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Archive for 17 October 2007

Emulating JavaScript’s String#replace in Ruby

In JavaScript, PackR, Ruby on 17 October 2007 with 2 comments

Update: turns out this is a lot easier than the method presented below: see Christoffer Sawicki’s implementation. Consider my method an example of what happens when you’re trying to port features from one language to another and end up looking in all the wrong places for a solution. I know what you’re thinking: we already [...]

Announcing PackR

In JavaScript, PackR, Rails, Ruby on 17 October 2007 with no comments

I’ve no idea who may have done this already, but I certainly coundn’t find anyone who had in five minutes of searching. I’ve written a Ruby port of Dean Edwards’ Packer, and released it as a Rails plugin. It includes a rake task for batch-processing the scripts in your application. Install like so: ruby script/plugin [...]