Alice, Bob, and Mallory: Setting charset with a before filter in Sinatra

Setting charset with a before filter in Sinatra

Jonas Elfström — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:30:00 +0200

In the git example in my previous post about Sinatra and Heroku I happened to mention a filter for using UTF-8. I remember finding it somewhere on the net but I can't remember where and it seems my current google-fu is as weak as my memory. Anyway, it looks like this:

CONTENT_TYPES = {:html => 'text/html', :css => 'text/css', 
                :js  => 'application/javascript'}

before do
 request_uri = case request.env['REQUEST_URI']
   when /\.css$/ : :css
   when /\.js$/  : :js
   else          :html
 end
 content_type CONTENT_TYPES[request_uri], :charset => 'utf-8'
end

"Setting charset with a before filter in Sinatra" by Jonas

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:21:40 +0200

Yes, that’s it. Thanks! Credits where credit is due.

"Setting charset with a before filter in Sinatra" by John

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:20:14 +0200

The original post can be found here: http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/sinatra-utf-8-content-type-before-filter/