Comments on: Ruby on Rails Diff Text to HTML and

By: B Candler

B Candler — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:08:11 +0000

Simpler than i[1..i.length-1] is i[1..-1]

Also: it is safer to use the block form of File so that in the case of exceptions, the file is closed. Even better would be to use Tempfile, and/or to put File.delete in an ‘ensure’ block. Tempfile would also reduce the possibility of the same name being used twice concurrently.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:58:37 +0000

hi, how do this differ from the differ gem on github?

http://github.com/pvande/differ

By: MySchizoBuddy

MySchizoBuddy — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:22:31 +0000

can it be modified to show visual diff like this image
http://tiny.cc/fnbiz

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:09:22 +0000

Hi Mark,

Just a message to say thanks! Works like a charm :-)

Fabrice.

By: markmcb

markmcb — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:52:01 +0000

@tkramar, thanks. It is two hyphens … that’s just WordPress thinking for me and deciding that when I type two hyphens that I really want a really long hyphen. I corrected it.

And yeah, the file name could be anything. I’m just a random sort of guy. And I generally avoid time-stamping files that don’t need to be moved around, archived, etc., as the OS does that for me, i.e., it’s redundant info.

By: tkramar

tkramar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:10:10 +0000

Good idea. It might be better to append hash of the file name + current date time than to rely on randomly generated file names. Plus, on my system, a unified diff requires two hyphens

diff –unified instead of diff -unified

By: markmcb

markmcb — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:55:29 +0000

No, I’ve not made it a plugin. Please drop a link to yours though if you make it publicly available. Glad this helped!

By: Melvin R.

Melvin R. — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:50:02 +0000

Looks pretty cool. If it works as advertised, this is will fantastic. In combination with the plugin that lets you save multiple variations, it will be very useful. Thank you. I’ll turn it into a plugin when I get to using it in my plugin, unless you’ve already done that… have you?