Thanks to Rick Olson for providing assistance with the proper syntax for instantiating observers in Rails 1.2. The old way was to add an observer statement to the appropriate controller, such as:
Related to the interesting talk at a recent NBRug meeting on Ruport, I’ve been looking at doing data warehousing in Ruby. Fortunately, Anthony Eden has beaten me to the punch with ActiveWarehouse. For those unfamiliar with Data Warehousing, the concepts are basically to create a series of facts that are indexed buy multiple dimensions.