Errata for Rails for PHP Developers

#38908: It is appalling that the page numbers for errata are keyed only to PDFs, and are completely different from the version held by paying customers of your printed book. Thanks so much. This will definitely get a mention in my Amazon review.

#38954: self.up in db/migrate/001_create_users.rb has the line

t.text :profile, :text

This creates a spurious field "text". It should be

t.text :profile--David Burns

#31919: In the figure at the top of the page (F 5.4: The meetings index page) the screen cap shows the file URI as

app/views/meetings/index.rhtml

However, as the book is supporting 2.0, the URI should be:

app/view/meetings/index.html.erb--Sean Cannon

#31815: When I add the line
validates_presence_of: meets_on
to my meeting class and I view the the localhost:3000/meetings page, I get the following error:

/meeting.rb.2 syntax error: unexpected ':' expecting kEND
validates_presence)of:^meets_on

When I remove the space between the colon and meets_on, the page loads with out errors

Gerard--Gerard Isdell

#36711: When running the test suite at the end, I get "6 tests, 10 assertions", not the "6 tests, 9 assertions" shown in the book. The correct could seems to be 10, as there are two asserts in test_should_create_meeting--Tim Binder

#36712: (Great, I'm submitting an erratum for my own report, since I can't edit it.) In #36711 "correct could" should be "correct count". [Filed as technical so it is categorized with the erratum it is correcting.]--Tim Binder

#31655: The code example's first line at the bottom of page 231 (PDF) looks like this:

<% elsif user_owns_record? %>

I guess it should be "elseif" instead.--David Trasbo

#31918: David Trasbo's reported error on page 231 of the PDF (223 of the paper version I'm looking at) is wrong. 'elsif' is the proper spelling in Ruby (and also in Perl--Larry Wall didn't like the resulting dipthong either). PHP uses 'elseif'.

If this is still shown and a reader is looking at this errata page they might be misled into thinking that 'elseif' is correct for Ruby, and it ain't so.--Sean Cannon

#31654: I'm new to rails, and just bought the books, but I think this may be wrong:

----------------------
page = 1
begin
puts page
page += 1
end while < 10
----------------------

The last line should be:

end while page < 10

?--Kieran