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

Alec Ross alec at arlross.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 04:30:14 PDT 2007


Tks Tom.  (And apologies in advance for ducking out from on-list 
individual thanks for any future responses to this.)

Alec

In message 
<GT2bwdpx.1190890594.0689740.tom-infovore at howe.textdrive.com>, Tom 
Armitage <tom at infovore.org> writes
>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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