George Ogata

Nice idea! :)

Cool, thanks. Does this mean it'll be merged in?

There are a few other methods that differ from String. Specifically, some of those bang methods should return n...

@Chad

Thanks for the explanation, but I think we're on different wavelengths. The point I was trying to make is simply that if evaluating the preinitializer doe...

Hmmm, I think I was misunderstanding how you'd use the preinitializer. I took it to mean you'd just require the gems in there, in which case the tasks in questi...

I think I like the idea of using preinitializer. Some gems (or at least soap4r) already seem to require you to do something like that or they won't work properl...

Currently, doing a slice! on a Multibyte::Chars modifies the string to become equal to the return value:

>> s = 'こんにちは'.mb_chars
=> #<ActiveSupport::Multibyte:...

Attached is a one-liner to add descriptions for the doc:plugins: tasks.

Ticket #625 removed the line that caused observers to define an after_find method in the model if it didn't exist yet. This caused a speed-up (defining after_...

What if it was done like generator lookup?

That is, installed gems could be searched for rails/tasks/* as well.

#after_find callbacks defined in an observer aren't being called, due to what looks like a wrong method call. Patch attached.