Yea, chapters 4 and 5 were both rewritten at the last min, and the result was not what we would have wanted.
You can find an up-to-date errata page here: http://groups.google.com/group/tgbook/web/tg-errata And if you find anything not yet mentioned, let me know and I'll try to get it updated. On Jan 14, 5:27 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't want to be critical of this resource, but this book is very > frustrating. I am on chapter 5 and have had nothing but problems. On > pg 68 we create a class called BookmarkFields. Somewhere along the > way, the class gets changed to bookmark_fields on pg 76. There's also > another mistake in the function get_category_options() that refers to > category.ID rather than category.id. Oh...and there's an "h" at the > end of the class bookmark_fields(). > > The Addendum page does not mention any of these mistakes but DOES > mention something about parens being misplaced. I'm still not sure > what it's talking about as I seem to have all my parens in my copy. > > And why do we create methods that break the kid templates? I barely > get the form.kid working and then the save_bookmark method update in > the book breaks it again. > > While I'm on it, NONE of the downloadable code from the TurboGears > book website for chapter 4 works. I had to edit them manually before > they would run. > > I think the TurboGears concept rocks! And the first 2 chapters worked > like a charm. It was amazing! But now I just want to chuck the book at > the wall. > > Maybe in the morning everything will look better. But I thought Ramm > or Dangoor might want to update their list of errors... > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
