This is another edition of Rails Core Weekly, affectionately known as RCW. A much nicer pre-web 3.0 version is available from the following url :
http://www.pinupgeek.com/articles/category/rails-core-weekly-news We have an Atom/RSS feed available there as well. Rails Core Weekly summarizes the rails-core mailing list, a list dedicated to Ruby on Rails internals and its development. RCW is brought to you by Rodney Ramdas and proofread by the good people of The Caboose (http://blog.caboo.se/) for accuracy. All bad jokes, mistakes, etc. are mine. Rails Core Weekly June 12 - June 19 2006 ========================================== 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 ------- [ 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 http://www.pinupgeek.com http://www.dutchrailers.org _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
