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RuntimeError (At least one field is necessary for an index):
  /usr/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx-1.1.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/index/builder.rb:44:in `initialize'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx-1.1.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/index/builder.rb:27:in `new'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx-1.1.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/index/builder.rb:27:in `generate'
  /usr/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/freelancing-god-thinking-sphinx-1.1.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/active_record.rb:69:in `define_index'
  app/models/edition.rb:196:in `<class:Edition>'
  app/models/edition.rb:72:in `<top (required)>'
  app/controllers/editions_controller.rb:498:in `perform_basic_search'
  app/controllers/editions_controller.rb:409:in `perform_search'
  app/controllers/editions_controller.rb:10:in `index'

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  # problem gems on 1.9. Need to resolve these before our app
  # will be happy
  if RUBY_VERSION < "1.9"
    config.gem "fastercsv",       :version => "1.4.0"
    config.gem "titlepage",       :version => "0.9.6"
    config.gem "rubyzip",         :version => "0.9.1", :lib => "zip/zip"
    config.gem "scrapi",          :version => "1.2.0"
  else
    # FasterCSV is included in 1.9, but called CSV. Alias it to
    # the FasterCSV constant so our app won't know the difference

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(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb7eba8d5 in GooString::sanitizedName (this=0x0, psmode=1) at GooString.cc:762
#1  0xb7ea32a6 in PSOutputDev::setupFont (this=0x8e6b310, font=0x8e6c2f8, parentResDict=0x8e6b9c8) at PSOutputDev.cc:1685
#2  0xb7ea38d7 in PSOutputDev::setupFonts (this=0x8e6b310, resDict=0x8e6b9c8) at PSOutputDev.cc:1600
#3  0xb7ea207b in PSOutputDev::setupResources (this=0x8e6b310, resDict=0x8e6b9c8) at PSOutputDev.cc:1485
#4  0xb7ea3c15 in PSOutputDev::writeDocSetup (this=0x8e6b310, catalog=0x8e6ad28, firstPage=1, lastPage=1, duplexA=0) at PSOutputDev.cc:1405
#5  0xb7ea401e in PSOutputDev::init (this=0x8e6b310, outputFuncA=0xb7e9b320 <outputToFile>, outputStreamA=0x8e6add8, fileTypeA=psFile, pstitle=0x0, xrefA=0x8e6acb8, catalog=0x8e6ad28, firstPage=1, lastPage=1, modeA=psModePS, imgLLXA=0, imgLLYA=0, imgURXA=0, imgURYA=0, manualCtrlA=0, paperWidthA=-1, paperHeightA=-1, duplexA=0) at PSOutputDev.cc:1181
#6  0xb7ea4617 in PSOutputDev (this=0x8e6b310, fileName=0x8e6b918 "test.ps", xrefA=0x8e6acb8, catalog=0x8

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irb(main):005:0> n = "James"
=> "James"
irb(main):006:0> n.strip!
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> n
=> "James"

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irb(main):005:0> n = "James"
=> "James"
irb(main):006:0> n.strip!
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> n
=> "James"

# that's just plain weird
>> n = "john "
=> "john "

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# coding: utf-8

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :normalise_param_encodings

  # On M17N aware VMs, ensure params from the user are marked with an appropriate encoding.
  #
  # As of Rails 2.3, Rack returns all params with an ASCII-8BIT encoding, which causes an
  # exception if a param is mixed with a UTF-8 string or ERB template. Hopefully that will be
  # fixed at some point and this won't be necessary any more.

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# encoding: utf-8
#
# An example of adding a text annotation to a page
#
require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../example_helper.rb"

Prawn::Document.generate "text_annotation.pdf" do |pdf|
  pdf.text "Hello World", :at => [200,420], :size => 32, :rotate => 45
  pdf.text_annotation([100,100,100,100], "Hi there")
end

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#  filesrc -> decodebin -> ffmpegcolourspace -> videoscale ->  videobox -> videorate
#                                                                                   \
#  filesrc -> decodebin ->  ffmpegcolourspace  ->  videoscale  ->  videorate   ->    videomixer -> ffmpegcolourspace -> theoraenc -> oggmux -> filesink
#                                                                                                                                  /
#                                                                        filesrc -> decodebin -> queue -> audioconvert -> vorbisenc

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class Blah
  class << self
    def pub
      meth
    end

    def meth
      puts "hello world"
    end
    private :meth

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class Demo
  METHODS = ["one","two","three","four"]

  class << self

    METHODS.each do |name|
      define_method("method_#{name}") do |arg|
        puts "this method is named method_\"#{name}\" and you gave me the arg \"#{arg}\""
      end
    end