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

[Tom Armitage]

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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