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So I know in ruby that x.nil? will test if x is null.
What is the simplest way to test if x equals ' ', or ' ', or ' ', etc?
Basically, I'm wondering what the best way to test if a variable is all whitespace?
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Ok I followed the steps for setting up ruby and rails on my Vista machine and I am having a problem connecting to the database.
Contents of database.yml
development:
adapter: sqlserver
database: APPS_SETUP
Host: WindowsVT06\SQLEXPRESS
Username: se
Password: paswd
Run rake db:migrate…
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My application requires to keep large data objects in session. There are like 3-4 data objects each created by parsing a csv containing 150 X 20 cells having strings of 3-4 characters.
My application shows this error- "marshal data too short".
I tried this-
Deleting the old session table.
Deleting…
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I don't know is it my mistake or no. So i have that code:
<code>
post '/singin/get_token' do
content_type :xml
puts request.body.read
puts xmlRequest
xmlRequest = REXML::Document.new(request.body.read)
...
</code>
And when i post something like that:
<code>
<?xml…
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reading around the various ruby install tutorials it's required to change path from /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/local/bin/ruby but i cant seem to be able to do it. Ultimately i want to install Ruby 1.9.2, should i uninstall 1.8.7 or what? i tried to install Ruby 1.9.2 with macports, the installation seemed…
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i am getting a strange bundler error when running
bundle pack
with bundler 0.9.12
any ideas? (see pastie for a better formatted code: http://pastie.org/881328 )
/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb:49:in `initialize': not in gzip format (Zlib::GzipFile::Error)
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I have cases where user-entered data from an html textarea or input is sometimes sent with \u00a0 (non-breaking spaces) instead of spaces when encoded as utf-8 json.
I believe that to be a bug in Firefox, as I know that the user isn't intentionally putting in non-breaking spaces instead of spaces…
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When developing on top of a portal platform to support an intranet or extranet, a portion of the development time is spent adjusting the out-of-box user templates to adjust the look and feel of the platform for your organization. Generally your deployment will not need to look like anything like…
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Somebody I know expressed irritation today regarding those of us who tend not to use spaces in our filenames, e.g. NamingThingsLikeThis.txt -- despite most modern operating systems supporting spaces in filenames. Non-technical people must look at filenames created by geeks and wonder where we learned…
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I've noticed in almost everything I've read so far that the term "clip space" is prepended with the word "homogeneous". Now I understand that it roughly means "all the same", but I don't understand why there is the express need to say "homogeneous clip space". When is clip space not homogeneous and…
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Portal deployments always contain some level of content that requires management. Like peanut butter and jelly, the ying and yang, they are inseparable. Unfortunately, unlike peanut butter and jelly content and portals usually require that an extensive amount of work be completed to create a seamless…
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