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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 -------------------------

I''ve looked for DIFF tools for OSX but haven''t found anything good yet. Tried guiffy (http://www.guiffy.com) but it''s very slow and the folder comparison doesn''t indicate a change until you drill down to the level with the difference which kinda defeats the purpose. I''m missing TortoiseSVN and the diff tool that comes with it. Any suggestions for

I''m trying to get capistrano to deploy to an osx machine - rake remote:cold_deploy but it fails on the svn co line with "bash: line 2: svn: command not found" I''ve set the proper path to svn (/usr/local/bin) in both .bash_profile and .bash_login but capistrano seems to be ignoring these. How does capistrano know where to look for svn? Thanks

I''m building a feature for my app which allows the admin to compose an email and send it to a list of registered users (~1000). What is the best method for doing this? Should I create one email and BCC all the recipients? Is there a limit to how many recipients can be included in one email? or Should I send the same email to individual users? In the past I''ve had problems

I have to do user authentication for a project i''m working on. The trick is they want me to use the existing LDAP database for it. Does anyone know how to authenticate using LDAP in RoR? ~Rahul

Hi, Love Rails... I''m looking for a Production Quality Server that brings the same ease of use as Rails does to web development. I''ve tried TextDrive, and never got it to work. I''m sure there are good reasons why it didn''t work but they are beyond me. I''ve contacted tech support there several times, and it seems that there are so many setups that

Anyone had success at this? Even if I manually download the 1.1 gem file, the "gem install rails" command gives me "ERROR: Error installing gem rails[.gem]: rails requires activesupport = 1.3.0" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

To the subversion experts out there: I''d like to set up svn to maintain customizations to my base app for each client. A simple example would be to have a base CSS file and a custom one for each client. What is the best way to set up svn so I can ''co'' the trunc and then ''co'' customizations for each client on top of the base code. I''ve looked

Hi -- My book "Ruby for Rails" is now being released one chapter at a time through the Manning Early Access Program, with the whole book due to appear on May 1. If you''re interested, see http://www.manning.com/books/black (I guess I could have just sent my sig with no body, but anyway :-) David -- David A. Black (dblack@wobblini.net) Ruby Power and Light

Subject says it all. Anybody taken a look yet? http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/railsckbk/?CMP=ILC-GG7423313304&ATT=railsckbk After buying the Ruby Cookbook and the other Rails book, I''m pretty gunshy about another Rough Cuts purchase. Sean

I am serializing a data object (FooData) into an ActiveRecord column (Foo). I''d like to be able to do delegate methods to the data class if the Foo class doesn''t have that attribute. So instead of: f = Foo.new f.data.item1 I''d like to do: f = Foo.new f.item1 I was hoping that I could add a method_missing method to my Foo class and call methods in the FooData class

Hi, I''m a rails newbie in need for some help. I''d like to replace a dropdown on a form with a pop-up window where I can search for a record and then return the selected id for the original form. Is there anything like this available in rails? Does anyone have a tip? Thanks, Gabriel. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I need to create a number of multi-step forms for creating models. Currently i''m looking at http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/277 As a solution. Are there any other methods you guys would recommend? Are there any reusable (dry) methods of creating multiple multi-step forms? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hello I want to do like the below code name=[''net'',''gross'',''amount''] avail= Avail.find(1) return avail.name[0] but it gets error I want to give " avail.name[0] " like this, rather than avail.net directly, can u guys plz help me, how to do this plz explain with code advance thx have a pleasant day narayana --

Is there anywhere that I can download the Ruby/Rails documentation & APIs so I can peruse it offline at leisure? I only have a dialup connection at home and going online all the time to access important documentation like that is a bit of a pain. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve created a simple script (below) which calls the effect.appear script in order to make a group of items appear at the page load. I would like to have the images randomly appear at different times; e.g. the 3rd image might start appearing 2 seconds after load, the 6th image immediately after load, the first image 1 second after load, etc... How can I achieve this affect? ---

Make your models feel like they are in high school again. This plugin retrieves the most frequently occurring values for each column. It adds methods of the form most_popular_[pluralized_column_name]. Check out <http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/08/04/acts-as-most-popular-rails-plugin> for sample usage. The plugin is mostly just a group_by in disguise. It is probably overkill if you

As others have mentioned, Chapter 4 of David A. Black''s book _Ruby for Rails_ is now available for download from the Manning site. The fact that the book is being released one chapter at a time makes it easy to read in small, digestible chunks. I never intended to review every chapter individually here, but now that I''ve done the first three, I feel like I ought to continue.

Just a heads up, Manning has released chapter 3 of the Ruby for Rails book. I hadn''t saw it come across the list yet so I thought I would say something. If you haven''t got it yet, I''ll give it a recommendation. I''ve found it very interesting thus far.

I''m getting this error when I try to update a list using ajax after submitting some data: undefined method `time_ago_in_words'' for #<IdeaController:0x3a38ae8> the LOC is this: render_text "<li>" + @params[:idea][:title] + "<br />by " + @params[:idea][:author] + " | " & time_ago_in_words(Time.now) & " ago | " +