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Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

Yesterday I got the beta version of ROR recipes book and the recipes are great. For those of you still thinking about it, I highly recommend the book. The only thing I wish is that if there were some more recipes (greedy me), especially AJAX related and installing an application within your current application. For instance, it will be great to see how one can implement the typo blog

Hi All, Pragmatic Dave Thomas tells me that Rails Recipes (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr) is now shipping! He and Andy apparently have over a ton of books to deliver. If you''ve ordered a paper book, it''s soon on the way. If you''ve been waiting, now''s the time. Amazon is also has the book in stock

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years, and she just told me she has an STI... Actually, I currently have three different models, like: Dog, Whale, Monkey They all have some similar attributes, but, they are unique enough to break into their own models. I could use STI, but I think the table would just have too many columns. Now, I wanted to let the Dog''s, Whale''s

Folks: For your cooking pleasure, I''m happy to announce that Chef Fowler has added eight new recipes to his book: * DRY Up Your Database Config * Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations * Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry * Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty) * Syndicate Your Site With RSS * Handling Bounced Email * Dynamic Database Configuration * Quickly Inspect Your

I am using the SaltedHashLoginGenerator. and would like to send the e-mail in multipart/alternative format. By default my application is using forgot_password_en.rhtml template. I read in the ROR Recipes book "ActionMailer sees these templates, recognizes the pattern in their file names, and automatically sets the MIME type of the message to multipart/alternative and adds

I have the rails recipes book and i was going through the migrations recipe. Everything seemed to work except for the last part in trying to do a rake migrate with a migration file version 1 and the schema_info version set to 0. Without the force attribute, the rake migration fails, as expected. So the recipe says to run this: ruby script/runner

Hi Folks, We''ve just uploaded the third beta revision of the Advanced Rails Recipes PDF: http://pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr To get your updated PDF, simply sign in to your account (http:// pragprog.com/my_account) and ask the system to regenerate it. This revision adds 14 new recipes (81 total) from some of the top developers in the community: * Process Recurring Credit Card

Folks: The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book on writing real-world Rails, is now available. The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here''s the complete list. Part I--User Interface Recipes In-Place Form Editing Making Your Own JavaScript Helper Live Preview Live Search Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract) Update

Just in case some of you missed it, Pragmatic Programmers just published their first of a series of short, PDF-only books. This one is on qtRuby. It would be great to have something like this for wxRuby. I don''t think wxRuby is quite ready to this (yet), but I thought I''d plant the idea. Curt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com>

How to carry out log in, whether that is we enter a login and the password and it is checked is in a database? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

Hello Rubyists! We on the OSCON presentation committee wanted to remind you all that the deadline for proposals for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention is Midnight (PST) Feb 13. So you have the rest of this week and the weekend to get those talk proposals in! The talk proposal form is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/create/e_sess/ You can read more

Can anyone help me out with a SQL query to pull related entries based on tags? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am working on a small model mixin called attachment_kung to make attachment_fu polymorphic, so you no longer need a different table and Model class for every associated attachment (Productimage, Ad_doc, etc). All you really need is one model and table to handel all your attachments - in some cases, anyway. I have the code working, but have run into one small hitch that I can''t seem to

Hi there, I just bought the Rails Recipes and PDF preview of the book. So far it''s excellent. I decided to try Chapter 8 of the book regarding tagging. I''ve done migrations before, and I feel comfortable with them, however this error stumps me. -------------------------------------------------- antrover:~/RubyProjects/rlog dhoefler$ ruby script/generate migration

I saw this mentioned on Dave Thomas''s blog http://blogs.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/pragdave.cgi/Tech/Ruby/EIR.html and don''t remember having seen it announced on this mailing list. This new Beta Book is at http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_eir/index.html regards Justin

I''m an RJS newbie. I just did the tutorial at http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates, and then used wget to look at the output the RJS template generates. This is what I got: try { new Insertion.Bottom("list", "<li>Fox</li>"); new Effect.Highlight("list",{duration:1}); Element.update("header", "RJS

Hi folks, I see there are two books recommended on the RoR website. As usual I would like some recommendation from users on this matter. I am currently a .NET developer and familiar with a few languages outside of .NET. Which one of these books would be suitable for me to get started with end-to-end development? Or can someone perhaps recommend a different book they found useful? Many thanks,