If I'm following along correctly the hangup is that there are really two issues:
1) RubyResponseWriter should return NIL and not nothing (as in no characters at all) -- fixed by: Yoniks fix_ruby_output.path applied to the RubyResponseWriter 2) Integer fields should never be empty, and so something is going wrong with the Schema validation fixed by zero_length_int.patch Why haven't these been applied to trunk and the issue closed? Thanks, Yousef
