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We are extremely pleased to announce that we have finalized the schedule (http://canadaonrails.com/yvr06-schedule.html) for the upcoming Ruby on Rails conference in Vancouver, BC on April 13th - 14th, 2006. There are 15 speakers packed into two full days of presentations ranging from 30 minutes to 90 minute keynotes. Presentation topics include: * Where will Rails be riding next? * Enterprise

Canada on Rails presents, Riding the Rails Workshop on May 27th and 28th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is a two day intensive workshop for those eager to get into Ruby on Rails. Alex will drive you through the principles behind Ruby on Rails, such as MVC, convention over configuration, Code Generators, and the other core principles driving Ruby on Rails to be the most celebrated technology

First off, I want to send a huge thank you out to the UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering department for giving us a home for the next VanRuby _FREE_ mini-workshop! VanRuby (www.vanruby.com), the Vancouver Ruby Association, is holding our next meetup at the Kitsilano UBC campus on Wednesday, July 26th from 6:30pm to 9pm. The format for this event will be in a mini-workshop style. Lasting for

BCIT Downtown Campus[1] has been chosen, with a maximum capacity of 300 people. With already over 50% of the seats filled, be sure to register soon or you might miss out on one of the most exciting technical events to come to Vancouver. YVR06 will be twice the size of the last conference by Open Source Events[2] held last June, and with 4 times the amount of speakers, during the two days. All for

For those who are developing interfaces for entering dates, I recommend checking out a new package I just stuffed for Date inputs. You can check out http://datebox.inimit.com/ for a full demo. -Nb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nathaniel S. H. Brown http://nshb.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Excert from http://www.nshb.net/datebocks-2-0-0-released Woohoo!! Finally released the next generation of DateBocks (aka DateBox) v2.0.0. This was a long time coming, after its initial version release allll the way back in January, this is a nice edition to the popular tool I released before. This version is chalked full of features. Here is the cut out from the CHANGELOG == 2.0.0 - AUGUST 16,

This is pretty far off topic, but seeing as though it directly affects the upcoming Canada on Rails (http://canadaonrails.com) conference in April, I figure it kind of applies to Rails :) I need to find the best place to get discount tickets for the international speakers coming from Europe, and figure you guys would know where the best places are to get deals. I have checked klm.com, and

I have spent a couple hours researching the FerretOnRails and acts_as_ferret plugin, and am very pleased with what I see so far. My question is how to have my application, with multiple models: Speakers Talks News etc.. With all varying :string and :text column types, to be able to use a single index by which I can produce a search on. I will go through each of the models and add a

There was an old email thread from the end of January 2006 discussing regular expressions for matching URLs. I took some of the sample expressions and tweaked them a bit to the point where I think they are pretty useful. They pass all of my tests anyway. :-) For a reminder, here''s a sample message from that thread. My code is below it. On Jan 26, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Nathaniel S.

I get the following error using both edge version of the TM bundle and rspec/rspec-rails in vendor/plugins. /Users/nshb/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ RSpec.tmbundle/Support/lib/spec/mate.rb:2:in `require'': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError) from /Users/nshb/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/RSpec.tmbundle/Support/lib/spec/mate.rb:2 from

I have a RailsConf ticket available and am looking to sell it, as I won''t be able to make it out to Chicago as something has come up. Please email me off-list at nshb@inimit.com

For those that missed out joining the amazing turnout of ~70 people here in Vancouver for the mini-workshop I did on the 27th last month, I am making available the 30 slides I used for the presentation. The slides were used in conjunction with me demonstrating it via command line. Alot was learned by both attendees, and quite possibly even more so by myself while teaching the material. I created

After quite a bit of searching and coding, I customized an init.d/bash script which allows me to manage multiple instances of Lighttpd server running Rails. It targets the specific PID address instead of the default binary location when starting and stopping /usr/local/bin/lighttpd process. This provides the ability in my case to have multiple lighttpd.conf files running many different instances

= Description This plugin is a super lightweight tool used to export data into the test/fixtures directory. So if you want to export all your data from your production server into your development environment, this will simplify the process without having to load up your database manager. [%] rake db:fixtures:export_all RAILS_ENV=development [%] rake db:fixtures:load = INSTALLATION

I was looking at using the date helper functions for inputing a date for some records, and was highly disappointed to see that they will allow the entry of an invalid date such as Sept 31. It sure would be nice to see the days available change based on the month selected so the user cannot enter an invalid date that must later be reentered. Does anyone know of a plugin or if anyone has

I am using EdgeRails, and have some of the plugin''s using gems such as Rmagick which are included through a command similar to "require_gems ''rmagick''". Curious how to handle such attempts at inclusion when I am no longer bound to the system gems and am using the code strictly within vendor/rails and such. Is there a way to point require_gems to another

Figured you guys might be interested in taking a peek at a project I have been working on for a client. TechIncentives is an SR&ED (government tax credit for Research & Development companies) organization specializing in assisting your organization receiving Canadian grants for your R&D work. I have since converted his Excel spreadsheet that had multiple tabs and some formulas

I have tried all night trying to find a way to get the host name which is currently being used within my routes.rb file to do some case/when switching for specific domains such as this cgi = ActionController::CgiRequest.new(CGI.new) case cgi.domain(1) when /www/ map.connect '''', :controller => ''public'', :action => ''index'' when

The new gem version dependency system from Rails 1.1.1 needed a few tweaks to work properly and to stop throwing meaningless warnings. This tiny release makes up for that. To install: * gem install rails * rake rails:update:configs (to get the latest config/boot.rb) This release also signals our new commitment to do more tiny releases from the stable branch, which only gets bug fixes. So it will

Job Description: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations based in Rome is seeking a talented statistician to join the Statistics division. We value people with technical skills, and in particular individuals who are able to translate numbers to actions and to make an impact on the world. In this role, you will be: -?? Developing R methods in collaboration with FAO