Hey everyone, I meant to release this sooner, but the holidays took over. To learn Rails, I've been working on this little application. Eventually, it will...
... Well, since this _is_ and XP group mailing list... from app's homepage > # No unit tests yet, for good reason: I'm not quite from app's homepage >...
... Certainly for production code you want to build test-first every step of the way. When you jump into a new technology like Rails it can be very /helpful/...
Hi everyone, Thanks to John and Mark for their comments. I'm really looking forward to the meeting, and am grateful for the chance to learn from the group. ...
... Indeed, that's the reference I intended. -- Regards, John Wilger http://johnwilger.com ... Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she...
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I think I agree with everyone but with a couple of biases. Charles's comments: There's no evidence that either choice was right or superior. We'd have to use...
I'm going to tentatively stand firm that test first for learning Rails--for learning anything--may be different than test first for developing a production...
xp-cinci, A Tip for new meeting attendees: Use the Children's Parking Garage. It's free. And bring your parking ticket to the meeting. We will tell you where...
request.get? I would look at creating loginPage and loginSubmit controllers to drive the two requests that can be submitted from the browser. They are...
... I'd probably just use two seperate actions on the same controller, but other than that, yes that's how you would usually accomplish this. ... No. If you...
Edward Sumerfield <esumerfd@...> wrote: "It's time I wrote my own Rails app to see if I can learn as much as you have." I'm sure we all will benefit...
Hi Edward, Following up on John's clarification. . . . GET vs. POST We may be talking at cross purposes. However, my understanding is that these should be,...
While "Tim Berners-Lee" has some good things to say, I think he is confused about HTTP and the appropriate usages of GET/POST. Both HTTP requests support the...
I think DHH and Sir Tim are addressing mostly similar aspects of GET/POST. Tim is talking about what appropriate in a URL. If a URL is a location (aka noun),...
... Being the director of the W3C, and the author of the original HTTP spec, I think Tim Berners-Lee might disagree with the statement that he is confused...
Here's a quick update on the meeting. The stats ... 39 people attended. 6 had built Rails apps on there own computer. 4 others built and publicly deployed...
Thanks for the run down Mark and thanks to Jim and Scott for presenting. I was feeling ill last night otherwise I would have attended. I look forward to...
Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on Monday night's presentation. Several people asked what software I was using to do the presentation. It was a...
Here's some links I promised: * David Geary * BIO (http://nofluffjuststuff.com/speaker_view.jsp?speakerId=4) * The Koolaid Posting (http://rubyurl.com/I9t) *...
Great meeting Tuesday. Loved the presentations. It always amazes me how much I can learn at these things each month. Anyway, I have 208M mov (yes, very large)...
Greetings all, The MPEG-4 version of Jim's entire presentation is in final post-production (it has been compressing for the past hour and a half). I will have...
Please tell us the size, too. I'm 9% done with Ed's with only 9:36 to go (that's 9 hours and change) -Rob Now it's 10% and 9:35 to go! Whooppee! ... ...
I'm really glad this was taped. I could not make it to the meeting. Can't wait to see the presentations. Thanks again, Mike ... -- The greatest performance...
Mine is a very tiny 24.4MB but does not scale very well. This makes Jim's use of Takahashi/XUL that much more impressive as it still shows up quite nicely in...
http://www.rubynuby.org/downloads/XPCincinnatiJanuary2006.mov BB (For those of you who wish to spare yourself the blog's sophomoric content.) ... [Non-text...
Well, Bill's video only took a few minutes to get, but the quality of Ed's is quite clearly better. I'd really be interested to see what happens to it when...
... Bill and Ed, could you add somewhere that the presentation is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-Commercial License, version 2.0 and...
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