Smilies in Rails using RedCloth

RedCloth doesn’t come with support for smilies, so i’ve added it for one of my projects.
You need to extend the RedCloth class. You could do this by creating a file in your /lib directory, which you have to include in your environment.rb. Here an example for three simple smilies:

class RedCloth
def glyphs_smilies(text)
[...]

Rails: routes and special characters like dots

Rails doesn’t seem to like dots and other special chars in its routes.
If you want to use URLs like http://www.domain.com/post/1/just_a_test.. logically the following route seems to be sensible:
map.connect ‘/post/:id/:title’, :controller => ‘forum’, :action => ’show_post’
But rails won’t like the dots. Use a route like the following to allow a URL with special characters to be [...]


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