Hi all,
If you’re like me you probably spend a lot of time search the Rails
mailing list. To make life a little bit easier I’ve created a nice
little plugin for firefox ( A whopping 15 lines of markup ). The plugin
uses nabble.com to search the mailing list.
Anyways, I thought I’d share.
If you want to install it the manual way, here’s the code.
<search
version=“1.0”
name=“Rails”
description=“Search Rails Mailing List”
action=“http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp”
searchForm=“http://www.nabble.com”
method=“GET”
If you want the auto install with the icon.
http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin
Happy Seaching!
-Eric
Kooool
Le 25 mars 06 à 07:23, Frank a écrit :
Thank you for the contribution, Eric! Great extension! -Dave
On 3/25/06, Sébastien Gruhier [email protected] wrote:
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David Andrew T.
http://dathompson.blogspot.com
Hi,
Glad you guys found it useful!
With the amount of posts on the rails list each day now, I find I’m
having to use a search more and more even to find things that were
posted a day ago.
It’s cool to see the community expanding so quickly! I am reminded of a
post on Amy Hoy’s blog, though. Hopefully making searching easy will
help alleviate some of the troubles that are associated with such a
quick growth within a community.
Happy Searching!
-Eric
ericgoodwin.com
http://blog.ericgoodwin.com/articles/2006/03/25/firefox-rails-search-plugin
Thanks for the great search engine. I might be able to delete the last
years worth of emails now!
Now for something completely off topic. Are you refering to Amy Hoy’s
post about help vampires?
I found that post to be extremely elitist and derogatory. I think it’s
attitudes like hers which are the death of a community. You never know
who’s asking the questions. It could be a 10 year old for all you know
and I would hate to see anyone put someone else down for asking a
question…even if they should of googled it first.
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 08:51 -0800, Eric G. wrote:
Happy Searching!
Kooool
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Charlie B.
Programmer
Castle Branch Inc.
It’s great for newbies… thanks!
Eric G. wrote:
Hi all,
If you’re like me you probably spend a lot of time search the Rails
mailing list. To make life a little bit easier I’ve created a nice
little plugin for firefox ( A whopping 15 lines of markup ). The plugin
uses nabble.com to search the mailing list.
Anyways, I thought I’d share.
If you want to install it the manual way, here’s the code.
In hindsight, I think I was a little harsh on her. She is trying to
help. Her post just seemed to seperate the community into the “all
knowing” and the rest of us. I by no means am an expert either and I
guess I just took her post a little personally. I definitely ask more
questions than I answer, but I don’t consider myself a vampire.
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:05 -0800, Eric G. wrote:
I don’t think it is “attitudes like hers which are the death of a
community”, although I do agree that the post could sound a bit
elitist.
Every once in a while you need a post like hers to stir up a bit of
thinking. As members of this community it is our job to drive it in a
direction that we see fit.
Charlie B.
http://www.recentrambles.com
Hi,
Glad you like the plugin.
As for the Amy Hoy post, you are correct in your assumption, I was
referring to her vampires post.
I think I read her post a bit differently than you did though.
First off, I didn’t read anything about her advocating “putting down
someone for asking a question, even if they should have googled it
first”. She does mention that “not googling” may be one of the many
different short sights that all together could lead to a “vampirish”
post. Quite opposite of a put down, she reminds everyone to “/be
nice!/” and to “foster thinking” within the community. If someone was to
ask a “vampirish” question, instead of answering it outright, point them
to the right page on the rails wiki, or another mailing list post, or a
blog.
I don’t think it is “attitudes like hers which are the death of a
community”, although I do agree that the post could sound a bit elitist.
Every once in a while you need a post like hers to stir up a bit of
thinking. As members of this community it is our job to drive it in a
direction that we see fit. I believe this is what she is trying to do.
Her post was more of an outcry, voicing concern about a community which
she deeply loves, but has been a annoyed with lately.
I, myself am no veteran, but I don’t quite see myself as a newbie
anymore. After reading the post it got me thinking. Now, before I post
anything, I ask myself a few questions.
Have I searched the mailing list? Have I googled it? Have I checked the
wiki? Is my question written so that it is easy to understand? Have I
given enough information about my dev environment?
Sometimes I might miss one of these pre-post questions, and that’s ok.
Just asking myself one or two of them will help out a lot.
I have, most likely, posted “vampire” posts in the past, but after
reading her post I now know a bit better about how to avoid it.
-Eric
ericgoodwin.com
Charlie B. wrote:
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Carl Brown wrote:
There are 20 or so ‘preference’ fields for a customer…
Is there a simple way to migrate this into my Order model / table with
the same field names?
i.e. Every order can have it’s own billto/shipto but it’s a pull from
the customers preferences…
I know I read something on this somewhere but I just can’t find it again.
I don’t know of a direct way off the top of my head, but something along
these lines should work:
for column in Customer.content_columns
assign_method = (column.name + ‘=’).to_sym
if @order.respond_to? assign_method
@order.send(assign_method, @user.send(column.name.to_sym))
end
end
I’d suggest doing it via send() rather than accessing the properties
directly so that you’re not stuck later if you want to change fields in
either model.
OK, I know I’m gonna get the smack down for asking this but…
Lets say I have a Customer model (table) with
customer.ship_To
customer.ship_City
customer.ship_State
customer.bill_To
customer.bill_City…
and so on…
There are 20 or so ‘preference’ fields for a customer…
Is there a simple way to migrate this into my Order model / table
with the same field names?
i.e. Every order can have it’s own billto/shipto but it’s a pull from
the customers preferences…
I know I read something on this somewhere but I just can’t find it
again.
Yeah, I already manually coded it – works great… But, I will
refactor it when I figure out the right way…
Thanks!
-c