Refactoring and Unicode

Ruby's implementation of Unicode for Lithuanian, an admittedly complicated language, is not perfect but I have modified a useful script on Gist for identifying the unicode value of a given character.

Now that I can identify the unicode value of tricky diacritics and accents, I can refine my code.

Details of the script here.

Pirmas darbo pokalbis baigę

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Cycle complete

Testing Evernote Yet Again

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Testing Evernote Again

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Testing Evernote

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Lithuanian gives you good practice with regex

I'm parsing Lithuanian verbs, and in tidying up the raw HTML, I'm compelled to come up with little beauties like this:

<a href="\/[a-z]*\/[a-z]*\W*[a-z]*\W*[a-z]*">

...in order to to clear away the HTML formatting.

The problem lies in the fact that Lithuanian diacritics (č, ž, ė, ę and so on) are not recognised as letters [a-z] but rather as non-word characters \W.

Starting To Understand Static Pages in Rails

Just finished Chapter 3 of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Rails 5) by Michael Hartl, and after the umpteenth time going through "rails new app" and "rails scaffold this-that-or-the-other", I got on to static pages.  It's a bit to take in, but it's starting to make sense.

Rails Web Console

I am running Rails from within an Ubuntu Vagrant box:

Vagrantfile specifies ports to open during "vagrant up".

The HTTP address (localhost) is accessible.

However, I ran into this problem.

This solution worked for me.

How I Am Studying Lithuanian

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