All, I spotted this on craigslist: <http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cpg/1199832218.html> The budget strikes me as unrealistic, but I've never built the...
Charles Calvert
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Jun 2, 2009 10:14 pm
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Sorry to have missed Developer Day; the material looked interesting. If you hold Developer Day again next year, please schedule Developer Day further away from...
... Thanks for the feedback, Camille! I actually talked (well, emailed) with the RubyNation organizers in advance of the event about just this issue. We'd...
Ben, You may also want to check for conflicts with the NFJS folks as well. While most NFJS events are Java based, they have a history of including other...
Pradeep Elankumaran will be giving a preview of his RubyNation talk this Thursday. Sorry for the late notice! The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol...
... I would like to add a clarifying remark. XMPP is the Jabber protocol, and Jeremie Miller released the Jabber server under an OSS license in 1998....
Ya, such is life in the conference organization business. I emailed Ben about helping us out by not duplicating too much content. He was very accommodating....
There is also the Javascript conference, which actually was on the same weekend as the last NFJS conference. I don't think EclipseWorld will be back, but they...
Grey, I can appreciate your venting. I used to run a local user group, WOAD, and the hard part wasn't finding great speakers, who were willing to speak for...
An Oracle DBA colleague of mine would like to take the first steps to learning web development. What classes are available in the next two months in the DC or...
... Gray and James, I would like to thank you both for arranging this presentation. I am greatly interested in the MarkLogic Server (MLS) and its capabilities ...
I am trying to use the form_for helper in an admin directory but it seems like the Rails generated code doesn't handle subdirectories without prompting. In my...
Is Company an STI table or something? Why would it matter otherwise if it looks at the class? Paul ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
All, My presentation on starting a computer consulting business last month was so popular that I'm giving it again on June 23rd, in Tysons. I'd appreciate it...
Charles Calvert
cbc-novarubygroup@...
Jun 16, 2009 7:47 pm
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... Company is not STI. And It does not that Rails looked at the class. The problem was in the follow bit of code <%= link_to 'Show', @company %> which needed...
I think in that case you could also do <%= link_to "Show", [:admin, @company] %> But that would probably just link to the "show" view, if you want to get the ...
I was wondering if anyone could comment on the choice of Prototype vs JQuery in Rails apps, and if jQuery is to be used what about using JRails to enable ...
If you are mainly going to be using rails helper methods, you might as well stick with prototype. Otherwise, it really depends on which of the two libraries...
My very opinionated point of view: I actually recommend staying away from the JavaScript helpers. The helpers are generally VERY obtrusive and result in a ton...
... I recently used JRails on a project and it was pretty nifty to be able to just use the same helpers that I was used to using with Prototype. But if I had...
Carl - I'm curious to know how you keep up with the incompatibility issues across various browsers. Even hitting the top few (different versions of IE,...
Flex has an interesting story on cross browser suppor Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ... From: David Sachdev <dsachdev@...> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:44:26 ...
Though this might not be the "Rails Way", I strongly recommend you avoid using the default Rails RJS and JS helpers for several reasons. 1. They make your code...
David, JQuery takes care of the compatibilities for you. They have been very good at keeping things working on many browsers. I am definitely not suggesting...
... It's not clear what date is "tonight". Víctor ... From: "Paul D. Bain" <paulbain@...> To: <novajug@yahoogroups.com>; <novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com>...