Errata for Agile Web Development with Rails (3rd edition)

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PDF	Paper	Description	Found in
nFsnE	hZfHc	#49581: Yes, I thought of the Chor-police coectnnion too, but in the text I thought it was more of a play on the word corpulent. About references to M...more...	P7.0 26-Jul-12
7-1		#43547: There isn't an option for the epub version. Any ways, on chapter 7 page 5 there are two links to figures "Flow of buyer pages" and "Flow of s...more...	P6.0 04-Jun-10
10		#47042: this book covers a lot less than version 3. I seem to be unable to find out about a lot of things such as STI, polymorphic model's, view sele...more...	P7.0 11-May-11
75		#48511: git-repoconfig is deprecated in favor of git config: git config --get-regexp user.* --Elfira	P7.0 13-Jan-12
76		#44649: On page 76 there is this code "ruby script/generate scaffold product \ title:string description:text image_url:string" It is expected that ...more...	P6.0 18-Aug-10
111		#49410: At the end of Iteration C1 after I click OK , I get the following error: ----------------------------------------------- NoMethodError in St...more...	P1.0 06-Jun-12
150		#48937: it can be found in controller of order in create action that is called when you place order	P7.0 13-Mar-12
	168	#48235: In the first paragraph of section 11.4, the filename for the application controller is shown as "application.rb." I believe it should be "appl...more...	P7.0 08-Dec-11
	190	#48240: In the listing at the top of page 190, for application.rb, I believe there's a 'begin' keyword missing as the first line of the set_locale met...more...	P7.0 09-Dec-11
	190	#48241: I believe the fourth line of the set_locale method should read: locale_path = "#{LOCALES_DIRECTORY}/#{I18n.locale}.yml" (notice there's ...more...	P7.0 09-Dec-11
	193	#48312: In the listing of index.html.erb, change the text between the h1 tags to read 'layout.title' instead of 'main.title'. Also change the submit_...more...	P7.0 16-Dec-11
	194	#48242: The es.yml and en.yml files are missing colons in front of most of the symbols. For example, "side:" needs to be ":side:". The symbols for h...more...	P7.0 09-Dec-11
194		#46284: If I put the code on that page into layouts/store.html.erb exactly as it is then current locale isn't selected in the locales select box. At l...more...	P7.0 21-Jan-11
279		#44645: Is it Rails 1.9 or Ruby 1.9? I don't think there is a Rails version 1.9. :-) "Finally, Rails provides an ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars an...more...	P6.0 18-Aug-10
280		#46291: "Seems to us that gooses is a verb, not a plural noun." I'm not sure if this is appropriate.--Andrew Grimm Dave Thomas says: (Dave Thomas: Then I feel sorry)	P7.0 22-Jan-11
	302	#46568: "ruby script/generate migration load_users_data" should read: "ruby script/generate migration load_user_data"--Allan Kinnaird	P4.0 12-Mar-11
489		#45840: The following is incorrect: "If a before filter returns false, processing of the filter chain terminates, and the action is not run. A filt...more...	P7.0 30-Nov-10
510		#44683: you cover the building of an XML template for products but the output generated is not consumable by ActiveResource After a lot of research i...more...	P6.0 23-Aug-10
648		#46924: it seems that the command "ruby script/plugin install ssl_requirement" does not work. The result of this is "Plugin not found: ["ssl_requirement"]" ?!	P7.0 21-Apr-11
736		#45070: The index, on page 736, refers to a "breakpointer command" that is supposedly described on page 273. However there is no such reference on th...more...	P7.0 16-Sep-10

Stuff To Be Considered in the Next Edition

PDF	Paper	Description	Found in
0		#44558: Notice, I'm not completely sure as I'm really new in ruby. In the integration test "dsl_user_stories_test.rb" when defining the function us...more...	P6.0 11-Aug-10
	18	#41589: ERb is defined as "Embedded Ruby" on p. 18 but is not in the index, please add to index. P2.0 printing April 2009 Version: 2009-4-7, please a...more...	P1.0 21-Nov-09
	114	#42012: To produce the sans-serif cart title shown in the "screen-shot", the css for .cart-title needs to be "font: bold 120% sans-serif;". ("120% bo...more...	P4.0 05-Jan-10
137		#42022: For those who did the additional problem of linking using the book image. Here is the AJAX code to perform the same task as the new AJAX butto...more...	P1.0 08-Jan-10
151		#43712: In save_order method no check for cart's emptiness. i may go to checkout and press "empy cart" button. and after pressing "place order" button...more...	P6.0 11-Jun-10
171		#41917: As of the end of section 11.2 the admin_controller function is not working as intended in the case of erroneous logins. Having a seperate t...more...	P4.0 26-Dec-09
203		#41429: The i18n.t examples are leaving the colon out of the message, for example: <%= form.label :name, I18n.t('checkout.name') + ":" %> This sho...more...	P1.0 14-Nov-09
204		#41924: On the use of UTF-8, HTML and Javascript... Page 194, section 13.1 states: "if you do this, just make sure that your editor is conﬁgured f...more... Sam Ruby says: There's a bug report on Rails open on this: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/2409-activerecord-double-escapes-error_messages_for I plan to address this in the next edition.	P4.0 26-Dec-09
378		#43114: The section describing STI on page 377 lists the hierarchy of model objects. There is followed by fugure 19.2 at the top ofpage 378 followed ...more...	P5.0 06-May-10
412		#42273: In the discussion of how to build a callback class and express it throughout all models, I think that a critical question is not addressed: ...more...	P5.0 08-Feb-10
506		#43519: link_to(:action => :delete, :confirm => "Are you sure?") will prevent spiders from executing the delete request, because a GET instead of (POS...more...	P6.0 31-May-10
523		#42994: In figure 23.1 I'd imagine that #5 should actually reference a create action rather than a save action for it to follow convention.--Zack Hubert	P5.0 27-Apr-10
560		#44050: The last part of the section on caching needs cleanup or more explanation: ActionController::Base.cache_store = <one of the following> ....more...	P6.0 11-Jul-10
563		#42439: I think that this chapter is off from the general character and tenor of the rest of the book. It feels very much "bolted-on." The chapte...more...	P5.0 11-Mar-10
632		#42401: The description of nested resources in ActiveResource is missing a critical piece. The LineItem model in depot_client is not shown, most impor...more...	P5.0 02-Mar-10
657		#41595: The instructions for creating the empty git repository assume git has been installed on the git server. But the reader was not told to instal...more...	P1.0 22-Nov-09