Errata for Rails for .NET Developers

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23	#35300: In the example on page 23 , the generate script is demonstrated. In the figure, the command text gets wrapped to the next line and the par...more...	P1.0 16-Oct-08
28	#35394: After adding the new column with rake db:migrate, the text says to add the new field to the existing view pages. It says to "Open app/views/n...more...	P1.0 22-Oct-08
29	#35396: It seems like the code example should include the changes that are being talked about in the text. Adding the code for the new field: <p> <...more...	P1.0 22-Oct-08
29	#36206: The sentence on PDF p29 "Using the same technique, you should also go ahead and enhance app/views/NEW.html.erb in the same way." should presum...more...	P1.0 30-Nov-08
34	#35345: The wording in the last paragraph of the to_s vs. ToString() section on page 34 implies that the an example of to_s was shown to the reader.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
35	#35301: On PDF page 35 under section 2.3, the following ruby code is sampled: puts "\t#{5*10}" and the result in the book is said to be 5...more...	P1.0 16-Oct-08
36	#35346: On page 36 the line puts flight.sub(/(w+)\bto/, 'PDX to') doesn’t produce the listed output.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
36	#35347: The first line of output in the flight example is actually the first line of code – flight = "United Airlines, Flight #312, ORD to LAX, 9:45AM...more...	P1.0 19-Oct-08
36	#35348: There are also some code color issues with the output of the flight example.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
39	#35302: On PDF page 39 on line 1 of the .NET code example a string of characters is present that is not .NET code: #<label id="code.constructor" />--Jeff Harrington	P1.0 16-Oct-08
52	#35349: "A static method called Models() returns a list of available models that can be used." Models is a property.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
53	#35350: "In the body of the initializer, we have defined two instance variables, @model and @altitude." There are 3 instance variables defined.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
62	#35351: There’s 2 methods nested inside of a method for the C# 2.0 example.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
62	#35352: Small issue with the LINQ version – if you want to keep the examples functionally equivalent then AddDays(-8) is incorrect.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 19-Oct-08
94	#35356: The text/symbol ">" appears twice in the example of the generate script: c:\dev\flight> ruby script\generate model flight c:\dev\...more...	P1.0 19-Oct-08
97	#35357: The text/symbol ">" appears twice on this page in the example of the scaffold generate: c:\dev\> rails flight c:\dev\flight\> r...more...	P1.0 19-Oct-08
108	#35379: Missing a space in @passengersArray - should read "@passengers Array"--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 20-Oct-08
115	#35442: Unexplained #END HIGHLIGHT comment. I'm guessing the arrows are supposed to stop at that line because the code after #END HIGHLIGHT didn't change.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 25-Oct-08
117	#35443: #BEGIN HIGHLIGHT comment. Guessing that the code is supposed to be highlighted with arrows.--Andrew Gaskell	P1.0 25-Oct-08
131	#35450: The proposed show action potentially hits the database twice. Not a big deal if you're consistently using the named route, but I'd probably us...more...	P1.0 25-Oct-08
165	#35482: Few things on this page: "header and footer to our views" - there isn't really a footer being added. There's a header and you're styling t...more...	P1.0 26-Oct-08