If anyone is going along through the Agile Web Development with Rails book and gets to page 66 where you are using the migration “alter table products …” you’ll indubitably come across the error where Rails doesn’t seem to like what you’ve put in the migration file.

If you’re looking to get started with Ruby on Rails, then you’ll need the “Ruby” part somewhere along the way. The great news is that is a really great language with a lot of power and really human friendly syntax. Check out these links to get rolling: Official Ruby Language Quickstart; a 20 minute primer to the Ruby Language Try Ruby: a really cool utility for learning Ruby that...

Wanna see how geek-a-fied I am? Then you’ve got to go check out my online library. It’s not the full collection, just everything I have at work. So if you can judge a man by his text … well, you make the decision. Also, heads up for a future article – a friend came by mentioning that she’d be getting an iPod Nano (boy did the jealous engine crank up inside of me!). So after talking...