Gregory Brown

I've confirmed that not even #793 seems to fix this issue, so reopening.

We should definitely think about giving meaningful return values for methods like this, right now we don't. Though it involves reaching into the internals a little bit, you can get...

@Siyfion: I agree, this is an issue that deserves fixing in Prawn, my snippet is just a workaround. So here's what I'd recommend for a proper patch, and it's a...

@Siyfion If you want to attempt a patch along the above lines you're welcome to give it a shot. Let me know if you need help!

There's no harm in trying. We regularly clean up or even rewrite patches once the initial pull request is submitted, but initial leg work helps reveal any unexpected complications along...

I really don't know how much work is involved here, and don't have plans to work on this myself in the near future. You can certainly help move it along...

> That's great! Could you please push a branch without all the relevant string reversals? Or, at least let me know if it's safe to grep for "reverse" and remove...

This isn't all that surprising to me, but I think that unless we have a patch for it, a fix will need to wait until after the prawn-layout re-write. Brad...

Hi @Aerlinger, I wrote this code for an article, but would be willing to consider pull requests to make things more complete!

can you write a unit test to see if width_of() is reporting back incorrectly here?