Problem with irb

ruby-talk
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Hi gurus and nubys,

it is normal that IRB in latest pragprog is:

C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)

if that is true and I’ve not messed up something,

this happens to me:

irb(main):001:0> %s.#{boom}.
C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-token.rb:101:in Token': undefined metho dancestors’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:995:in
identify_str ing' from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:914:inidentify_quo
tation’
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:667:in
lex_int2' from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:664:incall’
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:234:in
match_io' from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:219:inmatch_io’
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/slex.rb:73:in match' from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/ruby-lex.rb:277:intoken’
… 7 levels…
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:70:in start' from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:incatch’
from C:/Programmi/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:69:in `start’
from ./irb:13

ruby -v says
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

running on windows xp pro

2

Hi,

At Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:19:09 +0900,
gabriele renzi wrote in [ruby-talk:97677]:

Hi gurus and nubys,

it is normal that IRB in latest pragprog is:

C:\Documents and Settings\gabriele>irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)

if that is true and I’ve not messed up something,

Try this patch.

Index: lib/irb/ruby-lex.rb

···

===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/lib/irb/ruby-lex.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -U2 -p -d -r1.22 ruby-lex.rb
— lib/irb/ruby-lex.rb 4 Oct 2003 17:51:09 -0000 1.22
+++ lib/irb/ruby-lex.rb 20 Apr 2004 11:47:05 -0000
@@ -974,5 +974,5 @@ class RubyLex
if @quoted == ch and nest == 0
break

  • elsif @ltype != “'” && @ltype != “]” and ch == “#”
  • elsif ! “']:”.index(@ltype) and ch == “#”
    subtype = true
    elsif ch == ‘\’ #’

–
Nobu Nakada

3

works like a charm, thanks

···

il Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:48:01 +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net ha scritto::

Try this patch.