norman

$ irb
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > string = "Jürgen Müller"
 => "Jürgen Müller"
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > string.force_encoding("BINARY").encode("UTF-8", :invalid => :replace, :replace => "")
Encoding::UndefinedConversionError: "\xC3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8
        from (irb):2:in `encode'
        from (irb):2
        from /Users/norman/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/irb:17:in `<main>'
ruby-1.9.1-p378 > 

norman

Recommended Places in Seattle

Beer

• http://www.seattlealehouses.com/ (Greenwood, Queen Anne, Columbia City) - Great American/Mexican-style food + local beers

• http://www.prosttavern.net/ (Roosevelt, West Seattle, Greenwood) - Huge selection of hard-to-find German beers on tap

• http://www.bigtimebrewery.com/ (U District) - Brewery with great beer and pizza

norman

module MyApp
  
  module Friendly

    def self.included(base)
      base.has_friendly_id :custom_slug, :use_slug => true, :approximate_ascii => true
    end

    def custom_slug
     if @custom_slug.present?

norman

From a62b79e86cb2ad973578be43d93f79890ed0ab4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Clarke <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:21:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Make tidy_bytes work on 1.9 and improve its performance. [#4350 state:resolved]

---
 .../lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb          |   85 +++++++++++++++----
 activesupport/test/multibyte_chars_test.rb         |   73 +++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

norman

From 059e245874dd38843986a8c0226c4dfad835bfff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Clarke <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:44:25 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve reliability of Inflector.transliterate. [#4374 state:resolved]

---
 .../lib/active_support/inflector/transliterate.rb  |   61 ++++++++++++--------
 activesupport/test/inflector_test_cases.rb         |    5 +-
 activesupport/test/transliterate_test.rb           |   50 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

norman

# Ruby surprisingly clears the value of the $1 variable after a return
def test_gsub
  result = "a".gsub(/(a)/, "b")
  p $1
  result
end

test_gsub
p $1

norman

I18n.backend.store_translations(:foo, :test => {:a => "b"})
I18n.backend.store_translations(:foo2, :test => lambda {|*args| args.join(", ")})
p I18n.t 'test', :locale => :foo  # {:a=>"b"}
p I18n.t 'test', :locale => :foo2 # "test, "

norman

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :books
end

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :author
end

@author = Author.find(params[:id], :include => :books)

norman

class Sound < Test::Unit::TestCase

  include Spanish::Phonology

  test "should get sound from symbol" do
    sound = Sound.new("b")
    assert_equal "b", sound.symbol
    assert sound.labial?
    assert sound.stop?
    assert sound.consonantal?

norman

# ruby-1.9.1-p243
"é".center(5, 'a') # => "aaéaa"
"é".center(5, "á") # => "ááéáá" 

# ruby-1.9.1-p378
"é".center(5, 'a') # => "aaéaa"
"é".center(5, 'á') # => "áéá"