Yes I apologise that this has been a bit slow coming.
I've now got the test suite running on 1.9 after removing its dependency
on an obscure gem that was never updated either! There are a large
number of failures but they mostly seem to centre around the CSV changes
and character encoding.
FasterCSV has replaced the old CSV library in Ruby 1.9 so that should be
an easy fix. If anyone has a smart idea how I can remove the gem
dependency on FasterCSV for 1.9 only please let me know.
The character encoding issues seem to be in the PDF Writer gem, which
does not seem to be 1.9 compatible at all. Someone has made some fixes:
https://github.com/metaskills/pdf-writer.
Dropping PDF Writer support in favour of Prawn may be an option. It's
not hard to make a shiv that implements a similar API but it wouldn't be
identical. I haven't been tracking Prawn progress, does anyone use it?
Is it stable (API and bugs)? I really don't want to make people rewrite
their PDF formatters just to upgrade.
Regards,
Andrew
And Prawn is a joy to work with!
And I don't even like prawns. ;)
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