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5 months ago

in Cooler on e168f08
last minute cleaning-
I was making the code clean now few things don't work and I do not know why.

My logout does not logout anymore -
Console shows that email is genereated and sent, but i never get in my inbox.
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xertroyt Nothing is really coming to mind -- sorry!

5 months ago

in Assignments on e168f08
that does work in my console window, but it does not return anything in the controller.
e.g. if i say email=params[:user][:email], and then used it like this: User.find(:first, :conditions => "email = email"), it does not return anything. The only way it works if I hardcode that email in the query.
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xertroyt User.find( :first, :conditions = [ 'email = ?', email ])

or

User.find( :first, :conditions = { :email => email } )

In both cases, the last "email" in the state is a variable for the e-mail address you want.

For both of these constructs: Review AWDR!! The first is about using parameters for a SQL query. The 2nd is about using a Hash for the conditions. I like the latter for simple finds.

5 months ago

in Assignments on e168f08
Will there be a solution posted for project 3?
Also I am having problem with this. I have a table - users, which has email column. Now i want to enable all users to search the user table with the query 'email'.
<%= form_tag( { :action => :find, }, { :method => :post }) %>
<%= text_field "user", "email", "size" => 20 %>
Search with the email

<%= submit_tag( "Search" ) %>
Well, the controller that handles is 'search' controller.
I have tried getting the email and print it out on the screen, but it always prints nil. How do I get this attribute?
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Keith How are you trying to access the email field? params[:user][:email] should work.

7 months ago

in Assignments on e168f08
I cannot find the rest of the assignment 3? Where is the instructions for that? I've downloaded the zip with migration one, but the doc-file is empty of instructions.
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xertroyt That download shows only the mgrations and associations for the first milestone -- it is, effectively, the "solution" for the first (optional) milestone -- I am still working on getting the list of "finds" for milestone II and the final version of Assignment 3 to you.

8 months ago

in Videos on e168f08
I am having trouble watching 5th lecture. I have tried on three different dsl services. The latest one is about 1Mbps. Somehow, it keeps breaking. I do not have issues with the other lectures so far.
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xertroyt I have asked Harvard to review the video.
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xertroyt Our contact at Harvard says that they don't see any problem, and asks: "Is he trying the flash or real player? I would tell them to hit the "report a problem" button and someone will help them work through the issue."
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9 months ago

in Assignment 2 on e168f08
On running the demo.rb, I get
>ruby demo.rb

Demonstration of instantiation of a hand, then checking how strong it is.

demo.rb:6: undefined method `accept' for #<Hand:0x2b1572c> (NoMethodError)
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xertroyt The demo won't work until you finish the assignment -- i.e., demo is for "final checkout."

I am planning to do a screencast that will show you what the demo will look like when you're done.

9 months ago

in Assignment 1 on e168f08
I've lookded into that. Apparently all blocks are ended fine and I tried changing the location of solution to the 'other' folder, but the same error.
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xertroyt Review your code again. If you have to, try commenting out methods until it doesn't show the error.

9 months ago

in Assignment 1 on e168f08
I am having this output when i run the solution test.

C:\assn1-1.0.0\test\other>ruby solution_set_test.rb
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_re
quire': C:/assn1-1.0.0/student_solution_set.rb:244: syntax error, unexpected $en
d, expecting kEND (SyntaxError)
from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `re
quire'
from solution_set_test.rb:4
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xertroyt "syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND"

Look at your code and verify that all blocks are ended correctly.

9 months ago

in Protected: Downloads on e168f08
My password is somehow not getting accepted. What should I do?
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Morris You shouldn't be using your personal password. You should be using the common password for this page, that was announced in the first lecture.
That password is still working, as of a few minutes ago.

But some time in the next few days, the password to this page will change to a new user/password combination that John announced in last night's lecture (October 1).

9 months ago

in Videos on e168f08
I was having problem with the second half of first one, but thanks to excellent downloadable lecture slides I rate this course the best distance course experiance ever. Thanks!

9 months ago

in Videos on e168f08
John,

Could there be screenshots or codes which you show in demos be in the slides as well? I sometimes have to watch in low resolution, and it becomes hard to make sense in the video window.
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xertroyt Which specific video/lecture are you referring to?

9 months ago

in Assignment 0 on e168f08
I got the problem fixed. I reinstalled ruby on windows, and somehow it worked the second time.

9 months ago

in Assignment 0 on e168f08
I have installed everything, but when I type rails test or rails assn0, I get an error that there is no inernal command as rails. My ruby script/server is not running either.
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xertroyt How did you install Rails? Can you find the rails command on your disk?

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