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Ruby file encoding determination with EncodingSampler gem
Is there a good automatic way to determine file encoding? If you have had to deal with importing user data from text files, you’ll know a couple things about character encodings: Using the wrong encoding to interpret the file is disastrous. Once you start to notice this, you’ll see it all over the web. Users have no…
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RVM or rbenv or ???
You’d miss all the interesting and informative discussion, but if you like, you can skip to the answer. Long story but I recently switched my primary Rails 3 development platform from Aptana Studio 3 to Sublime Text 2. And this is how it goes with Rails development… you want to change editors, and a key capability…
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Foreword
OK, I admit it. This is not exactly about climbing or cooking or software, but why… Roll No Rocks ?? First, the explanation of “rollnorocks.” A couple years ago I climbed Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. The summit is the size of a soccer field, so there’s a sign that points the way back…