From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2005-06-19T05:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem and/or YAML warnings

On 6/17/05, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ruby 1.8.2
> Rubygems 0.8.10
> Syck 0.55
> Solaris 10
> 
> I installed the dbi-dbrc package via gems.  However, if I run this
> simple script, I get a slew of warnings if I run with -d or -w:
> 
> # gemtest.rb
> require "dbi/dbrc"
> 
> djberge@~/programming/ruby-645>ruby -w gemstest.rb
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):14: warning: redefine tag_subclasses?
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):14: warning: redefine tag_subclasses?
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):14: warning: redefine tag_subclasses?
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):14: warning: redefine tag_subclasses?
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):14: warning: redefine tag_subclasses?
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/yaml/types.rb:14: warning: method
> redefined; discarding old initialize
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/yaml/types.rb:29: warning: method
> redefined; discarding old initialize
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> (eval):2: warning: method redefined; discarding old taguri
> 
> I can get rid of them by doing "require 'rubygems'", followed by
> "require_gem ... ", but I thought I should mention this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 

Dan, I can't reproduce this here on my Mac.  Is it possible that when
you aren't doing require 'rubygems', etc. that you're picking up an
old version of dbi-dbrc on your system somewhere, and that the
warnings are coming from there?

Thanks....

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