Ruby Issue Tracking System

11/17/2011

09:25 PM Ruby Bug #5447: Rails can't create a new app when a folder with accented letter is in the path

Oops, we where writing at the same time. Thanks for your response. gnal-ybur (Joël Brogniart)

09:23 PM Ruby Bug #5447: Rails can't create a new app when a folder with accented letter is in the path

The problem seem to be related to File.expand_path.
With ruby 1.9.3-p0:
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :001 > d1 = Dir.getwd
=> "/Users/brogniar/Documents/tests/Émilie/toto"
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > d2 = File.dirname(d1)
=> "/Users/brogniar/Do... gnal-ybur (Joël Brogniart)

09:07 PM Ruby Bug #5447: Rails can't create a new app when a folder with accented letter is in the path

It's not a thor's bug. It's perhaps an issue related to the way ruby 1.9.3 is configured on Mac OS X. The issue is still there with ruby 1.9.3-p0.
Here is a sample test to see the problem (without using Thor).
In OS X' Finder create... gnal-ybur (Joël Brogniart)

10/14/2011

05:03 PM Ruby Bug #5447 (Closed): Rails can't create a new app when a folder with accented letter is in the path

On OS X Lion 10.7.2
With ruby 1.9.3-RC1 and ruby 1.9.3-head
rvm install 1.9.3-head
rvm --create 1.9.3-head@rails3.1.1
rvm --default use 1.9.3-head@rails3.1.1
gem install rails
cd Documents/EMC/Émilie/rails/
rails new test_app
... gnal-ybur (Joël Brogniart)