From: Ruby Noob <nospam@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T03:14:05+09:00
Subject: Upgrading to ruby stable snapshot 2004-10-25 broke working script

An unmodified ruby script stopped working after I upgraded to the latest 
Ruby 1.8.2 stable snapshot (2004-10-25).

WHAT CHANGED:
a.  upgraded few weeks old stable snapshot to Ruby 1.8.2 2004-10-25
b.  upgraded mod_ruby to 1.2.4
     (reverting to old version of mod_ruby did not fix problem)

WHAT DID NOT CHANGE:
a.  httpd.conf and ruby.conf (timestamps are months old)
b.  my *.rbx and *.rb (timestamps are months old)

ERROR MESSAGE:
error msg: /var/www/ruby/myip.rbx:14: undefined method `sign_msg' for 
main:Object (NoMethodError)
   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:53:in `load'
   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/apache/ruby-run.rb:53:in `handler'

DETAILS:
The script myip.rbx worked fine before upgrading Ruby to latest stable 
snapshot.  The older version of Ruby was only a few weeks old.

myip.rbx uses a "require" command to load the .rb file containing the 
sign_msg() method.  Both scripts have been unmodified for many months.

The .rb file is in a different directory from myip.rbx (same place it 
has been for months).  The directory is in "RubyAddPath" setting in 
ruby.conf which is included by httpd.conf.

Again, not sure why upgrading to latest ruby broke this.  It has been 
working fine for months.  And the ruby version replaced was only a few 
weeks old.

SYSTEM:
i686-linux (RedHat AS3)
Apache 2.0.46
Ruby 1.8.2 (2004-10-25) [i686-linux]
mod_ruby 1.2.4