Well that would be absolutely amazing Owen. I think it's definitely needed. It's one of the pains of Rails generally and the more "magical" things become, the more critical it is to have this practical use case / workflow foundation or the ability to establish one vicariously from those who work the most with it when just starting.
So exciting! -yll On May 17, 1:58 pm, Owen Dall <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks much for interest and support. I really like your idea of putting > more emphasis on typical workflow and perhaps typical problems encountered > and creating cheatsheets that may help.. > > I am sure people in the group will chime in, but I will also poll some of > the guys in person. > > One of the things that might help is for others to post what their biggest > hump was in learning Hobo. It is often easy to forget., or easy to > "repress", depending upon your point-of-view. > > Then we can focus some of our documentation efforts on the biggest "pain > points". > > -Owen > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM, ylluminate <[email protected]> wrote: > > NP Owen, you're doing a tremendous job with this book. I'm so > > extremely happy with what you've got going on in terms of creating a > > solid springboard for people into the wonderful world of Hobo. As I > > said before, I so wish that this would have been around when I started > > dabbling years ago. > > > The only thing I'm hoping to really see, as I noted over on the > > project site, is a very succinct cheat sheet to be able to peek into > > the mind and actions of someone experienced with Hobo workflow. Rails > > and Hobo are so very easy in terms of what they really facilitate for > > the developer, but the initial "hump" or learning curve is so steep > > that this is really the only downside. A nice snapshot of this > > workflow, even though it will be modified and adapted by the personal > > preference of the developer, would be worth gold simply as an initial > > crutch. It's almost too hard to put one together yourself without a > > couple projects under your belt first it seems here initially, and so > > this would, in my humble opinion, go a long way at offering a personal > > scaffold to newcomers on which to hang their initial weaknesses. > > > Thanks again! > > > On May 17, 11:41 am, Owen Dall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for finding that... > > > > -Owen > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, ylluminate <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Gotcha, I had assumed that in the book he had this in dev mode. > > > > Obviously that's an important note since most ppl running on localhost > > > > going through the book will see this particular section in dev vs > > > > production mode. Will make a note on the ticket over for the book. > > > > > On May 17, 9:15 am, Domizio Demichelis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am not very interested in a generic 404 page when I am developing, > > so I > > > > > changed that in development mode. Production will be as the book > > says. > > > > > > ciao > > > > > dd > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:12 AM, ylluminate <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I was curious as per the Rapid Rails 3 with Hobo - ß5 release we're > > > > > > seeing an issue where when it says to try assigning > > > > > > "auto_actions :index, :show, :create, :edit, :update, :destroy" to > > > > > > the recipes_controller.rb and then to attempt to view the > > /recipes/new > > > > > > url we're supposed to see an error page from Hobo. This page is > > > > > > supposed to say "The page you were looking for could not be found" > > > > > > But instead I'm getting an ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound error > > output: > > > > > >http://bit.ly/jlK6EX > > > > > > > I was afraid that this had something to do with a recent build and > > > > > > could be fixed in the RC. Any ideas as to why this is yielding an > > > > > > error as such vs the Hobo output in this case? > > > > > > > On May 17, 7:42 am, Domizio Demichelis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 1.3.0.RC is available as a gem, the RC1 is in the rails3 branch. > > > > Anyway - > > > > > > at > > > > > > > thi moment - RC1 does not have any significant improvement on a > > > > working > > > > > > app > > > > > > > (just a few commits to avoid seldom installation problems, and > > > > generators > > > > > > > with more consistent help files). > > > > > > > > ciao > > > > > > > dd > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:32 AM, ylluminate < > > [email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > By the way guys, how do you update to the RC vs the --pre 31 > > > > through > > > > > > > > the gem? Are you downloading it from git or is there another > > > > method > > > > > > > > to get the rc? > > > > > > > > > On May 16, 6:03 pm, Ronny Hanssen <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I just found out that my hobo rich type (Money) based on > > float no > > > > > > longer > > > > > > > > > worked in the RC1 release. It worked in pre28, so sometime > > > > between > > > > > > these > > > > > > > > > releases a change has been made to the source. > > > > > > > > > > It failed while trying to display a record (in the > > show-page). > > > > The > > > > > > error > > > > > > > > > message was a bit vague...: > > > > > > > > > > undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass > > > > > > > > > > After a little digging i found that the code was failing as > > it > > > > tried > > > > > > to > > > > > > > > > display the fieldlist. It turns out that my rich types based > > on > > > > > > string > > > > > > > > still > > > > > > > > > works, whereas my rich types based on float doesn't. > > > > > > > > > > The fix for the problem was to add a view tag for this type. > > > > Meaning > > > > > > that > > > > > > > > > rich types may require explicit view-tags, where the Hobo-1.0 > > > > version > > > > > > > > didn't > > > > > > > > > need it. Posting this in case someone else gets similar > > problems. > > > > > > Maybe > > > > > > > > this > > > > > > > > > should also be added to the manual in the rich types section > > (if > > > > it > > > > > > isn't > > > > > > > > > already there - it's a while since I had a look at it > > now)...? > > > > > > > > > > ~Ronny > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > Google > > > > > > Groups > > > > > > > > "Hobo Users" group. > > > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > > > [email protected]. > > > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > > > "Hobo Users" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > [email protected]. > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "Hobo Users" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]. > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > Owen Dall, Chief Systems Architect > > > Barquin Internationalwww.barquin.com > > > Cell: 410-991-0811 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Hobo Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- > Owen Dall, Chief Systems Architect > Barquin Internationalwww.barquin.com > Cell: 410-991-0811 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. 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