> Have you ever considered reading the Rails source code? Not everything, ...
Actually, I usually do--I come to rails after several years of coding in ruby, so I find it interesting how things are done, and there's much to be learned from how rails uses ruby. I'm just having this really hard time navigating the docs. Don't get me wrong--I think the docs are great, and I can't imagine how such a feature rich environment could be doc'd differently--it's just very difficult for me the newbie (not necessarily any newbie, probably just me) to figure out how to use them well. I'm still waiting for that lightbulb moment (like the one that happened with the C++ STL so long ago) where I know where to look and how to use what I find. Oddly, I never needed it with ruby itself--I just sort of used the docs naturally from day 1. Case in point: last night I was trying to figure out how to implement a drop-down list for fields from a single db. I'm using collection_select elsewhere in the code to reference 1 db linked to another, but I wanted to pull an id from a single db in a drop down list. I finally gave up after several hours of reading the docs, searching and trying different things. I could have built an array from the db, then used another _for_select method I suppose, but I just know a better way exists, and so I put it on the back burner as I've recently been scolded for posting too much here. I know that someday when I learn how to do it, I'll hit myself on the side of my head like I've done so often with rails and say, "I didn't see *that*"? But that great chasm between problem and solution seems especially wide for rails for me. What makes it truly frustrating of course is that rails solutions are so simple and beautiful, so I always know a good one is lurking out there, just beyond my grasp. Anyway, I'm likely just dense as a brick. Thanks, though, to everyone who have patiently answered my questions with really nice, long replies and sample code--they've been priceless. I couldn't have built this project (obviously my first rails one) without your help. Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
