Spreadsheet module tests fail

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I'm trying to use the spreadsheet/excel module by Daniel Berger, but
it's failing its tests on the olewriter. Any thoughts?

# ruby test/ts_all.rb
Loaded suite test/ts_all
Started
...................E/tmp/spreadsheet-0.3.4/lib/spreadsheet/olewriter.rb:22:
[BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [sparc-solaris2.8]

Here's the code around line 22 of olewriter.rb

     8 class OLEWriter < IO
     9
    10 # Not meant for public consumption
    11 MaxSize = 7087104
    12 BlockSize = 4096
    13 BlockDiv = 512
    14 ListBlocks = 127
    15
    16 attr_reader :biff_size, :book_size, :big_blocks, :list_blocks
    17 attr_reader :root_start, :size_allowed
    18
    19 # Accept an IO object, a fileno, or a String
    20 def initialize(arg, &block)
    21 if arg.kind_of?(String)
    22 super(File.open(arg, "w+").fileno, "w+", &block)
    23 elsif arg.respond_to?(:fileno)
    24 super(arg.fileno, "w+", &block)
    25 else
    26 super(arg, "w+", &block)
    27 end
    28 binmode

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El Gato wrote:

I'm trying to use the spreadsheet/excel module by Daniel Berger, but
it's failing its tests on the olewriter. Any thoughts?

# ruby test/ts_all.rb
Loaded suite test/ts_all
Started
..................E/tmp/spreadsheet-0.3.4/lib/spreadsheet/olewriter.rb:22:
[BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [sparc-solaris2.8]

<snip>

First, I no longer maintain this package. It's now maintained by
Hannes Wyss.

Second, you've got an old version of spreadsheet. Use 0.3.5, available
at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=678&release_id=6674

Third, you've got an old version of Ruby. Even blastwave has a 1.8.4
package if you want a more recent version. Or, you could build 1.8.5
by hand.

Regards,

Dan

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Daniel Berger wrote:

First, I no longer maintain this package. It's now maintained by
Hannes Wyss.

Second, you've got an old version of spreadsheet. Use 0.3.5, available
at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=678&release_id=6674

Third, you've got an old version of Ruby. Even blastwave has a 1.8.4
package if you want a more recent version. Or, you could build 1.8.5
by hand.

Regards,

Dan

Well, I realized that 0.3.5 was out, however, I could not find a way to
download it. As it turns out, I was just not noticing that the
rubyforge spreadsheet entry had the code. When I look at the main
spreadsheet page the download link says:

spreadsheet parseexcel-0.5.1.1 August 29, 2006 Release Notes -
Monitor this package Download

I was under the impression that parseexcel was a different module and
didn't realize that once I clicked the link to download that I would be
presented with the latest version of the spreadsheet module.

As to my version of Ruby... well, that won't change anytime soon.

Thanks, the new version seems to pass the tests.

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