Neither Austin nor myself has been able to diagnose this one. PDF::Writer is bombing on me in a new and confusing way. Austin suggested I post here...
When I try to generate the manual:
brianm@kite:~$ techbook
Using default document '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/../../manual.pwd'.
Exception undefined method `_dump' for 672.0:Float around line 0.: 00:01:30
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.3.0/lib/transaction/simple.rb:370:in `dump': undefined method `_dump' for 672.0:Float (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.3.0/lib/transaction/simple.rb:370:in `start_transaction'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:468:in `techbook_heading'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:565:in `techbook_parse'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:536:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:536:in `techbook_parse'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:874:in `run'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/bin/techbook:24
from /usr/local/bin/techbook:18:in `load'
from /usr/local/bin/techbook:18
brianm@kite:~$
The system is OS X 10.4.1 with ruby 1.8.2 from the source tarball (not using the built-in (broken) ruby). I'm using the gem install
brianm@kite:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0.0]
brianm@kite:~$ uname -a
Darwin kite.local 8.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Tue May 10 18:16:08 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.5.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
brianm@kite:~$ gem list
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
actionmailer (0.9.1)
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.
actionpack (1.8.1)
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.
actionwebservice (0.7.1)
Web service support for Action Pack.
activerecord (1.10.1)
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.
activesupport (1.0.4)
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.
color-tools (1.1.0)
color-tools provides RGB and CMYK colour definitions and
manpiulations.
mysql (2.5.1)
MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the
MySQL C API provides for C programs.
pdf-writer (1.0.1)
A pure Ruby PDF document creation library.
postgres (0.7.1)
The extension library to access a PostgreSQL database from Ruby.
progressbar (0.0.3)
Ruby/ProgressBar is a text progress bar library for Ruby. It can
indicate progress with percentage, a progress bar, and estimated
remaining time.
rails (0.12.1)
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,
and ORM.
rake (0.5.4)
Ruby based make-like utility.
sources (0.0.1)
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation
transaction-simple (1.3.0)
Simple object transaction support for Ruby.
wee (0.8.0)
Wee is a framework for building highly dynamic web applications.
brianm@kite:~$
Howeverm it gets even better -- that stack trace is from yesterday when I originally posted the problem to Austin. Attempting again today I get a different stack trace!
brianm@kite:~$ techbook
Using default document '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/../../manual.pwd'.
Exception undefined method `marshal_dump' for "N":String around line 0.01:38
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.3.0/lib/transaction/simple.rb:370:in `dump': undefined method `marshal_dump' for "N":String (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/transaction-simple-1.3.0/lib/transaction/simple.rb:370:in `start_transaction'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:468:in `techbook_heading'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:565:in `techbook_parse'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:536:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:536:in `techbook_parse'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/techbook.rb:874:in `run'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/bin/techbook:24
from /usr/local/bin/techbook:18:in `load'
from /usr/local/bin/techbook:18
brianm@kite:~$
No clue what is going on!
Help?
Thanks!
-Brian