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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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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