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There are some importatnt step to install Nginx with passenger on a newly installed Ubuntu server.

1. step: Install RVM in multi-user mode
2. step: install dependencie for MRI ruby. There are a list in the end of rvm install message. Install these packages.
3. step: rvm install 1.9.2
4. step: After ruby installed successfully you need to install passenger with gem install passenger command.
5. step: You have got passenger gem, but haven't got nginx yet. Compile it from source: download, unpack, configure, make, make install.
6. step: nginx configuration

I post my normalization function. This function find all illegal characters (like: Ő, Ű, ú, í, etc. ) and replace it to latin1 chars. (like: O, U, u, i, etc.) This function works for me on hungarian words. Try it on your text and post your comment about it.

function normalize($string) {
    $string = strtr($string, array('ő' => 'o', 'ű' => 'u', 'Ő' => 'O', 'Ű' => 'U'));
    $a = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖŐØÙÚÛÜŰÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöőøùúûűüýýþÿŔŕ';

I got the following error when i run a rake db:seed command on may RoR application:
invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

I found the soution and the error has gone away:
You should add a line to your file:

# encoding: utf-8

You can change the utf-8 to any other encoding that you use.
I added this line to my seeds.rb file and all UTF-8 code have been executed without errors.

Good luck!

I've collected all open source CMS based on rails 3.x.

Rails CMS/Wiki/Forum

This is a very simple but feature rich CMS framework. It is good startpoint for a new rails project what will be wiki, Forum or CMS

Source: https://github.com/jlapier/Rails-CMS-Wiki-Forum

Casein CMS

This is a very minimal and lightweight CMS. Only users table created on rak db:migrate. It is a good start point for any content based application. This application scaffolding your rails app with a very beauty user interface.

function foo($year = date('Y')) {
  // this is invalid
}

So, how should do it?

define('THIS_YEAR', date('Y'));
function bar($year = THIS_YEAR) {
  // this is valid
}

Here is my HTML number formatter. Sometimes the browsers wrap the numbers along thousand separator or decimal pont, but this function prevents this event.

function html_number_format($number, $decimals = 2, $dec_point = '.', $thousands_sep = ',') {
  if ($number === FALSE) {
    return '---';
  }
  return '<span style="white-space: nowrap;">'.number_format($number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep).'</span>';
}

See the following code:

<div style="background-color: #fff; border: 1px solid #000;">
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" WIDTH="214" HEIGHT="200" CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com/flash5/cabs/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0">
<PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="http://banner.example.com/banner.swf">
<PARAM NAME="PLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="LOOP" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="QUALITY" VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="SCALE" value="noborder">
<EMBED SRC="http://banner.example.com/banner.swf" WIDTH="214" HEIGHT="200" PLAY="true" LOOP="true"

I've read a great article about 960.gs and compass comparison. This article may help you chose the right CSS framework for your project.