From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T05:57:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.4 RDoc Seg fault

For what it's worth, I've had trouble all day when rubygems runs rdoc  
on gems. I blew away 1.8.4 and reverted to the 1.8.2 that comes with  
OSX Tiger.

With 1.8.4, I got:
> Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1...
> RDoc failure in lib/rake.rb at or around line 42 column 10
> The internal error was:
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     can't convert Fixnum into String

> Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1...
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
>     undefined method `text' for -517611318:Fixnum

> Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1...
> Error in template: private method `gsub!' called for -517611318:Fixnum
> Original line: -517611318


On 1.8.2, all went well. Rdoc generation also worked for zentest and  
watir, which had both failed before. The Zentest errors I gave  
earlier in this thread. The watir error was this:

> Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.4.1...
> RDoc failure in readme.rb at or around line 63 column 3
> The internal error was:
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (TypeError)
>     can't convert Fixnum into String


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