From: Vince Puzzella <vpuz@...>
Date: 2006-04-08T00:43:40+09:00
Subject: Gems problem???

Hi folks,

I just started getting this error all of a sudden (command line snippet):

vmac:~/workspace/eir vince$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]
vmac:~/workspace/eir vince$ rails -v
Rails 1.0.0
vmac:~/workspace/eir vince$ gem -v
0.8.11
vmac:~/workspace/eir vince$ ./script/server
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__': No
such file to load -- initializer (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require'
        from ./script/../config/boot.rb:16
        from ./script/server:2:in `require'
        from ./script/server:2
vmac:~/workspace/eir vince$

Is anybody else having the same issue?  Any clues as to what may be wrong?
I did nothing to my environment, but the problem started after Mac OS X
notified me that updates were available and I started them in the
back-ground.

On 4/7/06 11:30 AM, "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/7/06, Les Nightingill <lester@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Logan Capaldo
> wrote:
> > > Likewise in ruby:
> >
> > { :class => "A"  }
> >
> >
> 1.send(:class)
> >
> > The hash key has the same name as the method being sent
> via send, but
> > the results are different.
>
> I too am struggling to
> understand, and this statement has me even more
> confused!
>
> How can my
> results be predictable if :class isn't uniquely associated
> with something
> (hash key, or method)? Doesn't this lead to ambiguities?

No. Like most
> people, you seem to have assumed that Symbols are
special. They aren't.
> Really, there's not much difference between:

  { :class => "A" }

and

  { 5
> => "A" }

It's the *methods* that are special. Not the Symbols. Symbols are
> just
invariant names. The only *really* special thing about them is
> that
syntax automatically creates Symbol objects, and those Symbol
> objects
exist for the life of the program. That is,

  def foo
  end

creates
> a Symbol called :foo. (If one doesn't already exist.) Similarly,

  class Foo

> end

creates a Symbol called :Foo (again, if one doesn't already exist).

But
> the real magic of a Symbol isn't in the Symbol; it's just a name.
There's
> nothing special or magical about the name "Les Nightingill" --
except that it
> identifies you ... and anyone else named "Les
Nightingill." There might be
> very few people named "Les Nightingill",
but I know of at least three people
> named "Austin Ziegler" (including
myself) and many more named "Austin". It's
> how you *use* the name
involved that makes the name special.

So the magic
> behind #attr_acessor and #send (or #__send__) is the
method, not its Symbol
> argument.

Sort of like "Santorum." ;)

-austin
--
Austin Ziegler *
> halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca