From: Lothar Scholz <llothar@...>
Date: 2001-08-13T05:24:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19615] Re: eruby

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 23:59:50 +0900, "Simon Mason"
<simon@smason.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I've been using eruby and every once and a while I get pages that just stop.
>The output will just stop in the middle of the line.
>
>The line in the .rhtml file will be something like:
>puts "This is a line of text"
>
>And the output will be:
>This is a lin
>
>Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
>This only happens when pages get to a certain size....
>
>Also, on a similar note.. Can anyone tell me how to compile the latest
>version of eruby on a win98 machine? What do i need? I have visual c++ 6,
>but I'm not that fluent with it at the moment.
>

One of the weaknesses of Ruby. You need a posix emulator like Cygwin
to compile it. I heard that someone wants to reimplement it with a
pure ANSI C - but i expect that this will take a few years