# An Index of Frequently Asked Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 23, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837 "2008-07-23T06:19:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/1 "2008-07-23T06:19:58Z")
Is there a way of mining the forums and figuring out an index of the top 10 or 20 frequently asked technical questions on ROR ? ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/2 "2008-07-23T06:28:38Z")
Top 2: 1. Why is scaffold broken aka “undefined method scaffold” 2. Why can’t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka “no such file to load – sqlite3” ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/3 "2008-07-23T06:35:23Z")
Ryan B. wrote: > Top 2: > > 1. Why is scaffold broken aka “undefined method scaffold” > 2. Why can’t I load sqlite3 aka Why is it trying to load sqlite3 aka > “no such file to load – sqlite3” hahaha 🙂 Patience my friend … we shall tackle this all 🙂 but seriously we should compile a list of frequently asked questions and take this as a hint of what to tackle next. If they are having problems we could give them REALLY REALLY descriptive error messages with links to pages that help them tackle such errors. Some of these errors I am sure could be tackled by some rewrites and making the framework more “nooby proof”. Thank god I didnt have such questions when I was starting out but you have to also see that people who want to give ROR a bad name will attempt to raise the barrier to entry (which we must lower) so more may take advantage, contribute, improve the framework… ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/4 "2008-07-23T07:50:40Z")
That’s a job for the wiki, when it’s eventually cleaned up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/5 "2008-07-23T15:06:27Z")
Ryan B. wrote: > That’s a job for the wiki, when it’s eventually cleaned up 🙂 As for keeping count of the indexes and top searches and top questions, could someone managing this site have an index like this one for example: > **[Watch It Legally](https://www.motionpictures.org/watch-it-legally/?mode=zg)** Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/6 "2008-07-23T16:12:43Z")
Ryan, How could you ever forget the absolute No 1??? ``` Why is Rails better than PHP? ``` Cheers, Sazima ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/7 "2008-07-23T16:16:02Z")
Sazima wrote: > Ryan, > > How could you ever forget the absolute No 1??? > > ``` > Why is Rails better than PHP? > > ``` > > Cheers, Sazima Seriously, I know loads of people would want to harrass the community of developers for their own reasons. We should however be able to combat that by positive steps and solutions. ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/8 "2008-07-24T14:02:23Z")
I just cleared my response when it got to about 7 paragraphs of ideas - that no doubt have occurred to everyone else. But in summary. 1. I think mining the data in the forum is a good idea if there is a way of generating some sort of report that would be a start. When I have a random question, I nearly always do a forum search first (google search in the group is great, i wonder if they have any analysis tools) 2. I was pleasantly surprised when I looked at the wiki the other day for some help on testing. It is much cleaner than it was and I found the help I needed. (be encouraged if you have anything that could usefully be added there) 3. To me, it seems that Rails documentation is pretty spread about and so what we need is not necessarily something new, in a different place, but something adding to a known place. So my vote goes for putting a faq on the wiki, unless there is something clever that can be done within the google forum area itself. 4. It is a shame that the rails manual is not being updated. Has it been supeceded by one of the new documentation ventures or is there scope for editing/updating it? It has quite a nice format. Well it nearly became seven paras again!! Tonypm ---
**Author:** ![ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@ror\_arch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ror_arch)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-index-of-frequently-asked-questions/143837/9 "2008-07-24T14:18:50Z")
All great ideas tonypm wrote: > 1. I think mining the data in the forum is a good idea if there is a > way of generating some sort of report that would be a start. When I > have a random question, I nearly always do a forum search first > (google search in the group is great, i wonder if they have any > analysis tools) I was asking for an index of frequent searches and index of frequent questions because we should target the most COMMON questions first if we want to help the other developers. If we target the most common questions and put up responses , help , bug fixes, tutorials on those questions we will be doing what the rest of the industry does. The rest of the industry follows this rule : target the most common questions , problems, bugs etc. and the rest will follow (I forgot the name of the law but there is a law in EE/CS that asks you to target these most common flaws first). Perhaps the authors of [http://www.ruby-forum.com](http://www.ruby-forum.com) could have something like that?