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

[James McCarthy]

+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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