Hi Marnen, > ActiveScaffold is dead simple to use. Perhaps if you were to ask > questions about the problems you're actually having, we could help.
It probably is, but I've run into problems a couple of times, so I shelved the idea for the time being. Anyway, writing some Ruby to manipulate a Rails app is fun. And I did post my question on the Ruby NG and Robert Klemme was helpful there. Talk to you soon, no doubt, Richard On May 31, 3:44 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > RichardOnRails wrote: > > Geez, Marnen, > > > I don't see why people on a list focused on the most famous Ruby app > > would view it beneath themselves to address a fundamental Ruby > > question. > > It's not that they see it as "beneath themselves". It's simply that > this is a forum for Rails issues, and only for Rails issues. A simple > issue with the Ruby debugger is off topic here. Please ask your > question where it is on topic -- it will get seen by Ruby experts who > are familiar with the debugger but don't necessarily use Rails. > > > Incidentally, my question is, in fact, related to a Rails - a Rails > > application. > > No. It came up *in the course of* Rails development, but it is not a > Rails-related question as you've presented it. > > > My client for the Rails app wants to change a bunch of > > the app's field names. This is a job for a machine, say > > ActiveScaffold, for example. However, despite the documentation from > > ActiveScaffold.com and folks in the ActiveScaffold newsgroup, I still > > don't have that running. > > ActiveScaffold is dead simple to use. Perhaps if you were to ask > questions about the problems you're actually having, we could help. > > In other words, please explicitly ask the questions you actually want > answered. > > > > > Hence, I wrote my own tool (in Ruby, of course), which I hope to > > finish by tomorrow. But it's gotten complicated, which led to try > > introducing Ruby Debug rather than puts debugging statements. For > > this purpose, I was guided by Ruby Cookbook, O'Reilly, 2006. > > > I thought the RoR community might be sympathetic to a poor soul trying > > to build a Rails-app administration tool. > > It might. But your proximate problem is not with Rails. > > > Best wishes, > > Richard > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
