From: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T10:12:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Units for Ruby

On 9/6/05, Lucas Carlson <lucas@rufy.com> wrote:
> I have also created a new library to add units to numbers in Ruby:
> 
> gem install units
> http://units.rubyforge.org/
> 
> It is extremely simple to use:
> 
>     require 'units/standard'
>     1.lb.to_ounces # => 16.0
> 
>     require 'units/currency'
>     1.euro.usd # => 1.2545
> 
>     1.usd.unit # => :usd
>     1.usd.to_yen # => 108.9 # this information is grabbed on the fly
> via a SOAP call
>     1.usd.to_yet.unit # => :yen
> 
> It is also very simple to add both static and dynamic conversions on
> your own via add_unit_conversions and add_unit_aliases.
> 
> I hope you find this library useful too.
> 
> 
> 

# gem install units
Attempting local installation of 'units'
Local gem file not found: units*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'units'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Successfully installed units-1.0.1
Installing RDoc documentation for units-1.0.1...

lib/units/base.rb:50:86: ':' not followed by identified or operator

lib/units/currency.rb:20:35: ':' not followed by identified or operator
# ruby --version
ruby 1.9.0 (2005-02-08) [i686-linux]

Are these two errors important?