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Rails Core Weekly June 12 - June 19 2006
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It was a slow week, no announcements, no hot new features.
Perhaps the Core needed charging time for Railsday or
perhaps they we''re all having fun at RubyKaigi 2006.
No one knows. But we did have some threads so here they are.
Threads
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[ thread: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/68960#new ]
Julian Tarkhanov provides proxy access to allow for
Unicode support like this:
@unicode_str.u.length
@unicode_str.u.reverse
This sets off a very lengthy cross-list discussion about
Rails'' and Ruby''s Unicode support in general. Relevant
for us is that Julian has provided the solution in a nice
little plugin available here:
http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/
[ thread: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/68209#new ]
The discussion on partial commit access goes on. DHH
likes the idea for the database adapters but doesn''t see
the usefulness for access outside of that.
[ http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/69185#new ]
The most fun thread this week to follow was by Mislav Marohnic, who
started a discussion about kilobytes and kibibytes. If you want to
know whether you are a good programmer or a poor scientist, take his
little quiz. Mislav is after resolving ticket
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4661 which fixes Numeric#kilobyte
and numeric extensions to measure in base 10. A lot of opinions are
voiced. Jamis Buck chips in and his opinion is that changing
Numeric#kilobyte would break stuff. James Adam encourages Mislav to
start the kibi revolution but urges him to begin with a gentle
re-education. Mislav will provide a plugin to this effect, but be
aware that the revolution will be kibi-sized.
[ http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/69703#new ]
John-Mason P. Shackelford is contemplating a patch that allows Rails
to load a plugin from gem (!), permit the plugin script to install
them (!), give the plugin generator''s default Rakefile the ability to
package and publish a gem (!) and finally introduce freezing/unfreezing
for plugins (!). He explains why. The Core is apparently flabbergasted
by the practicality of his suggested patch. No replies have come yet.
That''s it for this week, hope to see you at Railsconf late this week
and
otherwise ''till next Sunday !
--
Rodney
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