intertwingly

Simon Willison, Django co-founder and OpenID pioneer, threw away his entire talk in favor of a new one touting the idea, design and implementation of the event-based, works-while-others-sleep, parallelizable-and-beyond server framework Node.js,...

Congrats. It reminds me of my first (and currently only) patch in the Linux kernel: ([link]) ; what ended up being a one-liner was the culmination of quite a lot of other work and I am proud none-the-less.

I’m wondering if you know the solution for this bug in ruby 1.9.1 that’s frustating I can’t run my rails app: http://groups.google.com/group/merb/browse_thread/thread/e803f36f0a662871?pli=1

Encoding::CompatibilityError in Access#registro

Showing app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #4 raised:

incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
Extracted source (around line #4):

1: <%= render :partial => 'layouts/header' %>
2: <div id="content">
3: 
4: <%= yield %>
5: </div>
6: <%= render :partial => 'layouts/footer' %>

I’ve hit it too.  I don’t fully understand the issue, but I do know a workaround that works for me:

yield.force_encoding('utf-8')

Not a patch, but a bug report identifying a recent regression (affects both Rails 2.3.5 and Rails 3.0pre).