RMagick && Pathname

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I don't know who wide spread this is in RMagick, but isn't Pathname supposed to
act like a string or File? Got this error below when I tried to use a pathname
as a parameter to ImageList.new. Is Pathname missing a to_str or something like that
or is RMagick being to strict about checking types? Easy fix to use
pathname.to_s for the arg to work, but I figured someone might like to know.
  Charles Comstock

/home/cec/s/c/cc1/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1377:in `read': argument
must be String or File (Pathname given) (TypeError\
)
        from /home/cec/s/c/cc1/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1377:in
`initialize'
        from /home/cec/s/c/cc1/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1377:in
`each'
        from /home/cec/s/c/cc1/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1376:in
`initialize'
        from /home/cec/s/c/cc1/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1376:in
`new'
        from -:9:in `processImage'
        from -:25
        from -:24:in `each'
        from -:24
        from -:24:in `chdir'
        from -:23
        from -:23:in `each'
        from -:21
        from -:21

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It's a deficiency in RMagick, which is checking explicitly for either a
T_STRING or a T_FILE. I'll open a bug for it and fix it in the next
release. Thanks for letting me know.

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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:09:26 -0500, Charles Comstock wrote:

I don't know who wide spread this is in RMagick, but isn't Pathname
supposed to act like a string or File? Got this error below when I tried
to use a pathname as a parameter to ImageList.new. Is Pathname missing a
to_str or something like that or is RMagick being to strict about checking
types? Easy fix to use pathname.to_s for the arg to work, but I figured
someone might like to know.