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Because Microsoft Word changes quotes to curly quotes, double dashes to en-dashes, etc., copied / pasted text from Word into a textarea can contain characters not rendered the same in all browsers. Put more bluntly, when they paste from Word, it looks like cr@p on my Mac. I¹ve seen this question asked before, but never seen the answer. Is there any translation table between Word¹s special

I have multiple projects and it''s important for me to track time by client and by project. There''s a Windows application that allows me to do this, but I''m looking for a cross-platform solution. I looked at ConsultComm but it wouldn''t install on my Mac. Rather than rewriting what seems like a commonly-required app, I wondered if anyone else had something they

Hello-- There must be a better way to do this. I have a class method in my model that finds averages and does a few calculations using find_by_sql. The problem I¹m encountering is that all computed columns from MySQL come back as type string. E.g., def self.find_averages(domain_id) if @@domain_average return @@domain_average else @@domain_average =

I''m kind of getting my brain around Rails''ey things. Dates are an annoyance no matter what the language, but in keeping with DRY, I''m looking for something like: validates_date :between => 4/8/2002..5/29/2009 Or something like that. Additionally, it seems someone somewhere must have created a wrapper around strtotime. What I''m looking for is a way to parse

My application is built on Rails and MySQL. It will only be accepting US formatted dates as input, however both Rails and MySQL are oriented around ISO the format. I know I can convert a good portion of the entries using ParseDate::parsedate but it does not appear this is how the conversion is taking place when data is being transferred from the params hash into model members. Say I have a field