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Well, the worm has turned and I think I may actually get an Apple ;P. But I can''t decide which one. Pros and cons: 14" iBook: + modem (for when broadband kicks out, or on the road and there''s no WIFI) + screen is probably big enough (though I currently have a 15" Dell) + doesn''t get as hot as the MacBook + almost half the cost + less likely to get stolen -

How many people out there are doing Rails development on a Mac Mini? I''ve been eyeing up the MacBook as well as the new MacMini trying to decide if I want to splurge. I''ve been doing very little Rails development thus far which makes the investment a little hard to justify. The Free Mini Mac ( http://minimacs.freepay.com/?r=16778073) offer seems like the best route but

Hello, First and foremost sorry for off topic message, but I thought maybe you smart guys can help me to decide about purchasing a MacBook or not. I was going to buy a MacBook but I found a story on digg.com about case discoloring and after googling the subject I found MacBook defects: http://www.appledefects.com/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook_Pro I''m totally confused, should I buy it?

I might be buying a Mac tomorrow. I checked out the new 13.3in MacBook at the new Apple Store on 5th ave in NYC. I''m torn between the smaller MacBook and the MacBook Pro. We have a pro at work and I''m not that thrilled with the way it feels. I like the keyboard much better on the 13inch. However, I think doing development on that small of a screen could get frustrating. Any

This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I am going to install linux on. Is there a better, worse, or perhaps easier (I am a linux newby migrating from mac) distribution that I should look at. I appreciate your help. I didn't post this in the sig-mac because I don't know if it fits there better

Can anyone tell me how to add routes from plugin? I know it is possible because of this changeset: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/2967 but i didn''t find way how to do it. retro -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

My first computer was a Mac (SE30) but it was also my last so I am not without appreciation of Apples wonderful aptitude for design. Without starting a flame-fest why do so many ruby and rails developers use a Mac ? It seems to be a commonality within the ruby and RoR community. Especially laptops. The first ruby users group meeting I attended was about 50% Macs (or so it seemed to me - I

Hi All, Just a quick note to say that I''ve released an intial version of the request routing plugin which essentially allows you to use various request object properties as requirements in routes. Most notably you can do: map.connect "thing", :controller => ''main'', :requirements => { :subdomain => ''whatever'' } ..just like the wiki

Hi, I downloaded the unobtrusive_javascript pluing from this link (http://www.lukeredpath.co.uk/index.php/2006/06/06/introducing-unobtrusive-javascript-for-rails/) since I needed to have dynamic content in javascript (for a pop-up menu). Unfortunately I have been unable to make the plugin work. I followed the instructions on the website, but for some reason the javascript doesn?t work (for

I''ve looked at the validates documentation and it appears that validates_uniqueness_of works on only one field at a time. So I can, for example, validate that "sam" is unique to the record set, and that "smith" is unique to the record set. My problem is that each record includes two fields, the _combination_ of which must be unique to the record set, but each of

Am i a total idiot to try and parse out a rails object for javascript in this way? <% for i in interface_items[0].attributes %> var <%= i[0] %> = "<%=h( i[1] )%>" <% end %> Am I missing something really obvious? Thanks, Mark -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Mark Daggett and I approve this message.

Hi, I''m looking into write scaffold generators that will, amoung other things, scaffold active record associations (eg. generate select boxes for belongs_to where you can choose a parent object) for quicker prototyping. But... My question is: Is there anyway of finding out what associations exist from examining the lodel classes themselves or indeed any other way of finding out this

Hi All, We have a PHP site running on apache 1.3 and Im trying to graft typo onto it at /blog/. Ive got the running using the symlink method but apache/fastcgi are clunky to say the least so I want to move typo over to lighttpd. Ive got this all working and Im now trying to get a proxy working through from apache. Im using this: RewriteRule ^/blog/?(.*)$ http://blog.myorg.net:8080/$1 [P]

I need to implement a conditional in my RJS template which looks something like: if (page.select(''row1'').first != null) page << "new TableRow.MoveAfter(''row1'', ''newrow'');" else page << "new TableRow.MoveAfter(''row2'', ''newrow'');" end Now, dumb question.. My

Hi Everyone, Sorry for the inflamatory title, just trying to get your attention. Ive been thinking alot about the JavaScript helpers and I''ve written my thoughts on my companies blog if any of you are interested: http://www.vivabit.com/bollocks/2006/02/09/rails-is-the-devil-in-your-client-side-shoulder I know people have brought this up a number of times but I really think it needs

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Raleigh area Ruby users Meetup. It was very interesting and very informative. I did feel a bit out of place when we noticed that of the 11-12 people there, I was the only one with a PC laptop. The rest were shiny macs. Ah well, I need to replace this thing soon, and now that BootCamp is out, I really have no more excuses. This way I can test

Anyone have any positive or negative experiences trying to get Dojo to play nicely with Rails / Prototype / Scriptaculous? Would people recommend it? Recommend against it? Why? Thanks, Brad

For what I know you can''t use the TM bundles... But like mgutz pointed there''s a lot of plugins. There is some alternatives to achieve something like TM bundles. Look at this links: - GMate - http://github.com/lexrupy/gmate/ (http:// alexandredasilva.wordpress.com/gmate/) - gedit-rails - http://github.com/mig/gedit-rails/ Think that GMate is the most complete. I use these as

I got a Powerbook recently and am debating buying TextMate. I installed the trial and have checked it out, but don''t see what''s so great about it. AFAICS it''s the Ruby and Rails macros for expansion and other stuff that might be it. Other than that, TextMate seems like a pretty basic editor. I currently use PSPad and Editplus, and I could probably get/make macros

Hi All, Got a bit of a Ruby question for you. If I have a function that makes a proc object like this: def select(selector, &proc) el = Element.new el.instance_eval proc end select("#thing") do hide end Wat I want to do is evaluate the Proc in the context of el but this doesn''t work because instance_eval accepts a string or a block and not a Proc object. I sense