method

sanitize

v2_2_9 - Show latest stable - Class: Gem::Indexer

sanitize(spec)

public

Sanitize the descriptive fields in the spec. Sometimes non-ASCII characters will garble the site index. Non-ASCII characters will be replaced by their XML entity equivalent.

# File lib/rubygems/indexer.rb, line 388
  def sanitize(spec)
    spec.summary              = sanitize_string(spec.summary)
    spec.description          = sanitize_string(spec.description)
    spec.post_install_message = sanitize_string(spec.post_install_message)
    spec.authors              = spec.authors.collect { |a| sanitize_string(a) }

    spec
  end

sanitize

Related methods