From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-09-03T23:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@NASA.gov> writes:

> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>> After gem install MerriamWebster, ri irony outputs:
>
> Dang cool.  I missed that one.  However, I only get:
>
>  Attempting remote installation of 'MerriamWebster'
>  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
>      undefined method `name' for -517611318:Fixnum
>
> on ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.2.0]

Sounds like the OS X symbol table overflow bug.  Update your Ruby.

> Bil Kleb
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