Rails 3.0: Release candidate

Post by matwood » Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 3:49 PM UTC

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There's actually a semi-secret version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book already updated for Rails 3.0.0.rc: http://railstutorial.org/book?version=3.0.0.rc Shhh... Don't tell anyone! :-) (The official release of the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book should happen some time in the next couple weeks, probably slightly ahead of the official Rails 3.0 release. Of course, the tutorial will also be updated after Rails 3.0 fin…

Now I have to start the tutorial all over again...but thanks! This should be a lot easier than looking up for myself how Rspec 2 works and so forth.

Post by jawngee » Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 4:18 PM UTC

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If you get down-modded to 0, then you know you did something wrong. Humor is typically hit or miss, sometimes it kills, sometimes it doesn't. That being said, it is an online community and standard mob-rule still applies. I wouldn't dwell on a -4 too much (especially if no one will even comment to tell you why they down-modded). It happens, and no you're not a bad person ;-)

Yes, and it is my impression that the downmodding has become very aggressive recently. It's not for rude posts only anymore. Just looking at the above poster: he adds a polite request for explanations to improve his posting, and yet his reply gets brought down.

Post by bbwharris » Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 5:08 PM UTC

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Wow, ok. It was an attempt at humor. So now my question is is HN not the place for that? Or do HN folks generally get behind RoR? Or...do I just need to be more thoughtful and not thoughtless in my postings? Help me be a better HN commentator, please.

Humor is often OK. I suspect the problem here is that your comment can be taken in an antagonistic tone that many people have in regards to DHH and the 37signals philosophy. That sort of tone is generally not accepted here, especially as a one-liner without substance.

Post by mhartl » Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 9:13 PM UTC

matwood wrote: post #46

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I'm glad to know it's not just me. The tutorial book pins RSpec down to 2.0.0.beta.18 for just this reason. (It looks like 2.0.0.beta.19 is the one that has the problem.) Of course, I'll update the tutorial with the latest RSpec version once they fix this issue.

Here's the rspec ticket to keep an eye on: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues#issue/140

Post by bbwharris » Wed, Jul 28, 2010, 8:20 PM UTC

bbwharris wrote: post #45

detst wrote: post #23

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Humor is often OK. I suspect the problem here is that your comment can be taken in an antagonistic tone that many people have in regards to DHH and the 37signals philosophy. That sort of tone is generally not accepted here, especially as a one-liner without substance.

In other words, this isn't reddit.