From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-17T05:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: querying using HTTP

On Apr 16, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Brian Candler wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>>
>
> Consider an app which is bundled with HTML templates, which the app
> reads using File.read(). The templates happen to be written using,  
> say,
> UTF-8. It all works fine on my machine, and passes all tests.  
> However it
> barfs when run on someone else's machine, because their environment
> variables are different.

But you bundled those files.  You know the encoding much better than  
Ruby.  Is it really too much to ask for?

   html = File.read("my_template.html", external_encoding: "UTF-8")

That's more correct than any magic behavior would be and self- 
documenting to boot.

> - File#read returns a string with encoding='BINARY'

File.binread() was added for exactly this purpose.

>> Can you list what's not yet covered in my blog series?
>
> I've posted a bunch of lists before.

Yeah, I've read those.  I responded to your last one yesterday telling  
you that I had no addressed all the concerns I saw in that one, plus  
some more.  I'm sure trying to help you.

I guess it's time for a new list of what you're still missing…

> Trying out in irb used to be a good way to test ruby, but that's no  
> good
> in ruby 1.9 because it's not consistent with script behaviour.

While I agree that IRb may need some more integration, there has  
always been some minor differences between how code runs in it and how  
it runs in a real Ruby script.  I don't think this means 1.9 isn't  
read for the masses.

James Edward Gray II