited about this one. I''ve been using TextMate for most of my work for a year now---if you''re on a Mac, it really is the best tool for writing Rails code. So when James Edward Gray II offered to write a book on TextMate, I jumped at it. James helps maintain the Ruby support in TextMate, and this knowledge comes

Hi All - I looked for mention of this in the archives but wasn''t able to find anything. This isn''t even an advanced routing question, it should be a dirt-simple, basic, no-brainer, routine routing job. But I''m not getting it! I have a Linux iptables based firewall system that is making me crazy. The gist of the problem is, even when I turn off all firewall rules

Hello, I am using rails 1.0 and I have following questions. Please help me. [1] How can I do logging in the rails models? I checked the wiki but didn''t find anything which I explained how to do logging in models. [2] Say I have a certain model, when I declare a function in the model, and try to use that function from a view or a unit test, I get an error. For views the error occurs