From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-06-13T00:33:38+09:00
Subject: Re: RMagick && Pathname

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.

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.