ruby

It came from a blog post. In July 2010, Cosmo Lee, creator of the metal blog Invisible Oranges requested “a simple list” of upcoming releases from metal-archives.com. I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to: Create something of value for a community I belong to Help someone I genuinely appreciated for his hard work within the same community Create a Rails 3 application and use some new technologies Show off a little code on Github Have fun!

There’s some irony in how difficult Ruby can be with different character sets considering it was written by someone who doesn’t speak English natively. I don’t want to get political here, so I’m just going to mention some encoding strangeness. Ruby 1.9 is much improved over Ruby 1.8, but I don’t know that defaulting to US-ASCII encoding is a good one. I suppose so, if one wishes to be more explicit with some sort of default.