Recent Posts by Alan Eveson

Topic: Agile Web Development with Rails / Depot with Rails 2.0.2

Hi All

I’m not going to bore you all with every fix as I wade through this, only to say check out the following URL whenever you hit a snag. I couldn’t get the validation to work (on page 74) so I checked the validation information here, and found “greater_than” as a part of the numericality test…

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/recent

Topic: Agile Web Development with Rails / Depot with Rails 2.0.2

I had all sorts of fun until I found this thread. I’ve wiped my install, installed the latest Ruby, Gem, Rails, MySQL and Aptana/RadRails, then got Aptana/RadRails working with MySQL. This was all actually fairly hard to do! The products are well documented individually, but getting them all working together is less easy. Still, it’s all FREE so no complaints, just gentle observations. :)

I finally got through the first chapters, the fact that Rails now defaults to SQLite3 slowed me down, not creating my DB slowed me down…

I never did get SQLite3 working, but no matter.

I’ve decided to fight my way through AWDWR with Rails 2.0.2. I learn better in adversity :)

This stuff is so good. I wrote my first program on punch cards in Cobol/Assembler code. Ruby is the first TRULY OO language I’ve encountered. Visual Basic was to OO what a hammer is to a screw.

I only started because my son said he wanted to learn programming, so without thinking I passed him a VB tutorial. A week later I suddenly came to my senses, went into his room, took it out of his hands and put it where it belonged, in the wood burner.

He’s reading Programming Ruby. I’m going through AWDWR. I’m just going to have to try to stay ahead of him.

If he gives me any grief I’ll make him learn Cobol. ;)

Alan