n00b seeks mentor for occasional help
libbyh
I'm looking for an experienced RoR developer who likes to teach n00bs.
I have a project that's model and interface are more complicated that
the cart and blog tutorials and would love to have someone to talk
through it with. In return, I offer food, beverage, entertaining
company, loyalty, the terms are flexible.
I just moved to Phoenix and am new to Rails development. I'm coming
from PHP circa 2005.
I plan to swing by the meeting on Nov 9 and will be happy to talk in
person or on email.
Cheers,
Libby
James Britt
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for an experienced RoR developer who likes to teach n00bs.
> I have a project that's model and interface are more complicated that
> the cart and blog tutorials and would love to have someone to talk
> through it with. In return, I offer food, beverage, entertaining
> company, loyalty, the terms are flexible.
>
Be sure to ask lots of questions here, too; we're very friendly.
> I just moved to Phoenix and am new to Rails development. I'm coming
> from PHP circa 2005.
Big change.
Welcome to Phoenix, and Ruby on Rails!
>
> I plan to swing by the meeting on Nov 9 and will be happy to talk in
> person or on email.
>
Excellent. You'll meet great Rubyists, and I'm sure you'll get help
with your questions.
Looking forwarding to meeting you.
James
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James Britt
BTW, after the meeting we're planning on going to Havana Cafe, on Bell
Road and 64th st.
Hopefully you'll plan to join us there as well.
James
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Chris Conrey
Libby Hemphill
James Britt wrote:
> Be sure to ask lots of questions here, too; we're very friendly.
Whew, ok. Here goes: I'm working with a model that has just three
classes: events, searches, and locations. Searches belong to events,
and locations belong to both searches and events. Locations are an
admin-controlled class; they already exist (e.g., concert venues,
airports). I'd like to present users a form that has inputs for 1
event and X searches where each event and each search has one
location. My questions are
1. How do I present a form like that creates new objects in two
different classes (e.g., event and search)?
2. How do I create more than one object in a single form (e.g., many searches)?
3. How do I make select inputs for existing objects (e.g., locations)?
That's a start anyway. I've worked through the blog tutorial online
and through most of the Agile book, but I'm stuck. I know how to do
that stuff in PHP, but I'm trying to join the new century.
> BTW, after the meeting we're planning on going to Havana Cafe, on Bell
> Road and 64th st.
Excellent! I'll plan on it. Thanks for the heads up.
Chris Conrey wrote:
> going on where you can be around good people all the time and learn. If you
> haven't already heard about Gangplank, http://gangplankhq.com, you should
> check us out. Open coworking and collaborative space.
I have been to Gangplank a couple of times. I've worked in a couple
other coworking environments, and I dig your space. I feel a little
awkward about interrupting or asking for help from strangers, so I
haven't really met anyone there yet. Now that we've "met" online,
it'll be easier for me to say "hey" when I'm there again. Thanks!
See you Monday,
Libby
Chris Conrey
Chris Cowan
This should help you with the multiple objects per form questions:
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/multiple_models_one_form.pdf
And here is how to make selects with existing objects:
http://guide.rails.info/form_helpers.html#making-select-boxes-with-ease
If you haven't had a chance to look through the http://guides.rails.info guides I highly recommend it. There is a ton of really good information and examples in there. I often find myself referring to those when I forget what I already know... :D
Chris
Christopher Cowan
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity"
-- Charls Mingus, Jazz Bassist
Libby Hemphill
> This should help you with the multiple objects per form questions:
>
> http://media.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/multiple_models_one_form.pdf
Looks like 2.3 supports "accepts_nested_attributes_for" and its
associated methods. I started with your suggestion and ended up there
while working through that tutorial. Example = awesome. In case anyone
else is running into the same problem, the latest tutorial is here:
http://github.com/alloy/complex-form-examples
> And here is how to make selects with existing objects:
>
> http://guide.rails.info/form_helpers.html#making-select-boxes-with-ease
This link got me really close too; turns out I was looking for
"collection_select":
http://shiningthrough.co.uk/blog/show/6
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormOptionsHelper.html#M001625
The hardest parts about getting help online are knowing what search
terms to use and telling the crap from the good stuff. I'm grateful to
you for sending me examples, search terms, and an authoritative place
for help (guides.rails.info). Makes my life lots easier. Thank you!
Libby
Chris Cowan
also recomend looking at the Rails source code to see what's going on
under the hood when you look up a method, it will help you learn Ruby
quicker and see how things are done the "Ruby Way".
Chris
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(Sent from my iPhone which is why everythig is misprlles)
Jay Turpin
Chad Woolley
> I found http://www.gotapi.com invaluable when I was first learning Ruby and
I like http://railsbrain.com and http://rubybrain.com better than
gotapi nowadays. They have multiple versions, and the Ajaxyness and
UI seem faster and better.
Then again, if I know the exact method I want to learn about, my first
option is usually to just google for ruby methodname, and
api.rubyonrails.org is the first hit. I usually only do
railsbrain/rubybrain if I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, and
I need to browse around classes and methods.
-- Chad