[LRUG] [accu-general] Ruby on Rails help

Christophe MAXIMIN christophe.maximin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 09:09:42 PDT 2007


+1 for Ruby for Rails too.

It as a interesting view of the "problem".

On 27/09/2007, James McCarthy <james2mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for Ruby for Rails.
>
> On 27 Sep 2007, at 11:56, Tom Armitage wrote:
>
> > I'd recommend (for an experienced programmer coming to Rails) David
> > Black's "Ruby for Rails" without hesitation - gives a great
> > underpinning of Ruby, and some insight into _why_ Rails like it does.
> > It's probably my favourite of the more general Rails books available.
> >
> > On 9/27/2007, "Alec Ross" <alec at arlross.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Craig,
> >>
> >> Yep AWDR was one of the books I've suggested.
> >>
> >> I'll copy your reply to Simon.
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >>
> >> Alec
> >>
> >> In message <3BAFCB4E-18C0-4989-BFC5-D918C2FACACE at xeriom.net>, Craig
> >> Webster <craig at xeriom.net> writes
> >>> On 27 Sep 2007, at 10:27, Alec Ross wrote:
> >>>>   ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> >>>> From: "Simon Sebright" <simonsebright at hotmail.com>
> >>>> Date: 27 September 2007 09:08:34 BDT
> >>>>
> >>>> First of all, can anyone recommend good books on both Ruby and
> >>>> Rails?
> >>>
> >>> Agile Web Development is quite a good intro.
> >>>   http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/title/rails/
> >>>
> >>>> Secondly, for anyone who is in the know, I am trying to create my
> >>>> own example and have a piece of functionality I want to run from
> >>>> both a controller task and a rake task (I don't know what the
> >>>> latter actually is!).  I have written the function in the rake
> >>>> file, but ideally want to extract it to somewhere I can include in
> >>>> the controller file as well.
> >>>>
> >>>> How do I actually do that?  The rake task, as the book explains
> >>>> already loads ActiveRecord and "the environment", which I need.
> >>>> How do I do that, I wonder?
> >>>
> >>> Sounds like it should go in a model. A bit more detail - roughly
> >>> what
> >>> the functionality should be - would help me provide an example.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Craig
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