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May 2008

• console command listings

  Many code listings that show console commands begin with a "$" symbol. This represents the command prompt and is not meant to be typed in. This is explained in the section called "Introducing the Command Line" on page 21 in the Mac OS X instllation section, so a lot of readers missed it.

• p.308 1st code listing

  The code listing is missing a trailing quotation mark. It should be:

  page.replace_html 'vote_score', "Score: #{@story.reload.votes.size}"

• p.310 1st code listing

  The code listing is missing a trailing quotation mark. It should be:

  <%= "Showing #{ pluralize(@stories.size, 'story', 'stories')}"%>

• p.63 1st paragraph

  The sentence should read: "Ruby uses the period to separate the the receiver from the message that's being sent to it, in the form Receiver.message."

• p.355 code block

  Since publication of the book, the acts_as_taggable_on_steroids plugin has moved from using SVN to Git for version control. This means that the URL provided in the book will no longer work for installing the plugin.

  To fix this, you first need to install Git, instructions for which can be found in this article.

  Once you've installed Git, run this command to install the plugin (all on one line):

  ruby script/plugin install 
      http://github.com/jviney/acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.git/
      --force

  The --force option is there to force the installer to overwrite the earlier failed installation, you can remove this if you haven't already tried to run the code from the book.

• migration files

  You may notice that your migration files are numbered differently to how they appear in the book. There was a change in Rails 2.1 to use timestamps for the file name prefix instead of the sequential numbering used in previous Rails versions. Don't worry, though, it won't cause any problems.

• p. 269 3rd paragraph The name of the application controller file has changed as of Rails 2.3. Instead of application.rb, in Rails 2.3 it's called application_controller.rb.
• p.322 code listing

  Line 4 should read @story = Story.find(params[:story_id])

• p.238 2nd paragraph

  The latest_votes method mentioned is actually called latest.

• p.269 first code listing

  The file reference should be 08-application.rb

• p.152 last code listing

  The file reference should be 14-stories_controller.rb

• p.229 1st code listing

  The code should read:

  class VotesController < ApplicationController

  instead of:

  class VotesController < ActionController::Base

• p.174 1st code listing

  The file reference should be 10-style.css

• p.321 2nd code listing

  The code should read:

  <% form_remote_tag :url => story_votes_path(@story) do %>
    <%= submit_tag 'shove it' %>
  <% end %>

• p.235 code listing

  In the code example @story.votes_count should be @story.votes.size. votes_count is added to the story model later on in the book.

• p.30, installation instructions
  

  On Mac OS X Leopard, if you install the latest version of sqlite3 as per the instructions at the top of the page, the command given at the bottom of the page to install the sqlite3-ruby gem will not work as written. To use the book on Leopard you do not actually have to install anything, the version of sqlite3 that comes with the OS is sufficient. But if you do, you'll need to use these alternative commands to install the gem depending on your CPU:

  # Intel
  sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install sqlite3-ruby
  
  # Power PC
  sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch ppc" gem install sqlite3-ruby

• p.102, 1st code listing
  

  The SQL code in the book is correct, the code in the code archive is incorrect.

• p.103, terminal output
  

  url should be link.

• p.182, code listing
  

  The test named test_should_be_valid_without_link works fine but is poorly named. A better name would be test_should_not_be_valid_without_link.

• p.191, last code listing
  

  The example post :new, :story... should be post :create, :story... as it is in the previous code listing.

• p.220, paragraph after code listing
  

  :defaults argument is mentioned incorrectly in the paragraph as :default.

• p.237, 1st code listing
  

  :partial => 'vote' should be :partial => 'votes/vote', that is, identical to the previous version. This may lead to confusion as the only change from the previous version is changing @story.votes to @story.votes.latest.

• p.241, 2nd & 4th paragraph
  

  All references to the latest_votes method should be changed to the latest method.

• p.246, 5th paragraph
  

  In the sentence 'The first line casts the vote with a simple HTTP GET:', 'GET' should be 'POST'.

• p.334, 2nd code listing
  

  The code contains an erroneous closing parenthesis ).

• p.344, 2nd code listing
  

  div#vote_link should be div#vote_form.