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Ruby 1.9, Rails, and unicode nightmares
http://www.doerwald.net/2009/06/15/ruby-1-9-rails-and-unicode-nightmares.html
Ruby 1.9, Rails, and unicode nightmares. Posted on Mon 15 Jun 2009. Although they tell you that Rails (2.3) is ready for Ruby 1.9, the reality is that few of the gems are. On a particular project where we really wanted to use Ruby 1.9's new M17N and I18N functionality, I didn't actually run into too many problems with most of the gems I use, but for one, VERY painful one: the. Incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8. Along with a patch. That's referenced in an excellent ticket. Do everythi...
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Ruby 1.9, Rails, and unicode nightmares
http://www.pauldoerwald.ca/2009/06/15/ruby-1-9-rails-and-unicode-nightmares.html
Ruby 1.9, Rails, and unicode nightmares. Posted on Mon 15 Jun 2009. Although they tell you that Rails (2.3) is ready for Ruby 1.9, the reality is that few of the gems are. On a particular project where we really wanted to use Ruby 1.9's new M17N and I18N functionality, I didn't actually run into too many problems with most of the gems I use, but for one, VERY painful one: the. Incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8. Along with a patch. That's referenced in an excellent ticket. Do everythi...
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About Me
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Paul Doerwald is Chancellor of Liquid Media. A boutique Software-as-a-Service application development company located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. He and his team program in the JavaScript. Languages, and the Ember.js. And Ruby on Rails. Frameworks. Liquid Media has been in business for over sixteen years, and has clients throughout Canada and the United States. Liquid Media’s customers include major media companies such as Bell Media. And the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association.
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Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL
http://www.pauldoerwald.ca/2008/12/29/migrating-from-mysql-to-postgresql.html
Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Posted on Mon 29 Dec 2008. I've taken over a Rails project whose database is MySQL. While I've grudgingly come to respect MySQL, I still vastly prefer PostgreSQL, largely because I'm more familiar with it. I decided to take the plunge and migrate the project from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Feature. The steps were:. I created a postgres database. And put it in the. I dumped the current schema by running. I loaded that schema by running. RAILS ENV=test rake db:schema:load.