similar to: Ruby for Rails chapter 4 up now

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

Hi all, This is Steven with Manning Publications. I wanted to announce the launch of a new R book: R in Action by Rob Kabacoff. Rob was recently interviewed for this piece on Teradata about the growth of R into new fields and the future of R. The book gives thorough coverage of the R environment with dozens of practical examples of its uses. We're doing a one day 50% off deal on the

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

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,

Hi all: I have an application that runs great on my macbook pro, however, when I move the app to the production linux box, all routes fail except for the one I set up as the default: map.connect '':controller/:action/:id'', :controller => "Employee", :action => "status" I made sure the shebang line in dispatch.* was set to be OS independent

Hi all: I have been using lighttpd on os x with RoR. It normally works great, however, when I use it for one project, kill the process, then switch to another project and start up using ./script/server, all I get is a blank page. No errors or html. The only solution I have found so far is to restart my machine, but that seems terribly inneficient. How does everybody else handle this, or do you

I just checked the Manning website and chapter 2 of David Black''s Ruby for Rails is now available for download. Hammed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060214/d8f88893/attachment.html

Hello all: I am using RJS templates to replace html on my pages. It works great in FF but I get an RJS error in Internet Explorer. I believe I had it working previously in IE, but for some reason it''s not working now. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, -- Randy Schmidt x@altorg.com 267.334.6833

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

This is the first release of a new Ruby library for the www.bulksms.co.ukAPI which should allow simple integration of SMS functionality into your Ruby or Rails apps. Sending a message is as simple as: @service = Service.new(''username'', ''password'') @service.send_message(''This is my message!'', ''4479123456789'') # whats my

I have a template. In this template i refer to images by using <img src="images/image.gif">. I putted the images in the public/images folder. This works only for the base url, e.g. http://localhost:3000/category. When i make a new category like http://localhost:3000/category/new, the images arent displayed. When i go to the source of the page, and look to the image url it says

Hi all: I am considering using edge rails so I can use join tables. I want to use svn:externals to manage edge rails, however I want to understand it more before I go and set everything up. so everytime I commit my app it will pull the most recent version of rails from the svn repository, right? What if the current version of rails is unstable, is there a way to rollback edgerails and NOT my app?

Here is the list of Ruby related projects accepted for GSoC. It includes two very similar projects (seemingly the same project, really, but I''m not saying anything ;) ) using RSpec to build a spec suite for implementations of the Ruby language: http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html I''m, personally, very excited about the implications of this. Thanks to all of you who use,

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes but can't seem to find any solutions. It seems like folks either have the problem or they don't. We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both using dovecot). Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives numerous index errors. I then upgraded to

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

Hi guys, I was just over at the Zorin OS download pate at http://zorin-os.webs.com/download.htm. At the bottom of the page there is a small paragraph of disclaimers, including this: > You must also have a valid Microsoft Windows license to utilize the WINE Windows software runtime environment. If this is so, it's the first I've heard of it, and I've been running Wine for