JasonKing

This would require more changes to the AR API, to expose those error numbers before these exceptions are thrown.

Generally, I think this would be a really good ...

What's pending on this issue Jeremy?

When you say "non-utf8" encodings - do you mean ASCII_8BIT and US_ASCII? Ie. does the patch not work with ASCII?

Or do you ...

I've just put this (or added to it) in the right place over at http://github.com/carlhuda/bundler/issues#issue/51/comment/130069

Please close this ticket.

Ok, so now this is a double-ack - this is actually a bug in bundler.

Ack, submitted while logged into my company account.

...although, the core behavior should be consistent - ie. throw an exception on any DB error. The Rails user should have to do something in order to get the spe...

That looks really nice. I don't have time to test it right now, but +1 on a read-through.

arzvi - "rails newbie"s really shouldn't be trying to apply patches to the Rails core. Just wait for the 3.0 release.

As mentioned in the core mailing list...

I wonder if there's room in your patch for something feeding automatically from the object? As well as having the expli...