I learned that the plural form of "status" is "status" on Rails 0.13. But when I upgraded to Rails 0.14, it turns out that the plural form of "status" is "statuses". Then I put these ugly lines to config/environment.rb:(

Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.plural /status$/i, 'status'
  inflect.singular /status$/i, 'status'
end

Please take care if you're not a native English speaker. Hereafter, I'll lookup a dictionary before name tables....

The japanese translation of Agile Web Development with Rails will be published from Ohmsha at the latest in February 2006. This is not an official announcement, so please do not contact bookstores yet.

I'm reviewing it, and it's a very interesting job. Thanks, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson!

I'm wondering why so many people use jcode.rb on Rails. jcode.rb may break other libraries because it redefines some methods of String. So I recommend you not to use jcode.rb if it is not really necessary.

In many cases, you can use Regexp instead. For example,

require "jcode"

$KCODE = "u"
s.each_char do |ch|
  puts ch
end

This code can be rewritten like this:

s.scan(/./mu) do |ch|
  puts ch
end

I admit that the latter is less readable than the former. M17N features or selector namespace will fix this problem completely in the near future, I hope.

Hyper Estraier is supported in the SVN head of trunk. Hyper Estraier is another N-gram based search engine.

Please add the following entry to ~/.ximapd to use it.

backend: HyperEstraier

ximapd 0.0.3 is released.

ximapd is a search based IMAP daemon.

ximapd supports the SEARCH command of IMAP. Furthermore, if you create a subfolder of the special folder queries, its name is interpreted as a search query, then you can get the search result in it. You don't have to write a complex .procmailrc anymore. Just search instead.