APRESS.COM : Practical Rails Projects : 9781590597811

By Eldon Alameda
ISBN13: 978-1-59059-781-1
ISBN10: 1-59059-781-8
621 pp.
Published Oct 2007
Print Book Price: $44.99
eBook Price: $31.49

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Page 41-42. Acts as authenticated is no longer in use. Restful authentication is used now and the file names are different.	Restful auth was a re-write fo the acts as authenticated plugin which has gone through a pretty major amount of changes since the book was published. I believe that I included the appropriate revisions of all plugins in the source code archives that could simply be copied into your own copies. There's also been a good amount of discussions at www.railsprojects.com
Figure 3-5 on p. 46 in chapter 2 is supposed to represent a screenshot resulting from code that has been improved relative to the previous version. However, it's exactly the same screenshot as in Figure 3-4 on p. 44. I would expect the "Today" and "Logout" items to be missing in Figure 3-5.	Correct - this appears to be a printing issue. You can find some other common errata updates for this project at http://railsprojects.com/forums/3/topics/17
Chapter 4, page 62. A minor error in the HTML code, both label fields have an incorrect 'for' attribute. The corrected code is: <label for='name'>Task:</label> <%= t.text_field 'name' %> ... <label for='due_date'>Due Date:</label> <%= t.text_field 'due_date' %>	The book is correct - the Rails form helpers such as text_field generate an HTML element which is a combination of both the model name AND the model attribute. So these would be: <label for='task_name'>Task:</label> <%= t.text_field 'name' %> ... <label for='task_due_date'>Due Date:</label> <%= t.text_field 'due_date' %>

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Page 41-42. Acts as authenticated is no longer in use. Restful authentication is used now and the file names are different.

Restful auth was a re-write fo the acts as authenticated plugin which has gone through a pretty major amount of changes since the book was published. I believe that I included the appropriate revisions of all plugins in the source code archives that could simply be copied into your own copies. There's also been a good amount of discussions at www.railsprojects.com

Figure 3-5 on p. 46 in chapter 2 is supposed to represent a screenshot resulting from code that has been improved relative to the previous version. However, it's exactly the same screenshot as in Figure 3-4 on p. 44. I would expect the "Today" and "Logout" items to be missing in Figure 3-5.

Correct - this appears to be a printing issue.

You can find some other common errata updates for this project at http://railsprojects.com/forums/3/topics/17

Chapter 4, page 62. A minor error in the HTML code, both label fields have an incorrect 'for' attribute.
The corrected code is:
<label for='name'>Task:</label>
<%= t.text_field 'name' %>
...
<label for='due_date'>Due Date:</label>
<%= t.text_field 'due_date' %>

The book is correct - the Rails form helpers such as text_field generate an HTML element which is a combination of both the model name AND the model attribute.

So these would be:

<label for='task_name'>Task:</label>
<%= t.text_field 'name' %>
...
<label for='task_due_date'>Due Date:</label>
<%= t.text_field 'due_date' %>