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hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

Campers -- In a few weeks there will be a bunch of people in Portland, OR, for a conference. A long time ago some campers mentioned that might be a good time for us to get together and hold a mini CampingConf for a few hours. Is anyone interested? Does anyone want to organize it? I''m thinking Wednesday night, May 16. We could possibly get a spot at FreeGeek (not likely since they are

----------------------------------------------------- Announcing: jEdit Snippets for Ruby on Rails ----------------------------------------------------- I thought I''d "give a little back to the community" and whip up some SuperAbbrev files for ruby and rhtml that mimic all of the Textmate Rails bundle snippets. Note: This was totally inspired by Textmate and the syncPEOPLE

Dear all I need to obtain an estimate of the 50% lethal dose (LD50) from a logistic regression model obtained by applying the glm procedure to some binomial data. The model appears to fit the data very well. I used dope.p from MASS to try and find LD50. The following output appears: > dose.p(iso.glm.logit, cf = c(1,3), p = 1:3/4) Error in dose.p(iso.glm.logit, cf = c(1, 3), p = 1:3/4) :

Hi, I''ve been looking for a light weight alternative to rails for a few small projects, and just came across merb, which looks perfect. The only issue is that merb seems to be tied to mongrel, and I have to deploy to our internal infrastructure which uses FastCGI. How difficult would it be for me to modify merb to support a fcgi interface (actually a rack interface - rack is

Hello, I have a problem with accentued characters return from a textarea I have 3 simple files to show example ( below ). index.rhml : If I put "?nial" inside the textarea, then submit to :action => post post.rhml : wrote ?nial 195 "\303\251nial" // params[:comment][:message] return => ?nial params[:comment][:message][1] return => 195 ! ( 195 is not

Hello, I was talking with someone in IRC, trying to get one form with however many fields to make new rows. He worked with me on the controller, but then I didn''t get the help with the view I needed, and I''ve been trying to do it on my own. I''m uploading pictures to my Pictures table. As you know, I need a few fields for each picture. I''ll need the filename,

I need to use UTF-8 in my app and was wondering if Rails would support it properly. Some sites seem to be saying that it has weak internationalization support. Is this true? If so, where is the problem? What should I look out for? Are there tweaks, plugins or gems that fix the problem? TIA. David -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m getting into camping in a big way--I love that you can put together full-fledged apps with so little code and overhead. Does anyone know of any documentation about getting Camping apps running on Media Temple''s GridServer? Of course I''ve found the Camping server page[1], but I can''t work out how to associate running camping apps with a (sub)domain

Just saying hello and I''m looking forward to seeing all the cool camping stuff on this list. I''m just starting out with Ruby and have a long way to go. I hope that I can learn a lot here. Adam: sounds really interesting. _why: My condolences about those bruises. I assume they''re from the pelting you got on RedHanded a while back. Harsh. If it makes you feel any

All, As some of you know, Jeroen has added support for Unicode strings in the unstable development version of FOX (version 1.5). I''m trying to plan ahead to decide how best to support this for FXRuby 1.6, but I don''t really know anything about Ruby''s support for Unicode or i18n in general. If you''re familiar with this topic (how/if Ruby deals with Unicode

Every time I edit a particular page, a bit of javascript myseteriously shows up when I save it. After that, the page does not lie correctly, and the items at the end of the list are covered over by elements from the stylesheet. The script is as follows: <p>&nbsp; </p> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font

The content_tag helper allows you to do things like: content_tag(:p, "Hello world!") # => <p>Hello world!</p> It can take in blocks, for functionality like this: <% content_tag :div, :class => "strong" do -%> Hello world! <% end -%> # => <div class="strong"><p>Hello world!</p></div> Unfortunately blocks

Hello I made a quite simple ruby web app. It uses scrubyt and mysql to store results as cached results. The program is quite simple. It shows a form, you enter a value and the controller makes an external http call, parse the data and show the result for the user. But I have a problem. I have the requirement to let a ruby program from command line more or less run the same function that on web

Hello - Warning: newbie questions at 12 o'clock! I am looking at transitioning my house from a Panasonic KXT1232 to an asterisk-based PBX (*PBX). We currently have 5 CO lines and 16 extensions plus ADSL with a static IP. I have looked at the various docs, but find I still have some questions. 1. Interface cards a. Should I buy a T100P + channel bank? (BTW: Why isn't this

I'm wrestling with transitioning from a 1.0.15 system to a 2.2.25 system. The old dovecot.conf cannot be dropped into position on the new system because so many config options and symbols have changed. It seems every time I change something to match the new formats, I break something else! Anyone out there have maybe half an hour to spare to look at my old and new files to help me whip them

So, I'm in the process of transitioning our NT domain controllers over to Samba. I've never tried to get Samba to act as a full PDC before, so this is new territory for me. We still have a number of NT servers (not DC's) that have various directories owned by various NT groups and have various permissions referring to groups, which unfortunately have to remain NT. I currently

# HG changeset patch # User Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> # Date 1158780052 18000 # Node ID f7d90f962967a5a94fce0c04f8fcac449f36344f # Parent 041be3f6b38e05f904d240630c18cadb1259317b [XEND] Remove hard tabs. Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com> diff -r 041be3f6b38e -r f7d90f962967 tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py ---

Thomas Schwinge <thomas at schwinge.name> writes: > sizes?). Doing some light (read-only!) testing, it seems to work fine to > access the old 32-bit built Xapian "chert" database with 64-bit > notmuch/Xapian. Is that (a) generally safe and expected to work fine, > (b) there may be issues, or (c) don't do that, or don't know? > IIRC, Olly previously

Hi Chris, >I have since learned that mail_home and mail_location should be >different. I plan to use this: I'm interested about any sources for this ? I find dovecot to be very flexible, so much that you can actual have the home dir inside the maildir instead of the traditional other way around, which is actually my setup ! In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext userdb {