From: Michael Daines <michael.daines@...>
Date: 2005-10-29T02:19:19+09:00
Subject: Errors involving the number -517611318 driving me mad

Hello,

I keep getting strange intermittent errors in various places with  
ruby. At present, I haven't been able to identify when this happens  
or really when it started happening. (Though I think it may have  
something to do with installing 1.8.3, then not wanting to deal with  
the early incompatibilities with Ruby on Rails, and then removing  
that, and installing 1.8.2 again.)

The errors look like this:

   undefined method `include?' for -517611318:Fixnum

It always happens with the number -517611318, and I can't reproduce  
it at will. The only reference to this I can find on the internet is  
someone else's page that was indexed by google and had the same  
error. See this search:

   http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=ruby+% 
22-517611318:Fixnum%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Does anyone know what to do about this? And what is the significance  
of -517611318?


-- Michael Daines