Question please.
I’ve bought the beta ‘Agile web dev with rails’.
Are book related questions valid on the list please?
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Hi Dave,
Welcome aboard!
Dave Pawson wrote:
I’ve bought the beta ‘Agile web dev with rails’.
Are book related questions valid on the list please?
Absolutely.
Best regards,
Bill
On 18/05/06, Bill W. [email protected] wrote:
Hi Dave,
I’ve bought the beta ‘Agile web dev with rails’.
Are book related questions valid on the list please?
p 96 (pdf version) says
Rails makes it easy to store session data in the database. First, we
need
to create a database table with the correct layout. There’s a built-in
rake
task that does just that.
depot> rake db:session:create
It you now look at your database, you’ll find a new table called
sessions.
That command fails miserably with my setup (new download last week).
I had to create the database table using mysql to get it to work.
Has the sntax changed? Can rails do this? Is there a db:migrate command
missing.
Since everything else had worked nicely up to this point in the book,
it’s a bit of a bummer to be stopped dead like that.
Suggestions please
regards
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Dave Pawson
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That should be:
rake db:sessions:create
If you want more info on rake tasks that you can run, try:
rake --tasks
I usually just highlight the task I want in the iTerm window, cmd+c and
cmd+v to cut it loose. You are running a Mac, right? 
On 19 May 2006 05:52:31 -0000, steve ross
[email protected] wrote:
That should be:
rake db:sessions:create
All for a little s!
Had a day at xtech 2006 on Ruby. The live demo was constantly tripping
up
over that!
Perhaps not such a good idea with humans in the loop!
Thanks Steve.
If you want more info on rake tasks that you can run, try:
rake --tasks
I tried --help, but --tasks doesn’t stand out as anything special
so I hadn’t tried that.
I usually just highlight the task I want in the iTerm window, cmd+c and
cmd+v to cut it loose. You are running a Mac, right?
Not since 1984, on a Mac II
Windows based installations here.
I was impressed with the Mac editor used on the demo though.
regards
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Dave Pawson
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Try running rake -T in the directory with your rakefile and see what
commands are available. If you don’t see any with the db: namespace you
may
be running an older version of rake. If I remember correctly you need
to be
running rake 0.7+ for the namespace functionality to work correctly.
-Steve
http://www.stevelongdo.com
On 5/19/06, Bala P. [email protected] wrote:
You would think "beta" would denote that there may be a few mistakes in it. And in my experience they get fixed pretty quickly. I would also consider this list to qualify as "online support"... Again...it's $20. You can spend more than that on a production lunch... I understand the frustrations and your feelings are valid, but we should at least be fair. I think the beta books are an awesome concept. At least you got all the rest of the value, perfect, without having to wait a few more months for it. :)Dave, It happened to me too. I bought it last week and I am stuck due to that, very frustrating.
So I decided not to buy anymore of the so called “beta” books with no online support.
Dave, It happened to me too. I bought it last week and I am stuck due to
that, very frustrating.
So I decided not to buy anymore of the so called “beta” books with no
online support.
I even tried doing the db:sessions:create (plural) which is supposed to
work according to this
mailing list, but I keep getting the same error message. Could you
please share your script for
creating the table? Thanks in advance.
missing.
Dave Pawson
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Bala P. wrote:
Dave, It happened to me too. I bought it last week and I am stuck due to that, very frustrating.
So I decided not to buy anymore of the so called “beta” books with no online support.
Well, this is simply not true.
The errata is very good, and by the time i made a blog entry about this
problem here
http://www.rubyrailways.com/dbsessioncreate-problem-in-the-depot-app/
somebody left a comment that this problem is already in the errata!
I have bought the book after a few days it was announced, begun with it
right away, so my blog entry was created about a week after the
announcement, and the errata already addressed this problem by then. I
would not call that “no online support”.
Cheers,
Peter
On 19/05/06, Curtis [email protected] wrote:
You would think "beta" would denote that there may be a few mistakes in it.
Agreed. No response to my comments on the errata list left me with
other routes to seek?
create table sessions (id int(11) not null primary key,
session_id text, data text, updated_at datetime,
index sessions (session_id (6)))
was what I used.
Maybe others, more expert in mysql, may suggest amendments.
It did leave me with problems in the 003_xxx files.
regards
DaveP
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Dave Pawson wrote:
Question please.
I’ve bought the beta ‘Agile web dev with rails’.
Are book related questions valid on the list please?
Welcome Dave,
Yes, those questions are absolutely valid here. The rails community is
one of the best communities i met so far (the other being the Ruby one)
- i am a fulltime Java developer and former Python (now Ruby/Rails)
enthusiast and also subscribed to all sorts of other MLs, but the
Ruby/Rails lists/communities win hands down. I had only one question on
this list so far which took more than several hours to get replied, all
the others were replied between a few minutes and 1-2 hours. Of course
you should always google first etc etc but generally everybody is very
helpful here.
Cheers,
Peter