From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-08T16:53:50+09:00
Subject: DRbObject.new(nil, nil)

If the uri argument to DRbObject.new is nil, then the error raised is

  TypeError: can't convert nil into String

This is hard to handle. Wouldn't it be better to try to convert to a
string with #to_s, as below? Then the error raised will be DRbBadURI,
which is easier to rescue.


--- /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb.bck      2006-02-07
23:49:00.000000000 -0800
+++ /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb  2006-02-07 23:49:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@
        auto_load(uri, config)
        return open(uri, config, false)
       end
-      raise DRbBadURI, 'can\'t parse uri:' + uri
+      raise DRbBadURI, 'can\'t parse uri:' + uri.to_s
     end
     module_function :open

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