[Rails] Nest Resources including sessions in Rails 3 Issue

2011-11-13 Thread SMR
Hello all - I have looked through the newsgroups and been unable to find my specific issue, or a resolution, and I am stuck, so I am posting to ask for help, or a link to something I may have missed. I have an application that allows users to log in, create a project and associate locations with

[Rails] Re: new college student

2010-03-25 Thread SMR
I live in Chicago, IL - I am attending DePaul University as a grad student. They have a Ruby on Rails certification program that does give some academic credit if your son is pursuing a full blown degree. It was designed as a free-standing program, so it would certainly qualify as community

[Rails] Re: netbeans on ubuntu

2010-03-25 Thread SMR
Answering only for myself, when I was a newbie on both Linux and RoR, I saw NetBeans as an 'all in one' environment that had syntax highlighting. Made the learning curve slightly shallower. I do emacs + multiple bash windows now, too, but when starting out, especially coming from the Java world,

[Rails] Re: Nested Rails Views

2010-02-03 Thread SMR
Since you don't have many details posted, I'll suggest a generic solution that worked for me: Use partials. You can populate them based on sub-categories within your actions or groups or whatever your 'parent' classification is. You can implement whatever heirarchy you like - each level would

[Rails] Re: Design Advice

2010-02-03 Thread SMR
Thanks for the 'a-ha' moment - I am actually trying to work out how to do just this kind of thing for authentication and privilege granting. Pardon the Newb follow on question - how would you handle the class issue in a login scenario? With subclasses, I don't know how you could implements

[Rails] Re: How will be the Future of Rails......? Please do reply

2010-01-22 Thread SMR
I use RoR because it excels at fast, quality development if one is willing to learn and use its conventions. It is not perfect, but for 99% of business applications, it is more than adequate. My clients have complex business problems that require well-documented, methodical solutions - they don't

[Rails] Re: Undefined Method error - help request

2009-12-21 Thread SMR
on a tutorial, then attack this project fresh later. Thanks again - SR On Dec 20, 10:48 am, Frederick Cheung frederick.che...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 18, 3:18 pm, SMR srumme...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning All - I am working on a time tracking application as a learning excercise and have run

[Rails] Undefined Method error - help request

2009-12-18 Thread SMR
Good morning All - I am working on a time tracking application as a learning excercise and have run into an error neither I nor Google can remedy. When loading my view, I get an error: 'undefined method 'true_class_path' for #ActionView::Base:. Context: I have controllers for Project,

[Rails] Re: ROR Newb question - multiple models, one form / populating drop-downs from tables

2009-12-10 Thread SMR
), {:prompt = true}(...this is an option)) Andrew On Dec 9, 1:32 pm, SMR srumme...@gmail.com wrote: Good Afternoon. I am creating a time tracking application as learning exercise. Each Project has_many Worktracks, each Worktrack has_many tasks, each Proect has_many tasks through