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Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by basti1302

2008-05-01T15:06:41Z

Great stuff. That said, you have a little typo there in the DISCLAIMER just at the end of the section “Ajax Helper”: The opening lt-entity in “never, ever put a &lttr > tag between < div > tags.” needs a closing semicolon. (I wonder how that comment comes out after submitting and what this site does with lt, gt and the like but I guess you get the point anyway)

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by F1r3

2008-04-07T11:35:18Z

Thanks a lot! At last I’ve found an example of debugging in Rails. =)

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Ryan

2008-03-16T09:30:51Z

I wonder if you could go through fixing all the functional tests to work with the nested controllers and namepsace.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Ryan

2008-03-16T09:29:53Z

I wonder if you could go through fixing all the functional tests to work with the nested controllers and namepsace.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by [v]lives

2008-03-04T05:17:33Z

Thanks a lot :)

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Art Schumer

2008-02-26T12:11:22Z

This is terrific stuff and it all works fine ut I’m wondering how to get MetaWeblog capaibility out of ActiveResource like what was in ActiveWebService. I want to be able to create a blog in Rails 2.0 and be able to post to it using the standard posting tools available (like MarsEdit).

thx, Art

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Neil

2008-02-11T14:22:24Z

Hey Akita

Thanks for all these Rails 2.0 resources – they’re definitely needed by us here newbies. I just started with Rails (absolutely 100% full-time over the last ten days, and I’m nearly there!), but I’m really enjoying it.

However, existing books, like RailsSpace, confused me a little with their combination of RESTful and standard controller design; I just didn’t know which approach I was supposed to use! I bet your forthcoming book won’t have this problem, though. I’m definitely looking forward working through it.

Any hints to the app we’ll be building in the book? If you need any pre-launch feedback, just let us all know.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by kukku

2008-02-03T13:25:20Z

It is very interesting one! I hope you will zip its source code with this tutorial because it will help us so much about our typo copy/paste.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Dara Kilicoglu

2008-01-28T11:31:38Z

Thank you! A great tutorial even for a beginner…

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Bharat

2008-01-24T02:30:10Z

Hello Akita, Is there a way to get the kind of behavior that you see in Safari in Internet Explorer? I am on Windows platform frequently. I am trying to open the post.atom file in IE and it does nothing. In general, how do we handle atom feeds in IE? Thanks. Bharat

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by wrb

2008-01-07T14:32:07Z

thanks, Akita, it is a great tutorial!

when i followed to the final SOAP vs REST section, i tried Post.create(..) i encountered a remote server internal error 500.

i checked the routes.rb and post_controller.rb, still cannot figure out where goes wrong.

any clue?

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Kalle Henriksson

2008-01-07T07:27:52Z

Thanks a lot! Please keep up the good work. Great tutorial.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Sergio Eurico

2008-01-06T03:28:54Z

Hi Akita, Your screencast and this tutorial are great! I imagine what will be on your next book ;D Thank You!

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Andrew

2008-01-05T23:10:09Z

Hi Akita,

Thanks for the tutorials. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve taken the liberty of putting it up on heroku: blog-demo.heroku.com. It’s a great help for a beginner like me to make sure that I’m doing my rails2.0 app correctly.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by nicolash

2007-12-27T15:07:36Z

@slothbear a double-parenthesis makes no sense – you actually even don’t need the single-one in ruby… but beside the parenthesis, what would make sense is to check for the existence of ”@posts.first” to be on the save side avoiding an error on @posts.first.created_at in case you are a veeeery lazy blogger ;-)

feed.updated(@posts.first ? @posts.first.created_at : Time.now.utc)

... you still don’t strictly need parenthesis here either but i recommend you use them to enhance readability

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by o2a

2007-12-20T13:51:28Z

it’s work! )))))))))))))))))))))

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by slothbear

2007-12-17T20:48:01Z

Thanks for the screencast and tutorials.

One place that confused me in the screencast was this piece of code for Atom Feeds:

feed.updated((@posts.first.created_at))

The syntax is clear in the tutorial, but in the screencast, I couldn’t see the character before ’@’. I tried ‘[’, thinking it might be an array. It looked more like ‘{’, but I knew that was wrong too. It never occurred to me that it was a double parenthesis. Is there any need for the nested parens here?

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by AkitaOnRails

2007-12-14T02:59:55Z

Hey Nasir, Nicolás, thanks for the feedback. I added a few disclaimers in the text to cover what you said.

About the non web standards, you’re right. I just didn’t want to work on the html layout too much here, so I just added div_for in the middle. But you are very right: I will see what’s the best way to change this later.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Nicolás Sanguinetti

2007-12-14T00:56:22Z

I meant don’t use < div >< tr > :)

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Nicolás Sanguinetti

2007-12-14T00:43:06Z

Hey there, great stuff :)

A few small things though:

Please, don’t use
.. That will only force browsers into ‘quirks’ mode, which will then force you to hack around your CSS at lots of places. Keeping the browser in ‘standards’ mode your life will be much easier :)
Apple recommends detecting for Mobile Safari in the user-agent string instead of iPhone, to also support iPod Touch and future devices.
As far as I know, you don’t need to declare created_at and updated_at in foxy fixtures, they are automatically set to Time.now :)

Keep these coming, they are great!

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Nasir

2007-12-13T14:32:06Z

A quick correction:

<% for post in @posts %> <%= div_for(post) do %> <%=h post.title %> <%=h post.body %> <%= link_to ‘Show’, post %> <% end %> <% end %>

should be like

<% for post in @posts %> <% div_for(post) do %> <%=h post.title %> <%=h post.body %> <%= link_to ‘Show’, post %> <% end %> <% end %>

for 2 reasons: 1) In <% div_for(post) do >, you don’t need an ’=’ after ‘<‘ 2) You cannot have div tags in between table rows. If you do that then it will first render empty div elements and the data afterwards in table data cells, ie td.

Thought it would be useful to point it out.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by IronRuby

2007-12-13T04:07:31Z

Hello Akita,

Nice Tutorials coming up.

Can i come up with a suggestion if you don’t mind….?

Netbeans 6 ( IDE ) is already out and doing great things for Ruby and Ruby on rails,and make many things more simpler and yet Free for all platforms.

Why don’t you start a tutorial , which explains creating a rails website from scratch using NetBeans This will help to grasp Rails more faster and take full advantages of your experience.

Just my opinion. Learning Rails with NetBeans would be faster and more effective, as students can also exchange your source codes, that can run on any NeatBeans IDE as its Free as well available on all platforms.

Thanks

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by AkitaOnRails

2007-12-13T01:06:33Z

Open up Google, type in “rails iphone”. I am not kidding, the very first 10 links are very useful. Most of them will use iPhoney to test the web apps.

Bear in mind that it is “remotely held web app’s compliant with iPhone’s internal Safari rendering and limitations”. We are not talking about Desktop-class native Apps (wait until February for Apple’s official SDK by then).

And no, Rails doesn’t run in the iPhone. For starters, the iPhone ruby distro is very very buggy right now and doesn’t have much development over it.

Comment on 'Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 2' by Paulo Cassiano

2007-12-12T19:44:59Z

Akita,

I think this is the first material talking about iPhone development using Rails…

May you show me another resources?

Cheers,