Replacing –, ’, “, etc., with UTF
Article End Remove or Customize obj. The script below highlights both how to replace the characters using Ruby and how to disable your Rails callbacks to make this script run in seconds instead of hours depending on the complexity of your callbacks. Comments This article is 7 years old and closed for new comments. If your database is big, this could take a long time unless you disable callbacks. In my humble, unsophisticated opinion, they are freak code of some form or other. The fix is simple enough: loop through your content and replace where needed. .
