similar to: new article up at Linux Journal

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

Hey All, very simple question for you folks ;) I have a @commutes object that for each record there is a bit value set (0/1) to denote if an accident occurred. What I want to do is have it display "Yes" or "No" when I view the listing of commutes. I can get it to display the bit value just fine with <%= commute.accident %> but how can I get it so that when a record with

i was looking through the typo code and see that all of the administrative controllers and views are placed in another subfolder. i tried just moving the files just for kicks and it didn''t work (didin''t really expect it to, but it was worth a shot.) so how do you set something up like that? i tried looking in the routes.rb file, but i''im not sure what''s in

I have this challenge of converting a bit of html into an image file and then shrinking it into a thumbnail. The shrinking part shouldn''t be too bad, but what advice can you give on converting the html to the image? My thinking is that I will need to convert it to postscript or latex and then convert it to an image from there. Is there an easier / better approach? Michael

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

For anybody who didn't know there is an article on asterisk in February's Linux Journal. AJ

Hiall, Is it possible to find out the value for the id field of any record before it was actually saved, i.e. if new_record? returns true? To motivate this: I have a parent model which should not exists alone but needs a few other (child) models to be initialized whenever a new record of parent is instantiated. Needless to say, the child models need the id of the parent model as foreign key. I

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

I have a div with a border around it. I use link_to_remote to change the content, and the border size doubles. Example: <div id="test" style="border:solid; border-width:5px"> <%= link_to_remote("Test", :update => "test", :url => { :controller => "tester", :action => "test" }) %> </div> Even stranger, if I

Here is the list of Ruby related projects accepted for GSoC. It includes two very similar projects (seemingly the same project, really, but I''m not saying anything ;) ) using RSpec to build a spec suite for implementations of the Ruby language: http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html I''m, personally, very excited about the implications of this. Thanks to all of you who use,

All of a sudden I have a wierd error when running script/server on a Windows XP box. Webrick is failing with a bad file descriptor error. I''m sure it''s conflicting with something in my enviornment, but I cannot figure out what. I googled the issue and haven''t been able to find any answer for it. Although, I did find a workaround. If I''m using a port above

I''m preety new at RoR (and programming), I tried a few tutorials, and really like the RoR simplicity, but my knowledge of the framework still isn''t very good (to be true, i understand the basics, but not everything that''s in the tutorials). But still I''d like to create a website which has: - front end interface (with no edit functions) - admin interface

Hi all, I was just made aware of this: <http://www.codeigniter.com> I wonder where the inspiration comes from? Lots of very similar concepts there ;) I''ve only watched the intro movie so far, but very interesting. jt

Hi. When you have library foo.rb in your Rails project /lib directory, I notice that on some platforms - e.g. Windows with WEBrick as a server - you can require it by simply: require ''lib/foo'' However on other platforms - e.g. Debian with Lighttpd server via FastCGI - this does not work, and you need to specify RAILS_ROOT explicitly, like this: require

Native ERB in ruby, and eruby, seem to lack the -%> feature for suppressing trailing newlines. Thus erb -n script gives errors. Where is Rails ERB so I can invoke it directly? Thank you Hugh

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

OK, so for most of my career, I''ve done everything on an hourly rate. Recently somebody kind of pointed out that if you bill by the milestone you can work on multiple projects simultaneously without any ethical problems, so you get increased efficiency. Does anyone have any good advice/URLs/books on how to do cost estimates on a project? I''ve really always kind of avoided the

Hiall, When I try to run script/console from a windows command line like f:\rails_app\ruby script\console I get the following error: F:/Programme/Ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__'': no such file to load -- initializer (LoadError) from F:/Programme/Ruby-1.8.4/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require''