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-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile4
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/routing.textile8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
index a0ed85cf01..b35e04d7e1 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
@@ -78,12 +78,14 @@ The following values are considered to be blank in a Rails application:
* +nil+ and +false+,
-* strings composed only of whitespace, i.e. matching +/\A\s*\z/+,
+* strings composed only of whitespace (see note below),
* empty arrays and hashes, and
* any other object that responds to +empty?+ and it is empty.
+INFO: In Ruby 1.9 the predicate for strings uses the Unicode-aware character class <tt>[:space:]</tt>, so for example U+2029 (paragraph separator) is considered to be whitespace. In Ruby 1.8 whitespace is considered to be <tt>\s</tt> together with the ideographic space U+3000.
+
WARNING: Note that numbers are not mentioned, in particular 0 and 0.0 are *not* blank.
For example, this method from +ActionDispatch::Session::AbstractStore+ uses +blank?+ for checking whether a session key is present:
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
index 57e390f385..68fb22f5d8 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/routing.textile
@@ -823,10 +823,10 @@ If you want a complete list of all of the available routes in your application,
For example, here's a small section of the +rake routes+ output for a RESTful route:
<pre>
- users GET /users {:controller=>"users", :action=>"index"}
-formatted_users GET /users.:format {:controller=>"users", :action=>"index"}
- POST /users {:controller=>"users", :action=>"create"}
- POST /users.:format {:controller=>"users", :action=>"create"}
+ users GET /users(.:format) users#index
+ POST /users(.:format) users#create
+ new_user GET /users/new(.:format) users#new
+edit_user GET /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
</pre>
You may restrict the listing to the routes that map to a particular controller setting the +CONTROLLER+ environment variable: