Can't 'build' WPGTR

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Hi all,

I tried to ‘build’ Why’s poignant guide to Ruby on my machine, but got
this message:

 C:\tmp\wpgtr>C:\tmp\wpgtr\poignant.rb .
 c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load': parse error on line

1160,
col 4: - !^sidebar' (ArgumentError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:inload’
from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:12:in `load’
from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:78

The Ruby version is this:

 C:\tmp\wpgtr>ruby -v
 ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

and I installed the recent redcloth 2.0.3.
I’m running into the very same error, when running on Linux (same
redcloth version but Ruby 1.8.1).

Now … what? The YAML line looks like all the other ones starting with
" - !^sidebar"…

Any ideas? Has anybody else ever tried to run “poignant.rb”, except of
course Why?

Happy rubying

Stephan

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Stephan Kämper wrote:

I tried to ‘build’ Why’s poignant guide to Ruby on my machine, but got
this message:

C:\tmp\wpgtr>C:\tmp\wpgtr\poignant.rb .
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load': parse error on line 1160,
col 4: `    - !^sidebar' (ArgumentError)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load'
        from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:12:in `load'
        from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:78

Oh, I’m sure it won’t work with 1.8.0, but 1.8.1 should be fine.
There’s a kind friend on the poignant-stiffs list (the cavalier Chris
Hoge) who had that identical error and solved it by upgrading to a
stable snapshot of Ruby. [1]

I’m sorry. I’ll tie a little hanky to a readme warning in CVS.

_why

[1] ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz