In that case is there something like a simple config change to be made in say config/application.rb that tells Rails how to encode created Tempfiles? If not would that be something that could/should be added to the Rails project itself?
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:51:30 AM UTC-6, Colin Law wrote: > > On 17 July 2014 15:42, Eric Saupe <eric...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Colin, > > > > That shows how to create a Tempfile with a given encoding but the > question > > is when a user uploads a file through a form and Rails creates a > Tempfile is > > there a way to indicate that it should always create those Tempfiles > with a > > default encoding such as UTF-8? > > In that case it *is* a Rails specific issue, not a Ruby question as > suggested by the OP. > > Colin > > > > > On Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:12:27 AM UTC-6, Colin Law wrote: > >> > >> On 17 July 2014 10:22, Ronald Fischer <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > >> > As far I understand this article, this related to Rails 3 and MySQL, > and > >> > how to use UTF8 encoded data everywhere. I don't know about MySQL, > but > >> > Rails 4 and Ruby 2 with SQLite don't suffer this problem: I didn't > have > >> > any trouble, processing all kinds of Unicode characters with my > >> > application, and processing the uploaded file also works fine, as > long I > >> > use my (not very elegant) trick to open it a second time with the > >> > desired encoding. > >> > > >> > It now occurs to me, that the question is maybe not Rails-specific, > but > >> > a general Ruby question - how to change the encoding of a Tempfile > >> > object. > >> > >> I have not been following this thread in detail, but [1] discusses how > >> to use the encoding option when creating a Tempfile. > >> > >> [1] > >> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/tempfile/rdoc/Tempfile.html > >> > >> Colin > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/6af117a7-b554-4ada-84b3-3a362c3e0973%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/a9799dc2-78c3-4413-b5bb-999b8b89817b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
