From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T02:26:44+09:00
Subject: Re: tabs and parse errors with Ruby 1.8.4 and Windows

On 10/6/06, Will Rogers <wjrogers@terpalum.umd.edu> wrote:
> This is a cross-post from the Rails list in hopes of getting some
> information from people who know more about the Ruby side of things.
>
> I get compile errors from ERB in my Rails views when I load the ferret C
> extension. Apparently this also happens with RMagick. The most common
> response I've seen is to replace all tabs with spaces, and the problem
> will go away. I would like to know why that works, what the problem is,
> and if there's anything I can do to fix it. Making sure none of my views
> contain tab characters is not a solution I'm comfortable with for a
> production environment. This is what the errors look like:
>

Just chiming in to say that I get these as well. I've just been
search-and-replacing tabs with spaces, rather than bothering to get to
the bottom of it.