From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T02:40:45+09:00
Subject: Hobix error (Was: Ruby blog software.)

Frederick Ros <sl33p3r@free.fr> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> You can also look at hobix (http://hobix.com - or -
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/hobix/) from our beloved Why the Lucky Stiff..
> It also works the way you described, and I added some code to copy
> generated blog over FTP to my IPS account.
> AFAIR you can use RedCloth and BlueCloth to publish ...
>
> Frederick Ros.

I have installed hobix using the instructions given in the checklist:
http://hobix.com/learn/01.checklist.html.  I made it through all of the
preliminary steps without any error.  Then, I issued this command, as
specified in that checklist:

  hobix post blogopotamus foobar

(where "blogopotamus" corresponds to "blaahg" and "foobar" corresponds
to "shortName").

I was properly put into an editor session, but then, after entering a
small amount of content and saving the foobar.yaml file, I got the
following exception (I am manually wrapping long lines here for ease of
reading):

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/out/quick.rb:62:in `load': 
    Error `undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass' 
    in erb /var/www/blogopotamus/skel/entry.html.quick. 
    (Hobix::Out::QuickError)
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:411:
    in `retouch'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:379:
    in `build_pages'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:300:
    in `skel_entry'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:522:
    in `each_with_neighbors'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/base.rb:123:
    in `each'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/base.rb:123:
    in `each_with_neighbors'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:522:
    in `skel_entry'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:520:
    in `each'
  ... 10 levels...
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/weblog.rb:362:
    in `regenerate'
  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/hobix/commandline.rb:160:
    in `post_action'
  from /usr/local/bin/hobix:60:
    in `call'
  from /usr/local/bin/hobix:60

Do I need to have erb installed in order for this to work?  If so, that
is not documented.  Any other ideas of what could have caused this?

Thanks.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com
 God bless you.