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So I''ve sort of come to the conclusion that if I wanna get stuff done, I need to either A) Find some dang money and pay people to do it or B) Do it myself. I''m opting for B. Soooo...now I''ve got some programming/technologies to learn. I''m self-employed and I can afford to take a month (or 2) off to totally immerse myself in this and learn how to do it.

I just subscribed to this list and i just wanted to say hello before starting dumb questions about rails. I just started my programming career with a ruby''n''rails application here in italy and i could use some help, and in time, when i will be more skilled, i will be glad to give some help back ;) See you! -- Maurizio Marek idnondisponibile@tin.it

Hello Everyone - Newbie here. My programming experience is primarily SQL, SAS (if anyone knows that), and a little tiny bit of ASP. Want to get going on Rails. Any suggestions? Was thinking of "4 Days on Rails". Thoughts? Thanks - Brian

hi! with a 4GL background, wanting to learn RoR, what is the fastest learning path i should take? should i go grab a RoR tutorial, and learn Ruby along the way, or start with plain Ruby first? thanks for any inputs!

Right now, I am using SAS and S+/R. As a new year resolution, I am planning to learn a scripting language. from statisticians' point of view, which scripting language is worth to learn, perl, python, or any other recommendation? (Most likely, I will be learning it in windows.) Since I am not in research, I will prefer one widely used in industry and related to statistical work. if you

Hello, I''ll try to keep this short BUT, I''ve got little/no experience with programming. In fact, my only background is using Cold Fusion (since 1996 and VERY little of that for the past 5 years as I''ve been playing as a Manager-type at my jobs so I haven''t had to do any hands-on stuff for a while). My question: Would Ruby on Rails be a good platform to get

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,

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

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

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>

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

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, I am a java developer. I wanna learn Ruby on Rails. Can anyone suggest some good books on Ruby or some url where can I learn the basics of Ruby. Thanks, Prabhu. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2?/min or less. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I have experience in PHP/MySQL, but absolutely no experience at all in Ruby (and Rails) and would love to get a few quality books aimed at absolutley newbies. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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.

Hi all Guess it''s time for me to dig a bit deeper into the ruby language. Can you recommend some good starting books on ruby programming? Thanks. -- Med venlig hilsen Juri Rischel Jensen Fab:IT ApS Vesterbrogade 50 DK-1620 København Tlf: 70 202 407 / Fax: 33 313 640 www.fab-it.dk / juri@fab-it.dk

I am a newbie Ruby and RoR user. In my tests using the turorials that I found over the web, everthing is working fine and I am very impressed about RoR framework. As I am a Delphi developer, without any web development experience, There is some thing hard to understando and I didn''t find a tutorial about this. I wonder how to create a non-scaffold page ? I have customers,

Hello, Can someone kindly tell what the heck creating a relationship does in active record? I understand the idea of joining the tables and such. But how do I use it? Is it available in a scaffold? How about when I want to view a record and want to see all the joined data from the other table? Do I have to manually code the data I want from the other table? Does this automatically make the

hello freinds... I m very new to ruby on rails and i m facing a problem... whenever i add Scaffold table and try running in that broser it shos error that the particular tbale doesnot exist.... also it changes the name of the table , for eg.table names Recipe gets changed to Recipes and in order to get ountput i need to change the name of the table TO Recipies........is there any reason to