similar to: Another Rails blog entry out of Apress

Over at the APress group Blog, Christian Gross has picked up the Slashdot article on the maintainability of RoR. He''s pretty neutral, but doesn''t seem to have the full picture in front of him either. Have a read at: http://ablog.apress.com/?p=824#comments Then, if you feel so moved, leave a comment. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Apress (www.apress.com) has announced one RoR book and mentioned that more are coming. Blog Announcement: http://ablog.apress.com/?p=1116 Beginning Ruby Programming Book Website: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10124 Hearkening back to the ruby-talk discussion of Linux Journal''s choice of authors, I''ll note that I don''t recognize David Rupp, the

Michael Stahnke, over at the Apress group blog, calls Rails ''What to watch Next Year'' and says that it''s his ''favorite web development since PHP 5 was released.'' Full content of the post is at: http://ablog.apress.com/?p=837#more-837 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

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

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

I''m building an app that needs i18n support across the entire database (i.e. localized attributes). In order to do this I''ve created a special HABTM join table that can be associated with _any_ other table: create table language_strings ( for_table varchar(255) not null, foreign_id int not null, language_id varchar(5) not null, attr_name varchar(255) not null, value text

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''m sure there''s something right under my nose that I''m missing. I have two tables with two parallel one-to-many relationships. I wish to use the :finder_sql parameter to essentially ''or'' the two foreign keys. What isn''t working for me is performing a ''sub-search''. Let''s say the tables are "stores" and

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

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

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

So... "Beginning Rails 3" is supposedly due Sept 2009 http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430224334 "Rails 3 in Action" is due February 2010 (est.) http://www.manning.com/katz/ ... can we assume a beta release of Rails 3 is very close? Would like to invest in Rails 3 :)

deeper still looks like culprit was fts_enforced = "no" which i removed given default anyway .. still get error [root at stargate dovecot.rawlog]# doveadm search -u matt at the-bryants.net mailbox .EXPUNGED/* from noreply at apress.com doveadm(matt at the-bryants.net): Error: fts: Failed to sync mailbox .EXPUNGED: Mailbox doesn't exist: .EXPUNGED 6156a416748c035b5c0b0000ef794dd1

Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for documentation about the specificities of RHEL/CentOS 7.x. It can be either online or in printed book format, and I'm fluent in german, french and english. I have a good books about 5.x: "RHEL 5 Unleashed" from Sams, "Foundations of CentOS Linux" and "The Definitive Guide to CentOS", both from Apress. Can anyone

<http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10368> Came across this as a stub page browsing Amazon UK. This is good news! I''m surprised it hasn''t been discussed on the list before. Was Chad keeping it a secret? I hope it will have plenty of BDD theory. I''m still waiting for that magic book I can give to someone and say "here - read this, it

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

Hello everyone, I''ve decided to take the step into creating a mini-forum for my website where users can open new posts on exixting topics and allow people to discuss things etc... I am following a tutorial in the book: APRESS - Practical Rails Social Networking Sites and have hit a minor issue. Part of the Forum requirements is to add a moderator role to allow only certain individuals

I have a people table: CREATE TABLE people ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, first_name varchar(75) default NULL, middle_name varchar(75) default NULL, last_name varchar(75) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1272 ; and a people_people table: CREATE TABLE people_people ( person_id int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,

JtestR allows you to test your Java code with Ruby frameworks. Homepage: http://jtestr.codehaus.org Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jtestr JtestR 0.1 is the first public release of the JtestR testing tool. JtestR integrates JRuby with several Ruby frameworks to allow painless testing of Java code, using RSpec, Test/Unit, dust and Mocha. Features: - Integrates with Ant and Maven - Includes

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