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Hi all, On theserverside.com there is an article describing an interview with Bruce Tate, where he calls Java dead like Cobol. See: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39066 However in the comments, some guy comes up with a good point: He states the following: <quote> I couldn''t come up with a viable enterprise quality/grade deployment platform for RoR. Even

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 &lt; 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: &gt;rake

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.

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

Hi, I''ve started reading some Java books. Gasp! What makes website development with Java so bad? I haven''t looked at Struts but I''m reading about Hibernate. Compared to ActiveRecord, Hibernate seems like some extra typing to explicitly define the model fields, getters and setters. I know that these are things that you can do in ActiveRecord when things get complicated

Here''s my review of Chapter 3: As the author says, this is a transitional chapter. The first chapter was an introduction to Ruby, and the second was a similar introduction to Rails. Now we begin the real purpose of the book, which is to dig into the Ruby behind the Rails. Periodically the question arises on this list about how much Ruby you need to know in order to do Rails.

Hi, As a long time Java/J2EE exponent I wanted to give Rails a fair crack of the whip and after we evaluated it for several weeks I have to say I like it. The installation process for the base system/framework is straightforward on the two platforms we''ve tried (Windows and Mac OS X). However, the charting components available, relying on ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick seem less clear

Hi, We're running some web apps on CentOS 6 on Tomcat 6 shipped by the distribution. As time goes by we'd like to move on to CentOS 8 and Tomcat 9 or whatever is appropriate. My question is, what do others use now that Tomcat is not shipped anymore with CentOS? Do you run some JBoss/WildFly instead or still running Tomcat? And, how do you install/manage those installations. Do you

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

I''ll pose a question partly for fun, partly out of interest to see what everyone else is doing to survive the pain of the day job. It''s for the professional J2EE developer converts out there. Let''s say someone hired you to write a Basecamp clone, but it has to be done in Java, say on the Tomcat or JBoss platform. What does your stack look like now that you''ve

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

All, Just musing about this whole FastCGI thing (that I hadn''t even thought of since 1999 when looking at OpenMarket for a customer and even then it was "old"), and wondering when we might see projects/products that attempt to provide Ruby application services in a J2EE-like container. I see the Cerise project - any interesting information on that? I''m assuming

I have been frustrated with J2EE technology just like any other developer who has worked in that technology for a long time. This made me learn about Rails and I was excited about RoR. Today I came across JBoss Seam framework and I am not able to contain my excitement. My passion for JEE development is back. It seems like it is better than RoR. I would like to hear differnt opinions about this

I am writing a small script to kill process(es) listening on particular port number. Here I am particularly looking at Java servlet-containers like Tomcat and JBoss, which sometimes don't complete their shutdown process and it still shows up as running process with ps or netstat. This needs to be kill-ed and for that knowing pid of that process is necessary. The netstat by default doesn't

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.

Here''s something that caused me a couple of hours of head-scratching today: Apparently, if your model doesn''t derive from ActiveRecord, it is NOT reloaded for each operation in the development environment. I was working with something that uses a single model per session, and stores its data in the session. I kept wondering why I didn''t see my changes. Finally, I

Hi I am try to write rpm spec for install tomcat on a linux machine.But while build the rpm i found following error + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id /home/rpmbuild/BUILD/Install_tomcat-1.0 extracting debug info from /home/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/Install_tomcat-1.0-1.el6.x86_64/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_13/lib/visualvm/profiler/lib/deployed/jdk16/linux-amd64/libprofilerinterface.so ***

I know that the prototype library was paired with Rails but I''m curious if anyone has used the ajax part (of the libraries) with java servlets? If so could you please point me to some examples or documentation. Cheers, Marty

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,