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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 :)

http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/2006index.html BOOKS TECHNICAL Jolt Winner: Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt and Mike Clark (Pragmatic Bookshelf) Productivity Winners: ? Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-Wesley) ? Practical Common Lisp by Peter

Hello all, I work for a company located in Madison, WI and we''re looking at replacing a pre-Struts J2EE ecommerce app with Rails. ''ve been using Rails with pleasure for the last year on several supporting applications, and I have everyone else convinced that it''s at least worth investigating. The developer team has a few experienced Java developers who are

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,

(posted for a friend) FamilyLearn, the developer of exciting family and personal history websites is looking for a top notch Ruby and Ruby on Rails programmer with Ajax skills to help take our websites to the next level. There will be some work in supporting legacy Perl and PHP applications until they''re ported to Ruby and Rails. This is a full time position in a small company, where

<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

On 23.05.2018 13:46, Matt Bryant wrote: > 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

MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is scheduled for March 28 and 29, 2008. It will be in Salt Lake City, at the same great venue we had last year, and it is again our intent to record and make available all the talks under a Creative Commons, Share-Alike license -- you can see last year''s talks here: http://mtnwestrubyconf2007.confreaks.com/ If you''ve been working on a problem

(Since this has some bearing on rails, I thought I''d post it here too.) The next installment of my Linux Journal column was posted this morning. Lot''s of news this time around, and a quick dive into ParseTree. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8970 -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

The BYU Ruby Users Group will be holding its February meeting on Wednesday the 8th at 7PM. We''re meeting in room 120 of the Talmage Math & Computer Building (TMCB) -- see http://map.byu.edu/Map.html for a map of campus if you need it. Eric Hodel is making a trip in from Seattle to talk about all kinds of deep Ruby things. He is a former presenter at RubyConf (RubyConf 2003