From: "David A. Black" Date: 2009-08-29T00:46:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Mass Assignment on Clas Hi -- On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Pete Moran wrote: > David A. Black wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Rick DeNatale wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote: >>>> Another thing variation would be to use those accessors so as to not >>>> add 'accidental' instance variables >>> >>> Why do I always see typos just AFTER I hit send????? s/thing // >> >> Run your code through Ruby and you'll see another :-) >> >> >> David > > Thanks for your responses - much appreciated! > > Is this the David A. Black who wrote Ruby for Rails? if so wow a real > honour! I recently finished your book (and enjoyed it). The hono(u)r is all mine :-) I'm glad you liked the book. It has been, to use the only word I've been able to think of to describe the process, "repurposed" into a just-Ruby book, The Well-Grounded Rubyist, which you might also like. > Coming from a Perl backgrounds its been interesting getting up to speed > with Ruby/Rails although I think I am just at the beginning of the > journey.. so much to learn! I'm not at the beginning of the journey but after the beginning it's all middle -- so I'm somewhere in the middle, and enjoying it greatly. David -- David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC / http://www.rubypal.com Ruby/Rails training, mentoring, consulting, code-review Latest book: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://www.manning.com/black2) September Ruby training in NJ has been POSTPONED. Details to follow.