similar to: Review of Ruby For Rails Chapter 3

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.

Hi all, I was a client site today on another project and we started talking about RoR. I wanted to show it in action, so I downloaded the one-click Ruby installer for Windows and then tried to do "gem install Rails -include-dependencies". After a time-out period I received the following error: ERROR: While executing gem.(Gem::RemoteSourceException) Error fetching remote gem

I''m having a silly little problem with migrations.  All I''m trying to do is to add an SSN column to my Employees table.  I generated a migration which looks like: class AddSsn < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up     add_column :employees, :ssn, :string end def self.down     remove_column :employees, :ssn   end end When I run this, however, I get: >rake

Hi all, The Rails book talks about running Rails under Apache, but is there a (relatively) easy way to deploy it to either Tomcat or JBoss? Is the CGI servlet the only option? Thanks, Ken -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc. <http://www.kousenit.com> http://www.kousenit.com <mailto:ken.kousen@kousenit.com> ken.kousen@kousenit.com

For those haven''t seen it yet, Patrick Peak has an interesting article at the Server Side (www.theserverside.com) discussing the differences between the Hibernate (www.hibernate.org) peristence framework and ActiveRecord.  The article can be found here: http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate .  Patrick Peak is the author of _Hibernate Quickly_ (Manning), which

A client of mine has a ton of data stored in Excel spreadsheets. I''m building a web application for her (backed by a real db of course) and want to import all that data. Is there a library available to read data from Excel? Is there an easy way to upload the spreadsheets and then read the data? Thanks, Ken Kousen -- Kenneth A. Kousen, Ph.D. President Kousen IT, Inc.

Has a decision been made about the proper way to transfer RailsConf tickets from one person to another?  I didn''t see anything on the RailsConf site and the wiki just leads to the regular RoR wiki. It turns out a client of mine needs me that week.  I don''t mean to clutter the discussions here with that, but I don''t know of any other forum. Ken -- Kenneth A. Kousen,

Dear All, Over the past week or so, I have spent some time updating Tom Rhodes' excellent FreeBSD Handbook chapter on Audit for some of the more recent audit changes, such as new features in more recent OpenBSM versions. Since FreeBSD 6.2-BETA2 contains what is likely the final drop of the audit code (modulo any bug fixes) for 6.2-RELEASE, now would be a great time for people interested

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

Hallo again! Some month ago we discussed about the Vorbis Comment Chapter Extension: http://wiki.xiph.org/Chapter_Extension I got some critics about this specification, especially from the VLC developers: see https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6895 Some parts of it: <cite> This specification allows holes between chapters and allows overlapping chapters... And does not explain what to

ANNOUNCING AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT WITH RAILS, SECOND EDITION =========================================================== http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails2/ Rails has changed a lot since we announced the first edition of the book a year ago. DHH says that the 1.1 release "boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors." Who are we to

I want to build an application that has the concept of administrative domains. What I mean by this is that administrators have access to different data, based on what domains they are a member of. The domain strucutre is hierarchical. Here is an example: - MLB - AL - East - Yankees - Red Sox ... + Central + West - NL + East + Central + West Now

Hello to all who have helped me on this topic, first I need to apologize for apparently replying only now... In fact I use the "Pan" Newsreader to read the list, and I posted a reply to the thread a week after your suggestions through Pan, and I only now realised that the posting never arrived on the list although Pan gave me no error message at all! So, let me try again using the good

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 10:54:43 +0100, Alan Swanson <swanson@uklinux.net> wrote: >Useful for long files, eg from live recordings, interviews, stories, >plays and so on. I was thinking something along the lines of; > >comment[x]="CHAPTER=00:12:13 Third chapter" >comment[x+1]="CHAPTER=00:13:56 Fourth chapter" This is another case where a non-time specific block

Dear Samba & Users. I have spent some time going over the documentation, however I still no not fully understand what the cause is. I am focusing on Samba 3 by Example chapter 5 & 6 specifically Chapter 5 smbpasswd -w 123456 [root@node1 data]# smbpasswd -w 123456 Setting stored password for "cn=Manager,dc=ddesign,dc=com" in secrets.tdb Chapter 6 indicates in the smb.conf to

Hello list! Since it is more and more common these days to create enhanced podcasts (= audio files with additional chapter markers [1]), I am searching for an alternative to the currently used MP4 format. ID3 also puplished an official standard for chapters [2], but nobody seems to use and support it. Now I am trying to get something similar with vorbis audio (and maybe an additional

Well I am glad that there has been alot of input on this topic, alot of people are having different opinions but that is because we are not focusing with the problem at hand. The documentation provides full details on how to get samba + ldap working from scratch; but there seems to be a gap between chapter 5 & 6; Once again I will say I love this book; by far the best technical reference

Could someone who is familiar with the book "Samba-3 HOWTO and reference guide and who is also familiar with printer setup please give me some advice... I am summarising the procedure for setting up a printer for automatic driver download which is described in chapter 17. There are a couple of processes mentioned that look very similar and I am wondering if both steps are required for

Hi all, I am the autor of "toc2audio" software <https://docs.jcea.es/toc2audio/>, to add chapters to audio files. I plan to add podcast shownotes also inside the audio file, but I wonder if there is some kind of standard beside repeating a "comment=" tag per line in the comment header. Talking about that, I would be like to be able to add and an image per audio

Hi all, I am the autor of "toc2audio" software <https://docs.jcea.es/toc2audio/>, to add chapters to audio files. I plan to add podcast shownotes also inside the audio file, but I wonder if there is some kind of standard beside repeating a "comment=" tag per line in the comment header. Talking about that, I would be like to be able to add and an image per audio