From: Oliver Cromm <lispamateur@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T07:15:49+09:00
Subject: Ruby-WordNet (was: Error with bdb installation)

Claus Spitzer wrote:

> While on the topic of Ruby-WordNet, you may want to fix a little bug
> in convertdb.rb, line 183:
> Where it says
>    if (entries % CommitThreshold).nonzero? 
> it should be
>    if (entries % CommitThreshold).zero? 
> The idea is to have the db commit on every 2000th record, not on every
> record _but_ the 2000th ones. I went through a weekend of headaches
> before I found that out ;).

As I said in the other post, the Ruby-dbd installation went ok at home,
so I could install Ruby-WordNet, after the following detours (let's
collect them ;-)

1. Your above-mentioned patch.

2. I had to reduce CommitThreshold to 1000, before that I got a "cuold
not allocate memory" error, even after closing all other applications. 
I have 192 MB on that machine.

3. I couldn't run the tests, because I didn't have Test::Unit::Mock,
although it is supposed to be included in ruby 1.8.2. Not in the cygwin
version, it seems. I could install the latest release after I changed
this line in the install.rb file:

| elsif site_libdir !~ Regexp.quote(@version)

to

| elsif !site_libdir =~ Regexp.quote(@version)

because it was giving me a "type mismatch: String given" error. Then all
the tests ran ok.

4. I could install the docs after changing all the references to 'css2'
in docs/makedocs.rb to 'html', because there is no css2.rb file in my
RDoc. It would be better to write scripts in a tad more flexible manner.
-- 
Oliver C.